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I'll see you in court 2007-06-10 19:06:00 A couple of months ago I blogged about tax evasion and its costs to the British economy. Now Revenue & Customs is preparing to take more tax cheats to court, reports The Times:Revenue & Customs has officially declared war on tax cheats, telling individuals and businesses hoping for negotiated settlements that it would rather see them in court.In what tax experts called an aggressive but not unexpected move, the Revenue is vowing to adopt a “no-compromise stance” in negotiation for its “strongest” cases.The Revenue has not given a precise definition of a “strong” case but adds that it would focus particular attention on “aggressive avoidance schemes”, especially those through which it thought “taxpayers have set out to undermine the purpose of tax legislation”.[...]Aparna Nathan, a barrister at Gray’s Inn Tax Chambers, gave warning that the move could be “very expensive for businesses and individuals as more cases are likely to end up in court”.She sai
Deregulate utility 2007-06-08 16:13:00 The Economist blog criticises a recent paper from Deutsche Bank on happiness and economics:A bizarre paper from Deutsche Bank research, late on to the happiness-economics bandwagon, claims to identify four strains of capitalism: "happy", "less happy", "unhappy" and "Far Eastern" (really).[...]There's nothing new in the data: happiness correlates positively with wealth, education and trust, negatively with corruption and unemployment. But the conclusion is a touch unusual, coming from an investment bank. For governments:Happiness and life satisfaction should be explicit policy objectivesEeek. To do Deutsche the courtesy of taking its paper seriously, has it given any thought to what would follow? Governments telling us how happy we are, civil servants walking around with absurd smiles on their faces, public festivities day in day out, holidays for every trade and age. A favourite slogan of Stalinism, in the depths of the terror, held that "life is better and merrier than ever before"
Let everyone speak their mind 2007-06-14 17:55:00 Tony Blair's lecture on the media has been widely reported and analysed, and it is an interesting piece. Essentially he argues that the media has become wider and shallower in its reporting, seeking impact over good journalism. He argues for more balance and regulation:Tell me how many Maiden Speeches are listened to? How many excellent second reading speeches or committee speeches are covered? Except when they generate controversy, they aren't. If you are a backbench MP today you learn to give a good press release first and a good parliamentary speech second.[...]Broadsheets today face the same pressures as tabloids, broadcasters increasingly the same pressure as broadsheets. The audience needs to be arrested, held and their emotions engaged, something that is interesting is less powerful than something that makes you angry or shocked.[...]But here is also the opportunity. At present we are all being dragged by the way media and public life interact. Trust in journalists is not much Read more:everyone
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The tragedy of circumstance 2007-06-13 10:21:00 Hamas are beginning to gain an advantage over Fatah in the bloody Gaza Strip, reports The Times:The escalating Palestinian conflict took a step closer to civil war today as Hamas forces seized control of key strategic positions including the main north-south road in Gaza.The Islamist group's armed wing issued an ultimatum for Fatah fighters in the north of Gaza to surrender their weapons by Friday, as Hamas fighters closed in on Gaza City.Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President and leader of the secular Fatah Party, called for an end to the “madness”. He has accused Hamas of launching a coup attempt as the group seized strategic positions.[...]The armed wing of Hamas, which has tightened its hold on the northern Gaza Strip by seizing a major Fatah security base, has looked to cement its control of the region by demanding the surrender of Fatah weapons.This violence shows Hamas to be no friend of the peace process, and will only make peace even more difficult. Even if the
Sex stops Aids 2007-06-12 11:42:00 Steven E. Landsburg, writing in Times2, uses the logic of economics to defend promiscuity and subsidised condoms:If the Martins of the world would loosen up a little, we could slow the spread of Aids. When sexual conservatives increase their activity by moderate amounts, they do the rest of us a lot of good. Michael Kremer, a Harvard professor, estimates that the spread of Aids in England could be halted if everyone with fewer than 2.25 partners a year were to take additional partners more frequently. That would apply to three quarters of all British heterosexuals between 18 and 45.A cautious guy like Martin does the world a favour every time he hits the bars. In fact, he does the world two favours. First, he improves the odds for everyone who’s out there seeking a safe match. The second favour is more macabre, but probably also more significant: if Martin picks up a new partner tonight, he just might pick up an infection as well. That’s great. Because then Martin goes h
