The banking crisis and credit crunch are the product of regulation and government policy and the way to get more safety into capitalism (which most people still accept as the way to go) is to insist that transparency and fear are the best policemen.
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Economic crisis / Politics and campaigns on 25 July 2010. No comments.
I was asked to appear on Radio 4’s special programme BP: Beyond the horizon and the Macondo disaster. Would it transform the firm and the oil business? I’m clinging to the idea that it won’t much, but with one big caveat. Here’s the crib I prepared…. More »
Posted by RDN under Economic crisis / Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns on 16 May 2010. No comments.
Just before I get too sunny, here are three areas where the country’s politicians, and the Tories not least, face real problems. They all centre on the country’s habit of self-deception. More »
Posted by RDN under Economic crisis / Politics and campaigns on 16 May 2010. No comments.
I was often depressed and irritated by Gordon Brown, but he made a good departure (that matters in political life). Better still, substantial people are fighting for his reputation. Irwin Stelzer (the Spectator), Anthony Seldon (the Guardian) and Martin Wolf (the Financial Times) have all mounted defences of his record. This is luck on a large scale.
Posted by RDN under Economic crisis / Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns on 7 May 2010. No comments.
In previous posts I have remarked what a great political and constitutional opportunity the UK now has. But it depends far more on individual MPs than on their leaders, constitutional historians, greybeard commentators or anyone else. More »
Posted by RDN under Economic crisis / Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns on 6 May 2010. No comments.
This is perhaps the most exciting election of my lifetime, and I don’t care who wins….. More »
Posted by RDN under Economic crisis / Mr C's Makeover Politics / Rightist manifestos on 9 March 2010. No comments.
I was bucked to have a piece run on the Guardian’s Comment Is Free (Cif). I was bemoaning Mr Cameron’s Makeover Politics. Here are a few reflections on the comments it received. More »
Posted by RDN under Economic crisis / Politics and campaigns on 6 November 2009. No comments.
I appeared as a witness at a World Congress of Faiths “Moral Maze” before a small audience in Southwark Cathedral last night. Surprise, surprise I defended capitalism against a range of (mostly religious) critics. More »
Posted by RDN under Economic crisis / Politics and campaigns on 19 October 2009. No comments.
I told BBC Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine show that it’s hard to believe that the Royal Mail can continue in anything like its present form. And the Communication Workers’ Union seem determined to kill it off double-quick. More »
Posted by RDN under Economic crisis / Politics and campaigns on 24 September 2009. No comments.
Here is a bit more on the conundrum of regulating financial risk when you know you shouldn’t, really. My message is that regulators should aim to encourage market-driven self-regulation. More »
Posted by RDN under Economic crisis / Politics and campaigns on 21 September 2009. No comments.
The less we regulate banks and financial firms, the safer we will be. Those of us that want safety, that is. (That would be me: I am morbidly timid.) Here’s 10 bullet points saying why. More »
