29 September 2016 Crossword by Boffles Scandals and -gates – solution Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Month: September 2016
Issue 73: Crossword – Poetry Corner
29 September 2016 Crossword by Boffles Poetry Corner To see a printable version of this crossword Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 73: Crossword – Poetry Corner – printable
29 September 2016 Crossword by Boffles Poetry Corner Across 6 Burial plot correctly envisaged by Rupert Brooke (1,7,5) 8 Gathering birds that, according to Keats, did not tweet but did twitter (8) 9 Subject virtually all of them have something to say about (4) 10 ‘Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness’ addressed by Keats to this sort of… Continue reading Issue 73: Crossword – Poetry Corner – printable
Issue 71: 2016 09 15: Contents
15 September 2016: Issue 71 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment Grammar Schools by John Watson A difficult choice. Wool and Sand by J R Thomas Has the National Trust lost its way? The Syrian Ceasefire by Neil Tidmarsh Third time lucky? America – The World Is Watching by Rob Castell and Will Kenning Rapping for Hilary.… Continue reading Issue 71: 2016 09 15: Contents
Issue 72: 2016 09 22: Recipe For A Book Club (Lynda Goetz)
22 September 2016 Recipe For A Book Club Meeting author Deborah Lawrenson. by Lynda Goetz The book club I set up some 16 years ago is not exactly the most serious you could encounter. Over the years it has evolved from a group of 10 (too many, really) with some carelessly thrown-together ‘nibbles’ and a… Continue reading Issue 72: 2016 09 22: Recipe For A Book Club (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 72: 2016 09 22:Our ladies of Perpetual Succour(Adam McCormack)
22 September 2016 Our ladies of Perpetual Succour Dorfman Theatre reviewed by Adam McCormack Watch out, the convent girls are in town! This is a fast paced and very bawdy coming of age play-come-gig that demonstrates many of the current strengths of British theatre. Having had great success last year in Edinburgh, and following a… Continue reading Issue 72: 2016 09 22:Our ladies of Perpetual Succour(Adam McCormack)
Issue 72: 2016 09 22: Fact, Fiction or Fantasy (Chin Chin)
22 September 2016 Fact, Fiction Or Fantasy A treatise on diagnostics By Chin Chin I blame Jerome K Jerome, a man who moved on from an unsuccessful career as a journalist to become one of Britain’s greatest writers; a career in two parts if ever there was one. I had been looking for a role… Continue reading Issue 72: 2016 09 22: Fact, Fiction or Fantasy (Chin Chin)
Issue 72:2016 09 22:Britain’s Export Solution(Frank O’Nomics)
22 September 2016 Britain’s Export Solution Play More Golf by Frank O’Nomics There is an old Dilbert cartoon where the question: “who wants to hear about my golf game?” receives the response: “maybe someone with locked-in syndrome who doesn’t get any visitors”. Yes, people recounting their golfing exploits can be very boring, but senior colleagues… Continue reading Issue 72:2016 09 22:Britain’s Export Solution(Frank O’Nomics)
Issue 72: 2016 09 22: Radical Pinstripes (J.R.Thomas)
22 September 2016 Radical Pinstripes Mr MacMillan’s recipe. by J.R.Thomas The departure of David Cameron from the political stage – a moderately popular act sadly ending by our hero tripping and tumbling into the orchestra pit, dragging half his fellow stage strutters with him, probably marks the end of one of the periodic periods of… Continue reading Issue 72: 2016 09 22: Radical Pinstripes (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 72: 2016 09 22:Two steps forward, One step Back (Neil Tidmarsh)
22 September 2016 Two Steps Forward, One Step Backwards Isis’s opponents shoot themselves in the foot – again. By Neil Tidmarsh Once again, it’s two steps forwards, one step backwards in Syria. Yet again, external powers involved in the civil war were on the point of burying their differences in the interests of peace, and… Continue reading Issue 72: 2016 09 22:Two steps forward, One step Back (Neil Tidmarsh)
Issue 72: 2016 09 22: The Rules of the Game (John Watson)
22 September 2016 The Rules of the Game What is this talk of gerrymandering? By John Watson “I have never believed in questioning or second-guessing the decision of the referee.” The words appear in the final paragraph of David Laws’ book Coalition and the referee he is referring to is the British electorate which so brutally… Continue reading Issue 72: 2016 09 22: The Rules of the Game (John Watson)
Issue 72: 2016 09 22: Week in Brief: UK
22 September 2016 Week in Brief: UK International Politics FORWARD POLICY: In her first speech to the United Nations, Mrs May confirmed that the UK would continue to spend 2% of GDP on defence. She is also to send troops to Somalia and provide aid to create jobs in Ethiopia. This is a continuation of Mr… Continue reading Issue 72: 2016 09 22: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 72: Crossword – Scandals and -gates
22 September 2016 Crossword by Boffles Scandals and -gates To see a printable version of this crossword Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
