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Tories hire Nudge author Thaler

Will Nudge author Richard Thaler cut regulation or build a new Tory Nanny State? University of Chicago economist Richard Thaler has reportedly joined the Conservative party as an adviser on regulatory issues. This may be good news for the cleanliness ...

From PETER FOSTER, Adam Smith Institute Blog,  11 Oct 2009
Related Topics: UK Conservative Party,  University of Chicago,  New York Times Company,  Cass Sunstein,  Barack Obama

Alan Sugar may take 'The Apprentice' off BBC to stay in Government

Sir Alan Sugar is prepared to take The Apprentice to another broadcaster if a deal cannot be reached with the BBC that will allow him to be both Government adviser and television presenter, The Times understands. The tycoon, whose peerage is set to ...

From PATRICK FOSTER AND PETER RIDDELL, Times Online,  12 Jun 2009
Related Topics: BBC,  Alan Sugar,  Ofcom,  Jeremy Hunt

Straight Talk, or Unhelpful Scolding?

Late last month, my colleague Kate Galbraith had an opportunity to chat with Ted Kulongoski, a former labor lawyer and now the governor of Oregon — a state in the Northwest United States known for its left-leaning politics and environmentally friendly ...

From PETER FOSTER, EcoEarth News,  10 May 2009
Related Topics: Ted Kulongoski,  European Union,  Iberdrola,  Barack Obama,  David Roberts

National Post: Climate Protectionism

Canada's Minister of State for Science and Technology, Gary Goodyear, became the centre of a media kerfuffle this week over whether being an Evangelical Christian -- and whether or not he believed in evolution -- made him a threat to Canadian science ...

From PETER FOSTER, Council on Foreign Relations,  20 Mar 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Energy Corp.,  Steven Chu,  Richard N. Haass,  Saddam Hussein

China Ordered Cover-Up of Tainted Milk Scandal

Beijing Chinese authorities ordered a cover-up of a tainted milk scandal that has poisoned tens of thousands of babies because they feared social unrest if the news was made public, the Daily Telegraph has learned. Senior officials gave the order to ...

From RICHARD SPENCER AND PETER FOSTER, The New York Sun,  24 Sep 2008

Putting a funky smile on your weekend

Friday June 20 As I type this a yacht is scooting across the ruffled waters of Auckland harbour, red spinnaker in full flight. Absolutely stunning, but its not getting my work done.   No time for lengthy expositions today, so I wanted to pass on the ...

From PETER FOSTER, The Telegraph,  20 Jun 2008

A world of worry

Forgive the sporadic nature of my posting this week as I’m on an assignment in Auckland at short notice.  After almost six months in Golden Bay it’s a something of a culture shock being back in the ‘big’ (ish) city. I’ve almost forgotten how to cross ...

From PETER FOSTER, The Telegraph,  19 Jun 2008
Related Topics: NYSE

Oil shocked in Golden Bay

Even out here in the backwoods of New Zealand we’re not immune to the impact of the ‘oil shock’ which is now being compared by economic analysts to that of the 1970s. Will oil platforms like this one appear in beautiful Tasman Bay? Five months ago I ...

From PETER FOSTER, The Telegraph,  17 Jun 2008
Related Topics: BP p.l.c.

Where is India's Bill Gates?

During my time in India, I frequently found myself comparing the ‘new’ emerging India with Victorian Britain – an intoxicating mix of enterprise and poverty, public morality and private excess, new mercantile palaces and ever-expanding urban slums. ...

From PETER FOSTER, The Telegraph,  11 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Bill Gates

Fishing the easy way...

Regular readers of this blog will recall the difficulties I had catching myself a fish supper off the Golden Bay coastline, and the unconfined joy when I finally landed that first snapper. But now the winter is upon us, the sea is too cold for surf ...

From PETER FOSTER, The Telegraph,  10 Jun 2008

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