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Monthly Archives: July 2011

The wisdom of ages – octogenarian Paul Volcker has lost none of his edge

It takes special figure to draw out the big names in business and finance to a lecture theatre at Cass Business School on a humid London evening. While thousands of City workers were running around the streets in the Great …
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Wanted – a Cabinet toughie

David Cameron needs an attack dog. So says a peer whose reputation was forged in the heat of the whips office in John Major’s government, who I happened by in St James’s park this morning. We talked through handling of …
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Gormengone – a story of crumbling institutions

I last saw Andy Coulson about two weeks ago. He got on a Victoria train at West Dulwich and squeezed into the sardine can run by Southeastern. In the crush he looked unremarkable, early middle age, suit jacket and blue …
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