2-4 November 2013

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Property tax system 'is a mess’
The Daily Telegraph, 04/11/2013, p.1, Emily Gosden
An LSE report for Berkeley found "the biggest threat to a sustained recovery in house building is uncertainty".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/constructionandproperty/10424
180/Property-tax-system-is-a-mess.html|

The need for an analytical approach to life
Financial Times, 04/11/2013, p.15, Rebecca Knight
Why should managers take an engineering approach to analysing the probability of perfect storms? Engineering risk analysts think in
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/2935980a-3982-11e2-8881-00144feabdc0.html|

'Without a change in the law, there'll be another Savile'
The Independent, 04/11/2013, p.1, Kunal Dutta
Jeremy Forrest, 30, was cautioned his behaviour by colleagues seven times in seven months with no definitive action taken, and no reports made to police. Professor Eileen Munro of the London School of Economics, a government adviser on child protection, said: "The debate around mandatory reporting creates a misleading impression that people don't already have a duty to convey maltreatment
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/without-a-change-in-the-law-therell
-be-another-savile--keir-starmer-says-professionals-should-be-forced-to-report-suspected-child-abuse-8920031.html|

Myanmar's drive for peace
International New York Times, 04/11/2013, p.9, Maung Zarni
offer of peace will have few local takers. No amount of aid or international cheerleading by celebrity statesmen will make it work. MAUNG ZARNI is a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and an associate fellow
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/04/opinion/myanmars-drive-for-peace.html?_r=0|

Listen up, Britain! The people who get everything wrong say we can't leave the EU
Daily Mail, 04/11/2013, p.14, Dominic Lawson
jobs' depend on our continued membership of the Single European Market. Clegg had based this figure on published research into employment patterns carried out by Professor Iain Begg of the London School of Economics. But when Channel 4 approached Professor Begg, he said Clegg and others were scaremongering: 'If anyone tried to do it completely objectively' Â— to work out
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2486818/DOMINIC-LAWSON-Listen-
Britain-The-people-wrong-say-leave-EU.html|

The need for an analytical approach to life
Financial Times, 04/11/2013, p.15, Rebecca Knight
that the elements of a perfect storm are independent. If something happened in the past - even though it may not have happened at the same time as something else - it is likely to happen again in the future. Why should managers take an engineering approach to analysing the probability of perfect storms? Engineering risk analysts think in
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/2935980a-3982-11e2-8881-00144feabdc0.html|

'Without a change in the law, there'll be another Savile'
The Independent, 04/11/2013, p.1, Kunal Dutta
Jeremy Forrest, 30, was cautioned his behaviour by colleagues seven times in seven months with no definitive action taken, and no reports made to police. Professor Eileen Munro of the London School of Economics, a government adviser on child protection, said: "The debate around mandatory reporting creates a misleading impression that people don't already have a duty to convey maltreatment
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/without-a-change-in-the-law-therell-
be-another-savile--keir-starmer-says-professionals-should-be-forced-to-report-
suspected-child-abuse-8920031.html|

In our public services sorry seems to be the most heinous word
The Sunday Times, 03/11/2013, p.33, Camilla Cavendish
National Audit Office (NAO) criticising his payoff of £375,000 last year, he immediately wrote to the NAO enclosing a cheque for the whole of his net severance pay. When the London School of Economics got into a row about accepting a donation from the son of Colonel Gadaffi two years ago, its director, Sir Howard Davies, resigned. "I am responsible
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/comment/columns/CamillaCavendish/article
1335030.ece|

Being Lady Penelope
The Independent, 02/11/2013, p.12, Unattributed
an international celebrity, but the production company that she and husband Gerry Anderson founded almost a decade before hadn't always been so successful. "I was on a summer holiday from LSE [university] when my father told me I needed to go and find something to do. I saw a card that said, 'Small production company looking for holiday PA', so
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/being-lady-penelope-thunder
birds-cocreator-sylvia-anderson-looks-back-on-her-extraordinary-life-8914024.html|

This is no way to deal with rape
The Guardian, 02/11/2013, p.51, Deborah Orr
The barrister Barbara Hewson (right) is at it again. At a London School of Economics debate, she has attacked the "ideology of sexual victimisation", saying that some rape victims have a "moral responsibility" for their fate. Which is very strange. Can

Review warns on alternative to census
Financial Times, 02/11/2013, p.4, Kate Allen; Norma Cohen
Times revealed earlier this year. Using an internet survey would be viable, provided it allowed for full follow-up of non-respondents, according to the review by Professor Chris Skinner of the London School of Economics and published yesterday. The review was commissioned by the ONS at the recommendation of the Royal Statistical Society.

