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Public Commissioning Pilot Announced 9 Aug 2013 | 10:53 am
The Croatian Ministry of Culture has announced a pilot project for public commissioning. Journalists submit proposals via a sponsoring publication and citizens then vote for them. The most popular pro...
A Quick Note on Union Funding 10 Jul 2013 | 04:57 pm
At the moment members of unions with a political fund pay a small amount into it unless they decide to opt out. According to the Guardian: Currently, the union’s leadership then decide how many levy ...
Quote for the Day 7 Jun 2013 | 08:48 pm
The nation’s domestic and international telecommunications resources, including commercial, private and government-owned services and facilities, are essential elements in support of US national secur...
The Finance Curse: Introduction 3 Jun 2013 | 07:17 pm
It is now well known that many countries which depend on earnings from natural resources like oil have failed to harness them for national development. In many cases it seems even worse than that: for...
Eric Schmidt on Tax 31 May 2013 | 04:57 pm
Earlier this week Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google, claimed to be ‘perplexed’ by the debate about tax in the UK. On Start the Week on Radio 4 he said: What we are doing is legal. I’m rather perple...
The BBC on Quantitative Easing, Again 30 May 2013 | 10:32 pm
Last year the BBC’s head of multimedia Mary Hockaday told an audience at the LSE that: On the economy, audiences have been telling us for months they are desperate to understand – but that the stories...
Fraud in Science 29 Apr 2013 | 05:31 pm
The quote below comes from a New York Times feature by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee on Diedrick Stapel, a Dutch academic found to have made up data: What the public didn’t realize, he said, was that aca...
The Things They Say About Orwell 20 Apr 2013 | 04:29 pm
Jason Cowley has written an essay in the Financial Times in which he worries that the contemporary literary-political landscape lacks “a figure with the significance and commitment of George Orwell or...
Untitled 8 Apr 2013 | 08:54 pm
Too much writing is a minnow that congratulates itself on slipping through the net. The point is to be the catch that swallows the boat.
Reason vs Unreason: The Mother of all Distractions 4 Apr 2013 | 05:15 pm
“Supporters of Anglo-American policies after 9/11 can draw on a model of Enlightenment that has become something like the conventional wisdom among intellectuals and commentators. This Enlightenment i...
