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Comment on current affairs |
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Below you will find the latest ruminations from Opine. The idea is to produce analysis and opinion - delivered with a collective voice and character that matter more than the identities of individual contributors. This way there can be no pretence that the author is more important than the people and events they are writing about. |
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Blog roll
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21 April, 2009
The current Labour government has taken some of the boldest and bravest decisions of any post-war administration.
It has faced near-cataclysmic global economic meltdown with iron self-belief and an unwavering determination to do the right thing. |
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And yet the public are tired of an increasingly tired-looking government. At this rate the only thing the Conservative Party need do to win the next election is sit on its hands, say nothing and do nothing – not difficult if you believe in nothing. |
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27 March, 2009
AIG recently came under fire for agreeing to pay $165m of bonuses to staff in its Financial Products unit, the section responsible for its reckless CDS trades that brought the company to its knees.
However, a resignation letter from an Executive VP at this unit has highlighted how misdirected this opprobrium has been. |
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Some bankers certainly are fair game for criticism. But the media and politicians must not demonise the entire industry. |
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29 May, 2009
Imagine going for a new job. That job entails 12 months or more of preparation. It involves a month-long interview process with a panel of over 90,000 people whom you effectively have to beg to let you have the job.
The vast majority of those 90,000+ people don’t want you to get the job, and many of them are actively working to make sure you don’t get it.
Even if you do get the job, you know that more people didn’t want you to have it than wanted you to have it, and that those people will spend the next four or five years doing everything they can to make sure you don’t keep it... |