[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] the world is an English piece of self-aggrandisement. But is it? Could it be the case that UK political figures, from Blair to Corbyn via Farage and Cameron, don’t actually understand any of this? Perhaps it’s reasonable to assume that they wouldn’t have the time to read through huge amounts of economic data and […]
[PDF file]: […] to one of 4.3 per cent in 2010, before settling at a rate of between 2.5 and 3 per cent in subsequent years.3 British Prime Minister David Cameron hailed a ‘golden era’ in Anglo-Chinese relations, announcing in 2015 a ‘global comprehensive strategic partnership’ and trade deals worth £40 billion.4 Chinese investment became a common […]
[PDF file]: […] ominous? The recent decision of the new Conservative government to vigorously pursue allowing only English MPs to vote on laws affecting England (the important stuff) automatically gives Cameron a majority of one hundred and four. It will surely usher in a lengthy era of free market economics, low spending, low taxation and limited public […]
[PDF file]: […] you who I am thinking about. We need to back those who invest, invent, sell, make – the producers of this country.23 Even incoming Prime Minister David Cameron joined the chorus. Addressing the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) in November 2011, though not quite so explicit, he talked the same talk. He sought: ‘ […]
[PDF file]: […] War Experiments, in Lobster 59, Summer 2010. Further, Sargant’s ward sister recalls him telling tales about ‘cloak-and-dagger exploits’. He was in contact with the notorious Dr Euan Cameron in Montreal, exchanging information, and this was hardly likely had he not been ‘cleared’ by the authorities. When Beecher was visiting the UK in 1951 he […]
[PDF file]: […] 50th birthday, 20 April 1939, the Scottish Colonel Noel Mason-Macfarlane had offered to assassinate Hitler. See Roger Moorhouse, Killing Hitler (London: Random House, 2007). The historian Donald Cameron Watt described Mason-MacFarlane as a ‘courageous eccentric’. See his How War Came, (London: Heinemann, 1989) p. 183. Mason-MacFarlane was Labour MP for Paddington North between 1945 […]
[…] of Thatcherism: taxes should be low and the state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).73 ‘The posh boys’ – David Cameron, George Osborne and Nick Clegg, who led the coalition government from 2010 to 2015 – simply followed the kind of policies the IMF would have imposed […]
