Posts Tagged ‘corruption’

Congress – cheaper than you thought

29Jul13

I don’t need to write extensively here about the dangers of regulatory capture by corporate interests. Larry Lessig already wrote ‘One Way Forward‘, and he does a far better job than I ever could. My friend Robert Dunne recently made an astute observation in the wake of the PRISM scandal: Access to material from the […]


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A well regulated lobby

10Jun13

Our elected (and unelected) officials keep getting caught with their hands in the till by investigative journalists. The proposed remedy for this is to establish a register for lobbyists. A plan that the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) seems to be eagerly embracing (when it’s not saying that the plan needs to be even […]


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