Financial Times
King softens his tone as global commodity rises take their toll
Mr King seemed to have taken the advice of Willem Buiter, the former monetary policy committee member, who in his Financial Times blog, advised the Bank to start its letter to Number 11: ‘As that great philosopher Forrest Gump said: “Shit happens.”’
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e144343e-3cce-11dd-b958-0000779fd2ac.html

The only option for Europe is change without the tinkering
Letter to the editor from Simon Hix, Professor of European and Comparative Politics at LSE.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/28448f96-3ccf-11dd-b958-0000779fd2ac.html

Daily Telegraph
Britain's lonely monetarists fear Bank of England may trigger severe crunch
Leading monetarists such as Professor Tim Congdon from LSE warned three years ago that surging M4 growth would lead to a property bubble and inflation. This is exactly what occurred, although a surge in global food and oil prices have been a crucial factor. Mr Congdon says the risk has now inverted as the credit crisis eats into bank lending.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/06/17
/bcnmonet117.xml

Press Association
Call to boost dementia funding
Research from the London School of Economics and Institute of Psychiatry last year suggested that more than 1.7 million people in the UK will have dementia by 2051, costing billions of pounds every year.
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5ig0rx4z93qubc3OYHDxugm6vOsfA

The Herald
Opinion divided on inflation prospects
Danny Quah, professor of economics at LSE, backed the idea of keeping interest rates high to convince people that inflation would stay low. He added: ‘We have to accept we are going to be a little poorer as a country.’
http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/news/display.var.2348076.0.Opinion_
divided_on_inflation_prospects.php

Late-edition headlines

Daily Telegraph
NHS 'may not survive next 20 years' unless dementia funding is increased
Research from the London School of Economics and Institute of Psychiatry last year suggested more than 1.7 million people in the UK will have dementia by 2051.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2144909/NHS-'may-not-survive-next-20-years'
-unless-dementia-funding-is-increased.html

BBC
Vigilance on dementia signs urged
Research by London School of Economics and King's College London commissioned by the Alzheimer's Society found Cardiff and Swansea have the highest number of people with dementia, while Ceredigion and Powys will see some of the biggest growth in the condition.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7457514.stm

Red Orbit, Texas
Bush Gathers Assurances From European Leaders
‘There's been a rapprochement across the Atlantic since 2004 at the elite level of policymakers,’ said Michael Cox, professor of international relations at LSE. ‘The headline is: Compare 2008 to 2003, and lots has changed.’
http://www.redorbit.com/news/international/1436268/bush_gathers_assurances
_from_european_leaders/

This is Money
Alex Brummer: 'The man who crocked the Rock' part II
Its salvation now lay with Mervyn King, the assiduous Governor of the Bank of England. An owlish intellectual who had taken over from the City-wise 'Steady' Eddie George, King had come to the Bank from the London School of Economics, where he was a highly rated professor of economics.
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=443118&in_page_id=2

Computing
University performs remote student rescue
LSE has deployed LogMeIn Rescue software to help its IT department support more than 2,700 staff and student computers at multiple campus sites. Adam Gale, IT services senior support officer at the LSE, said the freeware system the school previously used for remote control would often freeze in the middle of a session. It was difficult to navigate and was based on legacy technology that was unable to deal with faster application processes. ‘We only went live with LogMeIn Rescue last week and have rolled it out to the majority of departments so far,’ he said.
http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2219252/lse-performs-remote-student

LSE people on TV/radio

Channel 4
News at Noon
Willem Buiter, Chair in European Political Economy at LSE, appeared on the programme yesterday discussing inflation and interest rates.

Also on

ITV (17 June)
ITV News

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