If David Cameron, a man who has many sterling qualities and does have the capacity for greatness, does turn out to be a true heir to Blair, in the sense that he's just as deceitful, then it will be a calamity for Britain. It would mean that the direction of our national affairs had fallen into the hands of a narrow political class which is utterly devoid of morality and with it, the ability to connect with ordinary people. It would suggest that the cynics really are correct and that there really is no difference between the main political parties, and that leading politicians - in their bond of deceitfulness - have far more in common with each other than they do with ordinary voters. It would suggest that something terrible happens to British politicians when they get office and they at once start to lie and cheat.
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Government by deceit: Not a day goes by without the Coalition breaking election pledges... - 0 views
Power To The People (from The Herald ) - 0 views
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Power to the people
Open Economics - Where Does My Money Go? - 0 views
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UK Government Spending by Department then Function (2008)
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Senior Tories join advisory board of Demos
Le prix Orwell pour l'ensemble de son œuvre revient à...- Ecrans - 0 views
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« Et les institutions, sociétés ou personnes s’étant distinguées par leur mépris du droit fondamental à la vie privée ou par leur promotion de la surveillance et du contrôle des individus sont... ». Ce dimanche 5 avril, les Big Brother Awards ont remis leurs Prix Orwell.
Rewired State Projects - 0 views
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Rewired State
Platitude of the Day - 0 views
Internet censorship silly season (Index on Censorship) - 0 views
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If we really wanted every email to include a photograph of the person sending it then we could rewrite the standard and change the code, and if we really wanted to link email addresses to entries in the national ID database we could. The real danger is not that politicians ask for things that the current network architecture cannot support, but that the network could be changed to make those things possible.
John Muellbauer: A housing-led recession is looking very likely (vox) - 0 views
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Looking ahead Looking forward, the research suggests a UK recession will be hard to avoid. Relative to mid-2007, the decline in the housing wealth to income ratio will soon reach 15%, which would eventually lower the consumption/income ratio by about 2.5 percentage points. But real household incomes are themselves falling, under pressure from oil and food prices. A further 1% or more fall in consumption is likely from the direct and interaction effects of the contraction of credit availability. On top of all that comes the effect of the fall in the stock market. The estimated adjustment speed in the model is 0.35 per quarter, so it takes several quarters for the full effects to show up.
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