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{ Daily Archives } Thursday, November 2008

Highway robbery

I have just been watching again the excellent 60 minute programme. “The Super-Rich: The Greed Game”, shown on BBC4 on 7 October 2008. Unfortunately it is no longer available on the BBC website, but I strongly recommend watching it if it comes up again:
Robert Peston: More than 50 billionaires call Britain home. Not since […]

2008 11 20 John Scholes Politics
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Hard cases

Few people can name more than three cabinet ministers (with titles). Many educated people can name the Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary as well as the Prime Minister, but most find it much harder after that. Indeed quite a few people get muddled between the Justice Secretary and the Home Secretary. Almost no one […]

2008 11 20 John Scholes Politics Comments (0)