Issue 41:2016 02 18:contents

18 February 2016: Issue 41

Week in Brief     

 "…to think he wondered what he would do when he retired!"
“…to think he wondered what he would do when he retired!”                          A. Kenning

       UK

International

Financial

Comment

Maskirovka by Neil Tidmarsh

In Russia, the season for masks isn’t over yet.

Trouble at the Folgate by J. R. Thomas

Choppy waters for the rest of Boris’s rule.

Bye Bye Indie by John Watson

The ringing of the bells of change.

A group of 5 white and purple hellebore flowers and a little of their stalks
Hellebores in flower by Neil Dunlop

Are worries about banks overstated by Frank O’Nomics

CoCos for conversion?

Vellum is for ever (well nearly) by Lynda Goetz

Is £80,000 per annum really such a waste?

Features

The bald facts by J. R. Thomas

The hairs to power

War and Peace by Neil Tallstory

illustration Andrew Kenning
Chin Chin                          illustration A. Kenning

A thoroughly up to date version.

The curse of the Pharoahs by Chin Chin

How many will die this time?

Clever Dogs by Princess Lottie of Islington

(with help from Frank O’Nomics)

The Ngalawa Cup by Alexander Nimmo

Part 2 of a sailing adventure in the Indian Ocean.

Review

Macbeth

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The Ngalawa Cup

the Basin Botanical Gardens, Wanganui is reviewed by John Watson

 

Crossword

A Walk in theWoods

Solution to the last crossword “War and Peace”

Earlier Editions

Issue 36: 14 January 2016

Issue 37: 21 January 2016

Issue 38: 28 January 2016

Issue 39: 04February 2016

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