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HMRC: you couldn’t make it up
Read more: HMRC: you couldn’t make it upWithout apparent irony, HMRC offer both an update on the personal information lost and warn of fraudulent attempts to obtain personal information: This front page has been up for a while.
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Should we act on climate change?
Read more: Should we act on climate change?(This isn’t me!) Yes, then. But let’s not stop living to do it. Now, how do we get this message to the Chinese?
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An “Aha!” moment
Read more: An “Aha!” momentI just discovered Fabian gradualism. Put this in the context of the Lisbon Treaty and Hayek‘s “The Road to Serfdom” and things begin to make sense. The great ideological battle continues: Hayek shared his Nobel Prize with rival…
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Independent: Cameron has a vision that is “potentially revolutionary”
Read more: Independent: Cameron has a vision that is “potentially revolutionary”… but it confuses the right-wing media, who want government out of our lives, but who also want to blame government for every crisis. At least I am not alone in spotting that Cameron is ahead of the…
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The Death of Democracy
Read more: The Death of DemocracyJohn Redwood puts it well. I have commented there.
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A proper “big adventure”
Read more: A proper “big adventure”On Saturday, I listened to Rob and Jo Gambi tell their story: In 2005 Rob and Jo Gambi became the first married couple to achieve the ultimate adventurer’s ambition when they climbed the ‘Seven Summits’ (the highest mountains…
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What’s wrong with HMRC?
Read more: What’s wrong with HMRC?In my seven years working with HMRC on and off, either providing services from a small company or representing software developers’ interests, it has been perfectly obvious that trivial technical tasks become time-consuming and expensive once they have…
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Suffocation for business innovation
Read more: Suffocation for business innovationThere is the potential for a long post here, but for the moment, I’ll stick to “Innovation grants”. A small client worked for weeks, hiring consultants, to obtain an innovation grant for part of one R&D effort. They…
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Sir Ian, your time is up
Read more: Sir Ian, your time is upBrian Paddick: good man or opportunist? Accountability? You can petition for Sir Ian Blair’s removal here.