Tag Archives: Bank of England

What UK politicians must learn from the Hoover Free Flights Fiasco

  Oh dear, I have a feeling this will be my angriest post since ‘DLA Disgrace’ in September 2011. Hang on to your hats… As an independent candidate at the last UK general election in 2010, it was only when canvassing started that … Continue reading

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A master class in the art of chairing a meeting

  Lord Kingsdown died last month. He was best known as Chairman of the NatWest and then Governor of the Bank of England. I knew him as Robin Leigh-Pemberton and through playing cricket on the private ground at his estate … Continue reading

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National debt: who do we owe?

What is it about the ‘national debt’ that I am not getting? Please forgive me for not being an economist but, when you owe loads of money, you can’t keep up with the repayments and you plunge deeper and deeper … Continue reading

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