Reforming the City
The 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 […]
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Federalism and the financial and economic crisis
By 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
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Letter to Her Majesty The Queen
Her 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
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Keynesianism and the environment
I 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,
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Following the rules
The 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
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G20: they came, they saw, they concurred
London 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
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Put People First: what does it all mean?
There 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
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Strange news: a British pro-European policy
By 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
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A new era for financial regulation
The 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
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Avoiding collisions
Amid 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
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