[PDF file]: […] has changed? Then it seemed worthwhile to stick two fingers up to the British state, headed by Margaret Thatcher, by revealing (minor) state secrets. Today we have Cameron and Clegg, imitations of Tony Blair, Thatcher’s successor, who hardly matter. Then, influenced by research on the ‘Wilson plots’, the secret state seemed important and powerful. […]
[PDF file]: […] Gaddafi regime weapons across the region and the growth of ISIL in North Africa. Through his decision making in the National Security Council, former Prime Minister David Cameron was ultimately responsible for the failure to develop a coherent Libya strategy.’1 2 ‘An opportunist policy of regime change’? The committee did, however, wonder about the […]
[PDF file]: […] the system; it is the system. Tony Blair came to power after assuring the City of his benign intentions. He then deregulated it and cut its taxes. Cameron didn’t have to assure it of anything: his party exists to turn its demands into public policy. Our ministers are not public servants. They work for […]
[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]: […] 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]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] you who I am thinking about. We need to back those who invest, invent, sell, make – the producers of this country.23 Even incoming Prime Minister David Cameron joined the chorus. Addressing the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) in November 2011, though not quite so explicit, he talked the same talk. He sought: ‘ […]
