From the archives: Kim Besly, 1926-1996

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[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 […]

Consultants Challen

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[…] 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)

[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 […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] for the future. We work hard to support British business in Libya, as we do worldwide’. As NATO bombs fell on Libyan children, Britain’s Prime Minister, David Cameron, said: ‘Libya is…..one of the richest in Africa. Its proven oil reserves are the ninth largest in the world and in relation to their GDP, bigger […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] images of children. This was displayed on Google News and, for a time, so was this comment: Guy Bailey Shared publicly  –  Yesterday 11:29 PM   #David Cameron   For the benefit of my non-media savvy friends – this is why the Daily Mail went after Harriet Harman & co. To provide cover for […]

Unwinnable: Britain’s War in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 by Theo Farrell

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] modern Conservatives were as one in regarding the military with scorn, of little account. In the universe inhabited by the likes of Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May and Philip Hammond, it is the bankers who call the shots; they are the heroes. A paperback edition will be available in […]

Understanding Shadows The Corrupt Use of Intelligence by Michael Quilligan

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] proof-read and typeset. In Schmidt’s introduction, for example, he bothers to put the cedilla under facade – façade – as in the original French but has David Cameron as David Cameroun; and although it probably shouldn’t matter, I find it irritating that most pages have at least one line where the justification programme on […]

Books on New Labour

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[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 […]

Statement of Colin Wallace

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[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 […]

PERFIDIOUS ALBION: Britain and the Spanish Civil War

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[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 […]

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