26 April 2018 Armageddon Off… or Armageddon On? By Neil Tidmarsh Still holding your breath? Good. But don’t breathe out – not just yet anyway. We’re not out of the trees, not by a long shot. Ok, so North Korea’s presence at the winter Olympics won gold medals in diplomacy for everyone involved; and Kim… Continue reading Issue 151: 2018 04 26: Armageddon Off…
Article Category: Comment
Issue 152: 2018 05 03: Diary of a Corbynista
3 May 2018 Diary of a Corbynista An inadvertently misleading week by Don Urquhart 26 April It’s a week until the local elections. What impact will the anti-Semitism issue have in London where there are many Jewish people? Will they be influenced by the attacks on Corbyn by The Board of Deputies of British Jews… Continue reading Issue 152: 2018 05 03: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 151: 2018 04 26: Diary of a Corbynista
26 April 2018 Diary of a Corbynista No escape for the bitter and twisted by Don Urquhart 19 April Not even the most hardened Corbynista can spend all of his time bitter and twisted. Yesterday we took off up the M40 to get away from it all for a few days. To keep ourselves entertained… Continue reading Issue 151: 2018 04 26: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 151: 2018 04 26: Rising Waters
26 April 2018 Rising Waters by J.R. Thomas A couple of weeks ago we wrote of the troubles that Ms Stormy Daniels was visiting on the Trumpian White House. For the sake of those readers of a nervous disposition we will not venture again into the astonishing life and work of Ms Daniels or her… Continue reading Issue 151: 2018 04 26: Rising Waters
Issue 151: 2018 04 26: Emerging Diversification
26 April 2018 Emerging diversification Don’t avoid emerging markets just because of volatility. by Frank O’Nomics. Conventional wisdom suggests that when developed markets sneeze emerging markets catch a cold. The area of high growth that flourishes during periods of steady global progress should be avoided when a downturn threatens. That has tended to be the… Continue reading Issue 151: 2018 04 26: Emerging Diversification
Issue 150: 2018 04 19: Macron on BFM/RMC
19 April 2018 Macron on BFM/RMC “Don’t you have a puerile sense of omnipotence?” By Richard Pooley Imagine Theresa May asking to be interviewed for two hours by John Humphries and Jeremy Paxman on a Sunday evening on both television and radio. I can’t think of any British political leader, current or past, making such… Continue reading Issue 150: 2018 04 19: Macron on BFM/RMC
Issue 150: 2018 04 19: Acid or Actuality?
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?
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
