Oliver Kamm



Profile:
Full name: Oliver Kamm

Area of interest: Politics, World Affairs

Journals/Organisation: The Times

Email: [mailto:oliver.kamm@tiscali.co.uk oliver.kamm@tiscali.co.uk] | [mailto:oliver.kamm@thetimes.co.uk oliver.kamm@thetimes.co.uk]

Personal website:

Website: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/profile/Oliver-Kamm | Comment is free

Blog: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/blogs/oliver-kamm

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Networks: http://twitter.com/#!/oliverkamm



Biography:
About: Oliver Kamm (born 1963) is a British writer and journalist. He wrote Anti-Totalitarianism: The Left-wing Case for a Neoconservative Foreign Policy (2005), an advocacy of interventionism in foreign policy. He is a leader writer and columnist for The Times.

Education: New College, Oxford and Birkbeck College, University of London

Career: Went into a career in the Bank of England and the securities industry, including as the Head of Strategic Research at Commerzbank Global Equities in London. He helped start a pan-European investment bank in 1997. Oliver Kamm is an author and Times columnist. His writings have appeared also in The Guardian, Prospect, The New Republic, Index on Censorship and The Jewish Chronicle. His book Anti-Totalitarianism: The Left-Wing Case for a Neoconservative Foreign Policy was published in 2005. He was a contributor to Britain’s Bomb: What Next?, edited by Brian Wicker and General Sir Hugh Beach, in 2006. He is a founder and partner of an asset management and advisory firm, WMG Advisors LLP, based in London. (ref. globalstrategyforum.org)

Current position/role: The Times: Leader writer and Columnist


 * also writes/has written for: The Guardian, Prospect, The New Republic, Index on Censorship and The Jewish Chronicle

Other roles/Main role: Was an advisory editor of the online journal Democratiya

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 * Response to Johann Hari on 'Catholofascism' - influence of the Opus Dei organisation

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Controversy/Criticism: Iain Dale: Oliver Kamm Pulls Up the Ladder, on Oliver Kamm's criticism of blogging

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Other: HIs mother is the translator Anthea Bell; Journalist, ex-MP Martin Bell is his uncle; author/farmer - as well first compiler of The Times crossword - Adrian Bell, was his grandfather



Books & Debate:

 * Anti-Totalitarianism - the left-wing case for a neoconservative foreign policy OCLC 62899932 (pub. Social Affairs Unit, 2005)

Latest work: Britain's bomb : what next? OCLC 76970268, 2006 (contributor)

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Current debate:http://www.intelligencesquared.com/people/k/oliver-kamm 

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Role: Leader writer, Columnist, Blogger

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Email: [mailto:oliver.kamm@thetimes.co.uk oliver.kamm@thetimes.co.uk]

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Articles: 2017

 * Tim Farron is a political failure, not a martyr - Britain is a more civilised and tolerant place than it was even a generation ago. The long decline of religious observance and increasing insignificance of the established church in public life have helped it become so - 16th June
 * Oxford academics should be allowed to teach beyond 67 - In the 1984 US presidential election, pundits suggested that the septuagenarian Ronald Reagan was past it. He responded in a televised debate: “I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.” - 1st June
 * Brexiteers finally face the truth about immigration - Each morning I buy coffee in Pret. The staff are young, friendly and efficient, and speak English at least as well as I do. They are almost all from EU states and they are apparently on their way out - 23rd February



