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 […]

The view from the bridge

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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 […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] this, which appeared on Facebook. It’s from Marcus Moore (an ex-BBC employee): ‘A number of changes made during the last seven years or so, spearheaded by David Cameron, have led to the corporation’s news and politics departments becoming little more than ventriloquists’ dummies. Of particular note are the following: (a) important posts at the […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] has sought not only to demonstrate how his political 1 1 reformatted late 2023 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 […]

Holding pattern

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[PDF file]: […] Whitlam long dead, it’s difficult to imagine which international relations the Cabinet Office has in mind. There is absolutely no suggestion that Mr Murdoch’s old friend David Cameron is in any way doing him some kind of personal favour by withholding the file.7 …..and now F ast forward to the present day and we […]

Political life in Britain

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[…] 2010 Bonfire of the Liberties: New Labour, Human Rights and the Rule of Law K. D. Ewing Oxford and New York: OUP, £19.99 The Meaning of David Cameron 140 Winter 2010 Richard Seymour New Alresford: Zero Books, £6.99 Tom Easton D eborah Mattinson is just one of the many early enthusiasts for what became […]

Apocryphilia

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[PDF file]: […] remarkably (or not?), still a common textbook 70 years later. It’s durability, popularity and influence, over a century later, has been recently cited by prime minister David Cameron and the centre-right think tank Civitas as an example of something they would like to see updated and reintroduced. Why is this? The Our Island Story […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] this, which appeared on Facebook. It’s from Marcus Moore (an ex-BBC employee): ‘A number of changes made during the last seven years or so, spearheaded by David Cameron, have led to the corporation’s news and politics departments becoming little more than ventriloquists’ dummies. Of particular note are the following: a) important posts at the […]

Apocryphylia

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[PDF file]: […] nations and whether government revenue from personal taxation in the UK is now unsustainably low. Presumably he was restricting his reply to a very limited request from Cameron and Osborne for arguments to use against Scotland keeping the pound. None are convincing. Had the wider questions been put and had MacPherson chosen to address […]

Secrecy in Britain

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[PDF file]: […] an SAS officer to advice Gandhi on the Golden Temple siege in Amritsar. Subsequently the raid on the temple led to the killing of hundreds of Sikhs. Cameron immediately appointed Sir Jeremy Heywood to investigate what role the UK played in the attack and why the documents were released despite their obvious sensitivity. This […]

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