Field of Dreams
Frank Field’s letter in the Times exposes the whole sorry mess of Labour’s New Deals and Tax Credits. A maths teacher would say he has the right workings out but the wrong answer.
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3 CommentsThe Endgame
In devising any kind of strategy there is one golden rule: the endgame is all.
There are many quotes attributed to Albert Einstein but one which I think is apt today states that a “confusion of goals and perfection of means seems to characterise our age”.
This is at the heart of the current furore over bankers’ [...]
The Noble Lie
“Plato’s noble lie, the answer to who watches the watchmen, now lies in tatters as the guardians of our financial system are exposed as complicit in the current crisis. The only lie which will stand the test is the one we told ourselves. That our regulators are beyond reproach.”
Running Away
Gordon Brown has constantly blamed our current economic woes on the global financial crisis. It sounds a lot like the traditional scottish child’s excuse…..a big boy did it and ran away.
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