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FT.com / World – No more red tape, pleads business
Read more: FT.com / World – No more red tape, pleads businessBut it is not just business which is suffering from Government intervention: Gordon Brown on Tuesday set out a raft of measures designed to stop British society fracturing during the recession, ranging from curbs on immigration and a…
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FT.com / UK / Business – Mandelson to urge industrial policy
Read more: FT.com / UK / Business – Mandelson to urge industrial policyMore echoes of a desire for central planning of the economy, whether or not it is implemented through ownership: Britain needs urgent reform to the government’s “insufficiently joined up” industrial policy to cope with the economic challenges after…
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The police are being handcuffed by rules | Magnus Linklater
Read more: The police are being handcuffed by rules | Magnus LinklaterFrom The Times: Fifty years ago, in a landmark article for The New Yorker, the American writer Mary McCarthy wrote: “Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern despotism.” There is no great evidence to suggest…
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Spending on high street plunges
Read more: Spending on high street plungesThe Guardian reports: The prospects of a bleak Christmas on the high street are rising sharply as a survey out today shows a big fall in consumer spending in spite of lower interest rates and petrol prices. Downing…
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Lie detector tests to catch benefit cheats
Read more: Lie detector tests to catch benefit cheatsThe Guardian reports proposals for an increase in automated summary justice in combination with cries for “fair rules”: Benefit claimants will face lie detector tests and will lose benefits for a month if found guilty of fiddling the…
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Ford and GM bosses offer to sell corporate jets and work for $1 a year
Read more: Ford and GM bosses offer to sell corporate jets and work for $1 a yearWhile Mr Mulally boasted that Ford was in better shape than General Motors and Chrysler, he said that he still needed a $9 billion ten-year federal loan to act as a cash cushion in case market conditions deteriorated.…
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Yard at war over arrest of Tory MP – Times Online
Read more: Yard at war over arrest of Tory MP – Times OnlineAs the political storm grew, MPs and civil liberties groups questioned the role of Sir Paul Stephenson, who took temporary charge of the Metropolitan police when Sir Ian Blair left office last week. Stephenson was regarded as the…
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Three police officers beat up handcuffed Iraq war veteran
Read more: Three police officers beat up handcuffed Iraq war veteranNaturally, the Mirror uses provocative language in this story, but the video shows behaviour which is utterly shameful. I hope the law does what is necessary to improve our trust in the police. read more | digg story