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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Sometimes things just don’t make sense
It is one of the most enduring human characteristics to try and see patterns in the world around us. We don’t like the idea of random events. People even pore over lottery numbers. After the awful events in Norway last … Continue reading
Economic growth and the media circus
Today the ONS released their first estimates for economic growth for the second quarter. These quarterly figures have become the centre of a media frenzy; the papers and the BBC have been speculating about them and their implications for days. … Continue reading
Could the hacking scandal threaten David Cameron?
Am I being too sanguine? I asked this of myself a week ago after posting on the Euro crisis. Now I’m asking myslf the same thing over my recent posting on the hacking crisis. Could there be a lot more … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged David Cameron, euro crisis, hacking scandal, Murdoch, Private Eye, Rupert Murdoch
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What will the hacking scandal change?
I’m afraid I’ve been swept along by the drama of the hacking scandal, even as the Euro heads for meltdown, the US for financial suicide, and famine ravages the Horn of Africa. I watched the Murdochs before the Select Committee … Continue reading
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Europe’s financial crisis gets dangerous
While the British news media and politicos alike obsess with the unfolding of the News of the World hacking scandal, Europe’s financial crisis enters a dangerous stage. In fact this crisis seems to unfolding just as quickly, and with much … Continue reading
Posted in Economics & Finance, World
Tagged Angela Merkel, economics, EU, Euro, euro crisis, Helmut Kohl
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The Euro crisis: structural failure or learning curve?
Coverage of the crisis in the Eurozone is astonishingly poor. Commentators scarcely try to analyse the situation properly; instead they revert to one of two unsatisfactory critiques. First, the Eurosceptic one, is that the Eurozone was always an unworkable idea … Continue reading
Posted in Economics & Finance, World
Tagged default, economics, Euro, euro crisiso, europhiles, eurosceptics, Eurozone
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Affording the NHS
The British government has been talking darkly about the exploding demands on the National Health Service, which will rapidly make it unaffordable if it is not reformed. This has recently been challenged by Professor John Appleby, at the health think … Continue reading
Posted in Politics UK, Public Services
Tagged Conservatives, health policy, John Appleby, King's Fund, Labour, Lib Dems, NHS, NHS reform
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Hacking scandal – enjoy it while it lasts
We haven’t seen anything like this since the MPs expenses scandal in 2009. Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper empire is the centre of a media and political feeding frenzy provoked initially by outrage over mobile phone hacking, and now taking in dodgy … Continue reading
The enduring legacy of paganism
Tennis stars Rafael Nadal or Andy Murray throw their (sweat-soaked) wrist-bands into the crowd after winning a match at Wimbledon. To me this is rather bizarre. What on earth would I do if one of them landed in my lap? … Continue reading
Posted in Sunday reflections, Uncategorized
Tagged British Museum, christianity, paganism, Treasures of Heaven
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