Show Me The Bodies by Peter Apps

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] the 24-storey West London apartment block occurred and includes the broader political ‘bonfire of regulation’ framework in which this took place. Under the Conservative premiership of David Cameron, writes Apps: the government was bound to an ideology that said it should not regulate the private sector, but should instead reduce any restrictions to allow […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] the miners crushed, but Rupert Murdoch, with Thatcher’s blessing, staged his ‘audacious coup’ at Wapping. Murdoch’s long-standing pernicious influence on British politics through the Thatcher, Blair and Cameron years does not seem to even interest – let alone trouble – our intrepid investigative reporter. What does upset him though is the fact that Jeremy […]

Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Political Power by David McKnight

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] nothing has changed. He is still in a position to punish quite openly a government that has crossed him without it causing any apparent public disquiet. If Cameron had resisted the pressure to establish the Leveson Inquiry and had remained loyal to his close friend and riding partner, Rebekah Brooks, the Sunday Times sting […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] he believed ‘could blow the case wide open.’ Gordon Thomas was no stranger to the government-sponsored ‘mind control’ experiments and had authored a book about Dr Ewen Cameron and the appalling MKULTRA experiments he had conducted in Montreal.1 0 Eric Olson immediately passed on the affidavit to Morgenthau’s office. Thomas’ affidavit recounts a series […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] or Small Potatoes’, Forbes Magazine, 8 April 2010. 23 Spencer Andrai’s Danger Room, ‘New US Commando Team Operating near Iran’, Wired, 19 January 2012. By contrast, David Cameron must have known in advance of the plans to seize Iran’s oil and public industries that have been developed (in the public domain) by the US […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] come. Mind games of the rich and famous The recent excursions of US President Obama had some interesting symbolism. On visiting the UK, Mr Obama presented David Cameron with a leather duffel-bag, an eyewateringly expensive designer watch, and some tennis gear, including a tube of three tennis balls. Why choose these specific items? It’s […]

Beyond Business by John Browne

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] at McKinsey for consultancy contracts ‘from the NHS to the defence ministry’, the total amount a closely guarded secret. 7 McKinsey’s relationship with government has continued under Cameron: William Hague used to work for them and was welcomed by the Economist as ‘the McKinsey Foreign Secretary’.8 Another McKinsey man is Nat Wei, a Baron, […]

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

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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. […]

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] the financial chaos originated. Tooze recounts in detail Prime Minister Cameron’s attempts to persuade the EU to leave the City off-shore, outside the EU’s regulatory remit. And Cameron got what he wanted, guarantees from the EU about not regulating the City. But three days before this was announced the UK referendum process had started […]

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