The EU needs to get out more 2007-06-16 08:54:00 The changes in the nature of the next EU treaty have freed Blair from the need for a referendum, reports The Times: Mr Blair is confident that EU leaders will agree at next week’s summit to make the new document an “amending treaty” — which updates previous agreements — and drop all references to a constitution.Mr Blair’s spokeswoman insisted yesterday that the Government would be free from its pledge to hold a referendum if the final treaty was an amending treaty rather than a constitution. “We think Europe is moving in our direction on this,” she said.Rather than the 'invasion by stealth' engineered in the paranoid minds of Eurosceptics, where the elected representatives of the people are somehow more interested in destroying Britain than strengthening her, this change in the treaty is indicative of a wider trend across Europe.After the failed referenda in France and the Netherlands in 2005, the EU Constitution faced an identity crisis. Clearly the people had r
Muddy diversion 2007-06-19 17:26:00 I will not be blogging for the next few days, as I will be at Glastonbury. Normal service should resume on Tuesday, assuming I recover. Read more:Muddy
A Populus poll, commissioned by The Times, reveals... 2007-06-18 14:29:00 A Populus poll, commissioned by The Times
, reveals the shallowness of Cameron's 'reforms' of the Conservative Party:A striking new survey by Populus about the attitudes of MPs reveals not only deep underlying disagreements between Labour and Conservative MPs on key social values, but also big divisions within the Tory party. David Cameron has failed to persuade a large number of his own backbenchers to accept his liberal views on morality and race.[...]By contrast, on several key questions Tory MPs are deeply divided. For instance, against the view of Mr Cameron, just 46 per cent of Tory MPs agree that gay couples should have the same rights as heterosexual couples, with 54 per cent disagreeing.[...]Similarly, there is a 52 to 48 per cent split among Tories on whether “the diverse mix of races, cultures and religions now found in our society has improved Britain”. [...] And while Labour MPs are virtually unanimous (94 per cent) in agreeing that “one of the things th
The changing of the guard 2007-06-28 11:27:00 Brown has announced his first Cabinet, reports The Times. There were a few surprises but nothing revolutionary, with elements of continuity alongside the break with the Blair Cabinets. The full list is:Jacqui Smith: Home SecretaryDavid Miliband: Foreign SecretaryAlistair Darling: Chancellor of the ExchequerAlan Johnson: Health SecretaryJack Straw: Justice SecretaryBaroness Scotland: Attorney GeneralEd Balls: Children, Schools and Families SecretaryYvette Cooper: Housing MinisterJohn Denham: Innovation, Universities and Skills SecretaryDouglas Alexander: International Development SecretaryRuth Kelly: Transport SecretaryHazel Blears: Communities and Local Government SecretaryJames Purnell: Culture SecretaryHilary Benn: Environment SecretaryJohn Hutton: Business and Enterprise SecretaryEd Miliband: Cabinet OfficeGeoff Hoon: Chief WhipPeter Hain: Work and Pensions SecretaryAndy Burnham: Chief Secretary to the TreasuryBaroness Ashton: Leader of the LordsDes Browne: Defense Secretary and Sco
The King is dead. Long live the King! 2007-06-27 09:28:00 Gordon Brown has now taken over as British Prime Minister following the resignation of Tony Blair this afternoon. During his last Prime Minister's Questions, Tony Blair was warmly received, stating:people "stood tall" in politics and said if, on occasion, the Comm+ons [sic] was a place of "low skulduggery" it was also the place of the "pursuit of noble causes".He added that he wished everyone "friend or foe" well, and got a standing ovation; an unprecedented scene, Tory leader David Cameron urged his Conservatives to join.It was no day for partisan politics, and everyone seemed to accept Blair has always done what he felt was right and noble, just like all politicians. That is worth remembering in the coming months when Cameron and Brown will face off every Wednesday and the respect of today will quickly be forgotten.All eyes are now on Gordon Brown, the new occupant of Number 10:Posing outside No 10 with wife Sarah, the man who has been Tony Blair's chancellor for the past 10 years,
Read your Burke, Mr. Cameron 2007-06-26 11:16:00 David Cameron
is showing himself to be a flagrant opportunist by ignoring British constitutional convention in his twin call from a referendum and an early election. The reason he wants Brown to allow the public to vote is purely political - he wants to give Brown a bloody nose and prove his 'reforms' of the Conservative Party have be successful.David Aaronvitch, writing in The Times, explains how referenda are rather rare things in British politics: Well, Labour may have promised a referendum, but I never did, and – looked at as dispassionately as I can manage – it’s pretty obvious that we don’t need one. First let me reiterate the point that we don’t hold referendums on much in this country. In my lifetime I have voted in two – in 1975 on EC membership and in London on whether we should have a mayor. Since then we have had sundry wars, mass Eastern European immigration, Bank of England independence, several Conservative European treaties, the incorporation of the Human Read more:Burke
