[PDF file]: Poor Innocent Fools Off Message Bob Marshall-Andrews London: Profile Books, 2011 £16.99 h/b Standing for Something Mark Seddon London: Biteback Publishing, 2011 £16.99 h/b ‘Forty per cent of the British people believe that Blair should be tried as a war criminal. I am one of that number’. Obviously the memoirs of any Labour MP with […]
[PDF file]: […] for instance, Jacob was appointed to the board of Murdoch’s BSkyB; in 2008 Jacob and his wife hosted the 40th birthday 107 Peter Oborne, ‘Phone hacking: David Cameron is not out of the sewer yet’, The Daily Telegraph, 8 July 2011. 108 Richard H. Curtiss, ‘Rupert Murdoch and William Kristol: Using the Press to […]
[PDF file]: […] civil servants try to give him advice he doesn’t want to hear. All of this is merely by way of an introduction to the debacle of David Cameron: glib, entitled and, against advice from most of his colleagues, prepared to take irresponsible gambles with referenda. What he doesn’t address is the long-term impact on […]
[PDF file]: […] How 67 See Gerald Colby, Thy Will Be Done, the Conquest of the Amazon (1995) which describes the activities of Nelson Rockefeller and his sponsorship of William Cameron Townsend of the Wycliffe Bible Translators, using missionary activity to support his business and political agenda. See also Rubem Alves, Protestantism and Repression (1985) for an […]
[PDF file]: […] would have departed. They are there because it is unregulated. It is one of the great political ironies that Remain lost the Brexit referendum even though PM Cameron had done a deal with the EU which protected the City from EU regulation. The dominance of the City is one of two important ‘hidden histories’ […]
[PDF file]: […] well understood that the EU’s neoliberal rules rendered such a return to social democracy impossible.51 I didn’t pay much attention to the Brexit referendum: like Prime Minister Cameron, I assumed ‘Remain’ would win comfortably. Influenced by Larry Elliot at the Guardian, I voted ‘Leave’ for the reason expressed in the last sentence above: the […]
[PDF file]: […] the world is an English piece of self-aggrandisement. But is it? Could it be the case that UK political figures, from Blair to Corbyn via Farage and Cameron, don’t actually understand any of this? Perhaps it’s reasonable to assume that they wouldn’t have the time to read through huge amounts of economic data and […]
[PDF file]: […] ominous? The recent decision of the new Conservative government to vigorously pursue allowing only English MPs to vote on laws affecting England (the important stuff) automatically gives Cameron a majority of one hundred and four. It will surely usher in a lengthy era of free market economics, low spending, low taxation and limited public […]
[PDF file]: A view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial and proof-reading help with Lobster All Trussed up On the day that Prime Minister Truss made her announcement about dealing with the energy crisis here, The Times (8 September) briefly mentioned (on p. 39) that the Chancellor […]
[PDF file]: […] to one of 4.3 per cent in 2010, before settling at a rate of between 2.5 and 3 per cent in subsequent years.3 British Prime Minister David Cameron hailed a ‘golden era’ in Anglo-Chinese relations, announcing in 2015 a ‘global comprehensive strategic partnership’ and trade deals worth £40 billion.4 Chinese investment became a common […]
