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- In this new book, Brendan Donnelly and Hugh Dykes, both former Conservative parliamentarians, critically review British attitudes towards the European Union, particularly those of the media and political classes. They...
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- How the world turns - 20/05/2012It is not only the world of politics that is turned upside down by the European banking crisis and the ineffectual way in which political leaders are dealing with it. ...
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regulation Archive
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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... -
G20: they came, they saw, they concurred
Posted on 08/04/2009 | No CommentsLondon has regularly played host to foreign leaders. From Julius Caesar onwards, the banks of the Thames have been visited by the same figures that bestride the world stage. The local inhabitants, from the blue-coloured woad-wearers to the city gents in pinstripe suits and bowler... -
Put People First: what does it all mean?
Posted on 27/03/2009 | No CommentsThere is a march through the streets of London tomorrow, convened by a loose coalition of NGOs, churches and trade unions, under the banner of “Put people first”. They will be gathering in the same part of London as the Federal Union AGM, at the... -
Strange news: a British pro-European policy
Posted on 25/03/2009 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 25 March 2009 We are truly living in extraordinary times. Thanks to the credit crunch and the ensuing recession, some of the world’s major banks have fallen into public hands. People have turned round and are now looking to governments... -
A new era for financial regulation
Posted on 20/03/2009 | No CommentsThe report published yesterday by Lord Turner, chair of the FSA, proposing a new approach to financial regulation has been widely hailed as a significant change. It outlines a new set of regulatory standards, but also a conceptual change, too. The idea was that markets... -
Avoiding collisions
Posted on 16/02/2009 | No CommentsAmid the news reports today about the collision between British and French nuclear submarines in the Arctic recently, my mind goes to a recent story about two satellites that collided in space. You can read the story here. While the submarine crash can be blamed... -
Gordon Brown gets something right
Posted on 27/01/2009 | No CommentsAmid the daily assaults on him in parliament and in the media, Gordon Brown can at least take comfort in some praise today on this blog. He is reported on the Daily Mail website (read the report here) as calling for effective international efforts to... -
How to survive the credit crunch
Posted on 05/10/2008 | No CommentsWith the vote by the US congress to kill the fatted calf and bail out the banks on Wall Street, the global financial crisis has finally passed out of the phase of getting uncontrollably worse. (It might still get worse, but the fightback has started.)... -
Ways to fix the world’s (financial) system
Posted on 25/01/2008 | No CommentsThis blog used to make a habit of criticising the prime minister’s wilder ambitions for reorganising the world, but times have moved on (or rather, the prime minister has moved on) and Gordon Brown’s article in the Financial Times (“Ways to fix the world’s financial...
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