[PDF file]: […] strange address lists. I received an e-mail shot from Will Davies, co-founder of aspect.co.uk, ‘London’s leading property maintenance and refurbishment company’. In this Davies complains that: ‘David Cameron is more suited to public relations than being prime minister. He’s constantly spinning the facts and not dealing with the basic problems. Take the total inability […]
[PDF file]: […] by its verdict and the subsequent failure of his appeals against it. Along the way Swire observes the servile performances of Thatcher, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Jack Straw and David Miliband – none willing to challenge the determination of Washington to pin the blame for Lockerbie on Libya. He is no less […]
[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. […]
A view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial and proof-reading help with Lobster. *new* Bilderbergers Tony Gosling sent out the list of those attending this year’s Bilderberg meeting.1 The British participants are: Jeremy Fleming, Director, Government Communications Headquarters Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling […]
[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]: […] 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]: […] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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’ […]
