27 August 2015: Issue 17 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment Biding their time by J.R.Thomas Some light on Mrs Clinton’s campaign for the Democratic nomination El Dorado’s ghost by Neil Tidmarsh still draws blood Tianjin: It tolls for thee by John Watson How should we manage the big risks? Features Dogs and their… Continue reading Issue 17: 2015 08 27: contents
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Issue 18:2015 09 03:BUSINESS AND THE CITY
3 September 2015 Week in Brief :BUSINESS AND THE CITY PESTS: One of British commerce’s less known success stories is Rentokil Initial, a FTSE 250 company which specialises in office services of all types – from paper towel supply to rat catching to full facilities management. It had a long record, over 25 years,… Continue reading Issue 18:2015 09 03:BUSINESS AND THE CITY
Issue 18: 2015 09 03: INTERNATIONAL NEWS
3 September 2015 Week in Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS AFGHANISTAN: The Taliban have taken Musa Qala in Helmand province, defeating Afghan forces supported by US airstrikes. AUSTRIA: A lorry abandoned on a motorway near the Hungarian border was found to contain the decomposing bodies of up to 50 migrants. AZERBAIJAN: An investigative journalist has been sentenced… Continue reading Issue 18: 2015 09 03: INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Issue 18:2015 09 03: Oh Lord
3 September 2015 Oh Lord by J.R. Thomas “Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad”. If this applies to institutions, then maybe it explains what is going on with the House of Lords. Britain’s second parliamentary chamber is now the second largest in the world, with 882 members, surpassed only by that… Continue reading Issue 18:2015 09 03: Oh Lord
Issue18: 2015 09 03: Distant Trumpets
3 September 2015 Distant Trumpets by J.R. Thomas In the USA there is no August holiday for those running in the primaries either for the Republicans or for the Democrats. Indeed, holiday season is seen as an opportunity for the candidates to get out into the open air, especially to the State Fairs, and push… Continue reading Issue18: 2015 09 03: Distant Trumpets
Issue 18:2015 09 03: BUY TO LET
3 September 2015 Buy-to-let by Lynda Goetz ‘Buy-to-let’ is a term coined in the Nineties referring, obviously, to the purchase of property for the purpose of letting or renting it out. This was, of course, no new phenomenon, but there had been a massive decline in the UK housing stock which was available to rent,… Continue reading Issue 18:2015 09 03: BUY TO LET
ISSUE 18: 2015 09 03: To Russia with Love
3 September 2015 To Russia, with Love by Neil Tidmarsh This week, Vitaly Milanov has been making headlines again. Mr Milanov is the St Petersburg city councillor, member of Mr Putin’s ruling United Russia party and Orthodox Christian activist whose “anti-gay propaganda law”, forbidding the promotion of gay and lesbian lifestyles to minors, was… Continue reading ISSUE 18: 2015 09 03: To Russia with Love
Issue16:2015 08 20 Contents
20 August 2015: Issue 16 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment Now I’m a Union Man by J.R.Thomas Finding a way forward for British Trade Unionism Tourism v Terrorism by Neil Tidmarsh A source of hope in Gaza Duty Free Sales- a nasty piece of bullying by John Watson A slander exploded Features Education for All… Continue reading Issue16:2015 08 20 Contents
Issue 17:2015 08 27:Internships
27 August 2015 Internships by Lynda Goetz A useful career move or an exploitation of young people? ‘All Apprenticeships are real jobs so all apprentices earn a salary’ (GOV.UK A Guide to Apprenticeships). Unfortunately for those looking for on-the-job training in the so-called white-collar world, internships are not only frequently unpaid, they… Continue reading Issue 17:2015 08 27:Internships
Issue 17:2015 08 27: BUSINESS AND THE CITY
27 August 2015 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY BLACK MONDAY?: So the Tuesday headlines might have had you believe. Certainly stock markets round the world dropped very abruptly, and the cause is very easy to find – the faltering of the Chinese economy. China has had a long run of economic growth, around twenty… Continue reading Issue 17:2015 08 27: BUSINESS AND THE CITY
Issue 17:20015 08 27: International News
27 August 2015 Week in Brief:INTERNATIONAL NEWS BANGLADESH: Counter-terrorism police have arrested three supreme court lawyers accused of financing a militant Islamic group. BRAZIL: Eduardo Cunha, the Speaker of the Lower House of Congress, has been charged with receiving bribes of £3 million in the scandal engulfing Petrobas, the state-owned oil company. Scientific tests in… Continue reading Issue 17:20015 08 27: International News
Issue 17: 2015 08 27;Dogs and their Owners
27 August 2015 Dogs and their Owners by Serena Sinclair It has long been noted that people often buy dogs which reflect aspects of their appearance or personality. The cartoonists have had great fun with the images of lanky, long-haired models with look-alike Afghan hounds or the primped poodles with similarly beribboned owners. We tend… Continue reading Issue 17: 2015 08 27;Dogs and their Owners
Issue 17: 2015 08 27: El Dorado’s Ghost
27 August 2015 El Dorado’s Ghost by Neil Tidmarsh Gold! Innately beautiful, never tarnishing, durable, malleable, relatively scarce – is it any wonder that it’s always been mankind’s standard measure of all things, from aesthetics to economics? At the same time, is it any wonder that a gold coin will almost inevitably have its… Continue reading Issue 17: 2015 08 27: El Dorado’s Ghost
