Scotsman
The trouble with Boris
An independent voice on London politics, Tony Travers, who is the director of the Greater London group at the London School of Economics, said the current controversies could be forgotten about if the next year went smoothly. He also pointed out that London had adopted an Americanised political system, where a change of administration came with a total purge of advisers, in a very short space of time. Mr Travers added that Team Johnson had been keen to be portrayed as ‘inclusive’, and although it had not gone as planned, no-one could accuse the party of malice. ‘It is not great for your political opponents to say you are incompetent, but for the Tories that is better than them saying you are nasty.’
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/The-trouble-with-Boris.4264184.jp

Taipei Times
Is Ma the ‘Manchurian candidate’?
There is now a perception, as reported by Christopher Hughes of the London School of Economics, that Ma has finally adopted Beijing’s views and will do what it wants him to do — that he has become Beijing’s man in Taipei, who will open the gates of the castle and bring about the dream of annexation.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2008/07/08/2003416807

Contractor UK
'Big Brother costs £800 per household'
Pointing to the failure of five state-run IT schemes, the group said the government’s ‘appalling record’ in implementing IT projects does not bode well for any future identity scheme. However, ministers will dispute the scheme will cost the £19bn the TPA suggested; a figure based on estimates from the London School of Economics, which insists the Home Office’s more conservative calculations are unrealistic.
http://www.contractoruk.com/news/003867.html

Late-edition headlines

Deia, Spain
‘Los estudiantes vizcainos son una referencia en la London School of Economics and Political Science’
Interview with Simon Flemington, CEO of Enterprise LSE.
http://www.deia.com/es/impresa/2008/07/07/bizkaia/herrialdeak/481146.php

Washington Post
Afghanistan's struggling security services
Antonio Giustozzi, a research fellow at the Crisis States Research Centre of the London School of Economics, acknowledges aspects of the army's rebuilding effort have been successful. He writes that retention rates have increased, and the army has become a ‘reasonably well behaved’ force that is ‘quite popular throughout most of Afghanistan.’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070701486.html

EU Observer
Democratic deficit or simply boredom?
An expanded federal budget was first mooted by the Werner Commission in 1970, and then again by the McDougall Report in 1977. Most recently, substantial expansion has been proposed by Charles Goodhart at the London School of Economics.
http://euobserver.com/7/26448

The Financial, Georgia
LSE: Many nations meet in Beijing for international Summer School
Students from 36 countries gathered in Beijing today for the opening of the 2008 Summer School.
http://finchannel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16368&Itemid=9

LSE people on TV/radio

BBC Radio 4
The NHS at 60: The cost of health
The second in this four part series in which Dr Lawrence Phillips, LSE Visiting Professor of Decision Sciences, participates.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/costofhealth_20080708.shtml (9am this morning)

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