Monday, April 9, 2012

Cold Transylvanian idyll

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I was premature in removing the snowbound Transylvanian valley from the blog masthead! I arrived a few hours ago in my mountain house for my...
Sunday, April 8, 2012

In praise of Direct Action

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There couldn’t have been a more appropriate location for a lone protest against the ongoing insidious repression of our democratic freedoms...
Saturday, April 7, 2012

Back in Romania

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Bucharest is in full spring growth – so male testerones are obvious in the drivers (a stand-off within minutes of arriving - with a driver u...
Thursday, April 5, 2012

More tax evasion

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I wrote a few days back about the impact of Nicholas Shaxson’s book Treasure Islands - and the revelations it contains about unregulated fin...
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Privatisation of public facilities stinks!

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I’ ve already confessed on the blog that I was too open-minded in my attitude during the opening stages of Thatcher’s privatisation agenda. ...
Monday, April 2, 2012

Responsibility, accountability and all that

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What would you make of a zoo which kept its more harmless animals under strong guard but which allowed its man-eaters to roam free? I am be...
Sunday, April 1, 2012

A Deafening Silence

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Groupthink has always fascinated me. Even more, its corollary – the failure to ask how it can be avoided in future . The result is that gov...
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Saturday, March 31, 2012

Stealing the world

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I’ve just finished reading Nicholas Shaxon’s Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World (2011).It describes how the City ...