Articles:2016

 * Breakfast cereals have lost their snap, crackle and pop - Corn Flakes were invented by a quack doctor from Michigan - 30th December
 * Prince Charles’s homeopathy fad is joke medicine - Using highly diluted substances to cure ailments is a better idea than the medieval practices of bloodletting by leeches or administering hemlock as an anaesthetic - 13th December
 * Even bigots and racists have the right to be heard - There is a difference between targeted harassment and spreading hateful views - 8th December
 * Let’s ban addictive betting machines - Fixed-odds betting terminals simply fleece the poor - 5th December
 * The government should ignore Castro’s funeral - Let’s not forget that Cuba’s leader was a dictator not a hero - 29th November
 * Lady Scotland must get a grip or quit Commonwealth job - It’s easy to vent populist outrage against public sector bodies that run up big expense claims. And that’s exactly what ought to happen in the case of Baroness Scotland, the Commonwealth secretary-general. - 8th November
 * It’s time we turned the heat up on Putin’s lie machine - The news service RT has got a nerve complaining about the closure of its bank account - 17th October
 * Globalisation has winners as well as losers. It’s all about finding a balance - Globalisation is in trouble. The expansion of global markets is not a popular cause and is suffering a severe political backlash - 25th August
 * Corbyn’s pacifism is the ultimate betrayal - By refusing to safeguard Nato allies, Labour’s leader has renounced the party of Attlee and Bevin - 22nd August
 * We must crack down on Putin’s lie machine - RT is a state-run haven for cranks and conspiracy theorists that has no place on our screens - 1st August
 * Leave voters should not be celebrating victory in economic debate yet - the risk of a downturn has suddenly and sharply increased - 21st July
 * Britain will pay dearly if overseas investors start losing confidence - 6th July
 * Britain doesn’t have the luxury of negotiating from a strong position - 5th July
 * Markets in turmoil as UK enters uncharted waters - It’s likely that central bankers in Britain and the eurozone will co-ordinate a further easing of monetary policy, but their room for manoeuvre is limited - 24th June
 * Don’t pretend that science and faith are compatible - Religion, even at its most tolerant, is dogmatic. It holds that truth is revealed. Science is experimental - 5th June
 * Brexiteers are peddling untruths about immigration - Free movement of labour benefits Britain - 13th May
 * Europe is in recovery, not decline, and Britain would be better placed within it - Populists on left and right have missed what’s happened in Europe since 2010. The crisis is over and the currency union is stable and enduring - 29th March
 * Brexit would play into the hands of Putin - Russia has formed an ugly alliance with Europe’s far-right. They mustn’t win the propaganda war - 21st March
 * There is no gold standard for those who assert control of central banks - 19th January
 * Falling oil exemplifies a matter politicians often overlook . . . economics - 14th January
 * On balance, the Greek argument between left and right has been won - 12th January
 * The biggest risk to the global economy lurks unseen - 7th January
 * Brexit is a big risk to Britain’s fortunes as an open, trading economy - 5th January



Articles:2015

 * Mammon, not God, should reign on Sundays - Sunday trading laws frustrate free enterprise and fail to boost religion. It’s time to scrap them - 12th November
 * Lies can’t wipe away the stain of Srebrenica - Denial of the massacre has echoes of Holocaust apologists - 7th July
 * Greeks are only just starting to feel the pain inflicted by Syriza - 7th July
 * Leaving the euro is no route to recovery: it’s a fast track to penury - 2nd July
 * Ideologues of Syriza put scandal at heart of their Greek tragedy - 30th June
 * Greece leaving the euro is not the answerGreece leaving the euro is not the answer - 23rd June
 * Who can afford a crash in asset prices? Not the world’s policymakers - 25th June
 * Dear Mr Gove, your grammar rules are complete nonsense - Lord chancellor is guilty of a misguided mission - 23rd June



Articles:

