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Month: May 2015
Issue 4:2015 05 28:Contents
28 May 2015: Issue 4 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment The Queen’s Speech by John Watson There are really only two big issues Fading Icons: Tory Tanks on the BBC Lawn by J.R.Thomas What does the appointment of John Whittingdale mean for the BBC? Arabs Call For the Seventh Cavalry by Neil Tidmarsh Understanding US… Continue reading Issue 4:2015 05 28:Contents
Issue5|:2015 06 04:“Your train is delayed because someone couldn’t be bothered to live anymore”
4 June 2015 “Your train is delayed because someone couldn’t be bothered to live anymore” by Lynda Goetz Shocking, yes, but consider the other viewpoint. On Friday May 22nd the 16.36 from Paddington to Plymouth was apparently delayed by a suicide. This is not as uncommon as many people would like to believe.… Continue reading Issue5|:2015 06 04:“Your train is delayed because someone couldn’t be bothered to live anymore”
Issue 4:2015 05 28:Breakfast through the ages
28 May 2015 Breakfast through the Ages by Lynda Goetz Adelle Davis (1904-1974), an American health guru (about whom I know very little), has been attributed with the quote “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper”. I have also heard it as ‘Breakfast like a king; lunch like… Continue reading Issue 4:2015 05 28:Breakfast through the ages
Issue 4:2015 05 28: A surfeit of Lampreys?
28 May 2015 A surfeit of Lampreys? By Chin Chin It is the English summer again with its associations with strawberries and cream and with the crack of willow on leather. These days, however, there is something else too. There is the beginning of a search for the remains of another English king, buried, as… Continue reading Issue 4:2015 05 28: A surfeit of Lampreys?
Issue 4: 2015 05 28:The Queen’s Speech
28 May 2105 The Queen’s Speech by John Watson The speech which the Queen makes at the opening of Parliament is always something of a mixture and that is never more so than immediately after a general election. The Queen doesn’t write it herself, of course. Although she reads it out, it is written by… Continue reading Issue 4: 2015 05 28:The Queen’s Speech
Issue 4:2015 05 28:Cultivated Islands
28 May 2015 Cultivated Islands by R J Thomas The pavilions are coming down in front of the Royal Chelsea Hospital, and the display gardens on which so much time (and money) was spent and which looked so tastefully permanent have been loaded back on trucks to return to all corners of the Kingdom. The… Continue reading Issue 4:2015 05 28:Cultivated Islands
Issue 4 :2015 05 28: UK News
28 May 2015 Week in Brief:UK NEWS QUEEN’S SPEECH: Yesterday saw the opening of Parliament and the Queens’s speech which outlines the government’s legislative programme. Included were proposals to ensure that : people who work thirty hours a week at the National Minimum Wage do not pay income tax; there will be no rise in… Continue reading Issue 4 :2015 05 28: UK News
Issue 4:2015 05 28:Fading Icons: Tory Tanks on the BBC Lawn
28 May 2015 Fading Icons: Tory Tanks on the BBC Lawn by R J Thomas It’s not been a good decade for the BBC. Leaving aside the embarrassment and trauma of the Jimmy Savile debacle, the searing competition from the satellite broadcasters who have got their acts together to produce very fine critically acclaimed drama… Continue reading Issue 4:2015 05 28:Fading Icons: Tory Tanks on the BBC Lawn
Issue 4:2015 05 28:Business and the City
28 May 2015 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY THE PROPERTY MARKET: The De Montfort Report, the comprehensive annual survey of debt trends in the UK commercial property market has been published. This long running report, compiled by De Montfort University by analysis of detailed returns from what is believed to be around… Continue reading Issue 4:2015 05 28:Business and the City
Issue 4:2015 05 28:News in Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS
28 May 2015 News in Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS IRELAND: The Irish people voted in a referendum last week to amend their constitution to allow members of the gay community to marry. The change had been opposed by the Roman Catholic Church. There is now expected to be a movement to legalise abortion. FRANCE: The 75th… Continue reading Issue 4:2015 05 28:News in Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Issue 4:2015 05 28: Arabs call for the seventh cavalry
28 May 2015 Arabs call for the Seventh Cavalry by Neil Tidmarsh Understanding US frustration in the Middle East No wonder Ashton Carter, the US secretary of defence, lost his patience last week following the catastrophic collapse of the Iraqi army at Ramadi, Anbar province. Once again the USA found itself in the bizarre position… Continue reading Issue 4:2015 05 28: Arabs call for the seventh cavalry
Issue 3:2015 05 21:Contents
21 May 2015: Issue 3 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment Samurai Rising by Neil Tidmarsh Should we be worried or reassured by Japan’s move away from its ‘peace clause’? Not quite gentlemen: will the Guardian go back to Manchester? by John Watson It just isn’t nice to read other people’s correspondence. In a Pickle by… Continue reading Issue 3:2015 05 21:Contents
