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[…] should be low and the state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).42 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 […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] 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. […]

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[…] or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He made Lebedev Junior a Lord? Cameron lobbies for Chinese interests? Blair lobbies for everyone? And this is just allowed?” It was the gap between all the stuff that was happening and the […]

Spandau blood

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] samples from the prisoner, sent after his death to a British laboratory by the Senior Honorary Consultant in Forensic Medicine to the Armed Forces, Professor J. M. Cameron of London University (who carried out the autopsy on Hess). or . 16 14. Why does the printing on the undated label of the blood slide […]

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[…] or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He made Lebedev Junior a Lord? Cameron lobbies for Chinese interests? Blair lobbies for everyone? And this is just allowed?” It was the gap between all the stuff that was happening and the […]

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[…] should be low and the state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).29 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 […]

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[…] or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He made Lebedev Junior a Lord? Cameron lobbies for Chinese interests? Blair lobbies for everyone? And this is just allowed?” It was the gap between all the stuff that was happening and the […]

From the archives: Kim Besly, 1926-1996

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] power line hazards and food irradiation. There is a lot of correspondence from Jack Sheppard, Fenner Brockway, Bruce Kent and a short file from the journalist, James Cameron (1911-1985). The core of the collection (and KB’s work) is the 1986 3 File Numbers: BRODIE/1/3;CND/2008/8/3/;CND/2008/8/3/14; CND/2008/15/43/2;WILPF/2009/16/21. These are in the newly opened archive reading room […]

The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[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 Balfour Declaration, and, Moment of Truth

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and especially, of omission, it is moreover a distinctly evil crime.’ He then details Israel military operations against the citizens of what in 2010 Prime Minister David Cameron called an ‘open-air prison’. In a section on efforts that year to bring relief to Gaza’s blockaded inhabitants – half of them under the age of […]

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