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Busting Bully Boy Brown

Interesting to watch the press circling the Labour Party like sharks preparing to pounce. Interesting the way serious journalists won’t let this story die down. Interesting the way those little snippets leak out of the woodwork.
Of course the man’s a bloody bully – that can’t be news to anybody. There has to [...]

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£450 billion in managed funds salvages Scotland’s reputation for canny banking – Times Online

Fund management in Scotland has, almost unnoticed and in total contrast to the banking failure, boomed in the past year. The country’s three biggest managers have grown to look after nearly £450 billion of other people’s money, four times the size of the wealth annually produced by the entire Scottish economy.
The success has been led [...]

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The Beginning of the End for City Bankers Hopefully

Mervyn King said yesterday that bankers should take a permanent pay cut to align them with other professionals as he outlined plans to carve up lenders across national boundaries.
Speaking to the Treasury Select Committee, the Governor of the Bank of England said the banking sector could be sustainable only if “returns and remuneration for both [...]

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Lord Goldsmith Change his mind on Iraq war – led by US lawyers

Tony Blair only got the “green light” to invade Iraq after his Attorney General visited Washington and was told by US lawyers that he was wrong to oppose the war.
Lord Goldsmith told the Iraq Inquiry today that he altered his advice a few [...]

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SNP anger at ‘dodgy dossier’ on oil income – Press & Journal

SNP anger at ‘dodgy dossier’ on oil income

By Keith Findlay
Published: 25/01/2010
The row over income from North Sea oil and gas reignited last night after the Scottish Government claimed tax on the industry was the only thing keeping the UK Treasury afloat.
Finance Secretary John Swinney said [...]

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Poor Whites Had a Raw Deal

And it’s not just the poor!
Even the middle class is going get upset when, after the credit bubble unwinds – when they figure out how much worse off they are 12 years after that pontificator Brown abolished Boom and Bust.
Of course he could have told us he’s abolished the Boom part of that and [...]

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Proof Nicotine is Good For Us

Why is it, despite the massed ranks of health police, brain washers, interfering busybodies and thought fascists, 12 million people in the UK are smokers?
Over the last thirty years successive governments have ratcheted up swingeing taxes, mostly making the poorest in society worse off. The poor who smoke, now subsidise the rich who don’t.
Over [...]

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A Different Perspective of Chicago

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We’re all used to seeing pictures of Chicago showing tall buildings and those small streets under the railway line – classic car chase country.
The view of Chicago from the river is an entirely different matter. This one shows what its like under the bridges.
In this seemingly subterranean world those bridges feel like a ceiling

  This [...]

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