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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

Eagle Eyed

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

A 2-ship of Israeli Air Force F-16s from Ramon Air Base, Israel head out to the Nevada Test and Training Range, July 17, 2009 during Red Flag 09-4. Red Flag is a realistic combat training exercise involving the air forces of the United States and its allies. The exercise is conducted on the 15,000-square-mile Nevada Test and Training Range, north of Las Vegas. Red Flag is one of a series of advanced training programs administered by the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center and Nellis, through the 414th Combat Training Squadron. Flying for Red Flag 09-4 begins July 13 and ends July 24. U.S. aircraft will come from Nellis and Creech in Nevada, South Carolina, Idaho, the United Kingdom, Washington, Oklahoma and Ohio. Aircraft types will include F-15s, F-16s, E-3s and KC-135s. In addition to U.S. aircraft, the Israeli Air Force will be flying F-16C Falcons. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Master Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald) released

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

Issue 148: 2018 04 05: Diary of a Corbynista

5 April 2018 Diary of a Corbynista Enough is Enough by Don Urquhart 29 March What keeps me going is the deeply held belief that Theresa May has feet of clay. Has she learnt or is she repeating the errors of the 2017 election campaign? With great fanfare it is announced that she will be… Continue reading Issue 148: 2018 04 05: Diary of a Corbynista

Issue 147: 2018 03 29:Lens on the Week

29 March 2018 Lens on the Week UK LABOUR ANTISEMITISM: The problems of antisemitism in the Labour party hit a new milestone with a protest by the Jewish Community in Parliament Square. The trouble is that the left’s traditional support for Palestine has long spilled over into antisemitism so the rise of the left within… Continue reading Issue 147: 2018 03 29:Lens on the Week

Issue 147: 2018 03 29:No meeting of manners

29 March 2018 No Meeting of Manners Are the French “rude, aggressive and disrespectful”? By Richard Pooley Just when I was beginning to doubt I had anything to write about this week, Monsieur Guillaume Rey came to my rescue. A French waiter working – or maybe, no longer working – in Vancouver, Mr Rey was… Continue reading Issue 147: 2018 03 29:No meeting of manners

Issue 147: 2018 03 29:The Flag Of Free Trade

29 March 2018 The Flag of Free Trade The Brexit debate. By John Watson The odd thing about Brexit is that it is multi-focussed. At first it was about money, the money it would free up for the NHS balanced against an equally spurious instant economic doom. Then it was about immigration, the waste of… Continue reading Issue 147: 2018 03 29:The Flag Of Free Trade

Issue 147: 2018 03 29:Diary of a Corbynista

29 March 2018 Diary of a Corbynista Corbyn, the anti-Semite and Stalinist? by Don Urquhart 22 March At Yesterday’s PMQ’s, Jeremy Corbyn went in hard on cuts in local government services. Andrew Gwynne is the shadow minister responsible for local government and Theresa May asked whether he supported certain local labour parties. Haringey where the… Continue reading Issue 147: 2018 03 29:Diary of a Corbynista

Issue 147: 2018 03 29:ISAs For Good

29 March 2018 ISAs For Good Turning charity into investment. By Frank O’Nomics As we approach the end of the tax year, most of us once again have left the utilisation of our ISA allowance to the last minute. One of the reasons for being dilatory lies in the difficulty in choosing from the mind-boggling… Continue reading Issue 147: 2018 03 29:ISAs For Good

Issue 146: 2018 03 22: Undercover Sex

22 March 2018 Undercover Sex Instructions revealed. By John Watson Sometimes life is just too exhausting, and the report in The Times of evidence at the enquiry into undercover policing about the instruction given on romantic entanglements with those they were watching, makes one lose the will to live. Of course undercover officers need instruction on… Continue reading Issue 146: 2018 03 22: Undercover Sex

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