21 June 2018 Diary of a Corbynista Mrs May’s Credibility Gap by Don Urquhart 14 June The Supreme Court has found in favour of Gary Smith and against Pimlico Plumbers. He argued that he had worked for the firm for 6 years without receiving the normal employee benefits such as holidays and sick pay. The… Continue reading Issue 159: 2018 06 21: Diary of a Corbynista
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Issue 158: 2018 06 14: Grenfell Tower
14 June 2018 Grenfell Tower The Rice-Davies Rule. By John Watson True or apocryphal? It could be either, but the story that senior civil servants pencil the initials “MRDA” into the margin of documents is good enough to satisfy any fan of Yes, Minister. The reference, of course, is to the trial of society osteopath… Continue reading Issue 158: 2018 06 14: Grenfell Tower
Issue 158: 2018 06 14: The Singapore Summit
14 June 2018 The Singapore Summit And the absent giant. By Neil Tidmarsh Yes, it really was the meeting of the century. Some disappointed observers are already beginning to write it off as a damp squib adding nothing new to the situation, but the two most interesting comments from the summit suggest they’re mistaken. The… Continue reading Issue 158: 2018 06 14: The Singapore Summit
Issue 158: 2018 06 14: More Bull
14 June 2018 More Bull Change in Spain by J R Thomas Sorry, Senor Rajoy. The curse of the Shaw Sheet struck the affable bearded Spanish Prime Minister within days of our article saying that his handling of the Catalonia crisis had strengthened his position in office. Almost needless to say, he is now an… Continue reading Issue 158: 2018 06 14: More Bull
Issue 158: 2018 06 14: Diary of a Corbynista
14 June 2018 Diary of a Corbynista Nobody Panic by Don Urquhart 7 June One of Theresa May’s factoids in PMQ’s was the assertion that there were now fewer than ever impoverished children in working families. I prefer to get my facts from a reliable source. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation today published a report calling… Continue reading Issue 158: 2018 06 14: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 158: 2018 06 14: Time to be a SKIN
14 June 2018 Time to be a SKIN Spend Kids Inheritance Now. by Frank O’Nomics Frugality is generally heralded as a virtue. A reluctance to plan for our old age is regarded as one of the biggest threats to our ageing society, as the falling proportion in work are seen as having to support the… Continue reading Issue 158: 2018 06 14: Time to be a SKIN
Issue 158: 2018 06 14: Ford Revolution
14 June 2018 Ford Revolution Ontario Results. by J R Thomas The big wheel of Ontario politics turned dramatically indeed last Thursday (see our article None of the Above in last week’s edition). No, not an overwhelming victory for the None of Above Party, who did not appeal, it seems, to any Canadian urge for… Continue reading Issue 158: 2018 06 14: Ford Revolution
Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Top Prigs
07 June 2018 Top Prigs A British triumph. By John Watson Visas refused; funds frozen. The attack by the UK authorities on Russian oligarchs seems to be well under way. Much of it is a reaction to the nerve gas attack in Salisbury and to Russian aggression in the Middle East. We cannot strike at… Continue reading Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Top Prigs
Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Back From The Dead
07 June 2018 Back From The Dead It lives! It lives! By Neil Tidmarsh So the Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko is still alive, after all. His return from the dead was billed as a riff on a Sherlock Holmes story, but let’s hope it doesn’t morph into some sort of inside-out, back-to-front variation on the… Continue reading Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Back From The Dead
Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Virtually Speaking
07 June 2018 Virtually Speaking What should we be doing? By Lynda Goetz We seem as a nation to be very conflicted and somewhat confused at this moment. Not just as regards Brexit, but on so many other issues too. Looking at events and news items from this week alone, there are a number which… Continue reading Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Virtually Speaking
Issue 157: 2018 06 07: None of the Above
07 June 2018 None Of The Above Ontario election latest. By J R Thomas Many of our readers are no doubt even now laying in stocks of Molson Light and moose sandwiches to get them through the night of 7th June. If they are, they may be surprised that most Ontario voters are planning on… Continue reading Issue 157: 2018 06 07: None of the Above
Issue 157: 2018 06 07: The UK Family Silver
7 June 2018 The fate of the UK family silver What would you do with £400 million? by Frank O’Nomics Fancy paying some extra Council Tax to help your cash strapped borough? I thought not. How about giving the state a slug of cash to help the ease the burden of the National Debt? From… Continue reading Issue 157: 2018 06 07: The UK Family Silver
Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Jowell Silence Heckled
07 June 2018 Jowell Silence Heckled The solids in the pool. By Robert Kilconner Most people, whether members of the Labour Party or not, will be disgusted at the heckling which interrupted the one-minute silence held at a meeting of the Hampstead and Kilburn Constituency Labour Party to commemorate Tessa Jowell. Of course some will… Continue reading Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Jowell Silence Heckled
