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Money that isn’t so funny


The confluence of several stories, all on the theme of money, how much we ‘earn’ and how we use it seems to have arisen this week. Yesterday I heard Stuart Gulliver, CEO of HSBC telling us that he put his bonus into … Continue reading

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A great deal rotten in the Palace of Westminster


The sound of political and financial chickens flying home is surely loud enough for even the most optimistic of our Politicians to realise that shouting out names from behind the despatch box is not going to stop the smell of … Continue reading

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Strange routes to Power


The local elections last month were marked by a turnout of a mere 30% of electors across the country and a range of different studies show that the residents of the UK are less supportive of our political processes than in the … Continue reading

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