Egypt Removes President Morsi
As the Economist noted, in its leading article of 5 July 2013, the removal of Egypt’s president Morsi “sends a dreadful message to Islamists everywhere”. Islamists will conclude that democracy […]
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Why bank regulation won’t happen
Unsurprisingly there is a public desire to see big banks broken up and to see tighter regulation of the financial system. The population as a whole is suffering under austerity […]
» Read moreIdentity Politics
Having been recently reminded of a debate between Kenan Malik and Amartya Sen, which was published in Prospect magazine in April 2006, it is worth examining the points they made […]
» Read moreImmigration Control
Immigration policy has become a political football on both sides of the Atlantic. There are substantial popular concerns and politicians, who want to attract voters, respond by taking a populist […]
» Read moreBanking Reform
Society needs banks, but is not currently well served by them. They are abusing their economic power: The finance sector continues to increase the wealth of its employees and shareholders […]
» Read moreEuropean Convention on Human Rights
An article in The Mail on Sunday, on 3 March 2013, celebrated the British Home Secretary’s proposal for Britain “to pull out of the discredited European Convention on Human Rights […]
» Read moreA European financial-transactions tax
A leading article on Europe’s proposed financial-transactions tax, in this week’s Economist, is eloquent on the problems it would encounter. For example, many financial transactions would simply move elsewhere. The […]
» Read moreGun Control
Following the massacre in Sandy Hook Elementary School on 14 December 2012, the question of gun-control in America is being debated. The subject raises some interesting issues of governance, which […]
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