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[…] should be low and the state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).60 What Davis calls ‘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 […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] Sion Simon, a recent New Labour minister for the creative industries. Simon, like Applebaum a former Conrad Black columnist, became known in 2006 for mimicking a David Cameron webcast.2 He claimed to be leaving Parliament to seek election as mayor of Birmingham. At the same time, Simon’s partner, Luciana Berger, 29, was parachuted into […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] should be low and the state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).42 What Davis calls ‘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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] we might describe as bearing the torch of American isolationism.17 Telling it like it is (sort of) 17 David Davis, the Conservative MP who lost to David Cameron in the contest for leader of the Tory Party, is one of the more interesting mainstream politicians today. He is a prominent defender of civil liberties, […]

Unredacted: Russia, Trump and the Fight for Democracy by Christopher Steele

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] private members club Annabel’s in London in 2007, ‘hosted by investor Nat Rothschild’ when the project was still taking shape. Among the guests was a certain David Cameron along with various billionaires, and ‘a twenty-five year old Ivanka Trump’ who he was sat next to. She talked to him about business opportunities in Russia […]

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