It’s all stopped making sense. Have the bean counters and governments finally lost the plot?
 
It seems to be agreed that the credit crunch came about because money was too cheap. Greedy fat cats at financial institutions threw money at high risk propositions because in their blind ignorance they thought the markets would continue [...]

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Over Christmas I spent some time helping at a homeless shelter in north London. It was as ever a hugely rewarding experience and a definite highlight of my Christmas. People who’ve never been to such a place often think that it will be a miserable and depressing experience; it’s almost quite the reverse [...]

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Here are a few things I think would make the world a happier place in the coming year:
 

Israel and Hamas/Iran stop trying to destroy each other on a daily basis.
Robert Mugabe and his cronies get exiled, or if they won’t go, terminated.
Global legislation to better regulate national financial markets, with those responsible for [...]

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