Business Week
The New E-Spionage Threat
Identifying the thieves slipping their malware through the digital gates can be tricky. Some computer security specialists doubt China's government is involved in cyber attacks on US defence targets. Peter Sommer, an information systems security specialist at the London School of Economics who helps companies secure networks, says: ‘I suspect if it's an official part of the Chinese government, you wouldn't be spotting it.’
(Source: Lexis)

Independent
Threats, insults, and more bad polls: Brown's crisis continues to worsen
Lord Desai [director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE] yesterday denied being disloyal to Mr Brown, insisting: ‘I'm not stabbing him in the back, if I am stabbing him at all it's in the front.’ In a series of media interviews, he said Labour was discussing ‘at all levels’ what to do about Mr Brown's problems, but insisted that he should carry on as Prime Minister. ‘We are not going to have another leadership election. He has to stay and do better and win us the next election,’ Lord Desai said. But he conceded that the economic downturn and Mr Brown's presentational weaknesses would make it ‘very difficult’ for Labour to win.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/threats-insults-and-more-bad-
polls-browns-crisis-continues-to-worsen-811240.html
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• Times
Worried Gordon Brown talks ministerial aide out of quitting over tax
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3768156.ece
• Le Figaro, France
Gordon Brown en mauvaise posture avant les municipales
http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2008/04/18/01003-20080418ARTFIG00116
-gordon-brown-en-mauvaise-posture-avant-les-municipales.php
• Sky News
Lord Desai: 'Brown's Haggis, Blair's Caviar'
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91211-1313197,00.html

New York Magazine
The Emir of NYU
NYU's business school is partnered with the London School of Economics and the HEC School of Management in Paris.
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BBC News Online
Climate change donation for LSE
An American philanthropist has donated £12m to LSE to create a ‘world-leading’ institute for climate change research.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7353143.stm

Financial Times
Stern takes bleaker view on warming
The internationally influential Stern report on climate change underestimated the risks of global warming and should have presented an even bleaker view of the future, according to its own author [Lord Stern of Brentford, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at LSE.]
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f8e1377a-0c15-11dd-9840-0000779fd2ac.html

Economist
Italy embraces Silvio, again and again
In the euro zone, Italy is the country most likely to tip into recession in the next 12 months. In the mid-1990s its GDP per head, at purchasing-power parity, was 20 per cent above the average for the 27 countries in today's European Union. It was richer than Britain and France, and second to Germany among big EU states. Twelve years on, it has fallen below the EU 27 average for the first time. In 2006 it was overtaken by Spain; next year it may fall behind Greece (see chart). Francesco Grillo, at the London School of Economics, suggests that, if current trends remain unchanged, Romania will overtake Italy in 2020.
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11067600

FT Adviser
A perfect storm is brewing
Article by Nicolas Bloom, fellow at CEP.
http://www.ftadviser.com/FinancialAdviser/AssetClass/Features/article/20080417/60ce2380-0620-11dd-a9b2-0015171400aa/A-perfect-storm-is-brewing.jsp

Times
Profile: Baron Desai of Clement Danes
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3764233.ece

LSE academics and staff on TV/Radio

BBC Radio 4
Today Programme
Professor Richard Layard appeared on the programme this morning discussing a new film called Happy Go Lucky. Professor Layard is emeritus professor of economics at LSE and founder of the Centre for Economic Performance at the School.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ (8.24am)

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