A clean slate 2007-07-01 08:31:00 Bronwen Maddox, writing in The Times, is enthusiastic about David Miliband's future at the Foreign Office:Brown and Miliband are spared current crises, Iraq apart, but there are a few potential horrors that would benefit from Miliband’s intelligence and his unusually good judgment of tone...Miliband’s thoughtfulness will be an asset. He gauged the right tone of voice for the floods in Britain this week: not exaggerating, but not making light of people’s suffering. Nor did he rush to blame global warming. Those are rare qualities (particularly the restraint about climate change) and are likely to prove hugely valuable in King Charles Street.The "potential horrors" she identifies are not Iraq (where the current strategy will do), Afghanistan (problems are a couple of years away), or Europe (where Brown can be strong). They are Pakistan, Iran, and Hamas.The Foreign Office would certainly be in a strong position with regards any crises in these areas. They are not major politicisin
Let us be rational not British 2007-06-29 12:05:00 Much has been written about the intellectual credentials of Britain's new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. More intellectually robust than Blair, Brown is meant to be well-read on all things political. Yet beyond the simple claim that Brown reads a lot and knows his politics, not much is written about who he reads. Prospect has an article on just that, with some insights into the type of ideals he is likely to aspire to and the type of man he is.Prospect paints an image of Brown as very much the product of the British
Enlightenment with a strong affinity for another famous son of Kirkcaldy, Adam Smith. His economics are indeed neoliberal, but it is the second half of the article that is more interesting:Brown's largest recent foray beyond his economic and social policy brief has been his speeches and articles on Britishness. Here, he has typically cast his net so wide as to catch almost all the significant contemporary commentators, thinkers and writers on the issue.[...] From these and
Send in the troops, the ballot boxes, and the World Bank 2007-07-05 18:11:00 Michael J. Gerson, writing in The Washington Post, accurately describes Tony Blair's foreign policy and its liberal intentions:More than that of any other world leader, Blair’s foreign policy approach is a rigorous, logical argument. Like advancements in communications and the global economy, political challenges, Blair contends, have “immediate impact, an ability to cross frontiers.” Irresponsible and failing states become bases of operation for terrorist, crime and drug syndicates. This chaos is tamed, in his view, by promoting economic development, treating killer diseases, fighting global warming and achieving peace in the Middle East — an agenda of exhausting idealism. “Justice,” he says, “is the thing that is most powerful in its appeal to people.”But Blair’s liberalism not only purrs, it bites. When distant chaos grows too intense and threatening, Blair has advocated military interventions from Kosovo to Sierra Leone to Afghanistan to Iraq.His muscular interna Read more:World
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Independently cooling 2007-07-05 11:45:00 As the Bank of England unsurprisingly increases the base rate to 5.75 per cent, Gary Duncan in The Times defends their decision: If it had to be done, then it was right for the Bank of England to waste no time and to press ahead with the necessary action...It was already apparent that a further turn of the screw was needed, both as a precaution to ensure that the Bank’s inflation target is met and to entrench the MPC’s credibility...Today’s rate rise will apply another touch on the brakes that should be sufficient to ensure that the Bank can be reasonably confident of having quashed inflation risks — and that its target will be hit with its hard-won credibility still intact.Keeping inflation under control is more important than keeping indebted home owners happy, which is why the Bank of England was given the independence to make these kinds of decisions. It should help reduce spending, which will help bring inflation down and ensure the 2 per cent target is met, cooling the ec
