[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 […]
[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 […]
[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, […]
[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 – […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] for instance, Jacob was appointed to the board of Murdoch’s BSkyB; in 2008 Jacob and his wife hosted the 40th birthday 107 Peter Oborne, ‘Phone hacking: David Cameron is not out of the sewer yet’, The Daily Telegraph, 8 July 2011. 108 Richard H. Curtiss, ‘Rupert Murdoch and William Kristol: Using the Press to […]
[PDF file]: […] civil servants try to give him advice he doesn’t want to hear. All of this is merely by way of an introduction to the debacle of David Cameron: glib, entitled and, against advice from most of his colleagues, prepared to take irresponsible gambles with referenda. What he doesn’t address is the long-term impact on […]
[PDF file]: […] How 67 See Gerald Colby, Thy Will Be Done, the Conquest of the Amazon (1995) which describes the activities of Nelson Rockefeller and his sponsorship of William Cameron Townsend of the Wycliffe Bible Translators, using missionary activity to support his business and political agenda. See also Rubem Alves, Protestantism and Repression (1985) for an […]
