AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for the future. We work hard to support British business in Libya, as we do worldwide’. As NATO bombs fell on Libyan children, Britain’s Prime Minister, David Cameron, said: ‘Libya is…..one of the richest in Africa. Its proven oil reserves are the ninth largest in the world and in relation to their GDP, bigger […]

The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants

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[PDF file]: […] no mention of competitive tendering, no mention of Hewitt and only a passing slightly negative reference to the Health and Social Care Act 2011 – which David Cameron had recruited Hunt to ‘sell’. 28 or or 29 30 31 9 maintains an alumni programme ‘to help our global network of former colleagues remain engaged […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] images of children. This was displayed on Google News and, for a time, so was this comment: Guy Bailey Shared publicly  –  Yesterday 11:29 PM   #David Cameron   For the benefit of my non-media savvy friends – this is why the Daily Mail went after Harriet Harman & co. To provide cover for […]

Consultants Challen

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[…] no mention of competitive tendering, no mention of Hewitt and only a passing slightly negative reference to the Health and Social Care Act 2011 – which David Cameron had recruited Hunt to ‘sell’. 28 or or 29 30 31 9 maintains an alumni programme ‘to help our global network of former colleagues remain engaged […]

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

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] modern Conservatives were 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 […]

Understanding Shadows The Corrupt Use of Intelligence by Michael Quilligan

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] proof-read and typeset. In Schmidt’s introduction, for example, he bothers to put the cedilla under facade – façade – as in the original French but has David Cameron as David Cameroun; and although it probably shouldn’t matter, I find it irritating that most pages have at least one line where the justification programme on […]

Books on New Labour

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[PDF file]: […] say much about the Lib-Con government, but this collection tells us a lot about the regime that preceded it 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 […]

Statement of Colin Wallace

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[PDF file]: […] I had submitted. This decision by OPONI is contrary to the assurances given in Parliament by Government Ministers. For example, On 7 July 2014, Prime Minister David Cameron in The Daily Telegraph: “I am absolutely determined that we are going to get to the bottom of these (child sex abuse) allegations and we’re going […]

Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] relegation. Not quite bottom of the League (Bonar-Law, aka ‘the unknown PM’) and maybe not yet a bookies’ favourite for the drop (like Chamberlain or, more recently, Cameron) but clearly in trouble. There have been efforts to mend his reputation, most recently by D. R. Thorpe, an academic who specialises in salvaging the careers […]

States of Emergency: Keeping the global population in check by Kees van der Pijl

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] hospital system was Largely because British politicians and their attendant media are economically illiterate, they were (a) unable to resist the homilies of austerity offered by David Cameron and his ilk and (b) afraid of opposing the City of London and were unwilling to suggest the City should pay for the crisis it had […]

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