[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 […]
[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 […]
[…] political parties is anywhere near suggesting something as radical as this. The Conservative Party annual conference was noteworthy for a striking piece of nonsense from Prime Minister Cameron claiming that the Conservatives were the now the party of ‘working people’. Many commentators, who really ought to know better by now, took this seriously. The […]
[PDF file]: […] released so far was the US Embassy in London’s account of a 2010 conversation with Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, about messieurs Osborne and Cameron. The cable says: ‘Both Cameron and Osborne have a tendency to think about issues only in terms of politics, and how they might affect Tory electorability. […]
[PDF file]: […] had, inter alia, my copy of the Labour Party’s 1982 publication, The City: A Socialist Approach.14 And so, on with the political economy. What do Osborne and Cameron think they are doing? When Cameron and Osborne took office I used to speculate with a couple of correspondents about what they thought they were doing. […]
[PDF file]: […] PLP being angered by his failure to condemn (or even comment on) the latest Israeli incursion into Lebanon, by the poor polling record of Labour after David Cameron had taken over of leader of the Conservative Party, and, possibly, by the loss of Dunfermline and West Fife, the constituency that directly adjoined Brown’s seat, […]
[PDF file]: […] intelligence services while Ewen Cameron’s very similar Sleep Room in Montreal, which was run at the same time, most certainly was. (Stock gives a detailed account of Cameron and MKULTRA.) Jon Stock is an assiduous and diligent researcher, and his study is not only a biography of Dr Sargant but also an examination of […]
[PDF file]: […] none of it is really that important and there will always be sufficient ‘sensible’ people around to maintain the status quo). Where Blair and Brown led, David Cameron, Nick Clegg and the Miliband brothers followed. The exit of Ed Miliband as Labour leader in 2015 after a failure to win a general election was […]
[…] inter alia, my copy of the Labour Party’s 1982 publication, The City: A Socialist Approach.1 4 And so, on with the political economy. What do Osborne and Cameron think they are doing? W hen Cameron and Osborne took office I used to speculate with a couple of correspondents about what they thought they were […]
[…] privatisation of public money in the West is thus more or less complete.’ 2 Bankers in Whitehall In September Ian Fraser commented on his blog: ‘When David Cameron reshuffled his cabinet earlier this week, the arrival of a trio City of London bankers and consultants at Her Majesty’s Treasury went almost unnoticed. This in […]
