[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] The Daily Telegraph on 20 December 1938. Whose son – also named George – was a Conservative MP 1974-2015 and cabinet minister under John Major and David Cameron. He now sits in the House of Lords as Lord Young of Cookham. 5 3 On Orwell, chapter 6 provides the reader with a significant critique […]
[PDF file]: Bad Labour Keir Starmer: The Biography Tom Baldwin London: William Collins, 2024, £25, h/b John Newsinger At the recent election Labour only secured 33.7% of votes nationally, and half the number of people voted for Keir Starmer in his own constituency as they did in 2019.1 Despite this, he became Prime Minister with a 174 […]
[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 […]
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* 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 […]
Bad Labour Keir Starmer: The Biography Tom Baldwin London: William Collins, 2024, £25, h/b John Newsinger At the recent election Labour only secured 33.7% of votes nationally, and half the number of people voted for Keir Starmer in his own constituency as they did in 2019.1 Despite this, he became Prime Minister with a 174 […]
[PDF file]: […] questions raised by serious people, and the world is watching.’ But Mr Salmond, following the precedents of Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron, was adamant in his refusal: ‘They’re looking for an inquiry for the responsibility, ultimately, for Lockerbie. That touches on matters of huge international importance which would […]
[…] 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 […]
