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Is it Groundhog Day for British Banking?
19th August 2014
- James Watkins
After the debilitating financial crisis, the opprobrium heaped upon bankers and taxpayers obliged to bail out the banks, you would be forgiven in thinking that the banking sector was now open, transparent and offering good deals to customers.
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The West’s Retreat from Humanitarianism
19th August 2014
Today is World Humanitarian Day. The event commemorates the 19 August 2003 bombing of the UN Headquarters in Baghdad. Among the dead was the UN’s top envoy Sergio Viera de Mello with whom I had spent a day in Geneva shortly before he left for Iraq.
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The West Needs an Indirect Approach to the Middle East
15th August 2014
T.E. Lawrence wrote, “In fifty words: granted mobility, security in the form of denying targets to the enemy, time and doctrine (the idea to convert every subject to friendliness), victory will rest with the insurgents, for the algebraic factors in the end are decisive, and against then perfection of means and spirit struggle quite in vain”.
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Licence to Print: An alternative to press regulation
14th August 2014
Is journalism a profession or a trade? Either way, should professional journalists, who seek to earn their living from the reporting of news and current affairs, be required to hold some form of accredited licence?
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We must control fugitive emissions to make sure shale gas really is cleaner
8th August 2014
As Sam Fankhauser has said elsewhere on this blog, natural gas will be a useful ‘bridge’ fuel in our transition away from coal and oil, and could balance the intermittent supply from renewables by providing a more adaptable form of electricity supply.
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We need to employ preventative strategies to save our NHS
8th August 2014
It is widely agreed that the NHS is in the midst of a crisis. As a result of Government funding pressures and a rise in complex and long-term conditions, the NHS faces a potential affordability gap of £30 billion by the end of the decade.
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The Bankers’ Oath: Honesty, integrity, and ethics’
7th August 2014
Honesty, integrity, and ethics – would you feel comfortable using these words to describe the banking and finance industry? In Australia, the answer would probably be ‘no’. Despite the fact that the Australian banking and finance industry had fared better than most following the Global Financial Crisis, it was evident that the dominant public response to the crisis seemed to be to abandon trust in many (if not all) of the industry’s members and to increase the level of regulation and surveillance.
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How SMS texting can help local and global communities overcome a variety of problems
6th August 2014
Local communities around the world face a variety of problems both domestically and globally. As a result they are continuously looking for cost effective and efficient solutions whilst simultaneously ensuring sufficient accountability and transparency.
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Where the State’s Writ Does Not Run
1st August 2014
We have the first new consolidated Co-operatives Act in the UK for nearly fifty years. With our technical input, lobbying by co-ops and mutuals, ResPublica and the Conservative Co-operative Movement, plus support from across the political spectrum and preparatory work by the Law Commission, the Coalition Government has made UK a better place people who want to start and grow co-operaties.
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Help To Build…Voter Support by 2015
1st August 2014
The shortage of homes, in particular affordable housing, will be one of the key issues deciding the next General Election. Labour has already taken the initiative; Shadow Housing Minister Emma Reynolds’s speech in Nottingham yesterday reaffirmed Labour’s commitment to house-building.
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