The Richer, The Poorer, by Stewart Lansley

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[PDF file]: The Richer, The Poorer: How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed The Poor – A 200-Year History Stewart Lansley Bristol: Policy Press, 2022, £19.99 (p/b) John Booth When the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times sees Britain with its lifeless economy sliding towards authoritarianism,1 we should be afraid of something rather more serious than […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

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[PDF file]: […] for the future. We work hard to support British business in Libya, as we do worldwide’. As NATO bombs fell on Libyan children, Britain’s Prime Minister, David Cameron, said: ‘Libya is…..one of the richest in Africa. Its proven oil reserves are the ninth largest in the world and in relation to their GDP, bigger […]

The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants

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[PDF file]: […] no mention of competitive tendering, no mention of Hewitt and only a passing slightly negative reference to the Health and Social Care Act 2011 – which David Cameron had recruited Hunt to ‘sell’. 28 or or 29 30 31 9 maintains an alumni programme ‘to help our global network of former colleagues remain engaged […]

The Balfour Declaration, and, Moment of Truth

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[PDF file]: […] and especially, of omission, it is moreover a distinctly evil crime.’ He then details Israel military operations against the citizens of what in 2010 Prime Minister David Cameron called an ‘open-air prison’. In a section on efforts that year to bring relief to Gaza’s blockaded inhabitants – half of them under the age of […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] images of children. This was displayed on Google News and, for a time, so was this comment: Guy Bailey Shared publicly  –  Yesterday 11:29 PM   #David Cameron   For the benefit of my non-media savvy friends – this is why the Daily Mail went after Harriet Harman & co. To provide cover for […]

Consultants Challen

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[…] no mention of competitive tendering, no mention of Hewitt and only a passing slightly negative reference to the Health and Social Care Act 2011 – which David Cameron had recruited Hunt to ‘sell’. 28 or or 29 30 31 9 maintains an alumni programme ‘to help our global network of former colleagues remain engaged […]

Understanding Shadows The Corrupt Use of Intelligence by Michael Quilligan

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[PDF file]: […] proof-read and typeset. In Schmidt’s introduction, for example, he bothers to put the cedilla under facade – façade – as in the original French but has David Cameron as David Cameroun; and although it probably shouldn’t matter, I find it irritating that most pages have at least one line where the justification programme on […]

Unwinnable: Britain’s War in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 by Theo Farrell

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[PDF file]: […] modern Conservatives were as one in regarding the military with scorn, of little account. In the universe inhabited by the likes of Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May and Philip Hammond, it is the bankers who call the shots; they are the heroes. A paperback edition will be available in […]

Books on New Labour

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[PDF file]: […] say much about the Lib-Con government, but this collection tells us a lot about the regime that preceded it and, thus, partly why Nick Clegg and David Cameron are now sitting in No 10. Between them they also indicate why The Guardian and The Observer, home to the authors of two of the books […]

Statement of Colin Wallace

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[PDF file]: […] I had submitted. This decision by OPONI is contrary to the assurances given in Parliament by Government Ministers. For example, On 7 July 2014, Prime Minister David Cameron in The Daily Telegraph: “I am absolutely determined that we are going to get to the bottom of these (child sex abuse) allegations and we’re going […]

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