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	<title>Steve Baker MP &#187; Bureaucracy</title>
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		<title>Quangos: the more we pay, the less we get &#8211; Telegraph</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/06/quangos-the-more-we-pay-the-less-we-get-telegraph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An understandable wave of shock ran through Britain last week when our new Government revealed the explosion in recent years of the pay given to our top public officials, 170 of whom now allegedly earn more than the Prime Minister. But the other side to this grotesque inflation in salaries is that it has been ]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: The bureaucratisation of elder care</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/02/elder-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.]]></description>
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		<title>Ofgem urges a shake-up of the energy market</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/02/ofgem-urges-a-shake-up-of-the-energy-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post originally appeared at cobdencentre.org.
Via FT.com, Ofgem urges a shake-up of the energy market,
Sweeping reforms of the UK’s energy market must be brought in urgently to protect energy supplies, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and deliver the £200bn investment needed in the power sector, the energy regulator said on Wednesday.
Ofgem said options for reform would ]]></description>
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		<title>Soviet Britain</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/01/soviet-britain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via the Institute for Economic Affairs, we discover the state devouring the economy – ie, the cooperative actions of free people – for over a century:
See also The Times Online, ‘Soviet’ Britain swells amid the recession:
The state now looms far larger in many parts of Britain than it did in former Soviet satellite states such ]]></description>
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		<title>David Cameron: We can&#8217;t go on like this</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/01/david-cameron-we-cant-go-on-like-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via David Cameron: We can&#8217;t go on like this:
A decade of big government and blunt, bureaucratic control has undermined responsibility and made our social problems worse, not better.
We are determined to forge a new direction.
We will use the state to help remake society by encouraging people to take responsibility for themselves and for one another.
We ]]></description>
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		<title>Not rearing pigs</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/12/not-rearing-pigs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend recently sent me this celebrated letter on the absurdity of bureaucracy. If you have not seen it, enjoy:

Rt Hon David Miliband MP
Secretary of State.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA),
Nobel House
17 Smith Square
London
SW1P 3JR
16 July 2009
Dear Secretary of State,
My friend, who is in farming at the moment, recently received a cheque for ]]></description>
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		<title>Ofwat, Water UK, the Consumer Council for Water and The Managerial Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/11/ofwat-water-uk-the-consumer-council-for-water-and-the-managerial-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/11/ofwat-water-uk-the-consumer-council-for-water-and-the-managerial-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this article, I make the case that we live in a managerial society, one born in the tragedy of the first half of the twentieth century, and that it is this social system which is failing today. I also set out what can be done about it: the future is hopeful.
This morning, I watched ]]></description>
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		<title>bella gerens: That’s right, whip the libertarian</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/10/bella-gerens-that%e2%80%99s-right-whip-the-libertarian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From bella gerens, an excellent explanation and defence of libertarianism:
The truth is that advocates of freedom are found all over the political spectrum, but the only true libertarians are the ones who advocate it at all times in all circumstances, from the bedroom to the wallet – who believe that ‘freedom from’ is the only ]]></description>
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		<title>Plans for swingeing hospital cuts as NHS on brink of &#8216;Armageddon&#8217;  &#8211; Telegraph</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/09/plans-for-swingeing-hospital-cuts-as-nhs-on-brink-of-armageddon-telegraph/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/09/plans-for-swingeing-hospital-cuts-as-nhs-on-brink-of-armageddon-telegraph/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Plans for swingeing hospital cuts as NHS on brink of &#8216;Armageddon&#8217;  &#8211; Telegraph:
Health service managers warned of an &#8220;Armageddon scenario&#8221; facing NHS finances as they draw up secret plans for swingeing hospital cuts.
Senior officials have set &#8220;aggressive&#8221; targets to reduce the number of patients referred to specialists, or treated in Accident and Emergency ]]></description>
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		<title>EU: is Britain still a sovereign state? &#8211; Telegraph</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/09/eu-is-britain-still-a-sovereign-state-telegraph/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/09/eu-is-britain-still-a-sovereign-state-telegraph/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very nearly beyond parody:
According to research by the TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA), there are currently 16,980 EU acts in force and between 1998 and 2007 there was a net gain of 9,415 EU laws. In 2007, 3,010 EU laws became UK law, while only 993 EU regulations were repealed &#8211; a net gain of 2,017 extra ]]></description>
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