2012 October 12

Why did no one talk about Jimmy Savile?

Posted on October 12 2012

Everyone seems to be asking this question. I want to offer two explanations. One comes from 1977. I was 19 in that year. I was
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Oh be joyful – Osborne has found the path to our salvation – and it’s called Jersey

Posted on October 12 2012

I kid you not. This is what the Jersey Evening Post says this afternoon: Jersey has got a role to play in helping the UK
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If Jersey wants to lose the tax haven label why not try giving up being a tax haven?

Posted on October 12 2012

I was most amused to read this in the Jersey Evening Post the other day: Two leading Westminster figures have urged Jersey to do more to fight off
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8

The EU’s Nobel peace prize is utterly bizarre

Posted on October 12 2012

The FT has noted: The EU was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, the latest in a string of controversial decisions from the Norwegian
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11

The harmful myth of the balanced budget

Posted on October 12 2012

Common sense would have it that balancing a budget makes sense. I guess it all goes gack to Dickens and his maxim that if income
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Britain’s economy is in a mess not for lack of maths but for lack of ethics and common sense

Posted on October 12 2012

Simon Jenkins wrote that this morning, in the Guardian. He’s right. In one of his annoyingly good articles (annoying because he can also write such nonsense) this wisdom
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