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Make sure States are not forced to cut good programs: IMF

Nicholas Gruen
December 31, 2008
The IMF states the obvious (pdf) - even if we've not yet fully taken it on board. First, and quite simply, governments should make sure...
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John Kay: a wise and witty fellow

Nicholas Gruen
December 30, 2008
Although people endlessly ask for predictions, they rarely really want the answers. It was only late too late in life that I realised that when...
Films and TV

Chick flicks

Ken Parish
December 28, 2008December 28, 2008
After uncomplainingly sitting through two episodes of Brideshead Revisited earlier this evening (even, I confess, with a degree of appreciation I didn't feel on first viewing...
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Economics – FAIL

Damian Jeffree
December 24, 2008December 24, 2008
Time for a bit of economic navel gazing. What does the global financial crisis mean for the state of economics in the early part of...
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Pope Benedict message

Fred Argy
December 24, 2008January 9, 2009
I feel quite angry with Pope Benedict message that "saving homosexual or transsexual behaviour was as important as protecting the enviornment" and that "God's creation...
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Rex Ringschott
December 23, 2008
Nostalgia. It just gets better with age.
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Christmas Turkey Watch: Item # 1

Nicholas Gruen
December 23, 2008
Well, even reading against the grain of MSM reporting, the Archbishop of Canterbury seems to be throwing caution and Godwin's Law to the winds auditioning...

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