Month: July 2015

Issue 10: 2015 07 09:contents

 9 July 2015: Issue 10 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment Negotiations? Which Negotiations? by Neil Tidmarsh The discussions in Vienna are far more important than the debate about Greece Mr Tsipras’s tactics by John Watson Looking for method in the Greek madness Surplus Energy by J.R.Thomas Just what is keeping the oil price down? Features GM Humans… Continue reading Issue 10: 2015 07 09:contents

Issue 10: 2015 07 09: Week in Brief: UK NEWS

09 July 2015 Week in Brief: UK NEWS BUDGET: Mr Osborne’s second budget for this year included measures and proposals to introduce a new living wage for those over 25, beginning at £7.20 an hour and rising to £9 an hour by 2020; to increase the personal allowance to £11,000 next year with a view… Continue reading Issue 10: 2015 07 09: Week in Brief: UK NEWS

Issue 10: 2015 07 09: International news

9 July 2015 Week in Brief : INTERNATIONAL NEWS   AFGHANISTAN: Four men  sentenced to death for leading a mob which murdered a woman accused of burning a Koran have had their sentences reduced. An appeal court in Kabul sentenced three of the men to twenty years in jail and the fourth to ten years.… Continue reading Issue 10: 2015 07 09: International news

Issue 10: 2015 07 09: Mr Tsipras’s Tactics

09 July 2015 Mr Tsipras’s Tactics by John Watson Old hands at litigation will tell you that if you are stuck for a strategy you can do worse than to imagine yourself in the other side’s position, work out what it is that they would like you to do least and then do it. It… Continue reading Issue 10: 2015 07 09: Mr Tsipras’s Tactics

Issue 10: 2015 07 09: business news

9 July 2015 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY  EMPTYING WALLETS: George Osborne, the Chancellor, has been indicated that his budget speech will announce proposals for a further extension of permitted retail trading on Sundays. By the time you have this issue that will be confirmed, or not, but certainly there is a lot… Continue reading Issue 10: 2015 07 09: business news

Issue 10: 2015 07 09: Negotiations? Which Negotiations?

9 July 2015 NEGOTIATIONS? WHICH NEGOTIATIONS? by Neil Tidmarsh  Protracted and deadlocked negotiations between Western powers and an obdurate ‘rogue’ state drag on in a European capital. A deal to bring the state back into the international fold should have been signed this week but a deadline was missed and the talks have been extended… Continue reading Issue 10: 2015 07 09: Negotiations? Which Negotiations?

Issue 10: 2015 07 09:GM Humans

9 July 2015 GM Humans by Lynda Goetz There have been a lot of items in the news this week, although most of them seem to have been overshadowed by Greece, the prospect of the Budget and the Royal christening – probably in that order. However one of the things which I picked up on… Continue reading Issue 10: 2015 07 09:GM Humans

Issue 10: 2015 07 09: Surplus Energy

09 July 2015 Surplus Energy by J R Thomas Apologies to those who think the Shaw Sheet is developing an obsession with what lies under our feet. Last week potash, this week oil. Potash is something we don’t think about very much in normal life, but it is vital to how we feed our ever-growing… Continue reading Issue 10: 2015 07 09: Surplus Energy

Issue 10: 2015 07 09: Fading Icons – Stop the Clocks

o9 July 2015 Fading Icons – Stop the Clocks by J R Thomas “Stop all the clocks” said W H Auden in his much-quoted elegy. That advice seems to have been taken very much to heart in the modern municipal centres of the UK. At one time, within reasonably recent living memory, there was barely a… Continue reading Issue 10: 2015 07 09: Fading Icons – Stop the Clocks

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