Since comments have been closed on the blog a number of people have mailed me on the new policy. One occasional commentator has regretted the
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I have adopted a new comments policy for this blog. It is published here. It says: Jane Austen did famously write in the opening sentence
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For those interested I should be on the Jeremy Vine show today at 1.30pm BBC Radio 2, discussing why George Osborne is wrong to obsess
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My previous blog post was the 4,444th on this blog. Sorry, that’s now 4,445. That’s 3.4 a day over 43 months. Maybe I should get
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My first Forbes column  – entitled End of High Living — has got into the current Forbes Top Rated listing. Looks like the first may
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I was recently asked to write for Forbes on fairly regular basis. My first column, dealing with the consequences of the US pension deficit, is
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I haven’t got time for a long review of 2009. Its pace has not slowed as the year draws to a close, and there is
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This award goes to Alex (who claims to be author of the Alex cartoon strips, but I very much doubt he is as I know
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Happy Christmas to all readers of this blog And thanks for your interest, support and constructive disagreement in 2009