Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] St Antony’s alumnus who is a columnist on The Washington Post and a member of its board. Applebaum’s husband, an old Oxford friend of Johnson and David Cameron from Bullingdon Club days, is Radek Sikorski, a former employee of Rupert Murdoch in Eastern Europe and of the American Enterprise Institute. Sikorski is now leading […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] to ask but, as psychotherapists will tell you, recognising the problem is necessary before a solution is available…..and it does raise specific questions as to whether David Cameron will do for politics what Margaret Thatcher did for economics, or whether he will simply try to work the system he has inherited a little better. […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] Philip Goulds principal New Labour associate in the hocus-pocus world of qualitative research. Remember that OLR is owned by the highly influential Lord Bell, and that David Cameron is likely to find focus group research just as handy in bypassing his activists as did Lord Kinnock and Tony Blair. The gong show It will […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)
[…] Atlanticist orthodoxy. Thinking even further ahead we have BAP veteran ‘two brains’ David Willetts on hand for a future Conservative cabinet. Already a powerful influence on David Cameron is Steve Hilton,() an early BAP recruit and a fellow trustee of the Citizenship Foundation with Maclay. Guardian news Leaving the comfort of her Guardian column, […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
[PDF file]: Anna Raccoon and the dawn of Savilisation
Andrew Rosthorn Jimmy Savile ‘moral panic’ tracked on computer in Dordogne Social scientists studying mass-media fantasies known as ‘moral panics’ have reported on an archive of internet traffic that reveals the social media origins of the Jimmy Savile scandal. This revelation was in the International Journal of Sociology […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] Sir Anthony Hart and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.’ 1 1 Copy of letter supplied to author. 1 On 18 June 2015, Prime Minister David Cameron wrote to Tam Dalyell essentially confirming what Theresa May had said: ‘As you will be aware, this Government has already promised “the fullest possible degree of […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] an important document, the indication is that it came from somewhere other than the National Archives and The Times has obfuscated its true origin for reasons unknown. Cameron, Johnson and SIS I’ve never quite known what to make of David Cameron’s claim that he was ‘groomed’ by the KGB during the mid-1980s. When he […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] Labour Party’s membership has ballooned since Corbyn became leader,15 the Conservative Party is in what may be terminal decline: membership has fallen from 253,000 to 140,00 since Cameron was chosen; 290 of the Party’s 650 associations have fewer than 100 members;16 and the average age of the members is over 60 and may be […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] Kuenssberg on the same day that the first report on the Lex Greensill affair became available on-line. Greensill was the fringe banker who hired former PM David Cameron – at around £29,000 a day – as a ‘consultant’.1 Cameron duly tried to earn his corn by ringing/texting his former colleagues who were in the […]