20 December 2018 Christmas Quiz 2018 Answers by Boffles The Greek island of Skyros. He died of sepsis on his way to Gallipoli in 1915. The Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, where his grave is a tourist attraction. The Windrush scandal about the treatment of immigrants from the Commonwealth. She resigned after misleading… Continue reading Christmas Answers
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5 April 2o18 Quiz Answers By Boffles Do you know? Answers A copy of a magazine featuring Trump on the cover He got his crony, Medvedev, appointed President to keep his seat warm until he could be re-appointed in 2012 Kim Jong-nam, the half- brother of the North Korean leader, Kim… Continue reading Answers to quiz
Issue 133: 2017 12 14: What is the point of university? (Lynda Goetz)
14 December 2017 What Is The Point Of University? Dissatisfaction increases. by Lynda Goetz Over the last few months student loans and university tuition fees have been in the news, as well as the apparently excessive pay of a number of university vice-chancellors. In a week when the latter subject has once again been the… Continue reading Issue 133: 2017 12 14: What is the point of university? (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 133: 2017 12 14: Saakashvili v Poroshenko (Neil Tidmarsh)
14 December 2017 Saakashvili v Poroshenko Confrontation in Kiev. by Neil Tidmarsh They’re armed and masked when they come for him. But he escapes onto the rooftop while they’re smashing the door down. They give chase and finally corner him on the edge of a deep drop to the street below. He threatens to throw… Continue reading Issue 133: 2017 12 14: Saakashvili v Poroshenko (Neil Tidmarsh)
Issue 133:2017 12 14:Daisy pulls it off (Adam McCormack)
14 December 2014 Daisy Pulls It Off (a play by Denise Deegan) The Park Theatre reviewed by Adam McCormack. Star rating **** I really must be careful. Giving away the slightest hint of a plot-spoiler for this perfectly spiffing production could have me labelled a sneak by the “babes” of the Second Form and “sent… Continue reading Issue 133:2017 12 14:Daisy pulls it off (Adam McCormack)
Issue 133:2017 12 14:Does anyone understand bitcoin?(Frank O’Nomics)
14 December 2017 Does anyone understand bitcoin? Preoccupations with bubbles miss the point. by Frank O’Nomics. Come on now, you can’t deny that you wish you had a piece of the action. For an asset class to provide a return of 1700% on an investment over a ten month period, or for investors who have… Continue reading Issue 133:2017 12 14:Does anyone understand bitcoin?(Frank O’Nomics)
Issue 133:2017 12 14:Lens on the Week
14 December 2017 Lens on the Week UK GRENFELL TOWER: Today’s memorial service for those who died in the tragedy of Grenfell Tower brings focus to some of the pressures to which the disaster has given rise. Two are worth noting. The first is that as part of a campaign to appoint a panel representing… Continue reading Issue 133:2017 12 14:Lens on the Week
Issue 133:2017 12 14: Diary of a Corbynista (Don Urquhart)
14 December 2017 Diary of a Corbynista Jeremy takes his eye off the ball by Don Urquhart 7 December Jeremy used his 6 PMQ’s questions to attack the government’s Brexit performance. It was a big mistake. The PM was well rehearsed on this one and stuck obstinately to her script. He should have gone… Continue reading Issue 133:2017 12 14: Diary of a Corbynista (Don Urquhart)
Issue 133:2017 12 15:One year down..(J.R.Thomas)
14 December 2017 One Year Down… …seven to go? by J.R. Thomas Mr Trump has probably never doubted that was his destiny if he wanted it, but might his party be starting to think that way? Nothing succeeds like success of course. Mr Trump’s world tour is generally seen as a success with no… Continue reading Issue 133:2017 12 15:One year down..(J.R.Thomas)
issue 133:2017 10 14:An NHS GP at the tip of your young, healthy finger? (Naureen Bhatti)
14 December 2017 An NHS GP at the tip of your young, healthy finger? An East End GP explains the shortcomings By Naureen Bhatti Last month I wrote in the Guardian about the new ‘GP at Hand’ service that had been launched with very little warning, causing shockwaves across general practice. The private provider… Continue reading issue 133:2017 10 14:An NHS GP at the tip of your young, healthy finger? (Naureen Bhatti)
Issue 132 :2017 11 07:Lens on the week
07 December 2017 Lens on the Week UK AN IRISH KNOT: Forget when and what the DUP knew. Forget whether the choreography of Mrs May’s meeting with Mr Juncker was premature. The problem of the Irish border which currently bedevils the Brexit negotiations is a real one and the best way to disentangle the strands… Continue reading Issue 132 :2017 11 07:Lens on the week
Issue 132:2017 12 0:King Tut: A Pyramid Panto (Adam McCormack)
07 December 2017 King Tut: A Pyramid Panto by Charles Court Opera The King’s Head Theatre, Islington reviewed by Adam McCormack Star rating: **** There are two reasons (at least) why people have stopped going to panto. One is that we are an ageing population and, without a young person to take, there is little… Continue reading Issue 132:2017 12 0:King Tut: A Pyramid Panto (Adam McCormack)
Issue 132:2017 12 07:Exit Goldilocks – pursued by a bear (Frank O’Nomics)
07 December 2017 Exit Goldilocks – pursued by a bear Equity markets are dangerously high and ripe for a correction. by Frank O’Nomics For global equity investors this really has been the best of times. Inflation in the UK has picked up, but globally remains modest and it has been considerably outstripped by equity returns. … Continue reading Issue 132:2017 12 07:Exit Goldilocks – pursued by a bear (Frank O’Nomics)
