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Iain Martin and Dan Hodges have both posted excellent blogs on the banking report, but there is one thing to add, which is that the House of Commons’ committee’s recommendations contain a contradiction. On the one hand the Committee calls for punishment of any bankers found to have engaged in “reckless mismanagement” of their bank. [...]
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Of all the social/moral questions facing us, euthanasia is one of the toughest to draw a conclusion on. On the one hand, nobody likes to think of a patient being left to suffer. As individuals we have a right to control our own way of living and, by that logic, our own way of dying. [...]
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Gove Letter by TelegraphBlogs
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Simon Wren-Lewis, professor of economics at Merton College, Oxford, blogs to the effect that there was no real problem of overspending under the last government; the idea that there was is largely a media lie propagated by people such as yours truly, he suggests, though obviously he doesn’t get down, dirty and quite as directly [...]
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What is it about heavily indebted Western governments that makes them so keen on tax transparency? Having lived beyond the tax base for a generation, Western governments are very keen to ensure none of the rest of us lives beyond the reach of the taxman. In a digital economy, where wealth is generated more by [...]
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Younger adults are more idealistic than the elderly. People’s voting habits tend to drift rightward as they get older. It’s axiomatic … or so we thought. According to Messrs Ipsos Mori, who have undertaken what is billed as the “first substantial analysis of the UK’s generational voting intentions”, such suppositions are ready to be challenged. [...]
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The Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards has this morning published its long-awaited report on, well, banking standards. At 571 pages it will take some time to digest, though that obviously hasn’t stopped some people from already running around demanding the government pledges to implement its findings in full. But at first glance it looks suspiciously [...]
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Yesterday’s surprise announcement by President Barack Obama that America is to engage in direct talks with the Taliban is a welcome and long overdue development in the decade-long Afghan conflict. As I and others have argued for many years, there is no military solution to the Afghan conflict, even if the sustained military effort – [...]
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That’s it. I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. In a radical shakeup of their 103-year old oath, the Brownies and Girl Guides are dropping their pledge to “love my God” and to serve their country. This sounds like a small thing but it’s actually a milestone in British social history. We’ve reached [...]
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The Banking Commission report is no doubt a serious document worth reading carefully. The members of the Commission took a great deal of evidence and have obviously thought deeply about the ethical and economic implications of the banking crisis. They seem to have got to the heart of it in terms of what went wrong [...]
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