Showing posts with label corruption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corruption. Show all posts
Thursday, 1 September 2016

Late Night in America (and voters have a lousy choice)

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Like most political geeks, I like a good election in a place where I've no skin in the game. People who know me well will have witnessed...
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Monday, 11 April 2016

You want less corruption? You need smaller not bigger government for that.

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**** This is what we must guard against yet is exactly what those who take the 'who will build the roads' line on government. ...
Thursday, 26 February 2015

Corruption in government. How bad can it get?

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**** This is Chicago, Illinois: Thirty-three Chicago aldermen and former aldermen have been convicted and gone to jail since 1973. Tw...
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Saturday, 21 February 2015

How political parties get paid isn't the concern of government...it's the concern of members

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**** I know you'll all start talking about corruption and the buying of influence but, let's be honest about that problem, it'...
Wednesday, 26 June 2013

On the capture of government by special interests...

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**** If we assume that the airline companies will try to capture the Civil Aeronautics Board, it makes sense to assume that professors w...
Friday, 24 May 2013

"Big Oil! How the EU works...a reminder

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**** There has been a hoo-hah about the proposal to force restauranteurs to sell only factory-produced and approved olive oil. It hasn...
Monday, 18 March 2013

A story...

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**** I knew a bloke who set up an erboristoria in Ragusa - or rather his wife did and Dave helped. Now, as you'll know, to set up any ...
Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Why the FA should leave FIFA

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Much debate has followed from the latest round of corruption allegations directed at senior board members of football's governing body, ...
Thursday, 30 September 2010

Why Cameron is wrong to have a Business Council to advise him...

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**** I am a member of the “Party of Business” – or at least many of my fellow members remind me often of this. Indeed, in the mythology of p...
Tuesday, 15 June 2010

Thoughts on why bilateral aid doesn't work

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**** I have always tried to avoid writing about international aid – not because it’s a subject without importance but because, frankly, my...
Tuesday, 26 January 2010

Barak Obama, Cincinnatus and the political career

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*** Sometimes - perhaps cynically - politicians really do say the right thing. So when Barak Obama says: "You know, there is a tenden...