19 April 2018 Acid or Actuality? Take a trip with us. By Neil Tidmarsh How often do you open a newspaper and start reading and think “Crazy! Unreal! They’re making it up! They’re pulling my leg! Is it April 1st? No! So perhaps someone’s slipped something into my tea and I’m actually tripping out in… Continue reading Issue 150: 2018 04 19: Acid or Actuality?
Article Category: Comment
Issue 150: 2018 04 19: Trans or Feminist?
19 April 2018 Trans or Feminist? The brokers’ dilemma. By John Watson Sometimes it is a change in the wind, sometimes a lightening of the atmosphere, but, slight though it be, the sensitive observer will feel it and recognise the beginning of a sea change. Over then to Hendon Magistrates Court where 26 year-old transgender… Continue reading Issue 150: 2018 04 19: Trans or Feminist?
Issue 150: 2018 04 19: Diary of a Corbynista
19 April 2018 Diary of a Corbynista Theatre of the Absurd by Don Urquhart 12 April When will the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) investigate the Douma attack and what will they be allowed to see? If the Russians and Syrians obstruct them that will tell us that there was a chemical… Continue reading Issue 150: 2018 04 19: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 150: 2018 04 19: NHS Parking & Windrush
19 April 2018 Hospital Parking and Windrush Exercise of Judgement. by Lynda Goetz Several newspapers of different political persuasions carried the story last week of ‘Good Samaritan’ Kevin Williams who, whilst helping a woman he didn’t know, overstayed his allowed 20-minutes in an NHS hospital car park by just one second, for which he received… Continue reading Issue 150: 2018 04 19: NHS Parking & Windrush
Issue 150: 2018 04 19: People Power
19 April 2018 People power Changing everything from gender pay to arms sales. By Frank O’Nomics It is as if everyone has taken up the mantra of the recently revived play (of a film) Network: “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” Public rage against the power of big business… Continue reading Issue 150: 2018 04 19: People Power
Issue 149: 2018 04 12: More Maskirovka
12 April 2018 More Maskirovka Denial, Accusation, Distraction. By Neil Tidmarsh Do you remember the Bad Kid at school? No, not the hero Bad Kid, who made you laugh and cheer because he had the courage to do all the things you wanted to do but were too scared or too sensible to try, and… Continue reading Issue 149: 2018 04 12: More Maskirovka
Issue 149: 2018 04 12: The Gender Pay Gap
12 April 2018 The Gender Pay Gap A ‘burning injustice’ – really? By Lynda Goetz I have every sympathy for those women in the BBC who find themselves, however well paid out of the taxpayers licence fee, paid substantially less than male colleagues. Likewise for Tamara Mellon, the entrepreneur, who has confessed that she was,… Continue reading Issue 149: 2018 04 12: The Gender Pay Gap
Issue 149: 2018 04 12: Pay Gap Flawed
12 April 2018 Pay Gap Flawed Figures a dreadful mess. By John Watson The pay gap figures are now out and a dreadful muddle they are too. That isn’t because of any failure by those reporting but rather because the formulae which generate the figures are so deeply flawed that they make the numbers they… Continue reading Issue 149: 2018 04 12: Pay Gap Flawed
Issue 149: 2018 04 12: Stormy Waters
12 April 2018 Stormy Waters Trump battles on. By J R Thomas So often, it is the little things that sink you. In sailing, not looking up the local weather forecast, or forgetting to take the bailing bucket. But this is not a column about sailing; it is, most weeks, about politics. And in… Continue reading Issue 149: 2018 04 12: Stormy Waters
Issue 149: 2018 04 12: Diary of a Corbynista
12 April 2018 Diary of a Corbynista A Pacifist’s Nightmare by Don Urquhart 5 April Correlation is often confused with causation. There were two more violent deaths in London yesterday. A recent spate of stabbings and shootings has brought the number of violent deaths in the capital this year to more than 50, higher even… Continue reading Issue 149: 2018 04 12: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 148: 2018 04 05: Syria’s Nukes
05 April 2018 Syria’s Nuclear Débâcle A warning to Iran from Israel. By Neil Tidmarsh What a secret! How did they keep the lid on that for over ten years? Why did they keep the lid on it? And why have they now decided to spill the beans about it? And what if..? Israel’s government… Continue reading Issue 148: 2018 04 05: Syria’s Nukes
Issue 148: 2018 04 05: North-South Divide
5 April 2018 The Narrowing North-South Divide House price growth disparity points to a need to cut stamp duty. by Frank O’Nomics After decades of house price growth in the south outstripping that north of Watford, the tables are turning. The majority of the UK population is likely to be reassured that the relative wealth… Continue reading Issue 148: 2018 04 05: North-South Divide
Issue 148: 2018 04 05: Labour’s Racism
05 April 2018 Labour’s Anti-Semitism How dangerous is it? By John Watson As the row about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party runs on, a poll of members shows that 61% believe that Jeremy Corbyn has done well in dealing with the issue. Well, they would say that, wouldn’t they? The poll also found that 65%… Continue reading Issue 148: 2018 04 05: Labour’s Racism