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  1. is pleased to see the Telegraph's piece (Business, p1) on ASI's new report about how the EU is using the crisis to centralize regulation.
  2. thinks the new ASI report is spot on: raze the financial regulator to the ground and scatter salt on the foundations! http://htxt.it/dDN0
  3. was at a great ASI regulation group lunch today with Sandra Boss of McKinsey, on whether London still cuts it as a financial centre. Scary!
  4. is at some atonal concert (Arts Council sponsored) sitting behind ex FCO Sec Douglas Hurd (taxpayer sponsored). I hate the state!
  5. is just reading Ch 7, 'No More Boom & Bust' in Lord Layard's 1997 'What Labour Can Do'. Ha, Ha!!
  6. is fascinated how keen the BBC is to cover Tax Freedom Day when it – apparently – comes earlier: http://htxt.it/y9eS
  7. celebrated Tax Freedom Day on the 'Today' programme – 53.23 minutes into the iPlayer here: http://htxt.it/lmuV
  8. tells Times readers that the public sector should share the pain of the recession. http://htxt.it/B14n
  9. has a chapter in the IEA's new book 'Verdict on the Crisis'. My verdict? Government's guilty as hell! http://htxt.it/HEfi
  10. was saddened by the death of friend and historian Professor Norman Gash. http://htxt.it/iUsx
  11. will be at Freedom Week. See the video here: http://htxt.it/MDIY
  12. got a good review in the Catholic Herald. http://htxt.it/ORU7
  13. is the token centre-rightist at the Hay Philosophy Festival on 24 May http://htxt.it/aXT6
  14. tells 618,000 Times readers today why 50%+ taxes don't work. http://htxt.it/ofTu
  15. is dashing off 900 words for the Times on why 50%+ tax rates are counterproductive.
  16. has posted this week's ASI e-bulletin at: http://htxt.it/PzsF
  17. has a piece on debt and taxes in the Yorkshire Post today. http://htxt.it/IgiO
  18. saw only one CCTV cam during his week in Italy. In the same week another FOUR went up within 80 yards of his Westminster office! Smile!
  19. is back from Italy, where he discovered 54 new in-laws. Aaargh!
  20. is in the Wall St Journal today http://htxt.it/9daY