[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]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] of Thatcherism: taxes should be low and the state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).73 ‘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 […]
[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: ‘ […]
[PDF file]: […] War Experiments, in Lobster 59, Summer 2010. Further, Sargant’s ward sister recalls him telling tales about ‘cloak-and-dagger exploits’. He was in contact with the notorious Dr Euan Cameron in Montreal, exchanging information, and this was hardly likely had he not been ‘cleared’ by the authorities. When Beecher was visiting the UK in 1951 he […]
[PDF file]: […] the disinformation being pumped out by the anti-left forces in the UK. 36 37 12 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 […]
[…] of Thatcherism: taxes should be low and the state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).73 ‘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 […]
