tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732407426313451205.post6009656293334622564..comments2024-03-08T15:43:20.236+00:00Comments on Keynesian Liberal: Much Ado about OXFAMPeter Wrigleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16481117156930677255noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732407426313451205.post-3257375518809580032018-02-17T10:19:53.029+00:002018-02-17T10:19:53.029+00:00Unfortunately the five day limit has been well ove...Unfortunately the five day limit has been well over-run: we're now (Saturday 17th February) into day eight, and. according to the BBC's morning review of the papers, still headline news in both the Mail and the Express, as well as a full feature in the Guardian. Again, "let him who is without stain (or is it sin) cast the first stone."<br /><br />One thing that is laughable is the accusation that OXFAM failed to give full details of the Haiti incident at the time. We are in the age of "crisis management" and "damage limitation." Which of the organisations throwing stones has not used precisely that approach? And it was a civil servant, on a mission to minimise the culpability of the British government, who popularised the phrase "economical with the truth."Peter Wrigleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16481117156930677255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732407426313451205.post-29933304984305530332018-02-13T18:31:40.650+00:002018-02-13T18:31:40.650+00:00You may be right. Pity, with so much else of impor...You may be right. Pity, with so much else of importance going on. (or, in in some key areas, not going on)Peter Wrigleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16481117156930677255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732407426313451205.post-69666438636354838122018-02-13T14:13:14.324+00:002018-02-13T14:13:14.324+00:00I am rather surprised that the unfortunate activit...<i>I am rather surprised that the unfortunate activities of a group of OXFAM Aid workers in Haiti has been headline news for the past four days </i><br /><br />Surely it's not that surprising — we've just had the President's Club scandal, which was pretty much exactly the same thing, and it went on for a similar amount of time. It seems like about five days is now the standard news time allotted to a 'powerful men behaving despicably' scandal. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com