Dr. Death 2007-07-04 09:35:00 Following the hysterical reactions over the professions of the would-be terrorists who attacked Glasgow and London, Brown is promising a review of NHS recruitment procedures, reports The Times: Gordon Brown announced an urgent review of NHS recruitment after news that all eight suspects arrested after failed car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow were either doctors or in related medical jobs...He added that there would be an "immediate review" of NHS recruitment after the discovery that a number of doctors had been arrested in connection with the bomb plot...The majority of those held are linked to the NHS as doctors or trainee doctors while the only woman arrested is a trained laboratory technician.This seems to stem from the sense of shock that medical professionals could be terrorists. There is no logical reason to be shocked by this - the threat faced by Britain is one which could include many different professionals of differing origins. They could be British born or migrants, th
Less rhetoric, more research 2007-07-03 09:57:00 Stephen Pollard, writing in The Times, attacks Brown and Cameron for their lack of action over demographics and pensions:What makes the sterility of the argument over public services all the more ridiculous is that none of this need be a problem. If, instead of using taxes to fund services on a “pay as you go” basis, we (to use the jargon) used funded financing, where money is invested throughout people’s working life, the demographic equation would be irrelevant.By saving a fraction of our earnings each year, the weight of those repeated contributions to the principal, plus the interest earned on them, would accumulate by retirement to a capital sum sufficient to buy an annuity, or even a perpetual income, that would cover the pension and other costs of old age – including ill-health and chronic conditions such as heart disease and cancer.Instead of society and each individual facing a financial crisis as we age, we would each save for our own protection, with the State steppi Read more:rhetoric
The end is no end 2007-07-02 09:38:00 The Times speculates on how Brown's new Cabinet is going down in Washington:Mrs Beckett was subsequently replaced by David Miliband, who is known to harbour doubts over the Iraq war. Last year he intervened in a Cabinet meeting to question why Britain was not taking a stronger position against Israel’s military action in Lebanon.The White House will have noted also the appointment last week of John Denham, who resigned from government over the Iraq war, and Harriet Harman, Labour’s new deputy leader, who has suggested that the party apologise for supporting the invasion...Figures close to the Bush Administration say that they have been encouraged by the general tenor of Mr Brown’s remarks towards the US and that they understand his need to “play the domestic political game” by demonstrating a degree of independence. But even the limited and coded signals from Mr Brown in the past week are a significant departure from the attitude of Mr Blair, who maintained an intense embrac
Policy is primary 2007-07-09 10:39:00 As if to emphasise the transition between Blair and Brown, The Times is running stories that starkly contrast the Blair and Brown era. Their coverage of the Campbell diaries paint a story of fist fights:Tony Blair's two closest advisers once came to blows in a row over what he should wear to do a doorstep appearance, Alastair Campbell's diary reveals.Mr Blair was forced to pull Peter Mandelson and Mr Campbell apart "like a dad trying to shush two squabbling brothers", the former No 10 communications director writes.And paranoia:On February 17 2001, Mr Campbell records that Mr Brown's supporters were upset when Mr Blair authorised an airstrike in Iraq on a day when Mr Brown was due to make an announcement. "His disciples seem to think we had deliberately bombed Iraq as a way of minimising coverage," notes Mr Campbell.The final act of the Spinmaster General of the Blair era is to paint Brown rather poorly, despite his omission of anything directly related to him. Dissent across the Go Read more:Policy
If his words fail his actions need to bellow 2007-07-08 09:43:00 UK Polling Report looks back at the bounce achieved when Eden, Macmillan, Douglas-Home, and Callaghan took over as Prime Minister, attempting to find any trends that might indicate the future of Gordon Brown:So what does history tell us? Unfortunately we have both scenarios in the past - in 1963 there was a change of leader that seemed to result in the Conservative government gaining support, and then continuing to get more and more popular with a new hand on the tiller. In 1990 we have a new Prime Minister taking over, receiving a huge jump in the polls and enjoying a honeymoon that stretched well into the following year, albeit one helped by a successful war. In 1976 we have a new Prime Minister taking over, enjoying a jump in the polls that once again put their party into the lead, but seeing it rapidly disappear again the very next month. It’s still impossible to say what sort of pattern Gordon Brown’s boost will follow.Politics is too complex for a simpler conclusion to be rea