 * The Godiva legend has barely any truth in it - Notebook - 14th October 2014
 * The road to Hell, with a shovel and a loin of pork - Notebook - 30th September 2014
 * Let us recall the pious hypocrisy of Ian Paisley - Notebook - 16th September 2014
 * The witches of Bideford deserve to be pardoned - Notebook - 2nd September 2014
 * Hong Kong has every right to feel betrayed - China is curtailing freedom in our former colony. It needs to be warned that it cannot break promises with impunity - 26th August 2014
 * Two embassy guests: one trying, one infuriating - Notebook - 19th August 2014
 * Ultimately it’s better the devilfish you know - Notebook - 5th August 2014
 * The urge to explore is what makes us human - Notebook - 22nd July 2014
 * Death of pie: why we have to give up this flaky art - Notebook - 8th July 2014
 * Thank you for your Yo. I appreciate the thought - A welcome new app; crab’s ears; Marlowe, not Shakespeare - 24th June 2014
 * You reap what you sow, Mrs Kirchner. Learn some maths - Denouncing speculators and international investors creates no wealth and no new jobs - 19th June
 * The magic of mushrooms is not a hallucination - Notebook - 10th June 2014
 * English Lit can’t be confined to these shores - Rejecting John Steinbeck and others would be a mistake - 27th May 2014
 * The secrets of the giant squid are surfacing - Notebook - 13th May 2014
 * Ed’s ‘largesse’ won’t help Generation Rent - Rent controls are the worst form of government interference. They end up paralysing the market and reducing supply - 3rd May 2014
 * How awfully clever. Must be a public intellectual - Not the greatest of thinkers; style guide competition; the old Archers - 29th April 2014
 * Yet another rich City type dodges punishment - Notebook - 15th April 2014
 * The wittiest April Fools’ prankster of them all - Notebook - 1st April 2014
 * Warren Buffett is the only winner in this $1bn game - Notebook - 18th March 2014
 * The Britons who would have stood with Hitler - Notebook - 4th March 2014
 * Top names, fine writing: the joy of the letters page - Notebook - 18th February 2014
 * These junk tests are just as bad as junk bonds - Notebook - 4th February 2014
 * It’s rude to say modern people are ill-mannered - Manners aren’t in decline. They just change - 21st January 2014
 * Sorry, time future is not contained in time present - Stephen Hawking’s experiment was an eloquent one - 7th January 2014
 * Mr Grinch gets a high mark for economics - We can do without the ritual of giving people things they don’t want - 24th December 2013
 * Nightmare of a necrocracy that refuses to die - While other regimes fall, a nuclear North Korea survives with unrelenting tyranny - 16th December 2013
 * Pull down a statue and cut a monster down to size - Notebook - 10th December 2013
 * Give us the facts, not Wikipedia’s witterings - Notebook - 26th November 2013
 * This clown prince does not deserve deference - Notebook - 12th November 2013
 * The Elgin Marbles should go back home to Athens - Notebook - 29th October 2013
 * Thanks go to Safire for opening all these gates - Notebook - 22nd October 2013
 * Debates don’t change minds but are still worth having - Notebook - 15th October 2013
 * Is it time for Asterix to slip into retirement? - Notebook - 8th October 2013
 * James Bond’s fellow adventurers are also ripe for updating - Notebook - 1st October 2013
 * Sometimes be grateful for a spot of plagiarism - Notebook - 24th September 2013
 * English is so complicated. How nice to be Chinese - The pleasures of discovering oriental orthography - 18th September 2013
 * The only way is uptalk, and that’s how I like it - Notebook - 9th September 2013
 * There’s more than Seamus Heaney to Northern Irish writing - Notebook - 3rd September 2013
 * Marriage alters when it alteration finds . . . - Institutions aren’t immutable. The meanings of words aren’t fixed. The newly changing definitions of the word “marriage” in English dictionaries, as reported last week, to encompass same-sex unions nicely illustrate both these truths - 27th August 2013
 * Our drugs policy? Blood-drenched selfishness - The ‘war on drugs’ has been a disaster – and it takes the plight of two British women in Peru to remind us why - 20th August 2013
 * Alfred the Great: even better if he’d been a loser - Notebook: what would have happened if the Danes had won in 878? - 13th August 2013
 * We’ll still be civilised at the end of the world - Notebook: This close bond of family life must be our greatest defence against the unknown,” said the Queen as nuclear war threatened. Or rather that’s what a civil servant imagined she might have said as part of a secret war gaming exercise in 1983 - 6th August 2013
