Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] all here is due to one man’s action; Cameron’s obsessive arse kissing over the years of Rupert Murdoch. Tony Blair was pretty good, as was Brown. But Cameron was the Daddy. . . Cameron wanted Rupert onside as he believed, quite wrongly in my view, that The Sun’s endorsement would help him to victory […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] left prison early on the morning of 21 November. Whether the timing of Andy Coulson’s release was coincidental or evidence that his former boss, Prime Minister David Cameron, was pulling all the strings he could to avoid a UKIP victory, we may never know. But we do know that Coulson’s earlier employer, News International […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] or Small Potatoes’, Forbes Magazine, 8 April 2010. 23 Spencer Andrai’s Danger Room, ‘New US Commando Team Operating near Iran’, Wired, 19 January 2012. By contrast, David Cameron must have known in advance of the plans to seize Iran’s oil and public industries that have been developed (in the public domain) by the US […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] come. Mind games of the rich and famous The recent excursions of US President Obama had some interesting symbolism. On visiting the UK, Mr Obama presented David Cameron with a leather duffel-bag, an eyewateringly expensive designer watch, and some tennis gear, including a tube of three tennis balls. Why choose these specific items? It’s […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] he believed ‘could blow the case wide open.’ Gordon Thomas was no stranger to the government-sponsored ‘mind control’ experiments and had authored a book about Dr Ewen Cameron and the appalling MKULTRA experiments he had conducted in Montreal.1 0 Eric Olson immediately passed on the affidavit to Morgenthau’s office. Thomas’ affidavit recounts a series […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] the financial chaos originated. Tooze recounts in detail Prime Minister Cameron’s attempts to persuade the EU to leave the City off-shore, outside the EU’s regulatory remit. And Cameron got what he wanted, guarantees from the EU about not regulating the City. But three days before this was announced the UK referendum process had started […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] on Canada’s approach to state spending in the 1990s. A Conservative government was in office when this book was published in 2012 and then Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne were also much taken with the Canadian example. It had less to do with economics than with politics. Looking […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] decade and a half; and the parallel reversal of fortune for those ‘plausible young men’ who rose to the top of that society – Nick Clegg, David Cameron, Ed Miliband, David Miliband and the primus inter plausibiles, Tony Blair. ‘This was very much the modern trend: educated, metropolitan, 1 middle-class young men with a […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] at McKinsey for consultancy contracts ‘from the NHS to the defence ministry’, the total amount a closely guarded secret. 7 McKinsey’s relationship with government has continued under Cameron: William Hague used to work for them and was welcomed by the Economist as ‘the McKinsey Foreign Secretary’.8 Another McKinsey man is Nat Wei, a Baron, […]