Barclays traders may be criminally charged over Libor
US Justice Department "to charge this year"The New York Times's Dealbook is reporting that the American Justice Department is in the process of putting together criminal charges for a number of banks...
View ArticleHow to set Libor in a post-Barclays age
Time for the banks to have some skin in the gameThe Libor-fixing scandal is obviously problematic for a number of reasons, but one of the biggest ones is that it isn't entirely clear how to prevent it...
View ArticleThe Scottish Yes campaign’s class problem
Working class Scots are more likely to support independence but less likely to vote than their middle class counterparts.Left-wing supporters of the Union often accuse the Scottish National Party (SNP)...
View ArticleSo Coca-Cola and McDonald's are paying for the Olympics...
Eh, what are you gonna do?The Olympics are trying to do the impossible. Finding themselves mainly sponsored by companies that seem to go directly against the ethos of, well, sport - (four of the major...
View ArticleWe need to talk about genitals
You can't teach sex education without using the proper words, although schools minister Nick Gibb seems to think otherwise.How can you teach sex education without saying the words "penis" and "vagina"...
View ArticleUsing "because I’m a man" as an excuse for an "inevitable" response is just...
Gaslighting and self-reflexive sexism aren't something we can let slide.If a man says he sucks because he’s male, it’s surely sexist to agree with him. But if he uses his gender as an excuse for bad...
View ArticleE&Y predict UK recovery
The UK economy could recover “quicker than expected”The leading forecaster said that the economy will return to growth in the second half of the year, boosted by an increased in consumer spending and...
View ArticleReviews Round-Up
The critics' verdicts on Joseph Stiglitz, Sheila Hale and John Banville. The Price of Inequality by Joseph Stiglitz “Economic power is shifting to the east, putting huge pressure on tax revenues....
View ArticleIt's companies like G4S that really embody the "something for nothing" culture
After Workfare, the Olympics fiasco is another rocket fired into the side of the HMS Private Sector Efficiency.Occasionally, reality has an aggressive way of bringing government rhetoric down to earth,...
View ArticleWhy Cameron must not abolish the culture department
The abolition of the DCMS would be a disaster for the creative industries.As we approach the Olympics, rumours that the government is planning to abolish the Department of Culture, Media and Sport...
View ArticleBBC Television Centre: the fairness was what made the magic
At BBC TV Centre everyone was equal - equally lost, that is.No doubt the encomiums for BBC Television Centre will gush forth from the Great and Good over the next day or two. And no doubt for most...
View ArticleOlympics security problems cause G4S shares to plunge
Olympics security provider’s stock falls 9 per cent.The firm admitted after the market closed on Friday that it faced a £50m loss on the £284m contract after its failure to provide enough security...
View ArticleThe IMF spoils the coalition's relaunch
Forecast for UK growth is downgraded by more than any other G8 country.David Cameron is increasingly keen to draw attention to what he calls the coalition's "achievements": cutting the deficit by a...
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The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gautier - review
An extraordinary exhibition goes that far beyond the cone bra.He needs no introduction. But he certainly deserves your attention. He’s the clothier credited with the cone bra and the man skirt, with...
View ArticleThe Telegraph and Mail should stop buying DWP briefings hook, line and sinker
People leave housing benefit all the time, but the DWP managed to turn no news into good newsThis morning the Telegraph and Mail ran stories claiming the the government’s benefit cap was already...
View ArticleA recipe for a U-turn
Government should talk to experts earlier.This morning the CBI boss John Cridland has moaned to the Financial Times that the government’s growth plans have fallen into something of an implementation...
View ArticleIt's time to acknowledge the victims of colonial-era torture in Kenya
The coalition must practice what it preaches on human rights.The coalition government claims to have placed human rights at the heart of its foreign policy. Next month, in the High Court, it will be...
View ArticleFreedom of speech, UFOs and The Sun
The tabloid's report of a case involving a UFO cult and the European Court of Human rights was highly misleading.The Sun this weekend offered its readers new evidence of the lunacy of the European...
View ArticleThe threat of rape: why Tosh and Sarkeesian’s trolls mustn’t silence women
Violence against women is never funny.So there I was, absent-mindedly flicking my way through Twitter, on what was meant to be my promised day off from blogging – maybe tomorrow – when I caught sight...
View ArticleA Doll's House - review
Sexuality and sacrifice in a new production of Ibsen's play.A mother indulging her two eldest children in a game of hide and seek; a husband and wife exchanging fleeting kisses when no one is around to...
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