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Crossbow Magazine – Summer 2012 Edition
Most often the Chairman’s message of this magazine has been focussed on the issues of the day at time of publication, and as has frequently been the case in the past, in this edition we find ourselves seemingly facing the most perilous and existential questions of...
Xbow magazine – April 2008
The 2008 presidential election will turn on national security just as the 2004 one did. Iraq remains the biggest dividing line between the two parties. Indeed, the past four years has seen this line become ever more distinct as Democratic support for the war has...
Xbow magazine – Spring 2001
It was, of course, thirty years ago, which is time enough to rose-tint the most objective of glasses. And I am only too well aware that "the old gray mare she ain’t what she used to be" is a condition as common in 60 yearolds as it is irritating to their 30-year...
Xbow magazine – August 2008
Since Britain’s fortunate departure from the Exchange RateMechanismin 1992, the economy has grown well. In no small part this was because of the 1980s supply side revolution, which concentrated on trade union control, tax reformand privatisation, and the 1990s...
Xbow magazine – Spring 2003
‘Blair does a Maggie’, screamed newspaper headlines as the fire-fighters dispute raged last month. As if to underline this, one newspaper cartoonist depicted Tony Blair looking at the alarm behind his Downing Street desk. ‘In case of fire: break glass’. Behind the...
Xbow magazine – February 2009
With government intervention and rescue of banks comes added regulation. Many blame the hands-off approach in the US and UK that led to companies developing lax lending standards, but the problem here is two-fold. Not only has it become painfully obvious that...
Xbow magazine – October 2006
In my view the Tories have got it wrong again. They’ve chosen a new leader, who is talented and personable. He’s got hair and he’s got a certain sense of style. Labour will find it hard to portray him as a toff, in spite of his Eton provenance. He has an easy way...
Xbow magazine – Conference 2009
It is notable that the two most radical governments of the previous century, Labour after 1945 and Conservative after 1979, were both swept into power in the wake of the century’s two most severe economic downturns (and one ruinously expensive war) which provided...
Xbow magazine – 50th Anniversary Edition
Every discussion of the future of the Lords seems to start from the same premise. Even the critics make no significant proposal for change in the role, powers or expectations of the House. For all the talk of reform, there’s scarcely ever a word of criticism of...