[PDF file]: […] intelligence services while Ewen Cameron’s very similar Sleep Room in Montreal, which was run at the same time, most certainly was. (Stock gives a detailed account of Cameron and MKULTRA.) Jon Stock is an assiduous and diligent researcher, and his study is not only a biography of Dr Sargant but also an examination of […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] was a tactic which went down well with many in the electorate, and has been used time and again to good electoral effect by Thatcher’s successors. David Cameron and his Chancellor George Osborne liked to talk about how their governments championed the ‘strivers’, all of them (so it was argued) good British folk, not […]
[PDF file]: The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016: a political and economic history Scott Newton Routledge, 2017, £29.99, p/b One image recurred throughout my reading of this closely-argued and finelywritten book. The elegant but deadly assassin, played by Edward Fox in The Day of the Jackal (1973), is despatching one obstacle after another as he approaches his ultimate […]
[PDF file]: […] system for Parliamentary elections as recently as 1950 when university graduates and company directors (again, the upper classes) lost their right to a second (or multiple) vote. Cameron only managed 37% in 2015.3 Turnout, too, has declined. In 1951 Attlee and Churchill took 97% of the votes between them on an 83% turnout. Compared […]
[PDF file]: […] help those, it is you who I am thinking about. We need to back those who invest, invent, sell, make – the producers of this country.’4 David Cameron addressed the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) in November, and, though not quite so explicit, talked the same talk. He seeks: ‘a fundamental rebalancing of the […]
[PDF file]: […] more interest is the account of Cameron’s war in Libya and attempted war on Syria. Both MI6 and the Defence Chiefs advised against intervention against Gaddafi, but Cameron went ahead anyway. While the pretext for intervention was, as always, humanitarian, the real object was regime change. MI6 and SAS ‘advisers’ helped train the rebels […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
