Paedo Files: a look at the UK Establishment child abuse network

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[PDF file]: […] at the UK Establishment child abuse network Tim Wilkinson 1: Conserving the Conservatives O n 24 October 2012, the Labour MP Tom Watson asked Prime Minister David Cameron about a paedophile ring centred on the Prime Minister’s office at Number 10 Downing Street. Visibly discomfited, Cameron first affected not to know which former prime […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] released so far was the US Embassy in London’s account of a 2010 conversation with Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, about messieurs Osborne and Cameron. The cable says: ‘Both Cameron and Osborne have a tendency to think about issues only in terms of politics, and how they might affect Tory electorability. […]

A tale of two Islingtons: How Blair opened the door for Corbyn

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[PDF file]: […] none of 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 […]

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[…] inter alia, my copy of the Labour Party’s 1982 publication, The City: A Socialist Approach.1 4 And so, on with the political economy. What do Osborne and Cameron think they are doing? W hen Cameron and Osborne took office I used to speculate with a couple of correspondents about what they thought they were […]

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[…] privatisation of public money in the West is thus more or less complete.’ 2 Bankers in Whitehall In September Ian Fraser commented on his blog: ‘When David Cameron reshuffled his cabinet earlier this week, the arrival of a trio City of London bankers and consultants at Her Majesty’s Treasury went almost unnoticed. This in […]

Brexit Revisited: Europe Didn’t Work, and, Brexit Unfolded

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[PDF file]: […] against the Euro over the period, were right all along. The book concludes in self-congratulation before adding an epilogue looking back on the period between 2015 (when Cameron offered a referendum under pressure from the Brexit Party) and 2017. This covers the attempts at renegotiation with the EU, the referendum campaign and the immediate […]

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[PDF file]: […] not one of them thought that these facts might be connected. The Conservative Party annual conference was noteworthy for a striking piece of nonsense from Prime Minister Cameron claiming that the Conservatives were the now the party of ‘working people’. Many commentators, who really ought to know better by now, took this seriously. The […]

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[…] political parties is anywhere near suggesting something as radical as this. The Conservative Party annual conference was noteworthy for a striking piece of nonsense from Prime Minister Cameron claiming that the Conservatives were the now the party of ‘working people’. Many commentators, who really ought to know better by now, took this seriously. The […]

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[PDF file]: […] released so far was the US Embassy in London’s account of a 2010 conversation with Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, about messieurs Osborne and Cameron. The cable says: ‘Both Cameron and Osborne have a tendency to think about issues only in terms of politics, and how they might affect Tory electorability. […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] had, inter alia, my copy of the Labour Party’s 1982 publication, The City: A Socialist Approach.14 And so, on with the political economy. What do Osborne and Cameron think they are doing? When Cameron and Osborne took office I used to speculate with a couple of correspondents about what they thought they were doing. […]

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