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In 1942 Beveridge's report concluded that the State "should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility". Now, in the ...
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No, you're not One night last week the BBC news ran an item about the Tobin Tax on financial transactions. An economist bobbed his head ...
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Watch out for those Prussians on the left! It has become a terrible cliché to discuss Anglo-German relations using World War Two metaphors....
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When I told a friend of mine three years ago that I was interested in Austrian economics she asked “Isn’t that just selling cuckoo clocks an...
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Move over love, we've got another two to fit in here In the summer when the shocking abuse of residents at the Winterbourne View care ho...
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Out of the mouths of Vulcans One of the great things about sites like Facebook is that every now and then a half forgotten name from the pas...
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$535 million Whenever I watch Dragon’s Den (Shark Tank to readers in the United States) and I see some entrepreneur waking away with £50,000...
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Its been five fun filled years but a man in his 30s shouldn't be calling himself a boy anymore. Hence the new blog. If you didn't th...
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The 1960s ‘Harry Palmer’ spy films starring Michael Caine were intended as the antithesis of James Bond. They were downbeat, gritty, and rea...
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Hands off my wages And so the world keeps turning. An estimated two million public sector workers have gone on strike and the nation has kep...