8 April 2021 Lies, Damned Lies and Coronavirus Second jabs! by David Chilvers The UK continues to make excellent progress with the vaccination rollout. As of today (Wednesday 7th April), over 31.5 million adults had received at least one jab and over 5.5 million their second jab. With the programme having started in earnest in
08 April 2021 “Let ‘Em Go” by J.R. Thomas In times such as these, a man’s hand must inevitably reach for a Trollope. Politicians may preen and posture, society may shriek and strike poses, all around may be chaos and fantasy. But Trollope reminds us, again and again, that this is nothing new. Britain has
8 April 2021 The Northeast Passage Trade and conflict. By Neil Tidmarsh The Ever Given has been re-floated, the Suez Canal has been unblocked, and by now – a week later – the backlog of 425 other cargo ships waiting to pass through must have been cleared. But the unfortunate Ever Given remains in the
8 April 2021 Diary of a Corbynista Nippers on the March by Don Urquhart 1 April 1964 was the year the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and Nelson Mandela was incarcerated on Robben Island. In his London Grammar School Corbynista discovered that being a socialist was a minority sport. We held a mock
1 April 2021 Schools The case for hitting hard. By John Watson I have never made explosives but I have read about them in adventure stories and I gather the trick is to compress a mixture of two substances (weed killer and sugar for example), light the blue touch paper and wait for the bang.
1 April 2021 Mrs C, Mr O, and Mr B “Lucky” Joe? By J.R. Thomas Those suspecting this to be a film review are not that far wrong. The film is not yet in production, but the book is out and what a great movie it will make. “Lucky”*, it is called. We tip Henry
1 April 2021 Race Relations A cultural issue. By Lynda Goetz Last week Batley Grammar School closed its doors and the headmaster, Gary Kibble, issued an apology as Muslim parents and representatives of local Muslim groups gathered at the school gates to protest vociferously and demand the sacking of a teacher who showed a cartoon
1 April 2021 Same Sea – Different Boat The long road to financial health. By Frank O’Nomics A combination of decent weather and an easing of lockdown restrictions have made us all more bullish. Fuelled by an upbeat PM, with academic gravitas added by Andy Haldane, the Chief Economist of the Bank of England, we
01 April 2021 Incredible But true? By Neil Tidmarsh Here’s a list of incredible stories in the news this week. Incredible – but true? Well, that’s for you to decide. Today is 1st April, after all. Read on and see if you can spot which of the following is (are) the April fool(s), the joker(s)
1 April 2021 Lies, Damned Lies and Coronavirus International comparisons by David Chilvers We are now one year since the original UK coronavirus lockdown. During this time, 126,670 individuals have died in this country with or from COVID-19, as evidenced on the daily Coronavirus dashboard using the “died within 28 days of a positive test”
