Month: December 2016

Issue 84:2016 12 15:Ageing disgracefully (J.R.Thomas)

15 October 2016 Ageing Disgracefully A movement in the balance of power by J.R.Thomas One of the stranger things about the recent American presidential contest, something which did not cause much comment but seemed to be a clear reversal of recent trends in leadership elections, was the age of the leading candidates.  Bernie Sanders led… Continue reading Issue 84:2016 12 15:Ageing disgracefully (J.R.Thomas)

Issue 34:2016 12 15:Week in Brief International

15 December 2016 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe EU:  In Brussels, the EU and Cuba signed an agreement for closer co-operation. FRANCE:  Jérôme Cahuzac, who was in charge of the fight against tax evasion as President Hollande’s budget minister, was convicted of tax fraud and sentenced to three years in prison.  A plastic surgeon,… Continue reading Issue 34:2016 12 15:Week in Brief International

Issue84:2016 12 15:“Made it, Ma! Top of the World!” Part II (Neil Tidmarsh)

15 December 2016 “Made it, Ma! Top of the World!” Part II What do Lagarde, Cahuzac, Strauss-Kahn and Rato all have in common? by Neil Tidmarsh What do the following four people have in common: Christine Lagarde, Jérôme Cahuzac, Dominique Straus-Kahn and Rodrigo Rato? Yes, they have all been finance ministers.  Christine Lagarde became a… Continue reading Issue84:2016 12 15:“Made it, Ma! Top of the World!” Part II (Neil Tidmarsh)

Issue84:2016 12 15 :Week in Brief Financial

15 December 2016 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS (SOUTH):   This week the Office for National Statistics issued the results of its rolling survey of house prices.  That showed that the long period of increasing prices seems to have come to an end – with static prices in some areas and a… Continue reading Issue84:2016 12 15 :Week in Brief Financial

Issue 84:2016 12 15:Spring into Spring (J.R.Thomas)

15 December 2016 Spring into Spring The ides: an idea? by J.R.Thomas “Now is the winter of our discontent…” wrote that chap from Stratford on Avon.  He was brooding on political success of course, but winter discontent strikes a deep chord with us all in this dark misty damp island, swept by the occasional dramatically… Continue reading Issue 84:2016 12 15:Spring into Spring (J.R.Thomas)

Issue 84: 2016 12 15: Updateski (Chin Chin)

15 December 2016 Updateski SMEOD strikes at the West. By Chin Chin Down at the Quai d’Orsay, the successors to Maigret are lighting their pipes.  “Mais pourquoi?” they ask themselves. MI5 have told them that a cybercrime is being planned but it seems so senseless that it is impossible to build up a picture of… Continue reading Issue 84: 2016 12 15: Updateski (Chin Chin)

Issue84;2016 12 15:The Tempest (Adam McCormack)

15 December 2016 The Tempest The Donmar, King’s Cross by Adam McCormack The Tempest completes the Donmar’s trilogy of Shakespeare plays set in a women’s prison with an all female cast, following their versions of Henry IV in 2012 and Julius Caesar in 2014.  Yet again this production, as with the others directed by Phyllida… Continue reading Issue84;2016 12 15:The Tempest (Adam McCormack)

Issue 84: 2016 12 15: Thinking Forward (John Watson)

15 December 2016 Thinking Forward Britain’s immigration offer. by John Watson Is he Remoan?  Is she from the headbanging wing of Leave?  Reading the popular press you might think that these were the pivotal questions of British politics.  It is a relief, then, to be reminded that beneath the rhetoric and position-taking, serious thought is… Continue reading Issue 84: 2016 12 15: Thinking Forward (John Watson)

Issue 84:2016 12 15:Just a spoonful of tax (Frank O’Nomics)

15 December 2016 Just a spoonful full of tax helps the sugar go down Lateral thinking on a sugar tax. by Frank O’Nomics The UK has an obesity problem of epidemic proportions and it is costing the country a great deal of money.  According to a recent report for the Department for Work and Pensions,… Continue reading Issue 84:2016 12 15:Just a spoonful of tax (Frank O’Nomics)

Issue 82: 2016 12 01: Contents

 01 December 2016: Issue 82 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment Renewing the EU by John Watson Is Mr Verhofstadt beginning the thinking? Hooting and Shunting by J R Thomas Sorting the ticket price confusion. “Made it, Ma! Top of the World!” by Neil Tidmarsh You can’t have a criminal as head of state.… Continue reading Issue 82: 2016 12 01: Contents

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