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Month: September 2015
Issue 17: Crossword – A Middle-Eastern flavour
20 August 2015 Crossword by Boffles A Middle-Eastern flavour To see a printable version of this crossword Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 20: 2015 09 17 Contents
17 September 2015: Issue 20 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment Brave New World for the Labour Party? by Don Urquhart A view from the Left A Cruel and Ugly Truth by Neil Tidmarsh What the Middle East has to face Corbyn Sets the Stage by John Watson They may ‘have a heart’ but the Opposition also needs to… Continue reading Issue 20: 2015 09 17 Contents
Issue 20: 2015 09 17: Corbyn sets the stage
17 September 2015 Corbyn Sets the Stage by John Watson As the Corbyn circus roars ahead it is worth reflecting for a moment on how it is to be melded into a coherent opposition. There are already disparate views within the shadow cabinet on a wide range of issues. The shadow defence secretary favours Trident.… Continue reading Issue 20: 2015 09 17: Corbyn sets the stage
Issue 20: 2015 09 17: News in Brief: UK
17 September 2015 Week In Brief: UK NEWS LABOUR LEADER: On Saturday it was announced that left winger Jeremy Corbyn had been elected leader of the Labour Party with nearly 60% of the vote. Tom Watson, who comes from the centre of the party, has been elected deputy leader. Mr Corbyn’s team includes John McDonnell as… Continue reading Issue 20: 2015 09 17: News in Brief: UK
Issue 20: 2015 09 17: Steel Yourselves
17 September 2015 Steel Yourselves by J.R.Thomas One of the most famous photographs of Mrs Thatcher was taken in spring 1987 as the Iron Lady strode across the site of the ironworks of Headly Wrightson, a demolished and derelict wasteland in central Middlesbrough; sensible heels crossing rubble and ruts, she explained that Britain must move… Continue reading Issue 20: 2015 09 17: Steel Yourselves
Issue 20:2015 09 17:letters
17 September 2015 Letter Time is running out in the Middle East Sir John Watson’s article was educational for those of us sketchy about the last days of General Gordon. But I am uncomfortable about the parallels he draws with the current Middle East situation. Gordon was in the Sudan on British government business and… Continue reading Issue 20:2015 09 17:letters
Issue 20: 2015 09 17: News in Brief: Business and City
17 September 2015 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY SAWING OFF THE BRANCHES: The dismemberment of the Royal Bank of Scotland empire continues. A lot of this is the implementation of the promises made in 2008 when the government rescued the bank (once the biggest in Europe and with even greater aspirations under its… Continue reading Issue 20: 2015 09 17: News in Brief: Business and City
Issue 20: 2015 09 17 INTERNATIONAL NEWS
17 September 2015 Week in Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS AFGHANISTAN: The Taliban attacked a prison south of Kabul and freed 400 inmates. AUSTRALIA: Tony Abbot has been replaced as prime minister in an internal Liberal party coup. EGYPT: The government of prime minister Ibrahim Mahlab has resigned, amid accusations of corruption. Eight tourists from Mexico and four… Continue reading Issue 20: 2015 09 17 INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Issue 20:2015 09 17: Third-Wave Feminism
17 September 2015 Third-Wave Feminism Proudman or Proud Lady? by Lynda Goetz Much has been written about the barrister, Charlotte Proudman, aged 27, in the last week; some of it supportive, some condemnatory and the rest more than slightly incredulous at all the fuss. For anyone who has been on Mars or in the Maldives… Continue reading Issue 20:2015 09 17: Third-Wave Feminism
Issue 20: 2015 09 17: Men and Women For All Seasons
17 September 2015 Men And Women for All Seasons By Chin Chin Of all the great literary figures, Dorothy L Sayers was amongst the most adaptable. Speak to an expert on Dante and he will talk about her as the great translator of “The Divine Comedy”. Talk to an educationalist and he will refer you… Continue reading Issue 20: 2015 09 17: Men and Women For All Seasons
Issue 20: 2015 09 17: Brave New World for the Labour Party?
17 September 2015 Brave New World for the Labour Party A Day to Remember A View from the Left by Don Urquhart Everyone remembers where they were on 11th September 2001 when the destruction of the World Trade Centre was beamed round the world. For George W Bush and the Military Industrial Complex it was the… Continue reading Issue 20: 2015 09 17: Brave New World for the Labour Party?
Issue 20; 2015 09 17: Review of Photograph 51
17 September 2015 PHOTOGRAPH 51 Noel Coward Theatre, London WC2 by Neil Tidmarsh In 1963, the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine was awarded to Francis Crick, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins for the discovery of the structure of DNA ten years earlier. Anna Ziegler’s play ‘Photograph 51’ is about a fourth scientist, Rosalind Franklin,… Continue reading Issue 20; 2015 09 17: Review of Photograph 51
