Tag Archive: thrillers

Sep
19

A return to conviction politics is urgently needed

Desperately Wanted: Risk running politicians! I was struck recently – and the latest UBS debacle has prompted me to jot down my thoughts – by the contrast between the high rolling risk takers in the financial world and our own feeble-minded politicians. It seems to me that the willingness to bet ‘risk capital’ is in …

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Aug
26

A West Country Holiday

With bad news everywhere in the western economies, holidays this year have been an even nicer suspension of reality than normal. We went to Devon, where we have a house and enjoyed the fresh sea air if not too much sunshine – this is England we are talking about! There are miles of sandy beaches …

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