From the Treasure Islands blog, with permission: Last night I caught the tail end of a Channel 4 TV programme entitled How to Buy a Football
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As Gideon Rachman notes in the FT this morning: The Bachmann-Tea Party diagnosis of America’s problems gets things the wrong way around. The problem, as
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My book, with the title The Courageous State should be published in September: work on it is progressing well. It may well prove to be extraordinarily
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As Nina Power notes in the Guardian this morning: In Sir Paul Stephenson’s resignation as Metropolitan police commissioner on Sunday night, one of the things he
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I just found Wordle – which generates word clouds, easily. So I banged in yesterday’s blog front page just to see what it looked like.
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The Euro leaders meet on Thursday this week. Their currency is falling apart all around them and, led by Merkel and Germany, they are doing nothing about it. As Nils
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As the Guardian reports tonight: More than £5bn was wiped off the value of three of Britain’s biggest banks on Monday as global financial markets
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The UK Treasury issued the following statement this afternoon: Written Ministerial Statement Isle of Man Indirect Tax Revenue Sharing The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury: (David Gauke):
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The FT published this at 2.40pm today: Financial crises occur when debt levels are excessive and asset prices fall. The severity of the recession that
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