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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Lesson from the banking industry: sometimes people need to be treated as people.
This article from the Economist struck me like a bullet on reading it today. Not so much for the subject matter itself (US banking practices) but what the whole episode says about the modern world. We have never had more … Continue reading
Posted in Economics & Finance, Public Services
Tagged economics, productivity, public service reform
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Is cutting Corporation Tax good for growth?
Everybody agrees that the UK economy needs more growth, like pretty much every other developed economy. On the right it seems to be taken for granted that cutting corporate taxes will help. This view deserves to be challenged. An example … Continue reading
Posted in Economics & Finance, Politics UK
Tagged Corporation tax, economics, Martin Wolf, tax policy, Tim Knox, UK economic policy
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The battle for ideas in the Liberal Democrats
The launch of two new policy focused groups within the Lib Dems in the last couple of weeks has drawn a bit of comment in the party. But the striking thing to me is what all this says about how … Continue reading
Posted in Politics UK
Tagged Lib Dems, Liberal Democrats, liberal left, liberal reform, liberal vision, social liberal forum
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The friendless NHS reforms
The savages are circling around Andrew Lansley and his NHS reforms. Or translated into something more politically correct, the indigenous tribes have cornered the contemptuous invader, and are closing in for the kill. Stories have been floating in the press … Continue reading
Posted in Politics UK, Public Services
Tagged Andrew Lansley, David Cameron, NHS, NHS reform
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Why the Coalition should not last beyond 2015
Some Tories are talking up the idea that the Coalition between their party and the Lib Dems should continue for a second term. This doesn’t sound realistic. And I think it would be a bad idea too. Some pundits have … Continue reading
Posted in Politics UK
Tagged 2015, Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dems, Liberal Democrats, Tories
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Globalisation is at a turning point
After a period of relative silence the idea of “globalisation” is re-entering political commentary. But almost none of the commentators seem have seem to have grasped its dynamics – and that its pressure on developed economies is easing rapidly to … Continue reading