Here's a Better Way to Run Gordon's Asylum: Pay Attention to the Inmates

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Blessing the rich A view from inside the walls reaches me from Bedlam Asset Management. One of the inmates (let me call him Tom o'Bedlam) writes to say how well the credits suit him, though not in ways that the Chancellor intended: 'Most of those on the receiving end are terrified at earning too much, so are happy to take sub-normal wages or work on the "black", as do my legions of domestic staff. Tax credits for single mothers are another useful side-earner.

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Here's a Better Way to Run Gordon's Asylum: Pay Attention to the Inmates

To put the lunatics in charge of the asylum makes admirable sense. They are the market for its services. They know where the straitjacket pinches. The Commissioner in Lunacy may think that he knows better, but the sum total of their knowledge must be more than he, cocooned in some distant office, could ...

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