User:Roche-Kerr
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[edit] Details
- Name: Nick Roche-Kerr
- Date of Birth: 27/03/1984
- Nationality: British Citizen
- Location: Surrey (England)
- Occupation: Corporate Tax Assistant (BDO Stoy Hayward)
- Undergraduate: BA in Economic History (Arcadia University)
- Postgraduate: PGD in Politics (University of Essex)
[edit] What's Next
- Going to Do: Chartered Tax Adviser
- Interested in: private equity, the Financial Services Authority, insurance, hedge funds, & energy economics
[edit] Associations
- Political Association: Conservative Party (member since November, 2004)
- Memberships: Royal Economic Society, Savile Club, CAMRA, Facebook
- Newspapers: Financial Times, Prospect, & The Spectator (all delivered)
- Support: Institute for Fiscal Studies
- Quotes:
- 'Being born in a stable does not make one a horse' The Duke of Wellington
- 'It's not that they're wicked, or naturally bad. It's knowing they're foreign, that makes us so mad.' Flanders & Swann
- 'People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.' Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
[edit] About Me
- Sports: Cricket, Tennis, & Bicycling
- Favourite Team: Surrey County Cricket Club (domestics), England (internationals)
- Favourite Players: Kevin Pietersen (batsman), Andrew Flintoff (fast-bowler), & Strauss-Trescothick (batsman combination)
- Places to Live: Richmond (London), Guildford (Surrey), Guernsey (Channel Islands), St Austell, (Cornwall)
- Food: English, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese, & French
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This user is a British citizen. |
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This user is proud to be Cornish. |
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This user supports the Submarine Service. |
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This user drinks tea. |
| 007 | This user supports the Secret Service. |
| W | This user believes in, like, WHATEVER. |
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This user thinks that there is something fundamentally wrong with the universe. |
| BS-0 | This person does not understand Bullshit (or understands it with considerable difficulties or does not wish to communicate in Bullshit). |
| PC-0 | This user is politically incorrect. Hence, he will speak plainly and directly to the point rather than trip all over himself trying to be inoffensive. |
| AmE-0 | This user doesn't understand American English and bloody well doesn't want to. |
[edit] Articles
I have contributed to articles on:
[edit] Economics
- Financial exports (started)
- Measures of national income and output (pertaining to GNP)
- Economy of the United Kingdom (pertaining to 'Investing & Banking' and 'Retail')
- Original Design Manufacturer (rewrite and transferred from ODM)
- British residential property market (created introduction)
- Private equity (added a few companies to the list)
- The iPod Generation (started)
- Taxation in the United Kingdom (modified NI, Inheritance Tax, and Corporation Tax)
- Royal Economic Society (pertaining to publications)
[edit] Finance
- Financial Times (added 'People' and 'FT Knowledge' sections and have fixed some spelling issues)
- London Stock Exchange (created Structure section and slight overall edit)
- Alternative Investments Market (started)
- International Petroleum Exchange (modified the introduction and added 'Contracts' section)
- FTSE 250 Index (pertaining to Brit Insurance listing)
- EDX London (started)
- Bond Market Association (started)
[edit] Political Economy
- Chancellor of the Exchequer (pertaining to the HoL)
- Asia Pacific Partnership on Development (started)
- Cashpoints (pertaining to cashpoint charges)
- Clean coal (objectified, slightly)
- European Free Trade Association (objectified section on British involvement)
- Lombard Street Research (started)
- Nuclear Liabilities Fund (started)
[edit] Private Equity
- Apax Partners (started and reinstated after horrible edit)
- Investors in Industry (3i) (pertaining to new investment, IFRS decision, and make-over from aweful look)
- Cinven (started)
[edit] Companies
- MG Rover (updated intro)
- Barclays Bank (pertaining to the introduction and LSE share information)
- Compal Electronics (started)
- FTSE Group (started)
- Brit Insurance (started)
- Coral Eurobet (started)
- British Energy (pertaining to financial issues and slight restructuring)
- WestLB (started)
- Qinetiq (edited LSE information and added value/controversy)
- National Car Parks (started)
- UK Coal (started)
- Rightmove (started)
- British Coal (transformed and updated)
- Temasek Holdings (grammar and wikification)
[edit] Defence
- British Army (updated parts of Equipment and Deployments)
- The Bermuda Regiment (pertaining to conscription and status)
- People's Liberation Army (pertaining to lasers)
- List of nicknames of British Army regiments (pertaining to the RGJs)
- List of British divisions in WWI (Recruitment of different types of unit and the Territorial Force)
- Mowag Piranha (pertaining to spelling)
- London Regiment (pertaining to the possibility of transferring to the Foot Guards)
- Ordnance QF 17 pounder (pertaining to spelling)
- Black Prince (tank) (minor spelling issue)
- Royal Navy CVF programme (pertaining to French involvement)
[edit] Law
- Common Professional Examination (started)
- Legal Practice Course (started)
- The College of Law (started)
- Central Applications Board (started)
[edit] Education
- Homeschooling (intro modification)
- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (updated and enhanced)
- Princeton University (intro modification)
- University of Buckingham (pertaining to fees and number of British students)
- Russell Group (pertaining to university funding)
- University College London (number of students)
[edit] Politics
- Islington South & Finsbury constituency (pertaining to boundaries)
- Multiple citizenship (pertaining to examples)
- Nationalisation (pertaining to the Bank of England)
- United States citizenship (created 'Possession of' and 'Loss of' sections)
- British Empire (Royal Navy, not 'British navy')
- German people (slight modification to introduction)
- Russia-Ukraine gas dispute (minor addition)
- Gun politics in the United Kingdom (de-biased 'Comparison' section)
[edit] Places
- Islington (pertaining to Nick Hornby and Parliamentary constituencies)
- Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames (pertaining to county position)
- New York City (minor change to international financial position)
- London (added information about exports)
- Bermuda (added financial exporter basic)
- Cayman Islands (added financial exporter basic)
[edit] People
- Lucy Kellaway (started)
- Richard Tomkins (started)
- Nick Hornby (intro modification)
- Julian Sands (started)
- J. K. Rowling (place of birth in bio-sect)
- David Goodhart (very slight modification)
- Stephen Fry (pertaining to living in London and Norfolk, not New York)
- Prince Harry of Wales (pertaining to military service)
- Catherine Zeta-Jones (Talk section)
- Sienna Miller ('American-born English actress', due to dispute over national identity)
- Piers Sellers ('Anglo-American', as there is no such thing as 'British-born', except in reference to parents)
[edit] Others
- Supercomputing (pertaining to SGI)
- Bloomsbury Television (started and objectified)
- Cheddar cheese (pertaining to Wales being part of the UK)
- Cheshire cheese (pertaining to spelling)
[edit] To Do List
- London Investment Bankers Association (should start)
- British Venture Capital Associations (should start)
- Pinewood Shepperton plc (Holding company of Pinewood, Shepperton, and Teddington studios)
- Mariner's Annual (maritime publication)
