‘Nobody told us we could do this’

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Or to put it another way: the next election would be very close indeed. The Conservative Party clearly had advisers who told them that. More importantly David Cameron, its new leader, was prepared to take a considered view about how to deal with this eventuality. In 2006 he invited Brian Walden to address the […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Party’s membership has ballooned since Corbyn became leader,1 1 the Conservative Party is in what may be terminal decline: membership has fallen from 253,000 to 140,00 since Cameron was chosen; 290 of the Party’s 650 associations have fewer than 100 members;1 2 and the average age of the members is over 60 and may […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Treaty in defence of the City of London as ‘an act of crass stupidity… has rarely been equalled.’10 He continued: ‘Much of British finance in whose name Cameron exercised his veto – routine banking, insurance and accounting – was wholly unaffected by any treaty change. The financial services industry in Britain constitutes 7.5% of […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] the City of London as ‘an act of crass stupidity . . . has rarely been equalled.’ 10 He continued: ‘Much of British finance in whose name Cameron exercised his veto – routine banking, insurance and accounting – was wholly unaffected by any treaty change. The financial services industry in Britain constitutes 7.5% of […]

Case Closed: The Identification of Rudolf Hess

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a Cause of Medical Errors and Adverse Events: A Collection of Vignettes’, American Journal of Medicine, 2015. 128 (12), pp. 1322-4. 47 48 Rosthorn: see note 1. Cameron, J. M., Autopsy Report on Allied Prisoner No. 7 (The London Hospital 
 Medical College, University of London, 1987) p. 8. 49 50 Thomas: see note […]

Hack Attack: How The Truth Caught Up With Rupert Murdoch by Nick Davies

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] makes for compelling reading, the meat of the book has to be what it tells us about Gordon Brown’s relationship with Murdoch and his representatives and what Cameron had to do to get Murdoch to change sides. As Davies points out, since 1979, ‘no British government has been elected without the support of Rupert […]

Misleading Parliament – a case to answer

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[PDF file]: […] internal MI5 memo, dated 22 February 1990, and addressed to MI5’s Legal Adviser, Bernard Sheldon (copied to the MI5 Director General), referred to comments made by Ian Cameron MI5 about the use of Psy Ops by the Army in Northern Ireland when he was based at Army HQ in Lisburn. Those comments included: Cameron […]

Show Me The Bodies by Peter Apps

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[PDF file]: […] the 24-storey West London apartment block occurred and includes the broader political ‘bonfire of regulation’ framework in which this took place. Under the Conservative premiership of David Cameron, writes Apps: the government was bound to an ideology that said it should not regulate the private sector, but should instead reduce any restrictions to allow […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the miners crushed, but Rupert Murdoch, with Thatcher’s blessing, staged his ‘audacious coup’ at Wapping. Murdoch’s long-standing pernicious influence on British politics through the Thatcher, Blair and Cameron years does not seem to even interest – let alone trouble – our intrepid investigative reporter. What does upset him though is the fact that Jeremy […]

Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Political Power by David McKnight

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] nothing has changed. He is still in a position to punish quite openly a government that has crossed him without it causing any apparent public disquiet. If Cameron had resisted the pressure to establish the Leveson Inquiry and had remained loyal to his close friend and riding partner, Rebekah Brooks, the Sunday Times sting […]

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