An indomitable spirit of resistance
Morning Star, 02/11/2013, p.15,
England in February 1934, when the family reunited in London. Entering university in 1940, at the age of 16, Simpson referred to her good luck in being evacuated with the London School of Economics to Cambridge and being able to attend lectures at both universities and learn from many great socialist and communist thinkers during the war. She was

BEING LADY PENELOPE
The Independent, 02/11/2013, p.12, Unattributed
an international celebrity, but the production company that she and husband Gerry Anderson founded almost a decade before hadn't always been so successful. "I was on a summer holiday from LSE [university] when my father told me I needed to go and find something to do. I saw a card that said, 'Small production company looking for holiday PA', so
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/being-lady-penelope-thunder
birds-cocreator-sylvia-anderson-looks-back-on-her-extraordinary-life-8914024.html|

Leading barrister attacks 'ideology of sexual victimisation' around rape
The Independent (Web), 01/11/2013, Unattributed
into provacative territory with comments that people shouldn't assume that in rape "the victim is utterly innocent." Barbara Hewson attacked the "ideology of sexual victimisation" during a debate at the London School of Economics, and questioned the long-term damage rape causes. According to the Telegraph, Ms Hewson - who is a trustee of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service - said: "
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/leading-barrister-attacks-
ideology-of-sexual-victimisation-around-rape-8917543.html|

LSE online

Without a change in the law, there?ll be another Savile? - Keir Starmer says professionals should be forced to report suspected child abuse
The Independent (Web), 04/11/2013, Unattributed
year. Jeremy Forrest, 30, was cautioned about his behaviour by colleagues seven times in seven months with no definitive action taken, and no reports made to police. Professor Eileen Munro of the London School of Economics, a government adviser on child protection, said: "The debate around mandatory reporting creates a misleading impression that people don’t already have a duty to convey maltreatment
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/without-a-change-in-the-law-therell-
be-another-savile--keir-starmer-says-professionals-should-be-forced-to-report-suspected-child-abuse-8920031.html|

Property tax system 'is a mess'
Telegraph (Web), 04/11/2013, Emily Gosden
is that all these taxes need to be considered and reformed together," he says, adding that picking off one element at a time is "good politics and bad economics". An LSE report for Berkeley found "the biggest threat to a sustained recovery in house building is uncertainty". [sourcelink] http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568300/s/3341a908/sc/25/l/0L0Stele
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Strategic Growth Bancorp: Hitting profitability?
El Paso Inc - Nov 4 at 4:11 GMT
baseball player, and El Paso native Alberto Herrera, a graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science where he was a Fulbright Scholar, according to bank announcements. Strategic... http://www.elpasoinc.com/news/local_news/article_6cdd8cf4-44a1-11e3-8f41-001a4bcf6878.html|

Hailo is just waiting for that tricky second album
Telegraph (Web), 03/11/2013, Louise Armitstead
Having already spent a year in Oxford as part of an exchange with Berkeley, Bregman headed back to the UK to study at the London School of Economics. In hindsight, he says he was lucky. "Now there’s a bigger opportunity with mobile than could ever have been imagined back then," he says. "Sometimes you
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/10423793/Hailo-boss
-on-driving-UKs-most-ambitious-app.html|

Need a London flat? Go to Asia
The Sunday Times Online, 03/11/2013, p.1, Unattributed
Berkeley argues that international investment is important for the London housing market. It commissioned a report by the London School of Economics that showed only 6.5% of sales by value in the capital went to overseas purchasers last year, and suggesting a correlation between the flow of foreign
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/business/Economy/article1335313.ece|

Hailo is just waiting for that tricky second album
Telegraph (Web), 03/11/2013, Louise Armitstead
Having already spent a year in Oxford as part of an exchange with Berkeley, Bregman headed back to the UK to study at the London School of Economics. In hindsight, he says he was lucky. "Now there’s a bigger opportunity with mobile than could ever have been imagined back then," he says. "Sometimes you
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/10423793/Hailo-boss
-on-driving-UKs-most-ambitious-app.html|

Same elite surnames at Oxbridge for 27 generations
Times of India - Nov 3 at 1:12 GMT
The same elite names have dominated Oxbridge as far back as the Norman Conquest — and there's no sign that they're about to be ousted any time soon. According to new research, old aristocratic...
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-11-03/science/43627949_1
_oxbridge-elite-mandeville|

Aung San Suu Kyi and the world of Buddhist Islamophobia
The Guardian - Erica Cervini - Nov 3 at 13:33 GMT
that have collaborative relations with Peking University – Stanford, Cornell, Yale, the London School of Economics and many others – should be putting pressure on China's leading university to...
http://drkokogyi.wordpress.com/2013/11/04/aung-san-suu-kyi-and-the-world-of-buddhist-islamophobia/|

Indian politics: A landscape as colourful and varied as its festivals
Al Jazeera - Nov 3 at 13:11 GMT
Sumantra Bose is Professor of International and Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics. His latest book Transforming India: Challenges to the World's Largest Democracy...
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/10/indian-politics-landscape-as-colourful-varied-as-festivals-2013102811416355206.html|

