Steve Baker (Wycombe) (Con): I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require certain financial institutions to prepare parallel accounts on the basis of the lower of historic cost and mark to market for their exposure to derivatives; and for connected purposes. I rise […]
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A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning – Disraeli
Reaction to the Government’s higher education reforms really got under the skin of my researcher, Tim Hewish, who launched into a passionate defence of the Government’s direction of travel. I asked him to write this post… — Steve Much has been said about the Browne Report on Higher Education and […]
Read MoreHow to create schools and alienate people
N.B. The author is Tim Hewish – my Parliamentary Researcher – who is somewhat riled by opposition to the Government’s education reforms — Steve Baker. The largest powder keg in the Hundred Years’ War known as class warfare is surely Education. Toby Young, writer and now somehow alienator of the people of […]
Read MoreDouglas Carswell on BBC bias
Douglas Carswell today discusses BBC bias: Mark Thompson, head honcho at the BBC, has admitted that the BBC has had a left wing bias. Progress. While refreshing to hear Mr T say what the rest of us have known for years, to fix the problem, it is important to grasp the […]
Read MoreFrom the BFP – Tory: Coalition partners Lib Dems could ‘disappear’
Via Tory: Coalition partners Lib Dems could ‘disappear’ (From Bucks Free Press): SUGGESTIONS the Lib Dems could ‘disappear’ because of the ‘shift in politics’ have been dismissed by the party’s Wycombe leader – following a neighbouring councillor’s defection. There is an excellent explanation of the structure of political ideas in the […]
Read MoreMark Prisk MP, Hayek and Mises
Via Business Minister Mark Prisk wants to strip away the red tape – Telegraph: Friedrich von Hayek is a controversial choice as a pin-up. But a signed pamphlet that the Austrian-born economist wrote in 1980 entitled “Full employment at any price” is proudly framed on Business Minister Mark Prisk’s wall. […]
Read MoreThe CPS on benefits, reform, big government and data
I am an Associate Member of the Centre for Policy Studies and I always enjoy reading their pamphlets: they remind me I am not alone. I caught up with the following four yesterday on the train. The theme? Putting humanity back into our society. Click the images to download the […]
Read MoreMises: A Crisis of Global Statism
Mises.org reports on false confidence in the state to guarantee stability, and… Moreover, as many commentators have remarked, guaranteeing large financial firms from failure will bring calls for regulating them still more tightly. This is an old story: past political interventions create the reasons for new ones. The present financial […]
Read MoreRegional Development Agencies branded ‘waste of money’
Corporate tax for small firms could apparently be reduced by 4% if “failed” RDAs were abolished. read more | digg story
Read MoreTelegraph: “Governments caused the credit crisis”
At root, this crisis was caused by state error. Governments and economic ideologies rigged the system in favour of debt. City and Wall Street banks were pushed into behaving with reckless abandon. They took part shamelessly, of course. But their antics were merely symptoms of a deeper problem. Time for […]
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