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Compromise & national security
Tony Blair on the anti-terrorism legislation: if we are forced to compromise, it will be a…
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New Development Blog
The Center for Global Development (which is where I work) has a new blog on international…
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Another reason to love America
The TV commentators here in the US are distinctly underwhelmed by the visit of the Prince…
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Fair Trade 2.0: credit where it is due
Alex Singleton, now at the Globalization Institute, has been a leading opponent of Fair Trade labelling. …
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A rule for the size of the state?
David Davis has set out his stall on the size of the state and tax cuts:…
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Individually irrational & collectively rational
It is a great pleasure to see an argument full of hot air punctured with by…
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The UK and US media
A discussion began at The Sharpener about why US blogging has a proportionately bigger readership, and…
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Those wasteful civil servants
Perhaps because I started my working life in the Treasury, I take a rather puritanical view…
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Would you like some food with your sugar?
Finishing a half marathon yesterday in Silicon Valley the only water available was sugared water (misleadingly…
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