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82Who Are 'The Markets'?
The question haunts me, and this is an appeal for help with it. I'm an average guy, not the sharpest tool in the box, who needs to know why he's unlikely to leave the World in a better state than he found it 62 years ago. I want to know why future...
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57"We're All In This Together"
“We’re all in this together”, said George Osborne MP yesterday at the Tory Party conference (UK politics). Now, where have we heard that before? Ah yes, George W. said it about a year ago (just before...
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68Will Kindness Come Back Into Fashion?
I expect we’ll see a decline for a while, in the sort of ideology that has dominated society in recent decades, and some progress in the perspective that material wealth is not the entire measure of our worth. Maybe we’re due for a cultural shift, from one of taking, to one of sharing, from divisiveness to inclusiveness - from one of preying upon one another, to one of working for one another.
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64"The Way Of The World"
A BBC interviewer was out in the street this week, asking for opinions about the BA strike. There would be the usual editing shenanigans going on afterwards. There was a woman speaking - I can't quote her exactly, but her words were to the effect...
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72Pensions And The F*** 'em Factor
I remember, when I was a lad, a friend told me one of the silliest jokes I've ever heard. He said, "Did you hear the one about the mouse that went to the Post Office to get its pension"? Before I could answer, he followed up with, "Did ya’ get...
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