Data privacy
Some people said that the rise of globalisation would lead to the end of government. People could trade and communicate with each other across national borders and regulation as we […]
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Not going metric
An announcement from the European Commission today that the drive to extend the use of the metric system in the UK is coming to an end. (Read about it here.)
Proud to be British
A story in the Sunday Telegraph today about possible changes to British passports: read it here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/09/nqueen109.xml The gist of the proposal is that new EU passports should include a
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Ethics
A British government consultation document on ethical trade in the food industry remarks that “the sourcing of fish from an unsustainable or sustainable source is as much an ethical issue
Once and for all?
Former Europe minister Keith Vaz has joined in the debate about holding a referendum on Europe, calling for a vote on the same day as the general election next spring
Tax havens
The front page story in today’s Financial Times makes interesting reading. “One-third of biggest businesses pays no tax” runs the headline. The article itself points out various ways in which
Henry V
The National Film Theatre in London is showing a season of films by Laurence Olivier, and I went to see his performance of Henry V. Knowing that the film was
Deportation
Lots in the newspapers today about the failure of the government’s attempt to deport an Italian citizen back to Italy when his prison sentence for murder is completed. The government
The bottom billion
Now that I have finished reading Paul Collier’s excellent book on poverty, “The Bottom Billion”, I can write down my thoughts about it. The central theme of the book is
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Centralisation
Charles Grant of the CER writes, in today’s Financial Times, that “Federalism”, in the sense of centralisation for centralisation’s sake, is a declining force that is relevant in no more