Gin and Tonic - the secret behind global warming? 2007-07-07 14:02:00 Tom Utley, writing last year in The Daily Mail, makes appears to make an intuitive case against climate change, which can be repeated in Gentlemen's Clubs across the country:HERE'S something that's been puzzling me for a long time, and perhaps a kind reader will help me out. Pour yourself a gin and tonic, almost to the top of the glass. Then put in enough ice to take the level of the liquid to the very brim. Now the difficult bit: fight the temptation to take a slurp, and just sit and watch while the ice melts. Does the liquid overflow? I think not.But that's not what's puzzling me. You don't have to be a great physicist to grasp what Archimedes was on about when he had his Eureka moment in the bath and came up with the principles of water displacement and buoyancy. The floating ice in the drink displaces its own weight in gin and tonic -- and so, as it melts, the level of liquid in the glass stays the same.Ignoring the fact that Utley is wrong about ice in water anyway (the leve Read more:Tonic
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Who has got the money? 2007-07-07 11:15:00 46 universities and colleges may be facing financial collapse, reports The Guardian:Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act name for the first time 46 institutions which the government feared could collapse even after the introduction of tuition fees boosted university funding.The institutions, largely ex-polytechnics, affect hundreds of thousands of students and include large universities such as London South Bank University, Greenwich University and Liverpool John Moores University. Queen Mary, University of London, is also listed.The papers catalogue institutions struggling to recruit students, control their spending and forced into mergers to prevent them going under...But the Guardian has discovered that three institutions are still deemed so "at risk" that officials are still withholding their names and more are being monitored because they are under threat unless they act. That list is known to include Thames Valley University.This highlights the growing problem
The hidden face of social democracy 2007-07-12 07:29:00 Matthew Yglesias is questioning the political influence of the great twentieth century political philosopher, John Rawls: Marc Ambinder, pondering the significance (if any) of Russel Kirk, remarks of John Rawls that "Liberals might not know much about him, but his writing and thinking underpin the modern Democratic Party theory of redistributive rights and expansive government." This is obviously a complicated issue, and I'm about to give it short shrift, but it's worth noting that the timing is wrong for Rawls to be politically influential.A Theory of Justice is published in 1971, after the key elements of the Great Society and the War on Poverty were already in place. The main progressive policy accomplishments of the post-TOJ era have tended to be remote from the concerns about the distribution of wealth and income that Marc is alluding to here. Yet Rawlsian theory is crucial to any politician who adheres to the Third Way or capitalist social democracy
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More school, less panic 2007-07-11 05:19:00 Last month, The Economist assessed Bryan Caplan's Myth of the Rational Voter (my original thoughts on Caplan's Wall Street Journal article here):ANYONE who follows an election campaign too closely will sometimes get the feeling that politicians think voters are idiots. A new book says they are. Or rather, Bryan Caplan, an economics professor at George Mason University, makes the slightly politer claim that voters systematically favour irrational policies. In a democracy, rational politicians give them what they (irrationally) want. In “The Myth of the Rational Voter”, Mr Caplan explains why this happens, why it matters and what we can do about it...But Mr Caplan says that politics is different because ignorant voters do not vote randomly.Instead, he identifies four biases that prompt voters systematically to demand policies that make them worse off. First, people do not understand how the pursuit of private profits often yields public benefits: they have an anti-market bias. Seco
Liberty on the seven seas 2007-07-10 13:54:00 A recent paper on the 'Pirates' Code' lends weight to Lockean views of human nature:Leeson is fascinated by pirates because they flourished outside the state—and, therefore, outside the law. They could not count on higher authorities to insure that people would live up to promises or obey rules. Unlike the Mafia, pirates were not bound by ethnic or family ties; crews were as remarkably diverse as in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films. Nor were they held together primarily by violence; while pirates did conscript some crew members, many volunteered. More strikingly, pirate ships were governed by what amounted to simple constitutions that, in greater or lesser detail, laid out the rights and duties of crewmen, rules for the handling of disputes, and incentive and insurance payments to insure that crewmen would act bravely in battle...As a result, Leeson argues, pirate ships developed models that in many ways anticipated those of later Western democracies. First, pirates adopte
