Times
Has local government a future?
Local government has been under attack for decades, says a pessimistic report from the Public Management and Policy Association, a think-tank. Political power at a local level has been seriously eroded by the centralising policies of successive governments, says Professor George Jones, Emeritus Professor of Government at the London School of Economics, in his report, The Future of Local Government: has it one?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/career_and_jobs/public_
sector/article3871390.ece

Newsweek
The victim of success
London has become so prosperous, so quickly, it is now virtually unliveable. ‘It is becoming a city for the unimaginably rich and the stupendously poor in social housing,’ says Tony Travers, of the London School of Economics.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/135294

Le Temps, France
Johnson sévira contre l'insécurité à Londres
Boris Johnson a promis d'avancer des projets pour le moderniser. Il a aussi bon espoir de négocier un accord avec les employés du métro contre la grève. Professeur à la London School of Economics, Tony Travers juge cependant la conclusion d'un tel accord ‘très improbable’.
http://www.letemps.ch/template/international.asp?page=4&article=231282

ABC
El ITE Caixa Galicia y la London School of Economics traen a la experta Linda Yueh
Dentro del ciclo de actividades organizadas por ITE Caixa Galicia y la London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), el próximo 14 de mayo tendrán lugar en la sede de ITE Caixa Galicia en La Coruña dos actividades centradas en el análisis de los mercados emergentes y, más concretamente, el caso de China.
(Source: Lexis)

Guardian
Letters - Stories of supervisers
A former LSE PhD student writes about his experience at LSE.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2277914,00.html

Monday 5 May

Reuters
Risks mount for stressed traders as markets gyrate
Two Citigroup workers , including a trader, fell from office blocks in London and Miami in 2006.
‘The pressure on traders when the market goes wrong is always huge,’ said Tim Leunig, a lecturer in the economic history department at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). ‘There will be a lot of bitten fingernails today. It is exactly the same, you can lose you job, your standard of living and you won't get it back, that's pressure.’
http://uk.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUKL3090774220080505?sp=true
Also in
• Birmingham Post
Rise in suicides as credit crunch stress gets to traders
(Source: Lexis)

Scotsman
ID cards? Government can't be trusted with our personal information
The Home Office expects the cost of introducing the ID card scheme to be £6bn over ten years, while the London School of Economics has estimated that the cards may cost us up to £19bn. I know which estimate I'm more likely to believe and, lest we forget, this is for a card people don't even want.
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/ID-cards-Government-can39t-be.4050142.jp

Financial Times
Europe's innovation failure explained
Book Review by Geoffrey Owen, senior fellow at the Department of Management at LSE.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a0674898-1a3c-11dd-ba02-0000779fd2ac.
html?nclick_check=1

Sunday 4 May

Observer
Make or break: 100 crucial days for Mayor Boris
Improving public transport, by pushing forward plans to rebuild the Victorian Underground system and trying to negotiate a no-strike deal with tube workers, will also be high on the agenda. Tony Travers, a transport expert and head of the London Group with the London School of Economics, said he thought that achieving a no-strike deal would be 'very, very unlikely'.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/may/04/boris.london08

Sunday Times
Americans move in to stop unions
Article includes comments from John Logan, lecturer in employment relations at LSE, who recently published a report on anti-union consultants.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/career_and_jobs/article3866620.ece

Saturday 3 May

Guardian
It is clear - the suburbs have deserted Brown
Article by Tony Travers, director of the Greater London Group at LSE.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/may/03/london08.localgovernment

It's the Standard wot won it: newspaper backed Boris throughout campaign
It was Gilligan's story about alleged malpractice by Livingstone's race adviser, Lee Jasper, that set the tone of the Standard's coverage. ‘If ever a single story has done for a politician it may just be that one,’ said Charlie Beckett, director of the media thinktank Polis at the London School of Economics. ‘It's like the Kinnock rally thing [in Sheffield before the 1992 general election]: it confirms what you suspected might be true in the first place.’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/may/03/localgovernment.london08

International Herald Tribune
Colourful Tory beats Red Ken in London
But historically, poor results for the governing party in local British elections are not necessarily harbingers of poor results in subsequent general elections. ‘We've been here before,’ said Patrick Dunleavy, a professor of political science and public policy at the London School of Economics. ‘It's a bad time for the government, but not nearly so bad that the government couldn't recover, even as early as spring 2009.’
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/03/europe/britain.php

