27 July 2017 Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY BANKING THE CASH: As had been widely predicted, Metro Bank, one of the leading and certainly most visible of the so-called challenger banks – the regiment of small banks that sprang up after the big bank failures and retrenchments following the 2008 recession – has announced… Continue reading Issue 115:2017 07 27:Week in Brief Financial
Month: July 2017
Issue 115: 2017 07 27: Made In France? (Chin Chin)
27 July 2017 Made in France? The Cornish flood By Chin Chin What caused it then? Rain poured down on the streets of Coverack in Cornwall on a scale not seen since Noah. Was this a direct punishment by the Almighty? Were there, among the rubble swept into the sea, the remnants of altars to… Continue reading Issue 115: 2017 07 27: Made In France? (Chin Chin)
Issue115:2017 07 27:Poland in Court(Neil Tidmarsh)
27 July 2017 Poland In Court The Law and Justice party attacks law and justice. by Neil Tidmarsh It was touch and go. The political establishment was determined to give itself power over its country’s judges. The independence of the judiciary – its separation from the executive – is of course the cornerstone of democratic… Continue reading Issue115:2017 07 27:Poland in Court(Neil Tidmarsh)
Issue 115:2017 07 27:End-of-Term Diary of a Corbynista(Don Urquhart)
27 July 2017 End-of-Term Diary of a Corbynista Now off to the marginals by Don Urquhart 12 July Simon Hart is a Tory MP who is organising a Westminster Hall debate about abuse of MP’s. He has tried to blame Momentum for this but there is also ample evidence of organised defamation of Corbyn… Continue reading Issue 115:2017 07 27:End-of-Term Diary of a Corbynista(Don Urquhart)
Issue 114:2017 07 20:Thank you for your patience(Adam McCormack)
20 July 2017 Thank you for your patience The Hackney Showroom reviewed by Adam McCormack Star rating: **** Have we become too blasé about nuclear waste? The seventies and eighties saw continual impassioned protests from students, but of late there has been a silence. The issues have not gone away – it will still… Continue reading Issue 114:2017 07 20:Thank you for your patience(Adam McCormack)
Issue 114: Crossword – Sicily
20 July 2017 Crossword by Boffles Sicily To see a printable version of this crossword Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 114: Crossword – Sicily – printable
20 July 2017 Crossword by Boffles Sicily Across 1 & 12ac Our thing (4) 3 Fried rice balls (8) 8 Arab influenced ingredient used in its cuisine (7) 10 Mussolini was not one of 1 and 12ac (3) 11 Ruled in 15dn before the Norman kings (5) 12 See 1ac… Continue reading Issue 114: Crossword – Sicily – printable
Issue 114: Crossword – Sporting Times – solution
20 July 2017 Crossword by Boffles Sporting Times – solution Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 113: 2017 07 13: Contents
13 July 2017: Issue 113 The week’s news – your chance to catch up: Comment Who Owns The Enquiry? by John Watson Chairing the enquiry into Grenfell Tower. Campaign Diary Of A Corbynista by Don Urquhart Maybot in flames. Zombie Nation by Frank O’Nomics Does low UK productivity matter? Going Steady by J R Thomas US foreign policy on… Continue reading Issue 113: 2017 07 13: Contents
Issue 114: 2017 07 20: The Price Of Politics (John Watson)
20 July 2017 The Price Of Politics What do we get? By John Watson What are our politicians for? We, the British public, pay the salaries of 650 MPs at £74,000 a throw, and that is before expenses, the salaries of assistants, accommodation and all the rest of it is taken into account. In the… Continue reading Issue 114: 2017 07 20: The Price Of Politics (John Watson)
Issue 114: 2017 07 20: Sew So (Chin Chin)
20 July 2017 Sew So Competing with the little old ladies. By Chin Chin My father’s generation were more Gothic than mine and I remember him telling me that, when he was very young, he was told by an aunt that if he did not behave: “I will cut off your head and sew a… Continue reading Issue 114: 2017 07 20: Sew So (Chin Chin)
Issue 114:2016 07 20:Week in Brief Financial
20 July 2017 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY ITS BENEATH YOU: Alternative energy continues to emerge from all sides. The latest challenger to oil is geothermal energy – gathering heat from hot rocks deep below the earth’s crust by pumping water through them for conversion into steam to power turbines, or to use… Continue reading Issue 114:2016 07 20:Week in Brief Financial
Isse 104:2017 7 20:The Electric Sheep Fold (J.R.Thomas)
20 July 2017 The Electric Sheep Fold Do we need an electronic archive? by J.R. Thomas What is the similarity between the internet and a wild garden? Obvious; they are both wonderful to wander in, full of obscure corners in which it is too easy to get lost for hours on end. But also, without… Continue reading Isse 104:2017 7 20:The Electric Sheep Fold (J.R.Thomas)