Abandon all hope, all ye who are left 2007-07-10 09:17:00 Bronwen Maddox assesses the mood in Baghdad and Washington in The Times:The Republican support for US troops in Iraq is falling apart even more quickly than the Iraqi Government itself. It is no surprise that a sketch is taking shape in Washington for a “half-exit” for US forces...For more than a year, the US has been giving al-Maliki the benefit of the doubt, preferring to think that he could not push through reforms, not that he would not. It is now hard not to conclude that he won’t.Yet few senators are going to push for a full withdrawal. The US cannot afford to leave completely, abandoning Iraq to its neighbours and al-Qaeda. A tempting answer, and one being studied, is to cut troop levels and to focus on al-Qaeda, as well as securing the borders.That would help to deter Iraq’s neighbours, Arab as well as Persian, from filling the vacuum. But it would leave even more security, including in Baghdad, to unreliable Iraqi forces. It would not be a pullout, but it would be an a Read more:Abandon
Policy is primary 2007-07-09 10:39:00 As if to emphasise the transition between Blair and Brown, The Times is running stories that starkly contrast the Blair and Brown era. Their coverage of the Campbell diaries paint a story of fist fights:Tony Blair's two closest advisers once came to blows in a row over what he should wear to do a doorstep appearance, Alastair Campbell's diary reveals.Mr Blair was forced to pull Peter Mandelson and Mr Campbell apart "like a dad trying to shush two squabbling brothers", the former No 10 communications director writes.And paranoia:On February 17 2001, Mr Campbell records that Mr Brown's supporters were upset when Mr Blair authorised an airstrike in Iraq on a day when Mr Brown was due to make an announcement. "His disciples seem to think we had deliberately bombed Iraq as a way of minimising coverage," notes Mr Campbell.The final act of the Spinmaster General of the Blair era is to paint Brown rather poorly, despite his omission of anything directly related to him. Dissent across the Go Read more:Policy
If his words fail his actions need to bellow 2007-07-08 09:43:00 UK Polling Report looks back at the bounce achieved when Eden, Macmillan, Douglas-Home, and Callaghan took over as Prime Minister, attempting to find any trends that might indicate the future of Gordon Brown:So what does history tell us? Unfortunately we have both scenarios in the past - in 1963 there was a change of leader that seemed to result in the Conservative government gaining support, and then continuing to get more and more popular with a new hand on the tiller. In 1990 we have a new Prime Minister taking over, receiving a huge jump in the polls and enjoying a honeymoon that stretched well into the following year, albeit one helped by a successful war. In 1976 we have a new Prime Minister taking over, enjoying a jump in the polls that once again put their party into the lead, but seeing it rapidly disappear again the very next month. It’s still impossible to say what sort of pattern Gordon Brown’s boost will follow.Politics is too complex for a simpler conclusion to be rea
Gin and Tonic - the secret behind global warming? 2007-07-07 14:02:00 Tom Utley, writing last year in The Daily Mail, makes appears to make an intuitive case against climate change, which can be repeated in Gentlemen's Clubs across the country:HERE'S something that's been puzzling me for a long time, and perhaps a kind reader will help me out. Pour yourself a gin and tonic, almost to the top of the glass. Then put in enough ice to take the level of the liquid to the very brim. Now the difficult bit: fight the temptation to take a slurp, and just sit and watch while the ice melts. Does the liquid overflow? I think not.But that's not what's puzzling me. You don't have to be a great physicist to grasp what Archimedes was on about when he had his Eureka moment in the bath and came up with the principles of water displacement and buoyancy. The floating ice in the drink displaces its own weight in gin and tonic -- and so, as it melts, the level of liquid in the glass stays the same.Ignoring the fact that Utley is wrong about ice in water anyway (the leve Read more:Tonic
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Who has got the money? 2007-07-07 11:15:00 46 universities and colleges may be facing financial collapse, reports The Guardian:Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act name for the first time 46 institutions which the government feared could collapse even after the introduction of tuition fees boosted university funding.The institutions, largely ex-polytechnics, affect hundreds of thousands of students and include large universities such as London South Bank University, Greenwich University and Liverpool John Moores University. Queen Mary, University of London, is also listed.The papers catalogue institutions struggling to recruit students, control their spending and forced into mergers to prevent them going under...But the Guardian has discovered that three institutions are still deemed so "at risk" that officials are still withholding their names and more are being monitored because they are under threat unless they act. That list is known to include Thames Valley University.This highlights the growing problem
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