Month: June 2017

Issue 109:2017 06 15:Week in Brief International

15 June 2017 Week in Brief: International Europe EU: Plans were announced for the creation of a ‘security and defence union’ (a military organisation independent of Nato) by 2025. A confidential EU report, leaked to the Politico website, recommended demolishing the existing parliament building in Brussels and constructing a new one costing €500 million.  The… Continue reading Issue 109:2017 06 15:Week in Brief International

Issue 108:201 7 06 08:Meltdown in Qatar (R.D.Shackleton)

o8 June 2017 Meltdown in Qatar Why this matters for the UK by R.D.Shackleton It’s no coincidence that the diplomatic crisis isolating Qatar from its neighbours in the Gulf should have escalated so markedly after Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia.  The House of Saud, along with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, has long been… Continue reading Issue 108:201 7 06 08:Meltdown in Qatar (R.D.Shackleton)

Issue 108:2017 06 08:RoboVicar (Neil Tidmarsh)

08 June 2017 RoboVicar Move over, Father Brown and Grantchester, there’s a new holy sleuth in town! by Neil Tidmarsh Ok, you directors of the BBC, ITV, Chanel 4, Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime, let me pitch this block-busting idea to you.  It’s a perfect mash-up of sci-fi/detective/reality tv – imagine Transformers meets Grantchester meets Made… Continue reading Issue 108:2017 06 08:RoboVicar (Neil Tidmarsh)

Issue 108:2017 06 08:Doing the splits (J.R.Thomas)

8 June 2017 Doing the Splits After May, who? by J.R.Thomas   Mrs May is famous for her love of walking; by this Friday she will be very relieved if she is not going for a long one.   It is almost unknown for an election campaign to result in such an extraordinary reversal of fortunes.… Continue reading Issue 108:2017 06 08:Doing the splits (J.R.Thomas)

Issue 108: 2017 06 08: Following the oracle (John Watson)

08 June 2017 Following The Oracle Has Mrs May misjudged her position? By John Watson Data is all very well but for it to be useful you have to know what it means.  A failure to interpret forecasts correctly ruined Croesus in 347 BC.  Now it threatens Mrs May.  Of course the two cases are… Continue reading Issue 108: 2017 06 08: Following the oracle (John Watson)

Issue 108:2017 06 08: Continuing the property vs. pension debate (Frank O’Nomics)

08 June 2017 Continuing the property vs. pension debate Evidence in support of pensions is growing. by Frank O’Nomics It is some time since I wrote about the property vs. pensions debate in these columns.  The last time I did so, the arguments favouring pensions were not universally accepted, and many continued to prefer investing… Continue reading Issue 108:2017 06 08: Continuing the property vs. pension debate (Frank O’Nomics)

Issue 108:2017 06 08:Common (Adam McCormack)

08 June 2017 Common The National Theatre reviewed by Adam McCormack Common, a new play directed by Jeremy Herrin, opens with a scene reminiscent of The Wicker Man.  It is mid-summer 1809 and the local peasants, dressed in wicker masks, light a bonfire and sacrifice a pig.  This pagan ritual, however, comes at a time… Continue reading Issue 108:2017 06 08:Common (Adam McCormack)

Issue 108: 2017 06 08: Week in Brief: UK

08 June 2017 Week In Brief: UK Terrorism LONDON ATTACKS: On Saturday night three terrorists murdered seven people and injured another 48 in an attack on London Bridge and Borough Market.  It began when they drove their white rental van into pedestrians on the bridge.  The van was abandoned just outside Southwark Cathedral, the men using… Continue reading Issue 108: 2017 06 08: Week in Brief: UK

Issue 108:2017 06 08:Week in Brief International

08 June 2017 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe BOSNIA:  President Dodik of the Serb Republic in Bosnia banned textbooks teaching the siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica genocide. EU:  The president of the European Council has asked the president of the European Commission to block Gazprom’s Nord Stream 2, the proposed Russian gas pipeline… Continue reading Issue 108:2017 06 08:Week in Brief International

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