22 July 2021 Magic Money Reform class 4 contributions. By Robert Kilconner What could it be, that scuttling noise in the corners of the room, the sound of furniture being moved, of carpets being pulled up? Is it the result of some subterranean upheaval or perhaps even a plague of rats? No, nothing so dramatic
22 July 2021 Afghanistan China’s turn. By Neil Tidmarsh Last week, an explosion on board a bus in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkwa province sent the vehicle plunging down a ravine. The bus was transporting thirty Chinese engineers to the Dasu hydroelectric dam project. Nine of them were killed. There were at least four other fatalities, including
22 July 2021 Diary of a Corbynista Freedom Day for Coronavirus by Don Urquhart 15 July He is making a Horlicks of managing the pandemic. The England football team refuses to talk to him because of racism. Health professionals are rebelling against his sell-out of the NHS. So the instruction to the tame journalists –
22 July 2021 Watch This Space By Paul Branch Much has been happening in space this past month, both near and far, and of course in such a high tech area many more developments are to be expected to excite the mind and stimulate the juices. Some will be beneficial, either to the collective good
15 July 2021 The Downer And its political consequences. By John Watson Those who study quantum physics will tell you that matter has a dual nature. Sometimes it is a collection of particles and at other times a series of waves. This wave characterisation is counterintuitive and makes the subject difficult to understand, a difficulty
15 July 2021 Coup Confusion Haiti, Jordan, Venezuela. By Neil Tidmarsh Military precision? Hardly. Interim prime minister Claude Joseph called it “a highly co-ordinated attack by a highly trained and heavily armed group”, but there was little evidence of either training or co-ordination in the assassination’s aftermath (although whoever killed Jovenel Moïse must indeed have
15 July 2021 Playing the Game By J.R. Thomas Don’t worry, there is minimal reference to football in what follows… Politics, like so many matters in the affairs of women (and by this, as always, we include men and all persons of whatsoever sexual disposition and none) runs in fashions. Eighteenth century Europe saw an
15 July 2021 Fundamental Change Redesigning government. By Robert Kilconner Blink and you could miss it. Close your eyes for a second and it could pass you by. But, hardly heard against the noise of the public debate about Brexit, Covid, carbon levels and levelling up, there is another discussion going on which is perhaps
15 July 2021 Diary of a Corbynista Johnson as Life Coach by Don Urquhart 8 July Message Board responses to Corbynista in Shaw Sheet 285: Walsall: I fully support the view from the current teaching profession and am very pleased for this teacher’s experience. Given that my view is based on education in the 60’s
