02 August 2018 Lens on the Week UK CORBYN AND THE JEWS: Mr Corbyn’s relationship with the Jewish community hits a new low as he is forced to apologise for his hosting of an event at the House of Commons on Holocaust Memorial Day 2010. The main speaker at the event was a survivor from… Continue reading Issue 165: 2018 08 02: Lens on the Week
Article Category: Comment
Issue 165: 2018 08 02: The Man On The Mountain
02 August 2018 The Man On The Mountain May’s holiday task. By John Watson Peace at last! The focus of the newspapers moves to features and out-of-date news as all those noisy brattish politicians go away for their summer holidays. Time for everyone to relax and recharge. Almost everyone, that is. Much though Mrs May… Continue reading Issue 165: 2018 08 02: The Man On The Mountain
Issue 165: 2018 08 02: The end for the Tories?
2 August 2018 The Strange Demise of Tory England The end of the line? By J R Thomas In 1935 George Dangerfield, a journalist and historian, wrote a book that instantly bombed (except among a small group of historians of modern history). Mr Dangerfield had to wait until 1961 for the world to notice his… Continue reading Issue 165: 2018 08 02: The end for the Tories?
Issue 165: 2018 08 02: Dairy of a Corbynista
2 August 2018 Diary of a Corbynista Labour in Crisis by Don Urquhart 26 July Dominic Raab hit a nostalgia nerve with the oldies when he announced his Brexit food policy: We will look at this issue in the round and make sure that there’s adequate food supplies. It would be wrong to describe it… Continue reading Issue 165: 2018 08 02: Dairy of a Corbynista
Issue 165: 2018 08 02: Staff College Lecture
02 August 2018 Staff College Lecture Egypt, Pakistan and Zimbabwe. By Neil Tidmarsh All right, you horrible lot, pay attention. First question: what is our job? Why have our countries given us all these tanks and missiles and firearms to play with? Yes, sir, you, sir, major of artillery with your hand up. Your job… Continue reading Issue 165: 2018 08 02: Staff College Lecture
Issue 165: 2018 08 02: Darling, you shouldn’t have!
2 August 2018 Darling, you shouldn’t have! Households have slipped into the red. By Frank O’Nomics “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure 19 pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” Mr Micawber’s wise advice on household financial management has long been cited in… Continue reading Issue 165: 2018 08 02: Darling, you shouldn’t have!
Issue 165: 2018 08 02: The Lifeboat of Generosity
2 August 2018 The Lifeboat of Generosity More needed. By Lynda Goetz I have today donated to both Wikipedia and The Guardian. These are small contributions, admittedly, but made on the basis that I use both these services and should, along with others, contribute to their continuance. I feel that if we all make contributions,… Continue reading Issue 165: 2018 08 02: The Lifeboat of Generosity
Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Fear Of Failing
26 July 2018 Fear of Failing Doctors’ Nightmares. By Lynda Goetz Unless you are a doctor or are somehow personally involved, you will probably have no idea that this week Dr Hazid Bawa-Garba is appealing in the High Court against the General Medical Council’s (GMC) decision to strike her off the medical register – forever;… Continue reading Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Fear Of Failing
Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Diary of a Corbynista
26 July 2018 Diary of a Corbynista Nothing like a dame by Don Urquhart 19 July As a humble component of the Westminster Bubble I thought it was a good time to get out into the country to re-establish connection with the provincials. Coincidentally Theresa May was deciding to undertake a road trip to cheer… Continue reading Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Countdown
26 July 2018 Countdown Sexual politics. By John Watson The dog that doesn’t bark; that feeling of déjà vu. Most of us have moments when we suffer a jar to the senses without quite knowing why. That happened to me as I was watching the introduction to an edition of the game show Countdown by the… Continue reading Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Countdown
Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Peace In Whose Time?
26 July 2018 Peace In Whose Time? Korea, Japan, Russia… and Berwick-Upon-Tweed. By Neil Tidmarsh Tomorrow – Friday 27 July 2018 – will be the 65th anniversary of the signing of the armistice which brought the fighting in the Korean War to an end. The fighting, that is. Not the war itself. That can only… Continue reading Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Peace In Whose Time?
Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Too Hot To Handle
26 July 2018 Too Hot To Handle Weather and warming. By Robert Kilconner Those readers who are fluent in ancient Samarian will recall that in that language the verb “to be hot” is an irregular one both as to form and as to meaning. For the benefit of those whose education was focused on the… Continue reading Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Too Hot To Handle
Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Pollyanna – the deficit
26 July 2018 The Deficit and Pollyanna Economics The improvement in public finances is illusory. By Frank O’Nomics No sooner do the government’s finances improve than someone pops up to tell them how to spend the “windfall”. Data last week showed that public borrowing could come in £7bn lower than forecast, and it seems that… Continue reading Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Pollyanna – the deficit
