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Month: December 2015
Issue 32: 2015 12 10: Week in Brief financial
10 December 2015 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY OILED UP: OPEC met for its regular discussion last Friday, but the meeting was far from normal. Saudi Arabia and Iran, the two largest producers, who are already in a proxy war as they back different sides in the various conflicts around the Arabian Gulf,… Continue reading Issue 32: 2015 12 10: Week in Brief financial
Issue 32: 2015 10 10:In praise of benevolent billionaires
10 December 2015 In praise of benevolent billionaires by Frank O’Nomics News that Mark Zuckerberg is giving 99% of his fortune to set up a charity to support “personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities” has prompted widespread praise, perhaps most succinctly put by Michael Bloomberg who said that this “sets a… Continue reading Issue 32: 2015 10 10:In praise of benevolent billionaires
Issue 32: 2015 12 10: Icecream and Revolution
10 December 2015 Ice-Cream and Revolution by J R Thomas North of Waterbury, Vermont, on the road to Stowe is an American shrine. Not the Von Trapp Family Lodge and Von Trapp Timeshare Homes (and Von Trapp Brewery and Von Trapp Austrian Restaurant and and and…). If you get there you have gone too far… Continue reading Issue 32: 2015 12 10: Icecream and Revolution
Issue 32: 2015 12 10: Week in Brief: UK
10 December 2015 Week in Brief: UK STORM DESMOND: Record rainfall in Cumbria has led to widespread flooding with much of the city of Carlisle underwater. The 15.9 inches of rain which fell within a 48-hour period at Thirlmere, Cumbria, was a new record, beating the previous record of 15.6 inches set in 2009. Water… Continue reading Issue 32: 2015 12 10: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 32:2015 10 10:Tutankhamun’s Other Curse
10 December 2015 Tutankhamun’s Other Curse What will archaeologists find beyond the walls of the Boy King’s burial chamber? By Neil Tidmarsh Last week, the Egyptian antiquities ministry made an amazing announcement; radar scans have indicated that there is empty space behind the north and west walls of King Tutankhamun’s burial chamber deep beneath the… Continue reading Issue 32:2015 10 10:Tutankhamun’s Other Curse
Issue 32: 2015 12 10: Making for the exit
10 December 2015 Making For The Exit The decision by a 50 year old woman to refuse treatment jars modern sensibilities By John Watson This week’s doings in the Court of Protection have raised a few eyebrows. A lady aged fifty, who had until then lived a hedonistic life, decided that she did not… Continue reading Issue 32: 2015 12 10: Making for the exit
Issue 32: 2015 12 10: War For Our Time
10 December 2015 War For Our Time by J R Thomas That of course was not what Neville Chamberlain said. He apparently did not even mean to say what he did say. As he stood outside Downing Street on his return from his visit to Hitler on 30th September 1938 to sign the Munich… Continue reading Issue 32: 2015 12 10: War For Our Time
Issue 32:2015 10 10:Week in Brief: International
10 December 2015 Week in Brief: INTERNATIONAL AFGHANISTAN: An argument among Taliban leaders escalated into a shoot-out in which four or five senior figures were killed (including the leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour) and more than a dozen wounded, according to government reports (but denied by the Taliban). The Afghan security forces – police and… Continue reading Issue 32:2015 10 10:Week in Brief: International
Issue 32: 2015 12 10: Bulging with political correctness
10 December 2015 Bulging With Political Correctness By Chin Chin When it comes to natural phenomena, it seems that plates are the main culprits. Lurking deep in the ground, huge tectonic ones move slowly from year to year, and when they crunch into each other, things happen. Maybe an edge is pushed up to form… Continue reading Issue 32: 2015 12 10: Bulging with political correctness
Issue 32: 2015 10 10: Exorcising magic realism
10 December 2015 Exorcising Magic Realism Cold reality for a hot continent by Neil Tidmarsh The world-class literature of Latin America is characterised by a refusal to accept the true nature of reality. Novelists such as Mexico’s Juan Rulfo, Colombia’s Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Peru’s Mario Vargas Llosa, Argentina’s Jorge Louis Borges and many others have… Continue reading Issue 32: 2015 10 10: Exorcising magic realism
Issue 32: 2015 10 10: Listed Buildings
10 December 2015 Listed Buildings Time to revisit the list? by Lynda Goetz According to the Historic England website, there were approximately 500,000 listed buildings in the UK, as of March 2015. Of these, 92% are Grade II listed. It was reported last week that many of these could be placed in danger because of… Continue reading Issue 32: 2015 10 10: Listed Buildings
Issue 31:2015 12 3: Cameron, Europe and an Unlikely Victory
03 December 2015 CAMERON, EUROPE AND AN UNLIKELY VICTORY by Tom Dowling Britain’s relationship with Europe has divided the country for centuries, so it was difficult to see what David Cameron hoped to achieve when in 2013 he announced that the Conservatives would, if successful in the 2015 General Election, hold a referendum on whether… Continue reading Issue 31:2015 12 3: Cameron, Europe and an Unlikely Victory
