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Years of low interest rates: Should I be mad, sad or glad?
Mark Carney, the new governor of the Bank of England cranked up some substance to go with his style in a much-anticipated inflation report this week. It was his first big set piece after a month of...
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Modernisation? What modernisation?
David Cameron’s former speech writer, Danny Kruger, had a decent point in an Observer piece at the weekend. In 2006, Kruger came up with the “hug a hoodie” line Cameron used in a speech on crime....
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Who gives a stuff about spying?
There’s understandable outrage at the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald being held under terrorism laws and interrogated for nine hours at Heathrow Airport over the weekend. The anger has...
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The elephant in the Guardian’s basement
One great, lumping elephant has been left in the King’s Cross basement where Guardian hard drives were smashed to bits. The Guardian’s editor Alan Rusbridger has argued pragmatism dictated his decision...
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Has austerity won?
Atop a central London building site today, Chancellor George Osborne declared Britain’s ‘Plan A’ for economic recovery – austerity – had vanquished the rival ‘Plan B’. Osborne can point to forecasts...
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Two Labours – polls apart
New Zealand Labour picks its third leader in two years this weekend. The party is little more than a year out from an election. The leadership contest has been occasionally unsavoury and the party...
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Continental drift
Some thoughts on New Zealand PM John Key’s visit to the UK and France, which I covered for Fairfax Media this week and last … Cam-er-on-in: John Key got a warm welcome but little else from the British...
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Are asset sales a liability?
David Cameron today said he wanted the privatisation of Royal Mail to be a piece of “popular capitalism”. Perhaps he was emboldened by exhortations from his friend, the New Zealand PM John Key, who is...
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Simon Bridges and Adam Afriyie: Cuzzies?
Simon Bridges, meet Adam Afriyie. Bridges, New Zealand’s Energy and Resources Minister, practically exploded on air in an excitable, extended interview on TV3’s Campbell Live on Monday. Bridges’...
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Why a British MP wrongly pities NZ’s shrinking postal service
NZ Post’s shift to a minimum three-day-a-week mail service was quickly seized upon by critics of the Royal Mail privatisation in the UK. A renegotiated agreement between NZ Post and the Government will...
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