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 The following Published Articles are in adobe format, please click on the icon to viewClick to go to the most recent articles page Date : 28 October 1999 To : The Editor, Accountancy Age Subject : UK Trains The rail industry structure where the public sector owns the tracks and the responsibility to maintain them, while the train operating companies own the trains is fundamentally flawed. Date : 1999To : The Business Subject : Get London Moving I would like to see car usage reduced and use of trains, the tube and buses increased. Date : 15 March 2001To : The Editor, Accountancy Age Subject : USA vs Europe We should lean more towards Europe than US to learn more about a balanced life style: one-third of American people are obese; one-fifth of British people are obese. Date : 21 June 2001To : The Editor, Accountancy Age Subject : Britain & The EURO In this century, it will be the European single currency that will be the most significant event surpassing the internet as the second most significant. Date : 12 July 2001To : The Editor, Accountancy Age Subject : We need to have a full debate about the Euro This is Geoff Woods' counter-arguments to my article of 21 June 2001:if we were to join the European currency, he thinks we would submerge our identity in a club dominated by France and Germany. Date : 26 July 2001To : The Editor, Accountancy Age Subject : Put an end to jingoism The word "jingo" was first recorded in 1670 and was used by magicians. Jingoistic came from a popular song supporting the sending of a British fleet into Turkish waters to resist Russian in 1878. The chorus ran: "We do not want to fight, yet by jingo! if we do, we have got the ships, we have got the men, and got the money too". Jingoism chiefly means derogatory extreme patriotism. Date : 16 August 2001To : The Editor, Accountancy Age Subject : Tongue firmly in his cheek Where I got to the bit where Mr Khajuria describes modern Europe as vibrant, fast moving, and an efficient powerhouse..........I collapsed on the floor, rolling around in agony of laughter. Date : 07 September 2001To : The Editor, Sunday Times Subject : UK Monetary Policies The British pound has been historically over-valued for decades and it has been most difficult to maintain an optimum balance between the Sterling exchange rate, UK inflation rate and UK interest rate. It may be better for UK to use the Harmonised Indices of Consumer Prices (HICPs) used by the European Central Bank for the entire euro zone. Date : 14 October 2001To : The Editor, The Business Subject : UK Trains Release the tracks and maintenance of the tracks to the private rail companies, reduce their numbers, simplify fare structures, to avoid fatal accidents, etc. Date : 21 October 2001To : The Editor, The Business Subject : UK Trains A reader agreeing with Nagindas Khajuria that Railtrack spent more time developing stations rather than improving tracks, a bit like BAA turning airports into shopping malls, not their primary purpose for either. Date : 29 November 2001To : The Editor, Accountancy Age Subject : IT & Outsourcing If an Inland Revenue tender is worth £4 billion, first they should tender for one-hundredth of £4 billion as a pilot project: government has lost billions in past IT contract failures. Date : 17 January 2002To : The Editor, Accountancy Age Subject : Auditing In the public sector, "auditing" by the National Audit Office has been poor. Date : 27 January 2002To : The Editor, The Business Subject : Big Accountancy Firms Breaking up big accountancy firms into "audit" firms and "consultancy" firms should be followed by no cross-ownership between these two groups. Big Five (now Big Four) earn US$2.69 in "consultancy" for every US$1.00 in "audit". No wonder they do not want to break up at all. Date : 10 February 2002To : The Editor, The Business Subject : UK Fiscal Policies This is an extremely interesting article on "The Budget" or "Government Annual Report". Chancellor should introduce a lower rate of income tax of 5%, abolish personal allowances, simplify other rates, say 10%, 20%, 30%, 40% and 50% rather than the current over 20 different % rates. VAT could also be 20% on luxury goods, 10% on basic goods, etc. He should also state the mistakes he made in spending during the previous year. Date : 07 April 2002To : The Editor, Sunday Times Subject : UK Monetary Policies The newly industrialised countries are coming up fast and to keep up our competitiveness we shall have to act fast on long-term low interest rates, low inflation and a lower pound. Date : 14 April 2002To : The Editor, The Business Subject : UK Monetary Policies This is advice to the Monetary Policy Committee giving it five reasons why interest rates should remain low: EU, Germany & US rates have remained low for decades, interest rates fuel cost-push, not demand-pull inflation, UK export prices increased from 100 to 117.2, while import prices increased from 100 to 108.6 from 1990 to 1998, sterling rising against euro: reduce inflation target rate from 2.5% to 0.5% in five years. Rising borrowing not a serious problem Date : 09 June 2002To : The Editor, The Business Subject : Reliable Statistics Office on National Statistics should use personal & corporate tax returns and VAT returns rather than gather data by sending sample survey forms insisting that one business should only have one main industrial classification. Date : 27 October 2002To : The Editor, The Business Subject : University Fees Mahatma Gandhi said "I do not want mass production, I want production by the masses. {after thought: surely that could reduce global warming}. Date : 05 January 2003To : The Editor, The Business Subject : UK & The EURO For decades, the public sector services in mainland Europe have been superior in quality and far cheaper in price than UK: the UK media, by playing the tune the reader wants to hear, is doing a great disservice to this country. |
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