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The S&P credit ratings agency threatens to downgrade all nation states in the EU on account of ‘sovereign risk’ but, isn’t there a bigger game afoot?
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The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe for 14th November 1711 are published at this window – or click the picture to view. His patron Journalisted where you may read about them
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The government announced a plan to underwrite new house purchase of the remaining national council house stock. It seems, ideally, there should be no non-mortgaged public housing at all.
Reading: Belfast Newsletter on effects of the housing price bust, a general piece at Channel 4 News and opinion from the Social Market Foundation published at the New Statesman.
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The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe for 7th November 1711 is published at this window – or click the picture. His patron Journalisted for Media Standards Trust where you may read all about them
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The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe for 31st October 1711 is published at this window. His patron is Journalisted where you may read all about them.
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The controversy surrounding the tent city outside St Paul’s cathedral in London reminds that the established church in what we know today as the United Kingdom is still part of the state.
The reaction to the occupation, which is skilfully analysed by Andrew Rawnsley, also recalls a controversy past – Faith in the City.
Then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie fell out with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher over the effect her economic policies were having upon the general population. The resulting row pretty much ended the idea that the Church of England was the ‘Conservative Party at prayer’.
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Made for Tribune magazine 26th October 2011 during the banking, and subsequent, global government debt crisis.
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The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe for 10th October 1711 is published at this window. His patron Journalisted where you may read all about them.
