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The government has the power to stop Hester’s bonus, they just don’t want to
The government has the power to do exactly what it says it can’t, and stop Stephen Hester, the director of the failed RBS bank, getting a million pound bonus.
UK fulfilling fruits of 1980s deregulation not 1970s “paranoia”
In his article in yesterday's Daily Mail, Francis Wheen claims that our society is the fulfillment of 1970s paranoia. He also has a book out, called "Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia." But Wheen does our age a disservice in turning his theory of the 1970s into a theory of now.