Globe and Mail, Canada
Kandahar dam contract comes with security clause
Canada has invested millions of dollars in programs to disarm and disband the militias that roam Afghanistan's countryside. But most illegal armed groups had only a small fraction of their arsenals confiscated, according to a recent study by Antonio Giustozzi, a researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He cites the example of a militia commander in Uruzgan province named Matiullah, who handed in 264 weapons as part of the disbandment program but then continued to operate his band of armed men.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080715.AFGHANDAM
15/TPStory/TPInternational/Asia/

Financial Times
Letters - IMF reports uncertain outlook for Iceland
Letter to the editor from Robert Wade, professor of political economy and development at LSE.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8343fdc8-5205-11dd-a97c-000077b07658.html

Business Spectator
Not Fannie or Freddie
And now that the wholesale markets have dried up, removing an important source of funding for the banks, the government has quietly stepped in via both the Reserve Bank and the Future Fund to make up what the banks aren’t able to get from depositors. So when the London School of Economics’ Willem Buiter, writing in the Financial Times, calls the situation with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ‘hypocritical’, ‘deceitful’, ‘dishonest’ and ‘spineless’, and says the US government must nationalise them… well, yes, but don’t look too closely at your banks, Willem.
http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Big-Four-GJSMB?Open
Document&src=sph

Independent
Pandora - Business quips
The BBC's chirpy business editor, Robert Peston, told listeners to yesterday's Today programme that banking crises only happen when he's away on holiday. The former chairman of the Financial Services Authority, Sir Howard Davies, retorted: ‘They actually only crystallise when he comes back. There's a lesson there for the BBC I think. What on Earth can he mean by this?
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/pandora/pandora-persimmon-boss
-puts-a-hold-on-lavish-wedding-plans-for-daughter-867616.html

The Post, Pakistan
PI, LSE hold workshop
The London School of Economic (LSE) and Privacy International UK on Monday arranged a one-day workshop titled 'Privacy and Human rights'. Speaking on the occasion, PI Director Simon Davies said that the workshop would help raise awareness about privacy among the people and government departments. He said the Privacy International and London School of Economics were conducting research on the issue in many countries including, India, Pakistan, Malysia, Philippines, Maldives, and Thailand. Dr Gus Hosein [LSE] said that the protection of human rights is prerequisite for the development.
http://thepost.com.pk/IsbNewsT.aspx?dtlid=172380&catid=17

Sydney Morning Herald
Greer slams Britain for slashing scholarships
Outspoken feminist academic and writer Germaine Greer has attacked Britain for slashing a university scholarship program which has drawn hundreds of Australian students to England. From next year, Britain will no longer fund prestigious Commonwealth scholarships for students from developed countries such as Australia, New Zealand and Canada. One of the current winners, Kathryn Smith, 28, of Perth, would have been unable to afford her masters degree at the London School of Economics without a scholarship.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/greer-slams-scholarship-cutbacks/2008/07/
15/1215887609105.html

Late-edition headlines

BBC News Online
The importance of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae
Howard Davies [director of LSE], the founding chairman of the Financial Services Authority, describes them as ‘peculiar institutions’. The firms were ‘a time bomb that has been ticking’ since they were sold off in the 1970s, he added.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7505152.stm

Financial Times
The rescue of Fannie and Freddie by Hankie and Feddie
Willem Buiter, Professor of European Political Economy at LSE, writes his blog on the FT website.
http://blogs.ft.com/maverecon/2008/07/the-rescue-of-fannie-
and-freddie-by-hankie-and-feddie/

Times
The Times MPC: the July verdict
Experts give their view, including Charles Goodhart, Emeritus Professor of Banking and Finance at the London School of Economics.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/the_times_mpc/article4330861
.ece?token=null&offset=0&page=1

Mayor Watch
Livingstone and Travers Give Evidence on Devolution
Former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone appeared before the House of Commons Justice Committee last Tuesday (8th July) to give evidence in the Committee’s inquiry Devolution: A Decade On. Also appearing was Tony Travers Director, Greater London Group at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The pair answered questions from MPs on the powers of the Mayor and London Assembly and the relationship between the Greater London Authority and other tiers of Government.
http://www.mayorwatch.co.uk/Livingstone-and-Travers-Give-Evidence-on
-Devolution-article_id-1721.html

LSE people on TV/Radio

BBC Radio 4
The NHS at 60 – The cost of health
The third 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.shtml

BBC One
Politics Show (13 July)
Profile of Tim Parker, first deputy mayor chief executive of the Greater London Authority. Tony Travers, director of the Greater London Group at LSE, discusses his role in making Boris Johnson’s team work.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/politics_show/default.stm (29mins)

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