Friday, 7 February 2014

How to tackle the disaster of too much measurement

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It is now thirteen years since I confronted a prominent member of Tony Blair's cabinet at a reception about time banks.  When he asked m...
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Thursday, 6 February 2014

The squeezed middle is now everywhere

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I am happy for my old publishers Constable and Robinson that they have agreed to sell themselves to Little, Brown, part of the vast Hachette...
Wednesday, 5 February 2014

Getting the middle classes to read about themselves - £3 off

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My friend and colleague Mark Pack should have been chosen as Lib Dem blogger of the year last year. His posts are always intelligent, alway...
Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Don't wait around for the hidden hand - it's you...

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I heard a fascinating radio debate on the BBC just before Christmas in the programme The History of Britain in Numbers.   It was between tw...
Monday, 3 February 2014

The real gagging is political self-censorship

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I don't often get abused online, but I've been thinking about something hurled at me on Facebook last week about my defence of the L...
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Friday, 31 January 2014

Ever more dependent on the property bubble

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I met up with a banker friend and relative of mine last Friday.  I take him seriously because, back in 2007, he was suggesting that he and I...
Thursday, 30 January 2014

Columbus' lessons for the Somerset Levels

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Nearly seven years ago, while I was writing Toward the Setting Sun – a look at the links and rivalry between Columbus, Cabot and Vespucci ...