Cummings, Greensill and all that

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[PDF file]: […] the Cabinet Office, this is implausible.) Quite what Cameron thought the ‘whole supply chain finance issue’ was is unclear. Nick Timothy, chief of staff to prime minister Theresa May, commented: ‘Mr Greensill promised to sort out the problem of the public sector making late payments to suppliers using “reverse factoring”. Even aside from the special […]

Falling Down: The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain by Phil Burton-Cartledge

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[PDF file]: […] 7 See Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet (London: Verso, 2015), pp. 1168-9. 5 section of the party. When she had been Chair of the Party, back in 2002, Theresa May warned Tories attending their annual Conference that the public tended to see them as ‘the nasty party’.8 Half-hearted efforts to escape this sobriquet during the leadership […]

Making America Great

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[PDF file]: […] crazed upside down place of demonic conspiracies. In this world, Fox News is ‘the only channel offering a fair and balanced He is also the author of Theresa May, the Hostile Environment and Public Pedagogies of Hate and Threat (Routledge, 2019), and although one is reluctant to wish it on anyone, he seems ideally placed […]

Unwinnable: Britain’s War in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 by Theo Farrell

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[PDF file]: […] as one in regarding the military with scorn, of little account. In the universe inhabited by the likes of Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May and Philip Hammond, it is the bankers who call the shots; they are the heroes. A paperback edition will be available in September. . John Newsinger […]

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