[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] well understood that the EU’s neoliberal rules rendered such a return to social democracy impossible.24 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] corporatism David Barnby Available from Amazon.co.uk for £8.99 The author of this self-published book is a member of the Conservative Party in Witney in Oxfordshire (MP David Cameron) and, more importantly, a member of that party’s anti-EU wing. This is centrally about the background to, and the political and state deceptions involved in, getting […]
[PDF file]: […] 50th birthday, 20 April 1939, the Scottish Colonel Noel Mason-Macfarlane had offered to assassinate Hitler. See Roger Moorhouse, Killing Hitler (London: Random House, 2007). The historian Donald Cameron Watt described Mason-MacFarlane as a ‘courageous eccentric’. See his How War Came, (London: Heinemann, 1989) p. 183. Mason-MacFarlane was Labour MP for Paddington North between 1945 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] well understood that the EU’s neoliberal rules rendered such a return to social democracy impossible.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 […]
[PDF file]: […] great Britain is a “poodle” to the United States’. (p. 1) The first chapter sets out to demonstrate this point by emphasising the extent to which the Cameron government pushed for intervention in Libya, while the Obama administration prevaricated and held back. Indeed, Obama was actually regarded as an ‘obstacle’ to be overcome if […]
