Tea with FT

As a former Executive Director of the World Bank I know that the columnists of the Financial Times have more voice than what I ever had, and therefore they might need some checks-and-balances.

Would a child shouting out “the Emperor is naked” have his observation published in FT? Would he now need a PhD for that to happen?

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Showing posts with label social sanctions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social sanctions. Show all posts
June 30, 2017

How does the social sanctioning of Maduro’s financiers compare to that of Trump’s bad taste Joe/Mika tweet?

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Sir, John Paul Rathbone in reference to the helicopter event in Venezuela writes: in “a plot twist barely worthy of a B-movie… whatever act...
August 08, 2016

If anyone in FT is living up to FT’s motto of “Without fear and without favour” that’s Lucy Kellaway

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Sir, again, Lucy Kellaway is bravely shouldering her responsibility to socially sanction nonsense. That kind of sanction is extremely impor...
November 16, 2014

To hinder what‘s senseless and insensible to trend, we need strong globalized social sanctioning

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Sir, Gillian Tett asks: “ Can sensible ever ‘trend’? ”, “The battle for political sense and sensibility”, November 15. In these days of...
August 08, 2007

Liberty and security also requires consensus

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Sir, although Willem Buiter might be fundamentally correct when he says “ For the sake of liberty and security: legalise all drugs ” August ...
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