[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]: […] up with Toshiba, who filed for bankruptcy with the work being transferred to Westinghouse Electric UK, a subsidiary of the giant US conglomerate. George Osborne and David Cameron outsourced the construction of new power stations to the Peoples Republic of China, a decision seemingly put on hold in 2021, after widespread criticism. At the […]
[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 […]
[…] up with Toshiba, who filed for bankruptcy with the work being transferred to Westinghouse Electric UK, a subsidiary of the giant US conglomerate. George Osborne and David Cameron outsourced the construction of new power stations to the Peoples Republic of China, a decision seemingly put on hold in 2021, after widespread criticism. At the […]
[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]: […] 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]: […] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
