Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

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[PDF file]: […] 2) pp. 13-14 and 16, and pp. 375-77. 6 Nairn, The Enchanted Glass (see note 6) p. 240. 7 5 Three Prime Ministers since 2010 – David Cameron, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak – have been educated, respectively, at Eton, Eton and Winchester. All are graduates of Oxford University. None has any connection with […]

Back to the future (again)

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[PDF file]: […] in the arts. And in foreign policy, Iraq. By 2010 the turn-out gap between the under 35s and the over 55s had widened to 20% producing David Cameron and Brexit (in the 2016 EU Referendum the gap was 17%). It follows that – since, say, 1990 at the latest – had UK politics been […]

Survival of the Richest: escape fantasies of the tech billionaires, by Douglas Rushkoff

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[PDF file]: […] so-called Nudge theory, the idea that people can be nudged to make the right choice without coercing them or restricting their freedom of choice.9 Prime Minister David Cameron and President Obama were intrigued by the idea that governments could achieve their goals without having to argue or legislate. (Or regulate). Cameron See, for example, […]

Tittle-tattle

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[PDF file]: […] afforded relief to the former Secretary of State for Defence and his long-time friend and flatmate, but also to No 10 – and not just because David Cameron seems to have plenty of other difficulties on his hands at the moment. The reason is that the Prime Minister’s vivacious press secretary, Gabby Bertin – […]

View from Bridge

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[…] piece by R.N-T on Wallace etc. Manchester area bombing: inquiry dodges UK support for Libya and connections to eh father of terrorist. MANCHESTER ARENA INQUIRY LETS DAVID CAMERON OFF THE HOOK The final report from the public inquiry into the Manchester Arena terrorist attack fails to address any of the key questions about the […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] for the Facebook ‘platforms’ Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. The Mail scents corruption . . . . But would the Mail have run the stories had May and Cameron been Brexiteers? Russiagate ‘Deception is getting real. This month, lawyers for Facebook, Twitter, and Google testified before Congress, facing hard questions and ugly truths about Russia’s […]

Off Message, and, Standing for Something

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[PDF file]: Poor Innocent Fools Off Message Bob Marshall-Andrews London: Profile Books, 2011 £16.99 h/b Standing for Something Mark Seddon London: Biteback Publishing, 2011 £16.99 h/b ‘Forty per cent of the British people believe that Blair should be tried as a war criminal. I am one of that number’. Obviously the memoirs of any Labour MP with […]

The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

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[PDF file]: A view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial and proof-reading help with Lobster *new* All Trussed up On the day that Prime Minister Truss made her announcement about dealing with the energy crisis here, The Times (8 September) briefly mentioned (on p. 39) that the […]

[PDF file]: A view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial and proof-reading help with Lobster. *new* Bilderbergers Tony Gosling sent out the list of those attending this year’s Bilderberg meeting.1 The British participants are: Jeremy Fleming, Director, Government Communications Headquarters Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] for the Facebook ‘platforms’ Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. The Mail scents corruption . . . . But would the Mail have run the stories had May and Cameron been Brexiteers? The new MM Glancing at the coverage of the Meghan Markle story, I noticed that she was a ‘global ambassador’ for World Vision.16 I […]

Holding Pattern

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[PDF file]: Holding Pattern Garrick Alder Mrs Mopp and the ‘wet jobs’ The ‘review’ of the Freedom of Information Act is in the news as I write and I don’t think anyone who cares passionately about the Act can be under any illusions about the result this review is expected to produce. (In his autobiography Tony Blair […]

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