Christian Aid issued the following press relase within the last hour: Christian Aid today welcomed Prime Minister David Cameron’s backing for legislation that will force companies to
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How to buy a football club: go offshore
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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What if the Tea Party take over?
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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Hackgate: The time for the Courageous State
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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Since when was carrying a leaflet an offence? The remaining F & M prosecutions are the action of a police force in need of radical reform
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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Yesterday’s word cloud
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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Euro crisis this week?
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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