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Self Regulation Does Not Work

The UK regulator are going to fine 888 betting firm £8 million for not protecting gambling addicted customers from themselves. Fair enough I saw , but why would you expect vampires to not indulge themselves in a blood bank? Any form of self regulation is always going to be doomed. Laissez faire regulation and economics […]

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The End Of Thatcherism And Reaganomics In The UK

Sometimes a incident happens that encapsulate the zeitgeist and leads to a change that will probably never be reversed.  Last Wednesday this happened and in my opinion will change everything we have taken as societal norms The market is never always right, there is a thing called society, knowing the price of everything and the […]

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The Iron Lady, Dies!

One of 20th Century more significant figure died today. Margaret Thatcher, had utter changed the way the UK and the World behave that it is clear she will be up there with Mahatma Ghandi, Mao, Mandela etc as being a truly transformational figure and icon. Born into a lower middle class background Mrs Thatcher initiated the greatest […]

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