The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] strange address lists. I received an e-mail shot from Will Davies, co-founder of aspect.co.uk, ‘London’s leading property maintenance and refurbishment company’. In this Davies complains that: ‘David Cameron is more suited to public relations than being prime minister. He’s constantly spinning the facts and not dealing with the basic problems. Take the total inability […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] has changed? Then it seemed worthwhile to stick two fingers up to the British state, headed by Margaret Thatcher, by revealing (minor) state secrets. Today we have Cameron and Clegg, imitations of Tony Blair, Thatcher’s successor, who hardly matter. Then, influenced by research on the ‘Wilson plots’, the secret state seemed important and powerful. […]

Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the men who stole the world by Nicholas Shaxson

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the system; it is the system. Tony Blair came to power after assuring the City of his benign intentions. He then deregulated it and cut its taxes. Cameron didn’t have to assure it of anything: his party exists to turn its demands into public policy. Our ministers are not public servants. They work for […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Gaddafi regime weapons across the region and the growth of ISIL in North Africa. Through his decision making in the National Security Council, former Prime Minister David Cameron was ultimately responsible for the failure to develop a coherent Libya strategy.’1 2 ‘An opportunist policy of regime change’? The committee did, however, wonder about the […]

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