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Month: August 2017
Issue116:2017 08 03:Dancing on Hot Coals (J.R.Thomas)
03 August 2017 Dancing on Hot Coals Turmoil in the White House. by J R Thomas Maybe it is not so much hot coals as polished sabres. Whatever President Donald Trump is executing his footwork over, his jigging is looking increasingly dangerous. Six months into his presidency things are looking increasingly chaotic, and not much… Continue reading Issue116:2017 08 03:Dancing on Hot Coals (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 116:2017 08 03:Week in Brief Financial
3 August 2017 Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY COY BROADCASTERS: As the BBC struggles with the fallout from revelations that it had been paying some of its male star broadcasters more than women doing the same or similar jobs, its terrestrial rival ITV has kept its head well down. It says it will not… Continue reading Issue 116:2017 08 03:Week in Brief Financial
Issue116:2017 08 03: When In A Hole – Keep Digging(JR Thomas)
03 August 2017 When In A Hole – Keep Digging HS2 will revive British tunnelling by J.R. Thomas Last week we looked at HS2 and what it may do, or may not do, for some of Britain’s regional cities. Preparation work has been under way for a couple of years with construction teams being assembled,… Continue reading Issue116:2017 08 03: When In A Hole – Keep Digging(JR Thomas)
Issue 116:2017 08 03:Normal culture for Norfolk(Frank O’Nomics)
3 August 2017 Normal culture for Norfolk Have arguments for staying in London been undermined? by Frank O’Nomics It was not my finest hour. I had been given the simple task of applying early for tickets to see the National Theatre’s major production for the summer, Angels in America, which stars academy award nominee Andrew… Continue reading Issue 116:2017 08 03:Normal culture for Norfolk(Frank O’Nomics)
issue 116:2017 08 03:Week in Brief International
03 August 2017 Week in Brief: International Europe FRANCE: Macron promised to remove migrants from the streets and to house them in cheap hotels instead. The deradicalisation centre opened under the previous government has been closed, and the deradicalisation program judged a failure. STX, the country’s biggest ship-building company, is to be nationalised to prevent… Continue reading issue 116:2017 08 03:Week in Brief International
Issue 116:2017 08 03:Venezuela’s Dinosaur(Neil Tidmarsh)
03 August 2017 Venezuela’s Dinosaur Extinction threatens. by Neil Tidmarsh Dinosaurs take a long time to die. The cataclysmic shock which destroyed their world may well have been short and sharp, but those survivors unwilling or unable to evolve into more sustainable life-forms no doubt suffered slow, lingering deaths. The world saw this six months… Continue reading Issue 116:2017 08 03:Venezuela’s Dinosaur(Neil Tidmarsh)
Issue 116: 2017 08 03: A Very British Event (Lynda Goetz)
03 August 2017 A Very British Event Open-air theatre and problematic weather. By Lynda Goetz Memories are often founded not on what actually happened, nor, of course, on the boring daily trivia, but centre rather around particular events. Our memories of years past are coloured by these occasions and the weather at these fixed points… Continue reading Issue 116: 2017 08 03: A Very British Event (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 116: 2017 08 03: Flexible Government (John Watson)
03 August 2017 Flexible Government The need to bring the other parties on board. By John Watson Remember Napoleon as he stood with his victorious officers before the tomb of Frederick the Great at Potsdam: “Hats off, gentlemen. If he were still alive we would not be here”. No soldier has ever received a better… Continue reading Issue 116: 2017 08 03: Flexible Government (John Watson)
Issue 116: 2017 08 03: Nunc Est Bibendum (Chin Chin)
03 August 2017 Nunc Est Bibendum But try to time it right. By Chin Chin Sometimes new research touches the very fundamentals of our lives and the conclusion reached by the University of Exeter, that we remember more if we have a drink or two after the event, is certainly in that category. Take buying… Continue reading Issue 116: 2017 08 03: Nunc Est Bibendum (Chin Chin)
