16 July 2015 All going on our summer holiday? By Chin Chin With Henley and Wimbledon now behind us, the London social season has drawn to its close and the British are beginning to pack for the traditional summer holiday. Most of the British, that is: the ones who remembered to do something about booking… Continue reading Issue 11: 2015 07 16: All going on our summer holiday?
Month: July 2015
Issue 10; Crossword – We go to the movies – solution
9 July 2015 Crossword by Boffles We go to the movies – solution Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 11: 2015 07 16: Groping Women
15 July 2015 Groping Women by Lynda Goetz A brief item, of only a dozen or so paragraphs in one of the national dailies, caught my eye the other day. It was, a little further research revealed, based on a piece in the Inverness Chronicle several days earlier. The report was about groups… Continue reading Issue 11: 2015 07 16: Groping Women
Issue 11: 2015 07 16: All the President’s People
16 July 2015 All the President’s People by J R Thomas Imagine a horse race with only one runner, preening and prancing in front of the crowd. Then imagine another horse race with so many runners there aren’t enough starting stalls, and every neighbourhood donkey, pony and carthorse in the county is jostling around the… Continue reading Issue 11: 2015 07 16: All the President’s People
Issue 11: 2015 07 16: Sentenced to Life
16 July 2015 Clive James: ‘Sentenced to Life’ by J R Thomas Clive James is one of those extraordinary figures who seem to pop up in every civilised society to make their fellow occupants of the planet feel insufficiently talented and inadequately driven. A true modern Renaissance man, he was a constant figure in the… Continue reading Issue 11: 2015 07 16: Sentenced to Life
Issue 11: 2015 07 16: The people who cannot afford it
16 July 2015 The people who cannot afford it by John Watson There are two distinct sides to Mr Osborne’s budget. From a macroeconomic point of view, he has been less austere than expected, moving the date on which the budget is expected to balance to 2019/2020 and relying on growth to push down the… Continue reading Issue 11: 2015 07 16: The people who cannot afford it
Issue 11: 2015 07 16: To boldly go…
16 July 2015 To boldly go… in the starship Free Enterprise by Neil Tidmarsh It’s been a good week for space exploration. NASA scored an impressive double whammy: its New Horizons probe began to send back stunning photos of Pluto from the outer reaches of the solar system; and it announced that it has begun… Continue reading Issue 11: 2015 07 16: To boldly go…
Issue 11: 2015 07 16: Greece and the Oracle
16 July 2015 Greece and the Oracle by John Watson Rain Gods fall into two distinct categories. In “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, Douglas Adams’s character Rob McKenna achieves Rain God status because, wherever he is, it rains. That is one sort of Rain God. The other sort is, well, me or, at least,… Continue reading Issue 11: 2015 07 16: Greece and the Oracle
Issue 11: 2015 07 16: INTERNATIONAL NEWS
16 July 2015 Week in Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS AFGHANISTAN: A US drone strike has killed Shahidullah Shahid (a senior Isis commander) and five other militants, according to the Afghan intelligence agency. BAHRAIN: Ibrahim Sharif, an opposition leader who was jailed following Arab Spring protests, has been arrested a month after finishing his four-year sentence. BRAZIL:… Continue reading Issue 11: 2015 07 16: INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Issue 11: 2015 07 16: BUSINESS AND THE CITY
16 July 2015 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY BUSY PARKER: Tim Parker, who is rapidly becoming one of the great and the good, added to his reputation in that august forum when he was announced as the new chairman of the Post Office this week. Mr Parker is already chairman of Samsonite,… Continue reading Issue 11: 2015 07 16: BUSINESS AND THE CITY
Issue 11: 2015 07 16: Week in Brief: UK NEWS
16 July 2015 Week in Brief: UK NEWS BUDGET: Figures from the Institute of Fiscal Studies indicate that in many cases an increase in pay to the new national living wage will not compensate low-paid working families for the reduction of benefits proposed in the budget. TREASURY COMMAND PAPER: In “Fixing the foundations: Creating a… Continue reading Issue 11: 2015 07 16: Week in Brief: UK NEWS
Issue 11: Crossword – Europe
16 July 2015 Crossword by Boffles Europe To see a printable version of this crossword Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 11: Crossword – Europe – printable
16 July 2015 Crossword by Boffles Europe Across 1 Curtain which fell after WW2 (4) 3 Final ditch would-be immigrants from Africa need to cross (3,3) 8 Napoleon or Charlemagne for example (7) 9 The first European Community concerned coal and this (5) 10 France and Germany like to… Continue reading Issue 11: Crossword – Europe – printable
