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Politics & campaigns.

This is not a party political site and not very partisan in any way. My emphasis has tended to be on the quality of debate and campaigning, and especially on the need to appreciate represtentative democracy (government through elected representatives whose own views matter), and to be sceptical of the claims of vox pop, "the people", social media, Crowd Wisdom, and "direct action".

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The real climate change deniers

In the run-up to the Copenhagen update of the Kyoto process, the biggest climate change deniers are those who can't or won't see that most of the rhetoric about what we "must" do is so  much hot air. What we ought to do is another matter. Read more...

Published

17 November 2009

Capitalism isn’t cosy shock

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. Read more...

Published

06 November 2009

Contented Dementia? I don’t think so

[The following blog - written in 2009 - still represents my views, but please also see a later blog of mine and its useful link to an Alzheimer's Society position paper on Contented Dementia, which I think states a very similar opinion but with far more authority. RDN, 30 July 2013] Oliver James has written some silly and poorly-argued books and it would have been nice if Contented Dementia, his new offering, was an exception. It isn't. Read more...

Published

19 October 2009

Royal Mail kicked to death by union

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. Read more...

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19 October 2009

3 riffs 4 a bolder Toryism

I shall be in Manchester promoting my new book, Mr Cameron's Makeover Politics: Or why old Tory stories matter. Here are three brief messages I am pitching to the media. Read more...

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04 October 2009

Financial regulation and risk (2)

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. Read more...

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24 September 2009

Financial markets should be free (ideally)

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. Read more...

Published

21 September 2009
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