21 March 2019 Go Joe Go Early runners. by J R Thomas In politics, there is nothing like name recognition. Probably in the mad world of British politics it would not be a good idea to be a Thatcher running for the Labour Party – and certainly not a Blair. But Kinnock… Continue reading Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Go Joe Go
Article Category: Comment
Issue 194: 2019 03 21: White Knuckle Ride
21 March 2019 White Knuckle Ride Last chance for May deal. By John Watson Arlene Foster has said that you do your deal when you can see the whites of the eyes and her theory will now be tested in practice. With Donald Tusk’s statement that the EU will only grant a postponement of Brexit… Continue reading Issue 194: 2019 03 21: White Knuckle Ride
Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Cut Our Taxes, M Macron
21 March 2019 Cut our taxes, Mr Macron But don’t take away what they pay for. By Richard Pooley You may have seen the picture of the black graffito on the pale wall of Cartier’s swanky jewellery store on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris. It was sprayed around the Cartier plaque by a presumably… Continue reading Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Cut Our Taxes, M Macron
Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Diary of a Corbynista
21 March 2019 Diary of a Corbynista The Whites of their Eyes by Don Urquhart 14 March As an Arsenal fan I have always been regarded by fellow gooners as too indulgent of the transgressions of such as Eboué, Arshavin, and more recently Mustaphi and Iwobi. My son received a letter from Theresa Villiers, our… Continue reading Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Double Trouble
21 March 2019 Double Trouble Conspiracy theories. By Neil Tidmarsh Where is the real President Bongo of Gabon? And the real Melania Trump? And the real President Bouteflika of Algeria? And the real President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria..? Hang on, hang on. Shaw Sheet may be a genuine child of the twenty-first century internet, but… Continue reading Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Double Trouble
Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Bin Bags for Life
21 March 2019 Bin Bags For Life Solutions to the plastic problem. By Frank O’Nomics I have given up taking my own bags to the supermarket – on environmental grounds. There is little more annoying than coming up with a solution to a problem, only to discover that the solution only makes the problem worse.… Continue reading Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Bin Bags for Life
Issue 194: 2019 03 21: So Much To Celebrate
21 March 2019 So Much to Celebrate. Bugger Brexit! It’s Spring! By Lynda Goetz It would have been very easy to give in to the temptation to rant about Brexit this week. Who doesn’t want to? Whether you were/are a Remainer or a Leaver, the current mess into which PM, Government and Parliament have led… Continue reading Issue 194: 2019 03 21: So Much To Celebrate
Issue 193: 2019 03 14: The Megarich?
14 March 2019 The Megarich? A Times investigation. By John Watson 28 billionaires out of 93. Almost one third of British billionaires live in tax havens (assuming you regard Switzerland as a tax haven and not somewhere you go to make cuckoo clocks and listen to cowbells). So at any rate says The Times in… Continue reading Issue 193: 2019 03 14: The Megarich?
Issue 193: 2019 03 14: The Game of Cheat
14 March 2019 The Great Game of Cheat A Plan B for Brexit. By J R Thomas In the build up to the Battle of El Alamein in 1941, that gifted German general Erwin Rommel spent a great deal of time planning the battle and how he would win it against the British and Anzac… Continue reading Issue 193: 2019 03 14: The Game of Cheat
Issue 193: 2019 03 14: The Blame Game
14 March 2019 The Blame Game The need to find fault. By Lynda Goetz As Theresa May’s unsatisfactory deal was resoundingly defeated in Parliament for the second time on Tuesday night, she herself looked distant and resigned. Elsewhere, however, the blame game had already started. ‘If it weren’t for those bloody Brexiteers sabotaging all her… Continue reading Issue 193: 2019 03 14: The Blame Game
Issue 193: 2019 03 14: El Helicoide
14 March 2019 El Helicoide Hell in Caracas. By Neil Tidmarsh The massive and futuristic El Helicoide centre in Caracas was designed and built as a shopping mall – but it’s now the headquarters of Venezuela’s security service and intelligence agency SEBIN (the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service). What a perfect metaphor for the failure of… Continue reading Issue 193: 2019 03 14: El Helicoide
Issue 193: 2019 03 14: Diary of a Corbynista
14 March 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Nothing has changed by Don Urquhart 7 March Naz Shah, the MP for Bradford West asked the Leader of the House to schedule a debate on Islamophobia. Instead Ms Leadsom advised her to seek the advice of Foreign Office ministers on the subject. And while she‘s about it… Continue reading Issue 193: 2019 03 14: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 193: 2019 03 14: Trump’s Mistake
14 March 2019 Donald Trump’s big mistake Is the US economy fading? By Frank O’Nomics In politics timing is everything. Just when those who want a political change in the US were beginning to despair over a lack of credible opposition, signs emerge that the economic tide could be turning against the President. One should… Continue reading Issue 193: 2019 03 14: Trump’s Mistake
