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Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind”. Albert Einstein It was nationalism that led to the First World War, and it is nationalism that continues to roil too many nations in conflict and strife. Subtract nationalism and you are left with getting along together. Nationalism is not unlike religion in so far as …
Britain’s life-saving coastal search and rescue helicopter services are being contracted out to a company based in Texas because the government do not want to buy 22 new helicopters. The British invented privatization, a boondoggle that has been copied all over the world. In the British context natural monopolies have been sold to foreign companies …
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For decades American universities and colleges enjoyed a boom in demand that led them to believe that market forces didn’t apply to them. The government inflated the demand by handing out loans to any young person who wanted to attend, regardless of academic ability. Students avidly competed to get into elite colleges on the assumption …
The Most Rev. Justin Welby, the new Archbishop of Canterbury, who sits on the parliamentary Banking Standards Commission in Parliament, has criticised “the culture of entitlement” among London bankers, calling for them to pass professional exams, and advocating the break-up of at least one state-backed institution into smaller regional banks. Naturally, the not disinterested financial …
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a book.. (Cicero c. 43 B.C) Plus ca change. But the difference is that the world population in those days was (maybe) 50 million (who knows?). Now it is 8 billion, and of that there is the same proportion of the population …