How much are we willing to pay for the pursuit of happiness?
Los Angeles Times - Nov 3 at 13:05 GMT
Compiled by Jeffrey D. Sachs of Columbia University and colleagues from the London School of Economics and the University of British Columbia, four of the top five rankings are occupied by Denmark...
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20131103,0,901196.column|

Aung San Suu Kyi and the world of Buddhist Islamophobia
Yahoo! UK and Ireland - Nov 3 at 11:52 GMT
Zarni, a Visiting Fellow with the Civil Society and Human Security Unit, London School of Economics, is an outspoken critic of neo-Nazi "Buddhist" racism and racist violence in his native Myanmar..
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20131103,0,901196.column#axzz2jfjow6Wd|

Ed Miliband: 'Dad indulged me in my Red Sox obsession'
The Independent (Web), 02/11/2013, Unattributed
Miliband 1977 & 1982 Lives in Boston 1981-89 Attends Haverstock Comprehensive School 1989 Reads PPE at Oxford 1993 Becomes researcher for Harriet Harman 1994 Works for Gordon Brown, the Shadow Chancellor 1995 Studies at the LSE 1997 Appointed
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/ed-miliband-dad-indulged-me
-in-my-red-sox-obsession-8919253.html|

What the happiest people do at work
aol.com - Nov 2 at 6:28 GMT
Reports a study at the London School of Economics. And if one of those colleagues is also your best friend, found a Gallup report, you're much more productive and motivated than if that friend worked...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/31/things-happy-people-do-at-work_n_4157563.html|

Robbins report on higher education Fifty years on
University World News - Nov 2 at 4:28 GMT
influenced by a remark of another London School of Economics titan, RH Tawney, that "you could never overestimate how much America had benefited from the fact that...
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=2013103013563748|

La zona euro trata de escapar de la deuda pendiente
MSN LatinoAmerica - Nov 2 at 16:36 GMT
por parte del BCE", escribió el economista belga Paul De Grauwe, del London School of Economics, en un ensayo para el Centro para la Reforma Europea.Bajo esa política, países de bajo déficit...
http://noticias.cl.msn.com/internacional/la-zona-euro-trata-de-escapar-de-la-deuda-pendiente-1|

Can Japanese really be such cold sushi in the sack?
Japan Times - Jake Adelstein - Nov 2 at 13:51 GMT. The Well-being Program at the London School of Economics’ Center for Economic Performance rates “making love” as the activity that makes us happiest….
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/02/national/can-japanese-really-be-such-cold-sushi-in-the-sack/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=can-japanese-really-be-such-cold-sushi-in-the-sack|

La zona euro trata de escapar de la deuda pendiente
Yahoo! España - Nov 2 at 13:50 GMT
por parte del BCE", escribió el economista belga Paul De Grauwe, del London School of Economics, en un ensayo para el Centro para la Reforma Europea.Bajo esa política, países de bajo déficit...
http://es.finance.yahoo.com/noticias/la-zona-euro-trata-escapar-133352298.htmI|

Is technology the cause of car crashes? Or the cure?
Tech World Australia - Mike Elgan - Nov 2 at 11:59 GMT
A study conducted by the and the London School of Economics analyzed more than 8 million car accidents and road fatalities of all kinds, looking for (among
http://www.techworld.com.au/article/530803/technology_cause_car_crashes_
cure_/?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=tagfeed|

Why Osborne must ditch HS2 now
Spectator (Web), 01/11/2013, Fraser Nelson
People like the idea as a general concept - as I did. But come out against it when working out the staggering price tag. Prof Henry Overman from the London School of Economics was an HS2 adviser, but quit after concluding that too few of his fellow advisers were able to keep track of this sprawling project. His verdict
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/11/why-osborne-must-ditch-hs2
-now/|

ONS urged not to scrap census without well-tested alternative
FT.com (Web), 01/11/2013,
Using an internet survey would be viable, provided it allowed for full follow-up of non-respondents, according to the review conducted by Professor Chris Skinner of the London School of Economics and published on Friday. The review was commissioned by the ONS at the recommendation of the Royal Statistical Society.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ec592bb4-424e-11e3-8350-00144feabdc0.html|

Barbara Hewson: 'Rape victims may be morally responsible for their ordeal' says top woman barrister
Mail Online UK (Web), 01/11/2013, Kieran Corcoran
Miss Hewson, 52, made the comments during a debate with other legal professionals at the London School of Economics on Wednesday, entitled 'Is Rape Different?' She said: 'We need to make a distinction between legal responsibility and moral responsibility.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2483390/Barbara-Hewson-Rape-victims-morally-responsible-ordeal-says-woman-barrister.html|

