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- What future for Libya? - 13/01/2012By John Parry Civil wars can be the most vicious form of conflict as recent events in Libya have demonstrated. The Benghazi-based rebels’ swift victory, achieved with Nato air support,...
- Federal Union review of 2011 - 09/01/2012Last year was dominated by the crisis in the eurozone. It dominated the debate about the future of European integration, obviously, but has also turned out to be a major...
- Is the time right for a new world order? - 19/12/2011The answer to the question in the title of this talk is of course, yes, the time is right, but I think you would like to hear a little more...
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- The lady in the lake - 03/02/2012Taking a break from thinking about the future of the eurozone or the prospects for a UN Parliamentary Assembly, I took a trip to 1940s California in the company of...
- Incident on the A598 - 25/01/2012This is the story of an accident. It wasn’t a bad one, but it could have been, and it set me thinking. I was pushing my daughter in her buggy...
- The Republican opponents of Barack Obama - 13/01/2012The presidential primaries are finally underway in the United States, with candidates competing for the right to be the Republican challenger to Barack Obama in November. (Obama is unopposed as...
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Contorted arguments against EU membership
Posted on 14/11/2011 | 4 CommentsThe benefits of British membership of the European Union are so profound and far-reaching that its opponents have to twist themselves into all kinds of knots in order to try and construct an argument against it. People from either side of the left-right political spectrum... -
Speed kills
Posted on 20/05/2011 | No CommentsYour blogger was required to attend a speed awareness course last night, having been caught by a speed camera two months ago and wanting not to acquire any penalty points. I was expecting some kind of annoying lecture on how bad it is to speed... -
If Libya, why Britain?
Posted on 30/03/2011 | No CommentsIf the first question to ask about the current UN action in North Africa is, why Libya, then the second question is why Britain. If yesterday’s blog entry is correct and there might be a case for action (although note the caveats as well as... -
John Lanchester: action on the banks has to be international
Posted on 18/10/2010 | No CommentsThis new Lehmans scandal sums up two of the biggest problems that we – the voting, taxpaying general public – still have with the banks, almost two years after they blew up and we bailed them out. First, the operation of capital markets is international,... -
The snow reveals as much as it covers
Posted on 14/01/2010 | No CommentsArchaeologists sometimes find that a covering of snow on the landscape can reveal to aerial photography previously unknown features such as barrows and homesteads that in normal weather conditions would not be seen. In a similar way, the covering of snow that has fallen on... -
Reforming the City
Posted on 03/12/2009 | 1 CommentThe appointment of a Frenchman as European commissioner responsible for the City of London has produced ridiculous claims by people who hail it as a victory over Anglo-Saxon capitalism, and ridiculous counter-claims by people who fear it means the end of civilisation as we know... -
Federalism and the financial and economic crisis
Posted on 04/09/2009 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Thank you for the opportunity to speak on this subject. I should make clear that what I propose to say is not strictly true. I do not think that any economic or political theory can ever be strictly true: what matters is... -
Letter to Her Majesty The Queen
Posted on 19/08/2009 | No CommentsHer Majesty The Queen Buckingham Palace London SW1A 1AA 19 August 2009 Madam Your Majesty will have received a letter from the British Academy of 22 July 2009 opening an enquiry into the question of why nobody had predicted the crisis. Of course, it is... -
Keynesianism and the environment
Posted on 28/06/2009 | No CommentsI was asked to give a short talk at a conference this weekend on environmental policy and the influence of Keynes. Now Keynes was a major, if not the major, economic thinker of the first half of the 20th century at a time when environmental... -
Following the rules
Posted on 17/05/2009 | No CommentsThe recent revelations about MPs’ expense claims had led to a series of newspaper articles now questioning the whole function of having rules as such. Conservative columnists such as Iain Martin and rational liberals such as A C Grayling are finding routes to the same...
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