[…] should be low and the state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).29 What Davis calls ‘the posh boys’ – David Cameron, George Osborne and Nick Clegg, who led the coalition government from 2010 to 2015 – simply followed the kind of policies the IMF would have imposed […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He made Lebedev Junior a Lord? Cameron lobbies for Chinese interests? Blair lobbies for everyone? And this is just allowed?” It was the gap between all the stuff that was happening and the […]
[…] or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He made Lebedev Junior a Lord? Cameron lobbies for Chinese interests? Blair lobbies for everyone? And this is just allowed?” It was the gap between all the stuff that was happening and the […]
[PDF file]: The Richer, The Poorer: How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed The Poor – A 200-Year History Stewart Lansley Bristol: Policy Press, 2022, £19.99 (p/b) John Booth When the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times sees Britain with its lifeless economy sliding towards authoritarianism,1 we should be afraid of something rather more serious than […]
[PDF file]: […] power line hazards and food irradiation. There is a lot of correspondence from Jack Sheppard, Fenner Brockway, Bruce Kent and a short file from the journalist, James Cameron (1911-1985). The core of the collection (and KB’s work) is the 1986 3 File Numbers: BRODIE/1/3;CND/2008/8/3/;CND/2008/8/3/14; CND/2008/15/43/2;WILPF/2009/16/21. These are in the newly opened archive reading room […]
[PDF file]: […] no mention of competitive tendering, no mention of Hewitt and only a passing slightly negative reference to the Health and Social Care Act 2011 – which David Cameron had recruited Hunt to ‘sell’. 28 or or 29 30 31 9 maintains an alumni programme ‘to help our global network of former colleagues remain engaged […]
[PDF file]: […] and especially, of omission, it is moreover a distinctly evil crime.’ He then details Israel military operations against the citizens of what in 2010 Prime Minister David Cameron called an ‘open-air prison’. In a section on efforts that year to bring relief to Gaza’s blockaded inhabitants – half of them under the age of […]
[PDF file]: […] for the future. We work hard to support British business in Libya, as we do worldwide’. As NATO bombs fell on Libyan children, Britain’s Prime Minister, David Cameron, said: ‘Libya is…..one of the richest in Africa. Its proven oil reserves are the ninth largest in the world and in relation to their GDP, bigger […]
[…] no mention of competitive tendering, no mention of Hewitt and only a passing slightly negative reference to the Health and Social Care Act 2011 – which David Cameron had recruited Hunt to ‘sell’. 28 or or 29 30 31 9 maintains an alumni programme ‘to help our global network of former colleagues remain engaged […]
