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Thu 06 Jun 2009Time to shift focus from economic to political agenda
OPINION:We don’t trust politicians and so we have ceded power over our everyday lives to quangos that are even less accountable, writes NEIL COLLINS
THERE IS a truism in political science that power is inversely related to noise. If you are in the streets, behind the banner or peering down from a poster, you have probably already lost. Important decisions affecting our everyday life are usually made by those we are least likely to be able to name.
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