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The state still matters: Why the private sector doesn’t have all the solutions
When the UK private sector has been reluctant to embrace risks, the state has stepped in
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Politicians should embrace an activist industrial policy
It is time politicians and policymakers re-appraised the advantages of an activist industrial policy.
Someone tell the Eurosceptics who’s standing up to the US over PRISM
As we blogged a few days ago, one of the things Eurosceptics are probably rather uncomfortable with at present is the fact that it's the European Union which is acting as a bulwark against American attempts to snoop on the browsing habits of us Europeans.
How the European Union is saving us from Prism
In a piece for Slate magazine, Matt Yglesias has pointed out a potential problem for Eurosceptics on the back of the Prism surveillance scandal. Essentially, the European Union is acting as a bulwark against American attempts to snoop on the browsing habits of us Europeans.
I believe in the state, but not the feral form that’s spying on us
Those who hate the state love leaks of the sort The Guardian has been publishing. They justify their 'Big Brother' view of all that is supposedly bad about government.