Political life in Britain

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[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[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 […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[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

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[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

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[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 […]

Has a DNA test solved the Rudolf Hess doppelgänger mystery?

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for settling the doppelgänger question by using reliable DNA tissue samples in a British laboratory. He knew that the British army’s honorary forensic pathologist, Professor J. M. Cameron of London University, had sent all the samples from his autopsy on the ‘suicided’ Spandau prisoner to London. Rhodri Morgan MP, a former British civil servant […]

Misleading Parliament – Appendices

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] the HIA Inquiry Document 8 Document 9 Document 10 Document 11 Document 12 Typed copy of original handwritten letter to The Prime Minister, The Rt Hon David Cameron Typed copy of original handwritten letter to The Prime Minister, The Rt Hon David Cameron Telephone: Dear David, In the 1980’s and 1990’s. I was immersed […]

An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair by Miles Goslett

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: The David Kelly mystery John Booth An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair Miles Goslett London, Head of Zeus, 2018, £16.99 ISBN-13: 978-1788543095 Did you know that the body of Iraq weapons inspector Dr David Kelly, who died mysteriously in 2003 after being named by 10 Downing Street for criticising […]

Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

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[PDF file]: […] 2) pp. 13-14 and 16, and pp. 375-77. 6 Nairn, The Enchanted Glass (see note 6) p. 240. 7 5 Three Prime Ministers since 2010 – David Cameron, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak – have been educated, respectively, at Eton, Eton and Winchester. All are graduates of Oxford University. None has any connection with […]

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