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Brendan O’Neill
Banker-bashers: a lynch mob with PhDs
The mad political pursuit of ‘evil’ Fred Goodwin confirms that bankers are to posh commentators what paedos are to tabloid hacks.
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| Monday 19 December 2011 |
Phil Mullan
Dear Santa, please get rid of the Euro
In the interests of democracy, fraternity and growth, Phil Mullan’s Christmas wish is for the speedy demise of the single European currency.
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| Tuesday 13 December 2011 |
Colin McInnes
Economic growth:
it’s not dead yet
Green thinkers are plain wrong to claim there are natural limits to how much we can expand our economies.
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| Wednesday 7 December 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
Fiskalunion?
Nein Danke!
The long-running drive to give Brussels greater power over EU member states is anti-growth and anti-democratic.
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| Wednesday 30 November 2011 |
Mick Hume
Evoking the ghost of general strikes past
The day of industrial action over UK public sector pensions is a gesture, not a general strike – and both sides know it.
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| Wednesday 30 November 2011 |
Rob Lyons
George Osborne’s autumn of discontent
The chancellor’s autumn statement exposed a dearth of future-oriented thinking in economic circles.
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| Tuesday 1 November 2011 |
Frank Furedi
Why church officials worship these protesters
No attempt to depict Occupy London as a Second Coming of angry Jesuses can disguise the fact that it remains a shallow moral gesture.
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| Thursday 20 October 2011 |
Wendy Kaminer
The disenfranchised majority kicks back
Occupy Wall Street may be incoherent, but it’s a long overdue reaction to an out-of-touch political class.
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| Thursday 6 October 2011 |
Rob Lyons
A game of economic Pass the Parcel
Three years after the collapse of Lehmann Brothers, the debt crisis hasn’t been resolved, just reformulated.
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| Tuesday 4 October 2011 |
Mick Hume
Euro-crisis: dictatorship of the bean-counters
The bankrupting of democracy is too high a price to pay for the Euro-elites’ scheme to save their system through more austerity and integration.
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| Tuesday 27 September 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Making a Balls-up of economic recovery
Ed Balls’ speech confirmed that Labour hasn’t got the first clue about how to pursue the economic growth we need.
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| Tuesday 13 September 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
The bizarre battle over fifty pence
Neither the rich folk campaigning against the 50p tax rate, nor the radicals desperately defending it, have very much to recommend them.
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| Monday 22 August 2011 |
Sean Collins
President Obama’s Summertime Blues
Yes, his approval ratings have plummeted, but Republicans shouldn’t gloat: Americans have had it with the whole political class.
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| Tuesday 2 August 2011 |
Sean Collins
The real cause of the US debt crisis? Slow growth
The pantomime political debate about the debt ceiling is distracting attention from the parlous state of the productive economy.
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| Tuesday 26 July 2011 |
Sean Collins
Debt ceiling debate: bad political theatre
Even more than the Eurozone crisis, the debt discussion in the US shines a harsh light on the dysfunctional nature of the modern political class.
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| Thursday 14 July 2011 |
Phil Mullan
Making a crisis out of a Greek drama
ESSAY: To overcome the Eurozone crisis, we should declare war on the fatalist notion that sluggish growth is the ‘New Normal’.
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| Wednesday 15 June 2011 |
Nikos Sotirakopoulos
No politics please, we’re trying to protest!
A Greek student reports on how ideology has been expelled from the anti-government protests in Athens and elsewhere.
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| Friday 20 May 2011 |
Daniel Ben-Ami
The Malthusians who masquerade as Marxists
The alternatives to the mythical creed of ‘neo-liberalism’ offered by David Harvey and other radical authors sound far, far worse.
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| Tuesday 17 May 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
What about a Rally For Economic Growth?
The UK economy is in big trouble, but Saturday's pro-cuts demo in London largely missed the point.
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| Monday 21 February 2011 |
James Woudhuysen
Big Pharma, small ambition
Pfizer’s decision to close its UK research facility was born of an industry-wide angst about medical discovery.
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