A step in the right direction
Lindsay Mackie is a consultant at nef. She is leading nef’s post office campaign and works on Clone Town and Ghost Town Britain. The award of the Post Office Card Account to the Post Office is more...
View ArticleRegulating the regulator: saving the post offices from PostComm
Lindsay Mackie is a consultant at nef. She is leading nef’s post office campaign and works on Clone Town and Ghost Town Britain. In a week when the Government has finally joined the millions of us who...
View ArticleThe winds of change… coming to a post office near you?
Veronika Thiel is a researcher and project manager on nef’s Access to Finance team. Can the leopard change its spots after all? It appears so! It was a ‘leaked’ letter by Lord Mandelson to the Guardian...
View ArticleOld news from the Bank of England
Veronika Thiel is a researcher and project manager on nef’s Access to Finance team. As a social scientist, I am predisposed to like surveys. But sometimes, you do wonder about their merit. Sometimes,...
View ArticleSpecial debate: banking unfit for purpose
To mark the publication of I.O.U.K.: banking failure and how to build a fit financial sector – nef‘s new report on banking – the nef triple crunch blog is staging a debate. Sargon Nissan, one of the...
View ArticleNeoliberal nostalgia
Andy Wimbush is nef‘s Communications Assistant and blogmaster. He also draws cartoons for nef‘s newspaper. It’s been over a week now since we launched our proposal for a People’s Bank based at the Post...
View ArticleBrown is right: the Post Office can become a community bank
Lindsay Mackie is a consultant at nef. She is leading nef’s post office campaign and works on Clone Town and Ghost Town Britain. The Prime Minister’s commitment to bringing Post Office banking into the...
View ArticleLet the Post Office be bold and offer a real alternative to mainstream banking
Lindsay Mackie is a consultant at nef. She is leading nef’s post office campaign and works on Clone Town and Ghost Town Britain. The Post Office consultation announced today is a most baffling affair....
View ArticlePost Bank developments
Lindsay Mackie is a consultant at nef. She is leading nef’s post office campaign and works on Clone Town and Ghost Town Britain. They have not been earth shattering, but two recent developments around...
View ArticleBudget 2010: The far-reaching implications of economic inequality
Faiza Shaheen is a researcher on economic inequality at nef. The 2010 Budget is a reminder of just how every government decision has repercussions for economic inequality. Apart from the obvious...
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