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About Me
- Tom Powdrill
- Ex-TUC official now working for a consultancy that deals with corporate governance and shareholder engagement. I'm interested in getting the labour movement and the Left to understand the capital markets properly. There's plenty that needs fixing, but we need to get beyond simplistic anti-City and anti-business rhetoric to do it.
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2012
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May
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- Labour and corporate governance
- PwC challenges performance-related pay
- WSJ vs union shareholder activists, round 2
- Corporate lobbying
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- Bias and arrogance in the hacking scandal
- The language of shareholder rebellions
- An executive legitimacy crisis
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April
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- James Murdoch snippet
- Labour on Barclays
- Voting disclosure back on the agenda
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- Unintended consequences in corporate governance
- Employee directors and shareholder interests
- Adventures in voting data - notice for meetings ne...
- It's not all about the money
- Change to Win still targeting Sotheby's
- Why we have a problem
- Challenging incumbent directors
- A bad argument against a 75% threshold
- A few more behavioural snippets
- Gotcha! Our lads sink flagship chairmanship
- Two bits worth reading, and a nice quote
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2 comments:
Thanks for the link. I think you may find that the speech itself (if not some of the coverage) is grappling with some of the dilemmas your initial post discussed.
What risks getting lost in translation is that it is a critique of a purely needs-based egalitarianism, rather than a rejection of egalitarianism per se.
I think this is an important but quite complex debate.
Hi Sunder
Yes, having read your post I realise there was a lot more to the speech. I was a bit surprised as I've always thought John Denham was a good bloke.
My generalised whinge stands tho!
cheers
Tom
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