Financial Times
Big Four hit back at LSE study
The Big Four firms on Tuesday hit back at claims that their domination of auditing could have distorted the market and pushed up prices. The conclusions were made in an academic study conducted by LSE and sponsored by BDO Stoy Hayward, a rival to the Big Four, which maintained it had no influence over the results of the report.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fe8fbb3a-1640-11dd-880a-0000779fd2ac.html

Birmingham Post
Streamlining ready for 2011 AIM listing
Concentration in the audit market is linked to higher audit fees, according to a new report commissioned by BDO and conducted by the London School of Economics.
(Source: Lexis)

Accounting Web
Lack of audit choice is spiking prices
Concentration in the audit market is directly related to higher fees, says a report published today. The research, carried out by LSE and commissioned by BDO Stoy Hayward, reveals that in 2002 alone Enron’s exit saw an increase of 2.4% in the audit fees paid by listed companies.
http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=182870&d=1025&h
=1073&f=1026&dateformat=%25o%20%25B%20%25Y

USA Today
London mayoral race has touch of spectacle
Tony Travers, who specializes in British politics at the LSE, says the mayoral race has become more like an American election in which name recognition has become more important than issues. It's ‘a Ken vs. Boris show,’ Travers said.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-04-29-london_N.htm

The News, Pakistan
Mayor hopefuls battle for Muslim vote in London
‘All the statistics say Livingstone is likely to get more of the ethnic minority votes (but) Labour’s advantage in this sphere is declining,’ said Tony Travers of LSE.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=109712

De Volkskrant
'Livingstone heeft vele levens veranderd'
'Of je hem nu mag of niet, Livingstone is de politicus die in Groot-Brittannië het leven van mensen de afgelopen tien jaar het ingrijpendst heeft veranderd', zegt Patrick Dunleavy, hoogleraar overheidsbestuur aan de LSE.
(Source: Lexis)

The Straits Times, Singapore
Cross-strait ties complicated by 'too many cooks'; KMT's Lien Chan visits China, but no concrete moves announced
'There have always been doubts about Ma's ability to handle intra-party politics inside the KMT. This will be a real test for him,' said Dr Christopher Hughes, a Taiwan expert with LSE.
(Source: Lexis)

Guardian
Suffering lost in a numbers game
John Holmes, who spoke at LSE on Monday, said humanitarian workers could provide sticking plasters but only a political settlement would bring durable solutions.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/simon_tisdall/2008
/04/suffering_lost_in_numbers_game.html

UN taskforce to tackle global food price crisis
Holmes told an audience at LSE on Monday: ‘Food insecurity is not like classic famines, such as Ethiopia. It's more insidious. It's been likened to a silent, rolling tsunami.’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/30/food.development

Gulf Times
Bank of England governor attacks City’s bonus culture
‘That is not an attractive position to be in when such a high proportion of our talented young people naturally think of the City as the first place to work in. It shouldn’t be. It should be one of the places but not the only one,’ said the former LSE professor.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=
215648&version=1&template_id=38&parent_id=20

Times
It's a rich city but it has 650,000 poor children. It's London
Mrs Hunter is among the more fortunate cleaners in the capital. She works for LSE, which pays contracted-out staff the ‘living wage’ of £7.20 an hour. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3842343.ece

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Accountancy Age
Big four control directly linked to higher audit fees
Research commissioned by BDO Stoy Hayward and conducted by LSE reveals audit fees are certain to escalate should one of the big four firms exit the audit market, leaving only the big three in control.
http://www.accountancyage.com/accountancyage/news
/2215400/big-four-control-directly

Sun-Sentinel.com
Prescription drug importation could be destructive
A LSE study shows that similar systems already in place in Europe have resulted in almost no consumer savings. Instead, it's the middlemen who derive most of the benefit, buying low and selling back to consumers at a high price.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/sfl-forum29
drugssbapr29,0,7227759.story

Evening Standard
Major shake-up at Assembly may give Lib-Dems first seat
Tony Travers, director of the Greater London Group at LSE said: ‘The face of the London Assembly could well change and you have to remember that last time only one of the seats changed hands.’
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-mayor/article-23481095-details/Major+
shake-up+at+Assembly+may+give+Lib-Dems+first+seat/article.do

The London Paper
Academic urges us all to vote on Thursday - ‘The most important vote in our history’
Article includes comments from Tony Travers, LSE

Le Monde
Tony Travers : ‘Les Tories modernes sont plus progressistes que la droite européenne’
Tony Travers analyse les enjeux de l'élection du maire de Londres.
(Source: Lexis)

Macau Daily Times
British elections threaten blow for Brown
‘It's difficult to think of a worse electoral and polling background to a set of local elections’ for Labour, local government specialist Tony Travers, from LSE, said.
http://www.macaudailytimesnews.com/index.php?option=com
_content&task=view&id=10716&Itemid=33

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Turkish Daily News
British Elections threaten blow for Brown
(Source: Lexis)

Daily Time, Pakistan
London mayor hopefuls battle for Muslim vote
‘As earlier migrants have lived in Britain longer, they’re likely to drift towards mainstream political behaviour,’ said Tony Travers of LSE.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\
04\30\story_30-4-2008_pg7_52

Ouest-France
Bataille électorale haute en couleur à Londres
D'un côté, se trouve Boris Johnson, échevelé candidat conservateur, très drôle et très connu en Grande-Bretagne. «Il est l'équivalent d'un candidat people comme Schwarzenegger», explique Patrick Dunleavy, politologue à la London School of Economics.
(Source: Lexis)

Slate Magazine
The Doctor Is in Your PC
In June 2006, a policy group at LSE led by Lord Richard Layard, a Labor peer, economist, and the author of Happiness: Lessons From a New Science, announced that mental illness was incapacitating the country.
(Source: Lexis)

The Daily Galaxy
Which Existed First: God or the Human Imagination?
French-British anthropologist, Maurice Bloch, of LSE believes that humans alone practice religion because they're the only creatures to have evolved imagination.
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/04/httpwwwnewscien.html

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Christian Skepticism
Skeptical of Bloch’s argument
http://christianskepticism.blogspot.com/2008/04/skeptical-of-blochs-argument.html
The Freethinker
God really is an imaginary friend, says UK anthropologist
http://www.freethinker.co.uk/2008/04/29/god-really-is-
an-imaginary-friend-says-uk-anthropologist/
ABC News (28 April)
Religion a figment of human Imagination
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4740178&page=1
RichardDawkins.net (28 April)
Religion a figment of human imagination
http://richarddawkins.net/article,2514,n,n
New Citizenship Project (28 April)
Religion a figment of human imagination
http://newcitizenship.net/?p=2540

Core77 (28 April)
Book Review
Book review of The Endless City, by Ricky Burdett, Cities Programme at LSE and Deyan Sudjic.
http://www.core77.com/blog/book_reviews/book_review_the_
endless_city_by_ricky_burdett_and_deyan_sudjic_9633.asp

BBC Online
Mervyn King set to face scrutiny
Mr King is a academic economist, who was a professor at LSE before becoming the Bank of England's chief economist in 1991.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7371376.stm

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Bloomberg
King Says Banks' Bonuses Drain Talent From Rest of UK Economy
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=a
U00WDE511Sc&refer=uk

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