Blog Entries by Felix Riley from 07/2011

The Banks Need a Murdoch Moment

| Posted 07.18.2011 | Business

The politicians have shown us what is possible when they harness public outrage, have shown us how an over-reaching bully like Murdoch can be beaten into a retreat. We need the same with the banks and we need it more urgently than any problems deriving from News International.

Al Capone and the Met

| Posted 07.20.2011 | UK

The vast majority of police officers do their job in good faith and deserve the support and respect of society. But without trust they become nothing but a shadowy arm of the security services. The Met's attitude to outright corruption in its ranks is, at it's kindest, complacency, at its worst a manifestation of that corruption.