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  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    Letter: A viral analogy for why Whitehall resists change

    From Norman Strauss, Adviser to Margaret Thatcher, 1976-82, Founding Designer, Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme, 1982, London TW1, UK

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  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    Letter: Why G8 states are wary of special drawing rights

    From Saumya Mitra, Former Staff Member, IMF and World Bank, Vienna, Austria

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  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    Letter: Meat industry must come clean on emissions

    From Graeme McCracken, Managing Director, Proagrica, Sutton, Surrey, UK

  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    Letter: An optimistic take on ‘America’s decline’

    From Robert H Wade, Professor of Global Political Economy, London School of Economics, London WC2, UK

  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    Letter: The US looks like today’s big currency manipulator

    From Aamir Zahidi, Abu Dhabi, UAE

  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    Letter: Try the old way of setting wages by industry

    From Susan Corby, Professor Emerita, The Business School University of Greenwich, London SE10, UK

  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    Letter: Kennedy used a tax to stop capital outflows

    From Paul Hallwood, Professor of Economics, University of Connecticut, Mansfield, CT, US

  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    Letter: Belfast café culture and unionism’s grip

    From Lauren Kerr, Belfast, UK

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Letter: Printing money is not under way, at least not yet

    From Dan McLaughlin, Dublin, Ireland

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  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Letter: A better way to spend Ineos’ Oxford gift

    From Giovanna Forte, Chief Executive, Forte Medical, London WC1, UK; Irvine, CA, US

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Letter: Wind industry has a role to play in levelling up the economy

    From Alistair Mackie, Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Letter: How the Fed restrains bond yields will be critical

    From John K Thomson, Edinburgh, UK

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Letter: The idea looks uncannily like a tax on banks

    From Leslie Lipschitz, Former Director, IMF Institute, Boothbay Harbor, ME, US

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Letter: Health worker loss adds to poor states’ vaccine task

    From Rachel Jenkins Professor Emeritus, King’s College London, Former Director, WHO Collaborating Centre, Moccas, Herefordshire, UK

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Letter: Europe’s old monarchies did it, so why not the US?

    From Stephen Porter, London NW6, UK

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Letter: Banning despots from social media is tricky

    From KM Choy, Singapore

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Letter: The first step is to accept BoE role in debt build-up

    From Geoffrey Blanning, London SW13, UK

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
    Letter: Co-ordinating regulation is not for the faint-hearted

    From John Pattison, Toronto, ON, Canada

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
    Letter: A presidential prediction the professor might revisit

    From Peter Caroe, Copenhagen, Denmark

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
    Letter: Modi must seize opportunity to lure Indian talent back home

    From Utkarsh Sharma, Somerville College, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
    Letter: America’s youthful image undergoes a makeover

    From Roger C Morris, Herzliya, Israel

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
    Letter: An early candidate for phrase of the year

    From Craig Pouncey, Tervuren, Belgium

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
    Letter: What are your rights if you refuse the jab?

    From Jonathan Chamberlain, Employment Partner at Gowling WLG, Birmingham, UK

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
    Letter: Is Hay Festival online the shape of things to come?

    From Leslie Michaels, London N3, UK

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
    Letter: Don’t let governance guard down in IPO razzmatazz

    From Barry T Gamble, Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK

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