Being Lady Penelope: Thunderbirds co-creator Sylvia Anderson looks back on her extraordinary life
The Independent (Web), 01/11/2013, Unattributed
The production company that she and husband Gerry Anderson founded almost a decade before hadn't always been so successful. "I was on a summer holiday from LSE [university] when my father told me I needed to go and find something to do.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2486818/DOMINIC-LAWSON-Listen-
Britain-The-people-wrong-say-leave-EU.html|

Ed Miliband: 'Dad indulged me in my Red Sox obsession'
The Independent (Web), 02/11/2013, Unattributed
Miliband 1977 & 1982 Lives in Boston 1981-89 Attends Haverstock Comprehensive School 1989 Reads PPE at Oxford 1993 Becomes researcher for Harriet Harman 1994 Works for Gordon Brown, the Shadow Chancellor 1995 Studies at the LSE.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/ed-miliband-dad-indulged
-me-in-my-red-sox-obsession-8919253.html|

Leading barrister attacks 'ideology of sexual victimisation' around rape
The Independent (Web), 01/11/2013, Unattributed
Barbara Hewson attacked the "ideology of sexual victimisation" during a debate at the London School of Economics, and questioned the long-term damage rape causes. According to the Telegraph, Ms Hewson - who is a trustee of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/leading-barrister-attacks-
ideology-of-sexual-victimisation-around-rape-8917543.html|

Why Osborne must ditch HS2 now
Spectator (Web), 01/11/2013, Fraser Nelson
People like the idea as a general concept - as I did. But come out against it when working out the staggering price tag. Prof Henry Overman from the London School of Economics was an HS2 adviser, but quit after concluding that too few of his fellow advisers were able to keep track of this sprawling project.
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/11/why-osborne-must-ditch-hs2-
now/|

Barbara Hewson: 'Rape victims may be morally responsible for their ordeal' says top woman barrister
Mail Online UK (Web), 01/11/2013, Kieran Corcoran
She also questioned whether 'claims of victimisation must always be respected', according to The Daily Telegraph. Miss Hewson, 52, made the comments during a debate with other legal professionals at the London School of Economics on Wednesday, entitled 'Is Rape Different?' She said: 'We need to make a distinction between legal responsibility and moral responsibility.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2483390/Barbara-Hewson-Rape-victims-morally-responsible-ordeal-says-woman-barrister.html|

Queens lecture - Der Glücklichmacher (translate)
Berliner Zeitung - Alice Ahlers - Nov 1 at 18:56 GMT
Montag ab 17 Uhr kann man dem Professor für Verhaltensforschung von der London School of Economics and Political Science im Audimax der Technischen Universität zuhören.Er spricht im Rahmen...
http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik/queens-lecture-der-gluecklichmacher,10808018,24879576.html|

Gentrification plays central role in conservation decisions
Finchannel.com - Nov 1 at 18:48 GMT
The designation of conservation areas (CAs), according to research from the London School of Economics and Political Science. This recent study, Game of Zones: The Economics of Conservation...
http://finchannel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=128832&Itemid=99999999|

Government-commissioned researchers 'leaned on'
Times Higher Education Supplement - Nov 1 at 18:04 GMT
findings chime with Whitehallâs political objectives.A report by researchers at the London School of Economics â based on a survey of 205 who worked on such projects between 2005 and 2011 â...
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/government-commissioned-
researchers-leaned-on/2008567.article|

Professor: Britterna upprörs ej av kampanj
Mortgage Finance Gazette - Nov 1 at 11:41 GMT
Mortgage product innovation in advanced economies: more choice, more risk, The London School of Economics and Political Science
http://www.svd.se/nyheter/utrikes/tabloid-lanserar-kampanj-mot-invandring_8681314.svd?sidan=4|

Why Osborne must ditch HS2 now
Spectator - Fraser Nelson - Nov 1 at 11:24 GMT
Prof Henry Overman from the London School of Economics was an HS2 adviser, but quit after concluding that too few of his fellow advisers were able...

Government-commissioned researchers 'leaned on'
Times Higher Education Supplement - Nov 1 at 18:04 GMT
findings chime with Whitehallâs political objectives.A report by researchers at the London School of Economics â based on a survey of 205 who worked on such projects between 2005 and 2011 â
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/government-commissioned-
researchers-leaned-on/2008567.article|

Professor: Britterna upprörs ej av kampanj
Mortgage Finance Gazette - Nov 1 at 11:41 GMT
Mortgage product innovation in advanced economies: more choice, more risk, The London School of Economics and Political Science…
http://www.svd.se/nyheter/utrikes/tabloid-lanserar-kampanj-mot-invandring_8681314.svd?sidan=4|

LSE on TV/radio

News
LBC, 03/11/2013
Coverage of LSE research into elitist sounding names.

News
CNN International Europe, 03/11/2013
Reference to former LSE Director Michael Haydon talk about spying.