04 February 2016 Week in Brief: International AFGHANISTAN: A Taliban suicide bomber murdered 20 people and wounded at least 29 others outside a police station in Kabul. Afghan ground forces and coalition airstrikes attacked a new Isis radio station which has been broadcasting propaganda in Nangarhar province. AUSTRALIA: Tasmania’s World Heritage status forests have been… Continue reading Issue 39: 2016 02 04:Week in Brief INTERNATIONAL
Month: February 2016
Issue39:2016 02 04: Week in Brief FINANCIAL
04 February 2016 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY NOT A GOOD FIT: Once it was the UK’s fashion leader among the young and tight pursed. But now Matalan, the giant fashion discount retailer, is struggling with fierce competition and a business model that seems to have lost the thread. Latest rumour is that… Continue reading Issue39:2016 02 04: Week in Brief FINANCIAL
Issue 39: 2016 02 04: Art, Artists and Fakes (Lynda Goetz)
04 February 2016 Art, Artists and Fakes Telling the difference, and whether or not it matters. by Lynda Goetz Like many people, I enjoy art and art exhibitions but have no training in the field at all. I try to refrain, when going round a gallery, from making the sort of remarks that show one… Continue reading Issue 39: 2016 02 04: Art, Artists and Fakes (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 39:2016 02 04: Not what we ordered (JR Thomas)
04 February 2016 Not What We Ordered by J.R.Thomas After the unexpected victory of the Conservative Party in Britain’s general election last May, the opinion pollsters entered into a rending of garments and agony of self-examination as to why they got it so wrong. (We did explain in these pages that it was their failure… Continue reading Issue 39:2016 02 04: Not what we ordered (JR Thomas)
Issue 39: 2016 02 04: What does ‘entrepreneur’ mean to the French? (Richard Pooley)
04 February 2014 What does entrepreneur mean to the French? by Richard Pooley Former US President George W Bush was reputed to have told Tony Blair: “The trouble with the French is that they don’t have a word for ‘entrepreneur’.” Oh, how we mocked him. But it turns out that George W was more of… Continue reading Issue 39: 2016 02 04: What does ‘entrepreneur’ mean to the French? (Richard Pooley)