 * The Russians started the Cold War in Korea - Notebook: The ‘forgotten’ conflict was sparked not by the West but by direct communist aggression - 30th July 2013
 * Why Europe needs 1.3 billion immigrants - Notebook: Curbs are not too strict, they are far too lax - 23rd July 2013
 * Let’s not rest until we’ve stubbed out smoking - Notebook: Having a cigarette is not a human right - 16th July 2013
 * The Chinese economy and its spaceship land safely - Notebook: The West’s mistakes are not being repeated - 2nd July 2013
 * Sticks, tin foil and paper. That’s your UFO - Notebook: MoD scandal; intellectual feuds; tasteless porcelain - 25th June 2013
 * The man who found a name for Nazi horrors - Notebook: Genocide is still with us - 18th June 2013
 * Jew hatred is behind all conspiracy theories - Notebook: If I were running a global conspiracy, I’d do it from a hollowed-out volcano on a remote island rather than a hotel near Watford. People might notice - 11th June 2013
 * Even noble minds can embrace ignoble ideas - Emily Wilding Davison, a suffragette protester, ran in front of the King’s horse at the Derby 100 years ago today. Suffering fatal injuries, she became a martyr for female emancipation - 4th June 2013I
 * Dogmatic line on tax to blame - The US is close to defaulting on its debts because President Obama and congressional leaders cannot agree on how to get the country’s borrowing under control - 28th July 2011
 * The greatest crimes seen in Europe since 1945 - The Bosnian war of 1992-95 was the most destructive conflict in Europe since 1945 and was marked by the greatest crimes - 27th May 2011
 * Captivating subject needs to change with the times - Oxford’s Faculty of Theology insists that its core subject matter of biblical studies, doctrine and church history remains intact. But it is hard to avoid inferring that the faculty’s ferment is further evidence of the cultural decline of Christianity - 20th May 2011
 * Lessons from the Latin American crisis - Portugal is only the latest eurozone country to be mired in a debt crisis - 9th April 2011
 * Element of surprise poses greatest threat - The greatest risk in security planning is to overlook the source of future threats - 31st January 2011
 * up interest rates now, or risk big trouble'' - The full effect of quantitative easing has not yet been felt in our economy. When it is, inflation will begin to gallop - 10th January 2011
 * capital gains tax on all homes'' - We must break the superstition that a home leads to riches - 28th May 2010
 * rediscovered play adds to the Bard’s shifting reputation'' - Shakespeare was not of an age but for all time. Every generation comes to him anew - 16th March 2010
 * the doom-mongers. The euro’s end is not nigh'' - Despite the air of crisis, no country is about to leave the single currency and there would be real benefits if Britain joined - 13th January 2010
 * to free expression? What nonsense'' - Yale has acted cravenly over images of Muhammad - 28th September 2009
 * should praise, not punish, the moneymakers'' - The mayor of London is right to defend hedge funds - 10th July 2009
 * incompetent bankers, not the rules'' - It's not special pleading when Alistair Darling claims that the fault lies with bank boards rather than the regulators - 18th June 2009
 * effect of these golden goodbyes'' - With the world in recession, inequality in unemployment is becoming at least as potent a political issue as inequality in income - 28th February 2009
 * the right lessons'' - This crisis is not a total failure of world capitalism - nothing will be achieved by a retreat into nationalism - 19th February 2009
 * live the euro'' - The Euro's detractors have been proved wrong. We would be better off if we were part of the eurozone - 1st January 2009
 * is still the world's policeman'' - The world benefits hugely from America's global dominance. Long may their involvement last - 30th October 2008
 * markets are far from irrational'' - There is a simple explanation for falls in share prices - investors fear a depression is coming - 28th October 2008
 * No one likes them and we don't care'' - 14th October 2008
 * defence of the herd of greedy pigs'' - Everyone is blaming short-sellers. But they are not the cause of the chaos, just its messengers - 23rd September 2008
 * has betrayed its great record'' - 4th April 2008
 * Good riddance to Castro. But what next? - 9th January 2008



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