Time for the pavilion (or: there are only 365 Conservative MPs)

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[PDF file]: Time for the pavilion (or: there are only 365 Conservative MPs) Simon Matthews Since late summer 2020, it has looked as if the impact of an incompetently managed mass pandemic and a ludicrously self-inflicted ‘hard’ Brexit (think here up to 85,000 dead, shortages of food and medicine, the Police losing control of the streets, a […]

Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation by Sam Bright

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[PDF file]: […] and power of the rich and super rich. But, according to Bright, these governments actually resisted the plutocrats and it was not until the public schoolboys David Cameron and George Osborne took over that the country began ‘moving closer to plutocracy – a ruling class whose power is derived from its wealth’. (pp. 59-60, […]

The Lexit delusion

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[PDF file]: […] William Hague and Michael Howard, both Eurosceptics; but the Party remained divided on the subject and lost votes to UKIP, especially in European and local elections. David Cameron took over the Party in 2005 determined to stop it ‘banging on about Europe’; but ongoing turmoil finally led him to call the 2016 referendum on […]

AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain by David Wearing

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[PDF file]: […] threat to national security requiring a response from the British government.1 The oil trade is seen not only as a condition of western This is from the Cameron government’s 2010 document on UK National Security Strategy. On p. 63 of his book Wearing provides further details: ‘Tier one’ risks ‘include direct terrorist attacks on […]

Johnson at 10: The Inside Story

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[PDF file]: […] This is just so The book under review here is the latest in a series of volumes that started with Brown at 10 (2010) and continued with Cameron at 10 (2015), May at 10 (2019) and now Johnson at 10. Will the next volume have to combine the premierships of Truss and Sunak? It […]

Misleading Parliament – Appendices

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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

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[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 […]

Back to the future (again)

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[PDF file]: […] in the arts. And in foreign policy, Iraq. By 2010 the turn-out gap between the under 35s and the over 55s had widened to 20% producing David Cameron and Brexit (in the 2016 EU Referendum the gap was 17%). It follows that – since, say, 1990 at the latest – had UK politics been […]

Survival of the Richest: escape fantasies of the tech billionaires, by Douglas Rushkoff

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[PDF file]: […] so-called Nudge theory, the idea that people can be nudged to make the right choice without coercing them or restricting their freedom of choice.9 Prime Minister David Cameron and President Obama were intrigued by the idea that governments could achieve their goals without having to argue or legislate. (Or regulate). Cameron See, for example, […]

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