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A Standing Commission on Responsible Capitalism

The 2008 banking crisis and its aftermath revealed serious problems in the operation of the economic system. This has led to widespread criticism of flaws that were previously tolerated or only recently revealed. Problems like corporate tax avoidance, excessive...
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Time for reform

It is somewhat ironic that the coverage of the Leveson report yet further affirms why the press must be reformed. The Sunday papers were awash with a visibly scared press prejudging the outcome of the report and warning of the end of free speech as we know it. From...
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A week of banker-bashing

The press is awash with banker-bashing this morning as news filtered through late last night that the Barclays chairman, Marcus Agius, had announced his resignation. In a sombre statement on the beleaguered bank’s website, Agius stated that he was ‘truly sorry’ for...
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‘An event within an event’

It is always a risk putting a plenary at the end of a jam-packed one-day conference. Despite the lure of high-profile panellists, Caroline Flint MP, Chuka Umunna MP, David Aaronovitch and Jacqui Smith, and witty chair Simon Fanshawe, there is always the temptation to...
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Time for reform

Time for reform

Nov 28, 2012 |

It is somewhat ironic that the coverage of the Leveson report yet further affirms why the press must be reformed. The...