Gordon Brown gets something right
Amid 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 […]
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regulation
How to survive the credit crunch
With 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
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Ways to fix the world’s (financial) system
This 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
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Why should the EU run a satellite system?
This blog commented previously on the funding difficulties faced by the EU’s Galileo project – one of the private sector funders pulled out and critical questions are now, properly, being
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Brussels’ glaring stupidity
Read an exchange in the Financial Times between Matthew Engel and Professor Tim Buthe, of the Center for European Studies, Duke University, North Carolina, on the way in which technical standards
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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
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.)
Adam Posen: Central power is a force for economic liberalism (04/07/07)
“The alternative to a strong Brussels is not a centralised free market and minimal government interference. It is greater political capture of economic policymaking and abuse of authority by member
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40 billion pounds
A debate this evening with Gerard Batten, a UKIP MEP for London. On the whole it went quite well (you can read my opening remarks here). One thing that was
Capitalism on a habitable planet
Robert Newman used to be funny. Now he’s just laughable. No, I don’t mean that, that’s not fair, there is more to his argument than meets the eye. (He had
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