17 November 2016 Free Speech in Toytown Without advertising revenues there can be no free press by J.R.Thomas PC Plod has long retired, to a quiet cottage in the country where he can grow strawberries and reminisce over the garden gate to passers-by about collars he felt long ago. It brings a ruminative smile… Continue reading Issue80: 2016 11 17:Free Speech in Toytown (J.R.Thomas)
Month: November 2016
Issue 80:2016 11 17:Economics and Incarceration (Frank O’Nomics)
17 November 2016 Economics and Incarceration Addressing the re-offending rate is the only rational solution to the prison crisis by Frank O’Nomics Barely a day goes by without the release of yet more grim news from our antiquated prisons. In the last few weeks we have had news of 200 prisoners rioting in Bedford, 2… Continue reading Issue 80:2016 11 17:Economics and Incarceration (Frank O’Nomics)
Issue 80: 2016 11 17: The Paxman Doll (Chin Chin)
17 November 2016 The Paxman Doll A tale of perversion? By Chin Chin Offended, and quite right too. The complaint (see Week in Brief UK) may have been a little late, but who could deny that Jeremy Paxman’s joke about Reading University’s University Challenge team taking a hand-knitted doll modelled on him to bed was… Continue reading Issue 80: 2016 11 17: The Paxman Doll (Chin Chin)
Issue 80:2016 11 17:Nice Fish (Adam McCormack)
17 November 2016 Nice Fish Harold Pinter Theatre by Adam McCormack Mark Rylance’s recent acting successes on stage in Farinelli and the King and Jerusalem, on the big screen in Bridge of Spies, and on TV in Wolf Hall make the opening in London of a play that he co-wrote and in which he also acts, a… Continue reading Issue 80:2016 11 17:Nice Fish (Adam McCormack)
Issue 80: 2016 11 17: Week in Brief financial
17 November 2016 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY THERE IS A TIDE …: In an island such as Britain, surrounded by a restless sea, the urge to harness that power to create energy has long captivated entrepreneurs and inventors. The obvious place to begin is with tidal barrages, and a number have been… Continue reading Issue 80: 2016 11 17: Week in Brief financial
Issue 80:2016 11 17:Week in Brief International
17 November 2016 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe BULGARIA: Rumen Radev won the presidential elections with 59.4% of the vote. Bulgaria is a member of NATO and the EU, but Mr Radev has criticised the EU about sanctions against Russia. See comment President Putin’s Other New Friends. ESTONIA: Prime Minister Taavi Rovias lost a… Continue reading Issue 80:2016 11 17:Week in Brief International
Issue 80: Crossword – Legal Matters – solution
17 November 2016 Crossword by Boffles Legal Matters – solution Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 80: Crossword – Trumpery Stuff
17 November 2016 Crossword by Boffles Trumpery Stuff To see a printable version of this crossword Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 80: Crossword – Trumpery Stuff – printable
17 November 2016 Crossword by Boffles Trumpery Stuff Across 1 This family and me ain’t the best of friends (4) 3 I won it big! Four lousy electoral votes but it all helps (5) 6 New York talking shop – ain’t going to trouble me much (2) 9 They tell… Continue reading Issue 80: Crossword – Trumpery Stuff – printable
Issue 79: 2016 11 10: Week in Brief: UK
10 November 2016 Week in Brief: UK Government BREXIT VOTE: The Government is to appeal against the High Court’s ruling that giving notice to leave the EU under Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon requires an Act of Parliament. The Attorney General’s argument that, because the action was under an international treaty it could… Continue reading Issue 79: 2016 11 10: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 79: 2016 11 10: Madagascar Today (Lynda Goetz)
10 November 2016 Madagascar Today (Part 2) A fascinating and tragic country. by Lynda Goetz “Madagascar has become the world’s poorest country,” asserted the guide with whom I stood watching the out-of-control fire approach closer and closer to our very basic lodge on the edge of the Ankarana Special Reserve. “It shouldn’t be, because it… Continue reading Issue 79: 2016 11 10: Madagascar Today (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 79: 201611 10: The Economic and Market consequences of Donald Trump (Frank O’Nomics)
10 November 2016 The Economic and Market consequences of Donald Trump Will they be dwarfed by other developments? by Frank O’Nomics Let’s be clear from the outset. It is too early to reach any definitive conclusions about what the new President means for the US and global economies, or indeed for asset prices in general. It… Continue reading Issue 79: 201611 10: The Economic and Market consequences of Donald Trump (Frank O’Nomics)
Issue79: 2016 11 10: Deny, deny, deny (Adam McCormack)
10 November 2016 Deny, Deny, Deny The Park Theatre reviewed by Adam McCormack Just what does it take to be the best athlete in the world? If you start with a basic flair for running, apply Gladwell’s 10,000 hours rule (the amount of training needed to become an expert in any discipline), together with the… Continue reading Issue79: 2016 11 10: Deny, deny, deny (Adam McCormack)
