Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] across a decade and a half; and the parallel reversal of fortune for those ‘plausible young men’ who rose to the top of that society – Nick Clegg, David Cameron, Ed Miliband, David Miliband and the primus inter plausibiles, Tony Blair. ‘This was very much the modern trend: educated, metropolitan, 1 middle-class young men […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] instance, that even if Brown had been re-elected in 2010 he would have pursued a programme of budget cuts not dissimilar to those adopted by Cameron and Clegg, but would have spread them out over a 49 Winter 2010 longer period of time. In this scenario what does the Labour Party stand for?24 Politics […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] poor! Under David Cameron, Brown’s ‘socialism’ was all rolled back. Bower is insistent that the Austerity regime initiated under Cameron has also been seriously misunderstood (poor Nick Clegg does not get so much as a mention). Under Austerity, ‘the beneficiaries . . . were the poor’ with George Osborne’s cuts targeting ‘the work-shy’. Indeed, […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] it is really that important and there will always be sufficient ‘sensible’ people around to maintain the status quo). Where Blair and Brown led, David Cameron, Nick Clegg and the Miliband brothers followed. The exit of Ed Miliband as Labour leader in 2015 after a failure to win a general election was particularly egregious, […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] 9 In his previous post Pickles closed down the anti-corruption unit along with the rest of the Audit Commission. Pickles’s former Liberal Democrat Coalition government partner Nick Clegg has lost not only most of his LibDem MPs but also his former head of communications. According to the Jewish Chronicle, James Sorene ‘will lead BICOM […]