17 November 2022 Strikes back in fashion? Paul Branch Our nurses are on the brink of the unthinkable – a countrywide strike for more pay, before the end of the year and lasting at least until next Spring, is a distinct possibility. With the NHS already tottering, again, and the ‘flu season yet to start… Continue reading Strikes back in fashion?
Article Category: Comment
Politicians in T-Shirts
17 November 2022 Politicians in T-Shirts Sergey Lavrov and others. By Neil Tidmarsh Has Sergey Lavrov just broken one of Russia’s most egregious laws in Bali? Will he be arrested when he returns to Moscow from the G20 summit? Mr Lavrov’s presence at the summit for the G20 countries’ leaders isn’t a mystery, even though… Continue reading Politicians in T-Shirts
Cartoons
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Lashing the Whip
10 November 2022 Lashing the Whip A foolish complaint. By Robert Kilconner Gavin Williamson may be a foulmouthed, bad tempered, aggressive oik with a penchant for his spaniels but the allegation that he bullied the chief whip asks more questions about the lady herself than it does about him. How on earth did someone in… Continue reading Lashing the Whip
Levelling Down?
10 November 2022 Levelling Down? Arts Council Funding decisions. By Lynda Goetz I was brought up in the Home Counties and lived in London for nearly fifteen years. I left London some twenty-eight years ago, for thirteen of which I have been in Devon. Like many other rural dwellers, I still pay fairly regular visits… Continue reading Levelling Down?
Digital Money
10 November 2022 Digital Money The next step? by A Banker I write this as a classic late adopter. Five years ago, I happily paid for almost everything in cash. I counted out change for my Pret a Manger lunch each day, aiming to minimise the weight of my pocket. I knew no other way. … Continue reading Digital Money
Worms Turning
10 November 2022 Worms Turning War on all fronts by Don Urquhart There is a queue of Tory MPs and supporters to tell us how much the UK has reduced carbon emissions in recent years. A GB News employee, somehow allowed onto the BBC Politics Live programme, ferociously challenged Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer to… Continue reading Worms Turning
Taro Kono’s Double
10 November 2022 Taro Kono’s Double Android v. fax machine. By Neil Tidmarsh Forget Robot Wars. Forget Terminator 1 vs Terminator 2. This week the Japanese government offered us an even more thrilling spectacle of machine-on-machine mayhem. Taro Kono, the minister for digital transformation, has launched a sci-fi battle royal, a fight to the death… Continue reading Taro Kono’s Double
Who Should Own Utilities?
10 November 2022 Communism, Compassion, or Common Sense? by Paul Branch Our system of election and government has come in for a lot of scrutiny and soul-searching over the past few years, as initial carelessness and a degree of ineptitude has lately descended into incompetence, embarrassment and shambles. The processes we have chosen to allow… Continue reading Who Should Own Utilities?
Cleverly Done?
10 November 2022 Cleverly Done? Behaviour in Qatar By John Watson Let us suppose, if indeed it is not the case, that you have a son or a daughter of whom, for reasons probably not obvious to others, you are particularly fond. Why are those reasons not obvious? Because he or she is a soccer… Continue reading Cleverly Done?
Sunak
3 November 2022 Sunak The brickbats. By John Watson As far as I’m aware, Mr Sunak has never sat in a trench and been bombarded by artillery, but at the moment he must be getting a taste of the political equivalent. The markets have greeted his appointment with relief but there are plenty of brickbats… Continue reading Sunak
‘Germany First’
3 November 2022 ‘Germany First’ Chancellor Scholz breaks ranks. By Neil Tidmarsh Europe’s maverick states – Brexit Britain, Orban’s Hungary, Duda’s Poland… and now Scholtz’s Germany? For some months, chancellor Olaf Scholtz’s government has been putting noses out of joint among its partners in the EU and in the wider West. But the last two… Continue reading ‘Germany First’
NHS – A Leaky Bucket
3 November 2022 A Hole in the NHS Bucket Selling paintings is not going to fill it! By Lynda Goetz The NHS is clearly not an efficient organisation. Like our immigration system, it is not working. It is broken. Throwing more and more money at it is not the answer, nor is the rather unhelpful… Continue reading NHS – A Leaky Bucket