AFP
Election rout for Britain's Brown in first key electoral test
Local government specialist Tony Travers, from the London School of Economics, detected growing disenchantment among the very voters that helped Labour secure a landslide general election victory on May 1, 1997. ‘Taking England and Wales as a whole, it is clear the suburbs deserted Brown,’ he wrote in The Guardian. ‘Perhaps this is the real fallout from the removal of his predecessor: Tony Blair's Conservatives have gone home.’
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jKD7HMpHrGuMPpNkM-6ZJpXZHYMg

Times
Doubts remain that sums for a new London regime will add up
Londoners, accustomed to the presence of Ken Livingstone, are likely to notice a new style of leadership coming from City Hall. Tony Travers, director of the Greater London Group at the London School of Economics, believes that Mr Johnson will approach politics in the capital more traditionally. ‘The Livingstone style was for the city to be run by a very tight clique of advisers, loyal to Ken,’ he told The Times.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3649057.ece

Scotsman
Is this the end of Labour's dominance in its heartlands?
Tony Travers, an elections expert at the London School of Economics, said: ‘What is clearly happening in Wales is that the Labour dominance is being seriously eroded in exactly the way its dominance in Scotland has been eroded – by a mix of a long-term Labour government becoming unpopular and the PR system giving other parties a share of power.’
http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Is-this-the-end-of.4047995.jp

What now, Gordon?
But as Tony Travers, a politics expert at the London School of Economics, told The Scotsman: ‘There is no point making a Queen's Speech unless you have something to put in it. As Alastair Campbell used to say, there has got to be a narrative. But first they have got to work out what the story is, and then tell it consistently in a way the public understands.’
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/What-now-Gordon.4047976.jp

Bloomberg
Johnson wins London mayor race in body blow to Brown
His [Ken Livingstone] defeat marked ‘the end of an era' because he was the ‘most dominant London politician' of his generation, said Tony Travers, a government expert at the London School of Economics.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=akGHB2XffcnE&refer=home

Arab News
Voters give Brown a bloody nose
The result is expected to be declared late in the night, but with 70 percent of the vote counted so far, even Tony Travers, director of the London Electoral Group at the London School of Economics, was suggesting a Johnson victory, albeit with some caveats.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4&section=0&article=109551&d=3&m=5&y=2008

Financial Times
The Week
A study by the London School of Economics found signs that the collapse of the Big Fifth, Arthur Andersen, in 2001 had led to average audit price increases of 2.4 per cent in the companies it studied.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/41ac3f0e-18aa-11dd-8c92-0000779fd2ac.html

Late-edition headlines

BBC Parliament
Archbishop on faith and human rights
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams has given a lecture at the London School of Economics on 'Religious Faith and Human Rights'.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/bbc_parliament/7381003.stm (to watch the lecture)

Guardian
Labour must heed suburban flight from Brown
Article by Tony Travers, director of the Greater London Group at LSE.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/may/02/localgovernment.london08

Bloomberg
Goodhart says central banks have `averted the worst'
Former Bank of England policy maker Charles Goodhart said central bank actions have helped the global financial system defend itself against the ``great shock'' caused by the seizure of credit markets.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=awfLQyPT.UhY&refer=europe

Health Insurance and Protection
Tackling absence 'would save £1.45bn a year'
Addressing sickness absence rates in the worst performing industry sectors would save the economy £1.45bn a year, a report has estimated. The study by the London School of Economics (LSE) assessed the effects of a £46m sickness absence management programme introduced by Royal Mail.
http://www.hi-mag.com/healthinsurance/article.do?articleid=20000112662&adname
=his_breaking_news

Environment Leader
Stern Outlines Global Deal On Climate Change
British economist and academic Lord Nicholas Stern [IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at LSE] has published a set of proposals for a global deal on climate change at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the school reports.
http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/05/02/stern-outlines-global-deal-on-climate-change/

Anglican Communion News Service
Archbishop of Canterbury - 'Religious Faith and Human Rights'
The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams will gave a lecture yesterday at the London School of Economics entitled 'Religious Faith and Human Rights'.
http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/news.cfm/2008/5/2/ACNS4398

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