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
Article Category: Comment
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
Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Diary of a Corbynista
7 June 2018 Diary of a Corbynista The people assemble by Don Urquhart 31 May Michael Gove promised us a brave new world of free schools being demanded by parents in areas ill-served by the “blob” of local authority bureaucracy. The reality is predictably quite different. A study from the Sutton Trust social mobility charity… Continue reading Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Exclusion From Galileo
31 May 2018 Exclusion From Galileo An unwise stick. By John Watson If the work of Galileo threw light into dark places, the row over the satellite system which is named after him promises to do the same. Galileo is the EU’s answer to the American Global Positioning System, and once up and running it… Continue reading Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Exclusion From Galileo
Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Italy
31 May 2018 Italy 88 days and counting. By Neil Tidmarsh What has happened in Italy? What is happening in Italy? Nothing. Nothing? But the newspapers have been full of it this week: all the comings and goings at the president’s palace on the Quirinal Hill in Rome; dramatic falls in Italian markets; cries of… Continue reading Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Italy
Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Stop It Right Now!
31 May 2018 Stop That! Stop It Right Now! Interfering loses elections. By J R Thomas W E Gladstone was very clear what caused the dramatic and unexpected loss of office by the Liberal Party in the 1874 election. Said he: “We have been borne down in a torrent of gin and beer…” That, perhaps… Continue reading Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Stop It Right Now!
Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Diary of a Corbynista
31 May 2018 Diary of a Corbynista A Third Way on Brexit by Don Urquhart 24 May A report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Health Foundation said the NHS would need an extra 4% a year – or £2,000 per UK household – for the next 15 years. We have to deal… Continue reading Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Turbo-Giving
30 May 2018 Turbo-giving Three steps to greater charity. By Frank O’Nomics What if I told you that you could, at no extra cost to yourself, increase your charitable giving by 125%? Wouldn’t the satisfaction of charity be so much greater if you could get the tax man and corporate UK to supplement your generosity? … Continue reading Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Turbo-Giving
Issue 156: 2018 05 31: The French Village
31 May 2018 The French Village What is its future? By Richard Pooley I was back in England at the end of April, most of the time with my in-laws. They live in a sprawling village of 818 people between Stroud and Cirencester. It has a primary school, a pub and a village shop/sub-post office.… Continue reading Issue 156: 2018 05 31: The French Village
