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		<title>A rule that Mae be broken</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Carne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have certain rules. One of them is that, when a friend asks you to watch their daughter do a stand-up comedy routine at an upstairs theatre in an Islington pub, you say “No, thank you”.  So when an email came in from a friend I hadn’t seen for over 20 years – and not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hasty Copper and the Paper with Secrets</title>
		<link>http://www.simoncarne.com/guardian-official-secrets-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Carne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Justice, Law & Mediation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I keep reading expressions of anger that the Metropolitan Police sought a court order under the Official Secrets Act to uncover the Guardian’s source behind the phone hacking story (here, here, here, here, and here, to name but a few). I’m not convinced. The Guardian, we are told by these writers, are the good guys. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shoot the messenger!</title>
		<link>http://www.simoncarne.com/napf-pensions-report-accounting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Carne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics, Politics & Regulation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fair Value]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pensions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial accounts are supposed to enable readers to understand the financial position of the entity under review. But, yesterday, the National Association of Pension Funds published a report attacking the notion that accounts provide neutral and reliable information about an employer’s pension scheme liabilities. The critique, written for the NAPF by Dr Iain Clacher and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beaten before we start?</title>
		<link>http://www.simoncarne.com/capello-poor-performance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Carne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication & Management]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Football]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fabio Capello, manager of the England football team, says he realised before Tuesday night’s game against Wales that his team were about to put in a poor performance. It was the attitude of the players during the pre-match warm-up that told him what to expect. Unfortunately, the same goes for managers. A few days before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What equal pay teaches us about the Human Rights Act</title>
		<link>http://www.simoncarne.com/equal-pay-and-human-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Carne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics, Politics & Regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance and Actuarial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice, Law & Mediation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pensions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The European courts have been causing controversy (again). Judgements handed down in Brussels and Strasbourg have left conservatives (small “c”) aghast and Liberals (big and small “L”) defending the rights-based approach. But scratch beneath the surface and, often, it’s not the rights that objectors object to. The problem is that, so often, the rights awarded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I’m Hayman and I’m ’aving hoops&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.simoncarne.com/hayman-hoops/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Carne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics, Politics & Regulation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lovers of Life on Mars may have thought that DCI Gene Hunt was giving evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee yesterday. In fact, it was a real (ex-)cop, former Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman. Since he was once head of Scotland Yard’s anti-terrorist activity, there must be a more serious side to him than he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice under examination</title>
		<link>http://www.simoncarne.com/justice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Carne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Justice, Law & Mediation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much has been written about the harrowing cross-examination of Milly Dowler’s family during the trial of Levi Bellfield. One of the strangest remarks was written by Peter Lodder QC, Chairman of the Bar, in his desire to defend the colleague who had conducted the cross-examination. Lodder wrote in the Times last week that “The case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bankers cooking with Gas?</title>
		<link>http://www.simoncarne.com/cooking-with-gas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simoncarne.com/cooking-with-gas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Carne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics, Politics & Regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance and Actuarial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Regulation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The separation of retail and investment banks is back in the news following the Chancellor’s recent Mansion House speech. Ever since the Government bail-out of Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds in 2008, there has been a pressing desire to ensure that tax-payers are never again called upon to rescue the financial system. The Independent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neil and Adel: A love that cannot speak the name</title>
		<link>http://www.simoncarne.com/warnock/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simoncarne.com/warnock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Carne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication & Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Other]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Football]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QPR]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.simoncarne.com/?p=740</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When Queen’s Park Rangers appointed Neil Warnock as manager, a little over a year ago, I was aghast: “Fourteen years since QPR last played in the Premier League, but if the chairman thinks Warnock is the answer, he must be asking the wrong question.” How wrong was I? Warnock has attracted contempt for most of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accountants becoming effective?</title>
		<link>http://www.simoncarne.com/effective/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simoncarne.com/effective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Carne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics, Politics & Regulation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think the three words at the end of the following sentence must be the most chilling – and the most heart-warming – I have ever read from an accounting standard-setter: “The issue of whether accounting standard setters should take account of the effects, or consequences, of the standards they develop has been a subject [...]]]></description>
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