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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Time the British woke up to the crisis in Europe
It is a commonplace for Britain’s politicos to sadly shake their heads and complain that the Euro crisis demonstrates a woeful lack of political leadership. Regardless of the fairness of this charge in respect of Angela Merkel, say, it clearly … Continue reading
Posted in Economics & Finance, Politics UK, World
Tagged Conservatives, David Cameron, EU, Euro, euro crisis, Europe, European Union, George Osborne, Labour, Lib Dems, Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg
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Memo to Miliband: break some eggs
As a political insider it’s very easy to be carried away by partisan emotions, but very dangerous. Thus I have been watching (not literally) the Labour conference with a great deal of caution. I want to scoff, but my better … Continue reading
Posted in Politics UK
Tagged David Cameron, Ed Miliband, euro crisis, Labour, Labour conference, Lib Dems, Liberal Democrats
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The strange cheerfulness of the Liberal Democrats
I returned from the Liberal Democrat conference in Birmingham yesterday. After the March conference, when things were already looking bad, I blogged under the title of “The Strange Cohesion of the Liberal Democrats”. The cohesion is still there, but to … Continue reading
Posted in Politics UK
Tagged Conservatives, David Cameron, Labour, Lib Dems, Liberal Democrats, Steve Richards
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It’s time for the Lib Dems to grow up
I had wanted to include the phrase “growing pains” in the title of this post, but growing is not what is happening to the Lib Dems at the moment. Not in the sense of membership or votes, a small summer … Continue reading
Taming the banks: two views from the FT
Oh the shame of the FT’s paywall! Yesterday the paper presented a wonderful view of the debate on the UK banking reforms proposed by the Vickers Commission with two opinion pieces under the title Taming the banks, long overdue or … Continue reading
Posted in Economics & Finance, Politics UK
Tagged banking, banking reform, euro crisis, FT, investment banking, John Kay, Martin Jacomb, Vickers Commission
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My 9/11
11th September 2001 was a wonderful, bright and sunny day here in London, just as it was in New York. You didn’t need a jacket outdoors. I was on duty for a presentation to a prospective client that morning, at … Continue reading
Tony Blair is both right and wrong, but mostly yesterday’s man
Well I was going to turn the radio off this morning when John Humphreys was interviewing Tony Blair to mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11. But I couldn’t go that far, and I caught about half of it. I’m glad … Continue reading
Posted in World
Tagged 9/11, George Bush, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Tony Blair, War on Terror
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Time for Plan B?
Predictably, the heat is mounting on the British government to soften its fiscal policy in light of weak economic growth. Today the new IMF chief Christine Lagarde seems to be adding to the pressure, even if she wasn’t explicit. The … Continue reading
Posted in Economics & Finance, Politics UK
Tagged economics, Martin Wolf, Paul Krugman, Plan B
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The Euro: Thatcherism by other means
It’s a grim time for supporters of the Euro project like me. Hardly a day goes by without hearing some highly patronizing person going on about how a country fixing its exchange rate is a terrible idea because it can’t … Continue reading
Is the Ebacc such a bad idea?
Michael Gove, the Education Secretary for England (his remit not extending elsewhere in the UK, so far as I know), is one of the more controversial figures in the government. I haven’t met anybody that works in or with the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics UK, Public Services
Tagged ebacc, education policy, English baccalaureate, GCSEs, Michael Gove
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