Tuesday, 10 November 2015

Keep the dinosaurs shut - if you want real competition

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As always, when an issue looms large in the House of Commons, the divisions are about the respective claims of capital and labour - though b...
Monday, 9 November 2015

What's air pollution and depression got to do with it? A lot.

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I have mentioned before, perhaps too much, my conversation in 2000 with a prominent minister in Tony Blair's cabinet about my book The T...
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Thursday, 5 November 2015

This changes everything. No government can trash entrepreneurs and survive for long

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Just occasionally, there is a small event in politics – it seems hardly important in the great scheme of things – but you realise it means t...
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Wednesday, 4 November 2015

The economic destiny of the Lib Dems

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A few weeks ago, I was in Lancashire, interviewing a Labour councillor about the fascinating and pioneering work they have been doing there ...
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Tuesday, 3 November 2015

How we all learned we had to spread information

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In Nelson's day, it was relatively simple. Once a fleet was at sea, it was effectively under local command. The Admiralty could judge ...
Monday, 2 November 2015

Escaping the curse of iTyranny

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It is fourteen years now since my book on the phenomenon of too many numbers was published. The  Tyranny of Numbers was an attempt to flag...
Thursday, 29 October 2015

The curse of the empty corporation

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In desperation, around lunchtime yesterday, I turned to Twitter to get through to Barclay's Bank, where - to my great shame - I still h...