Issue 37:2016 01 21:Contents

21 January 2016: Issue 37 Week in Brief             UK International Financial Comment The Road to Peace by Neil Tidmarsh The journey to a new Syria is due to start in Geneva next Monday. Charge! by J. R. Thomas Fading Icons: Free Admission. Anonymity Or Spotlight In Rape Cases? by Lynda Goetz Where is the justice… Continue reading Issue 37:2016 01 21:Contents

Issue 38: 2016 01 21: The Blind leading the Blind (Frank O’Nomics)

28 January 2016 The Blind leading the Blind  What is the point of forward guidance? by Frank O’Nomics When should we expect UK interest rates to rise?  For many years economist have examined the fan charts of inflation forecasts in the Bank of England Inflation Report for clues as to the likely timing of a… Continue reading Issue 38: 2016 01 21: The Blind leading the Blind (Frank O’Nomics)

Issue 38:2016 01 28:Leaving it alone (JR Thomas)

28 January 2015 Leaving It Alone by J.R.Thomas In two esoteric worlds last week there was fluttering and muttering as a philosophy of conservation, long the focus of academic contention, was debated yet again.  Two very different worlds; one a country house of world architectural importance in Surrey; the other an obscure railway in central… Continue reading Issue 38:2016 01 28:Leaving it alone (JR Thomas)

Issue 38: Crossword – Poets’ Corner

28 January 2016 Crossword by Boffles Poets’ Corner   To see a printable version of this crossword     Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp

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Issue 38: Crossword – Poets’ Corner – printable

28 January 2016 Crossword by Boffles Poets’ Corner   Across     7  Although very tired, it winds somewhere safe to sea (Swinburne) (8,5)     8  Longed to be in England in April (8)     9  The Pobble lacked them (4)   10  Judy O’Grady and the Colonel’s lady are sisters under this (3,4)   12  A Cardinal… Continue reading Issue 38: Crossword – Poets’ Corner – printable

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Issue 38: 2016 01 28: Labour’s Lessons From Defeat (John Watson)

28 January 2016 Labour’s Lessons from Defeat What we expect from Mr Corbyn. By John Watson The closure of Kellingley colliery may represent the end of deep mining for coal in the UK but the reader certainly has to do a lot of digging to extract from Margaret Beckett’s report “Learning the Lessons from Defeat”… Continue reading Issue 38: 2016 01 28: Labour’s Lessons From Defeat (John Watson)

Issue 38: 2016 01 28:Tories Nationalise Railways (JR Thomas)

28 January 2016 Tories Nationalise Railways by J.R.Thomas Apologies to confused readers; you are right, it is not April Fool’s Day . The proverbial Martian, newly arrived on earth and standing on a garishly decorated railway platform in London, might assume it is though. The Conservative Party is in favour of private enterprise, of allowing… Continue reading Issue 38: 2016 01 28:Tories Nationalise Railways (JR Thomas)

Issue 38: 2016 01 28: Geneva (Chin Chin)

28 January 2016 Geneva A seating plan for peace. By Chin Chin If there is one thing which permeates the Christmas holiday it is seating plans.  It may be a season for goodwill but if you put Great Aunt Margaret next to her sister-in-law at lunch you will discover that the only references to charity… Continue reading Issue 38: 2016 01 28: Geneva (Chin Chin)

Issue 38: 2016 01 28:Week in Brief: International

28 January 2016 Week in Brief: International AFGHANISTAN: A suicide bomber killed seven employees of the TV channel TOLO and injured at least 25 other people.  Last year the Taliban announced that they would be targeting the channel. President Obama has authorised US special forces to combat Isis-affiliated groups, which have infiltrated Afghanistan from Pakistan.… Continue reading Issue 38: 2016 01 28:Week in Brief: International

Issue 38: 2016 01 28: Week in Brief Financial

28 January 2016 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY ROOMS TO RENT: 50 CENTS: Not if the Chancellor has anything to do with it. The Treasury produced squeals of pain and anger when it changed the tax regime on mortgages taken by private landlords to acquire buy-to-let property, limiting landlords on how much loan… Continue reading Issue 38: 2016 01 28: Week in Brief Financial

Issue 38: 2016 01 28: Week in Brief: UK

28 January 2016 Week in Brief: UK MI5 LGBT: In an announcement which some may find surprising, the Security Service (MI5) has been described by Stonewall, the gay rights group, as the best employer of people who are in the LGBT category. RUSSIAN ESPIONAGE: A Russian commentator has estimated that the number of intelligence officers… Continue reading Issue 38: 2016 01 28: Week in Brief: UK

Issue 38:21 06 01 28:Pot and Kettle(Neil Tidmarsh)

28 January 2016 Pot and Kettle The irony of Brussels pointing fingers at Warsaw and Madrid. by Neil Tidmarsh Last week, MEPs investigating EU spending on foreign aid and development delivered their report to the European parliament. The Times managed to get hold of a copy of the report.  It seems that many of the… Continue reading Issue 38:21 06 01 28:Pot and Kettle(Neil Tidmarsh)

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