[PDF file]: The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016: a political and economic history Scott Newton Routledge, 2017, £29.99, p/b One image recurred throughout my reading of this closely-argued and finelywritten book. The elegant but deadly assassin, played by Edward Fox in The Day of the Jackal (1973), is despatching one obstacle after another as he approaches his ultimate […]
[PDF file]: […] system for Parliamentary elections as recently as 1950 when university graduates and company directors (again, the upper classes) lost their right to a second (or multiple) vote. Cameron only managed 37% in 2015.3 Turnout, too, has declined. In 1951 Attlee and Churchill took 97% of the votes between them on an 83% turnout. Compared […]
[PDF file]: […] help those, it is you who I am thinking about. We need to back those who invest, invent, sell, make – the producers of this country.’4 David Cameron addressed the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) in November, and, though not quite so explicit, talked the same talk. He seeks: ‘a fundamental rebalancing of the […]
[PDF file]: […] more interest is the account of Cameron’s war in Libya and attempted war on Syria. Both MI6 and the Defence Chiefs advised against intervention against Gaddafi, but Cameron went ahead anyway. While the pretext for intervention was, as always, humanitarian, the real object was regime change. MI6 and SAS ‘advisers’ helped train the rebels […]
[PDF file]: […] this, which appeared on Facebook. It’s from Marcus Moore (an ex-BBC employee): ‘A number of changes made during the last seven years or so, spearheaded by David Cameron, have led to the corporation’s news and politics departments becoming little more than ventriloquists’ dummies. Of particular note are the following: (a) important posts at the […]
[PDF file]: […] has sought not only to demonstrate how his political 1 1 reformatted late 2023 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 […]
[…] 2010 Bonfire of the Liberties: New Labour, Human Rights and the Rule of Law K. D. Ewing Oxford and New York: OUP, £19.99 The Meaning of David Cameron 140 Winter 2010 Richard Seymour New Alresford: Zero Books, £6.99 Tom Easton D eborah Mattinson is just one of the many early enthusiasts for what became […]
[PDF file]: […] Whitlam long dead, it’s difficult to imagine which international relations the Cabinet Office has in mind. There is absolutely no suggestion that Mr Murdoch’s old friend David Cameron is in any way doing him some kind of personal favour by withholding the file.7 …..and now F ast forward to the present day and we […]
[PDF file]: […] remarkably (or not?), still a common textbook 70 years later. It’s durability, popularity and influence, over a century later, has been recently cited by prime minister David Cameron and the centre-right think tank Civitas as an example of something they would like to see updated and reintroduced. Why is this? The Our Island Story […]
[…] this, which appeared on Facebook. It’s from Marcus Moore (an ex-BBC employee): ‘A number of changes made during the last seven years or so, spearheaded by David Cameron, have led to the corporation’s news and politics departments becoming little more than ventriloquists’ dummies. Of particular note are the following: a) important posts at the […]
