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Don’t write off 2012
Bronwen Maddox / December 14, 2011
The prospect of recession has done wonders for black humour. In our collection of visions of 2012, Paul Mason says we’ll be hunkering down, eating baked beans, our only luxury an iPhone. If we...
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What do they want?
James Macintyre / December 14, 2011
Occupy London protesters have been evicted from St Paul's. In December, James Macintyre spent a night at the camp
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Analysis and the Use of Evidence
Yvonne D / December 13, 2011
Based on the Professional Skills for Government Framework, the emphasis of this one-day course is on showing delegates how to: - analyse and use evidence effectively - get evidence into policy and...
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Back to Tahrir Square
Rachel Aspden / November 20, 2011
As dusk fell tonight, Tahrir Square was packed with thousands of protestors demanding the fall of Egypt's military government. On the third consecutive day of protests and after 36 hours of clashes...
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Beyond a joke?
Bronwen Maddox / November 16, 2011
When Tom Lehrer stopped writing satirical songs in the 1970s, he explained that “today everything just makes me angry, it’s not funny anymore,” and retreated to teaching mathematics at the...
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Going back to the drachma
Tom Streithorst / November 9, 2011
There is a strong case that the only solution to Greece’s economic problems is to leave the euro. At current wage levels, Greek workers are unproductive, giving foreigners few reasons to buy their...
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Talking right
Jeffrey Howard / November 9, 2011
These are the words of Geert Wilders, posterboy of European populism: “We are democrats. We believe in peaceful solutions. The reason why we reject Islam is exactly Islam’s violent nature. We...
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The Minsk dictator school
Andrew Wilson / November 2, 2011
How do dictators survive? The Arab Spring has culled a few, but fewer than once predicted. On the other hand, there are plenty of nervous rulers, notably in Europe’s neighbours to the east, such as...
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Germany: between a rock and a hard place
Phil Mullan / October 25, 2011
Greece and the other countries in the troubled "PIGS" quartet—Portugal, Ireland and Spain—have been the focus of recent debate about the eurozone's survival. It was, after all, the relative...
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Europe's boring leader problem
Prospect / October 25, 2011
Europe is suffering its worst crisis since the second world war, says Jean-Claude Trichet, the outgoing head of the European Central Bank. Yet instead of De Gaulle and Churchill, today’s continent...
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