[PDF file]: Time for the pavilion (or: there are only 365 Conservative MPs) Simon Matthews Since late summer 2020, it has looked as if the impact of an incompetently managed mass pandemic and a ludicrously self-inflicted ‘hard’ Brexit (think here up to 85,000 dead, shortages of food and medicine, the Police losing control of the streets, a […]
[PDF file]: […] 50th birthday, 20 April 1939, the Scottish Colonel Noel Mason-Macfarlane had offered to assassinate Hitler. See Roger Moorhouse, Killing Hitler (London: Random House, 2007). The historian Donald Cameron Watt described Mason-MacFarlane as a ‘courageous eccentric’. See his How War Came, (London: Heinemann, 1989) p. 183. Mason-MacFarlane was Labour MP for Paddington North between 1945 […]
[…] of Thatcherism: taxes should be low and the state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).73 ‘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 […]
[PDF file]: […] corporatism David Barnby Available from Amazon.co.uk for £8.99 The author of this self-published book is a member of the Conservative Party in Witney in Oxfordshire (MP David Cameron) and, more importantly, a member of that party’s anti-EU wing. This is centrally about the background to, and the political and state deceptions involved in, getting […]
[PDF file]: […] great Britain is a “poodle” to the United States’. (p. 1) The first chapter sets out to demonstrate this point by emphasising the extent to which the Cameron government pushed for intervention in Libya, while the Obama administration prevaricated and held back. Indeed, Obama was actually regarded as an ‘obstacle’ to be overcome if […]
[…] the Lib-Con government, but this collection tells us a lot about the regime that preceded it 187 Summer 2010 and, thus, partly why Nick Clegg and David Cameron are now sitting in No 10. Between them they also indicate why The Guardian and The Observer, home to the authors of two of the books […]
[…] of Thatcherism: taxes should be low and the state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).73 ‘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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Sion Simon, a recent New Labour minister for the creative industries. Simon, like Applebaum a former Conrad Black columnist, became known in 2006 for mimicking a David Cameron webcast.2 He claimed to be leaving Parliament to seek election as mayor of Birmingham. At the same time, Simon’s partner, Luciana Berger, 29, was parachuted into […]
[…] should be low and the state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).60 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] we might describe as bearing the torch of American isolationism.17 Telling it like it is (sort of) 17 David Davis, the Conservative MP who lost to David Cameron in the contest for leader of the Tory Party, is one of the more interesting mainstream politicians today. He is a prominent defender of civil liberties, […]
