Month: April 2016

Issue 50: 2016 04 21:Week in Brief International

21 April 2016 Week in Brief: International Europe GERMANY: The comic Jan Böhmermann, who broadcast a satirical anti-Erdogan poem on TV, has been put under police protection.  Chancellor Merkel has agreed that he is to be prosecuted under an old and little-used law – “insulting a foreign head of state” – which needs the approval… Continue reading Issue 50: 2016 04 21:Week in Brief International

Issue 50: 2016 04 21: Ban Me, You Bastards (Chin Chin)

21 April 2016 Ban Me, You Bastards! Must I be the only one without a ban? By Chin Chin My goodness it makes me angry. Manchester University students debate banning Cameron from speaking even before he has indicated any wish to go there. Tiger Tatchell, too dangerous to be allowed out into the safe spaces… Continue reading Issue 50: 2016 04 21: Ban Me, You Bastards (Chin Chin)

Issue 50: 2017 04 21: Week in Brief Financial

21 April 2016 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY MOVES ON THE HIGH STREET:   Your friendly local estate agency is changing fast.  It may be still trading from that branch in the high street, but generally the future is on-line and that increasingly means that the agents need to get their properties onto one… Continue reading Issue 50: 2017 04 21: Week in Brief Financial

Issue 50: 2016 04 21:Smelly Reds (J.R. Thomas)

21 April 2016 Smelly Reds by J.R.Thomas They are red, some of them stink, and they are everywhere.  Now, the Shaw Sheet never sinks to sheer vulgar abuse, but we do ask you to consider our analysis of the red menace in London.  Ken Livingstone started it.  Well, it was long before him really, but… Continue reading Issue 50: 2016 04 21:Smelly Reds (J.R. Thomas)

Issue 50: 2016 04 21:Pakistan’s Own Goals(Neil Tidmarsh)

21 April 2016 Pakistan’s Own Goals Security and intelligence in Karachi and Islamabad. by Neil Tidmarsh This week, the judge in a terrorism trial in Karachi called upon an explosives expert from the police to explain a technical detail to the court.  Officer Abid Ali enthusiastically obliged, even bringing a hand-grenade with him as a… Continue reading Issue 50: 2016 04 21:Pakistan’s Own Goals(Neil Tidmarsh)

Issue 50: 2016 04 21: Big City Blues (J.R. Thomas)

21 April 2016 Big City Blues by J.R.Thomas This week we look at political contrasts in two great cities either side of the Atlantic.  In the USA, New York has voted, producing a spectacular win for Mr Trump – and a spectacular defeat for Mr Cruz.  On the Democrat side, a strong victory, but still… Continue reading Issue 50: 2016 04 21: Big City Blues (J.R. Thomas)

Issue 50: Crossword – Plain Vanilla 7

21 April 2016 Crossword by Boffles Plain Vanilla 7   o see a printable version of this crossword Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp

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Issue 49: 2016 04 14: Roaming in the Gloaming (J.R. Thomas)

14 April 2016 Roaming in the Gloaming By J.R.Thomas From east coast to west, and even in the heartlands, it is the phony war.  The contestants know the big battles are coming; the minor skirmishes of the past couple of weeks don’t matter too much – though losing them matters to The Donald, not one… Continue reading Issue 49: 2016 04 14: Roaming in the Gloaming (J.R. Thomas)

Issue 49: 201604 14:The other EU Referendum (Neil Tidmarsh)

14 April 2016 That Other EU Referendum Perhaps it should have been about Ukraine, after all. by Neil Tidmarsh This week, voters in the Netherlands rejected the EU’s trade and security treaty with the Ukraine.  The result has been presented and received largely as a protest vote against the EU rather than against Ukraine. This… Continue reading Issue 49: 201604 14:The other EU Referendum (Neil Tidmarsh)

Issue 49: 2016 04 14:Making a tidy exit (J.RThomas)

14 April 2016 Making a Tidy Exit by J.R.Thomas There is a long tradition in these islands of wandering practitioners of various arts.   Not just wandering minstrels, but wandering knife grinders, itinerant cobblers, strolling luthiers, jobbing gardeners.   In the twenty first century world of regulation and reporting, to say nothing of PAYE, National… Continue reading Issue 49: 2016 04 14:Making a tidy exit (J.RThomas)

Issuie 49: 2016 04 14; Golf vs Cycling (Frank O’Nomics)

14 April 2016 Golf vs Cycling by Frank O’Nomics The rise of the MAMIL (middle-aged man in lycra) is a modern phenomenon which has taken place at the same time as a dramatic fall in the number of golfers. Students of both science and economics will be very familiar with the expression that “correlation does… Continue reading Issuie 49: 2016 04 14; Golf vs Cycling (Frank O’Nomics)

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