Issue 69: Crossword – Harvest Festival

1 September 2016 Crossword by Boffles Harvest Festival   To see a printable version of this crossword   Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp

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Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Contents

 18 August 2016: Issue 67 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment The Child Sex Abuse Inquiry by John Watson Saving something from the wreckage. Sliding Down The Hill by J R Thomas Trump stumbles. Homo Ludens by Neil Tidmarsh The world at play – a serious business. The Perils of Poor Translation by Richard Pooley and of… Continue reading Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Contents

Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Fit To Be Fat (J R Thomas)

25 August 2016 Fit to be Fat A matter of choice. by J.R.Thomas Mrs May has done it now.  In office a matter of weeks and she has put her lovely kitten heels right into a dangerous place.  She has upset Jamie Oliver!  Has the woman no sense at all?  Does she not realise that… Continue reading Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Fit To Be Fat (J R Thomas)

Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Fading Icons – No Service (J R Thomas)

25 August 2016 Fading Icons – No Service If only they were all like Tebay. by J.R.Thomas You really can’t avoid them, at least without turning off the motorway.  Perhaps it is truer to say, we don’t want to avoid them, driven up the exit ramp by hunger or nagging necessity or that insistent flashing… Continue reading Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Fading Icons – No Service (J R Thomas)

Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Week in Brief Financial

25 August 2016 Week in Brief: Business and the City   CITY SHOCK HORROR:  For traditional City of London earners it may be the first swallow leaving for winter… closely followed by the second.  Woodford Investment Management have announced that they are abolishing bonuses for all staff in their specialist investment management business.  Woodford, founded… Continue reading Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Week in Brief Financial

Issue 68: 2016 08 25: The Lessons of Rio (John Watson)

25 August 2016 The Lesson Of Rio The resurgence of British sport gives us an example. By John Watson When, in the early 1930s, a director of Cunard was asked by King George V what name the company proposed to give to its new liner, instead of replying “The Queen Victoria”, he said “We propose… Continue reading Issue 68: 2016 08 25: The Lessons of Rio (John Watson)

Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Week in Brief: UK

25 August 2016 Week In Brief: UK Government FREE SPEECH: Concerns over the impact on free speech are leading to delays in laws to silence hate preachers such as Anjem Choudary. Despite his conviction, hate videos, spread by his acolytes, are still being found on YouTube. As many as 5 associates of Mr Choudary have been placed… Continue reading Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Week in Brief: UK

Issue 68:2016 08 25;Didn’t we do well (Frank O’Nomics)

25 August 2016 Didn’t We Do Well?!  Were the reasons for our Olympic success just financial? by Frank O’Nomics As we all bathe in the shared national glory of a record medal haul at the Rio Olympics it is hard not to be struck by the widespread comments that the biggest factor behind Team GB’s… Continue reading Issue 68:2016 08 25;Didn’t we do well (Frank O’Nomics)

Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Divine Intervention (Chin Chin)

25 August 2016 Divine Intervention A tribute to the wisdom of the Almighty. By Chin Chin There may be a sporting chance of contact with the Almighty on the road to Damascus but I would have put the odds against an encounter at a filling station on the E45, a main road in the north… Continue reading Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Divine Intervention (Chin Chin)

Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Avoidable Accidents (Lynda Goetz)

25 August 2016 Avoidable Accidents Are we losing our sense of personal responsibility? by Lynda Goetz I thought long and hard before putting pen to paper (so to speak) on this subject.  The tragic accidents around the coast over the weekend have left several families bereaved and children in hospital and, without knowing the particular… Continue reading Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Avoidable Accidents (Lynda Goetz)

Issue 68: 2016 08 25: The Olympics (Don Urquhart)

25 August 2016 The Olympics A Recipe for Success by Don Urquhart I cannot envisage a situation where I could present my physical being as aesthetically pleasing, even taking account of the eye of the beholder thing. Years ago I was on a sales mission to Toronto and had bonded with some clients over a… Continue reading Issue 68: 2016 08 25: The Olympics (Don Urquhart)

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