Month: February 2016

Issue 41:2016 02 18:Week in Brief Financial

18 February 2016 Week in Brief:Business and the City INFLATED EXPECTATIONS: Inflation is rising – but not enough to worry the Chancellor or the Bank of England.  The Bank’s task is to manage the economy so as to keep inflation at or just below 2%; in this it is failing as the annualised rate is… Continue reading Issue 41:2016 02 18:Week in Brief Financial

Issue 41: 2016 02 18: Bye Bye Indie (John Watson)

18 February 2016 Bye Bye Indie The ringing of the bells of change. By John Watson The numbers are striking enough. Circulation down from 428,000 at its peak to a current 28,000. No wonder that the broadsheet version of the Independent is being withdrawn. Figures at other newspapers tell much the same story. In 2000… Continue reading Issue 41: 2016 02 18: Bye Bye Indie (John Watson)

Issue 41:2016 02 18:Vellum is forever(well nearly) (Lynda Goetz)

18 February 2016 Vellum is for ever (well nearly) Is £80,000 per annum really such a waste? by Lynda Goetz Just over sixteen years ago, on Tuesday 2nd November 1999, plans to end the centuries-old tradition of printing copies of Acts of Parliament on vellum, fine parchment made of goats skin, was thrown out by… Continue reading Issue 41:2016 02 18:Vellum is forever(well nearly) (Lynda Goetz)

Issue 41:2016 02 18: War and Peace (Neil Tallstory)

18 February 2016 War and Peace by Neil Tallstory Thought Andrew Davies’ BBC TV adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s classic was too modern, with its incest and male nudity?  Huh.  Try this for size… Chapter LLLCCCCXXXXXIV Natasha rushed round to Andrey’s apartment as soon as she heard that he was back in Moscow from the war. … Continue reading Issue 41:2016 02 18: War and Peace (Neil Tallstory)

Issue 41: 2016 02 18: Week in Brief: UK

18 February 2016 Week in Brief: UK ROYAL NAVY: The UK has increased its allocation of Royal Navy ships to Nato over fears of Russian expansion or aggression. The vessels include a frigate, a destroyer and minesweepers. They will be deployed in the Baltic, the North Sea, the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UKIP: The… Continue reading Issue 41: 2016 02 18: Week in Brief: UK

Issue 41: 2016 02 18: Macbeth (John Watson)

18 February 2016 Macbeth The Bason Botanical Gardens, Wanganui Reviewed by John Watson Many years ago I was chatting over lunch to a very low church Christian and describing the Easter service at Saint Bartholomew the Great in London.  Saint Bartholomew’s is not low church at all and he listened quietly to what I said… Continue reading Issue 41: 2016 02 18: Macbeth (John Watson)

Issue 41:2016 02 18:Maskirovka (Neil Tidmarsh)

18 February 2016 Maskirovka In Russia, the season for masks isn’t over yet. by Neil Tidmarsh The Russian leadership has made some fairly confusing statements recently, but the most confusing of all must be prime minister Dmitri Medvedev’s comments this week on Saudi Arabia’s pledge to send war planes and ground troops to help in… Continue reading Issue 41:2016 02 18:Maskirovka (Neil Tidmarsh)

Issue 41: 2016 02 18: The Curse of the Pharaohs (Chin Chin)

18 February 2016 The Curse of the Pharaohs How many will die this time? By Chin Chin Curses come in different shapes and sizes.  At the top end of the scale there is the “full pharaonic,” visited on Lord Carnarvon and others shortly after the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923.  A quality… Continue reading Issue 41: 2016 02 18: The Curse of the Pharaohs (Chin Chin)

Issue 41:Crossword – A Walk in the Woods

18 February 2016 Crossword by Boffles A Walk in the Woods   To see a printable version of this crossword   Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp

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Issue 39:2016 02 04: contents

04 February 2016: Issue 39 Week in Brief             UK International Financial Comment Europe Rewards The Greek Islands by Neil Tidmarsh Prosecute them as criminals, or give them the Nobel Peace Prize? Not what we Ordered by J. R. Thomas The pollsters fail in Iowa. Lynching Google by John Watson Analysis of a tax… Continue reading Issue 39:2016 02 04: contents

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