20 August 2015 Letter Mr Corbyn’s priorities Sir Yesterday, as a registered supporter of the Labour Party I received an email outlining the offerings of each of the 4 leadership candidates, and 5 deputy leadership candidates. Here is Jeremy Corbyn’s: We can win in 2020, but only if we spend the next five years building… Continue reading Issue 16:2015 08 2015:letters
Author: John Watson
Issue 16:2015 08 20: Recycling – myths and facts
20 August 2015 Recycling – myths and facts By Lynda Goetz When my mother-in-law died, she left, apart from some beautiful furniture, a couple of drawers full of luxurious bed linen. I was more than happy to take on the care and custody of all these items. Will the same be true of my daughters? So… Continue reading Issue 16:2015 08 20: Recycling – myths and facts
Issue16: 2015 08 20:Fading Icons: The Company Tie
20 August 2015 Fading Icons: The Company Tie by J.R.Thomas The icons in this series may fade but their corporate colours are still loud and clear. This week we come to an icon which is fading not just metaphorically but, often, literally. Nowadays, only too frequently, these dull but resonant symbols of the loyal… Continue reading Issue16: 2015 08 20:Fading Icons: The Company Tie
Issue 16:2015 08 20:Education for all
20 August 2015 Education for all By Serena Sinclair Lord Kenneth Baker who was Education Secretary from 1986 to 1989 told the Sunday Telegraph that the GCSEs are ripe for review. He takes the view that, as all pupils are now obliged by law to stay on in some form of education until 18, GCSEs… Continue reading Issue 16:2015 08 20:Education for all
Issue 16: 2015 08 20: BUSINESS AND THE CITY
20 August 2015 News in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY NOFLATION: The new word for lack of inflation, and indeed, lack of deflation. That seems as though it might continue to be the state of the price indices in the UK for a while yet. Having escaped the fear of deflation last year, the… Continue reading Issue 16: 2015 08 20: BUSINESS AND THE CITY
Issue 16: 2015 08 20: International News
20 August 2015 News in Brief:INTERNATIONAL NEWS AUSTRALIA: Surfers’ beaches at Ballina, Lennox Head and Bondi Beach have been abandoned following shark attacks and sightings off the New South Wales coast. BAHRAIN: Ibrahim Sharif, the former head of the opposition National Democratic Action Society, is facing new charges of urging the overthrow of the… Continue reading Issue 16: 2015 08 20: International News
Issue 16: 2015 08 20:MISSION IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION
20 August 2015 Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation by Neil Tidmarsh Which kind of spy thriller would you prefer to watch? a) An old-fashioned, pre digital-age movie where the athletic hero captures the crucial top secret information by breaking into the evil genius’s headquarters, beating up the guards, out-running the vicious guard-dogs, blasting open the… Continue reading Issue 16: 2015 08 20:MISSION IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION
Issue 16:2015 08 20:TOURISM v. TERRORISM
20 August 2015 Tourism v. Terrorism by Neil Tidmarsh Summer holidays, August 2015. The sun is hot, the swimming pool is invitingly cool and fresh, the sunlight glitters and sparkles on the warm waters of the Mediterranean which meets a cloudless blue sky on a shimmering horizon. Sicily… the South of France… the Balearics… Gaza… … Continue reading Issue 16:2015 08 20:TOURISM v. TERRORISM
Issue 15: 2015 08 13:Grousing about
13 August 2015 Grousing About by J R Thomas George Earl’s great painting “Going North – Kings Cross” depicts an astonishing hubbub of activity at King’s Cross Station the day before the Glorious Twelfth of 1893. The platform (no barriers then of course) was crowded with spaniels, setters, pointers (but no labradors – their day… Continue reading Issue 15: 2015 08 13:Grousing about
Issue 15: 2015 08 13:Leadership Matters
13 August 2015 Leadership Matters by J.R. Thomas On each side of the Atlantic the struggles continue. On the western side of the ocean, to edge ever nearer to being the possible leader of the free world in 2016; on the eastern side, a rather longer term play, to move towards becoming Her Majesty’s first… Continue reading Issue 15: 2015 08 13:Leadership Matters
Issue 15: 2015 08 13: What your name says about you
13 August 2015 What your name says about you by Lynda Goetz What’s in a name? A great deal, actually. Let’s just take surnames to start with. These can, as most people know, indicate many things, such as where your ancestors came from; what their occupations were; what they looked like or indeed their relationship… Continue reading Issue 15: 2015 08 13: What your name says about you
Issue 15: 2015 08 13: Week in Brief Financial
13 August 2015 Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY SLOWING DOWN THE PUMPS: Has Saudi Arabia’s nerve finally cracked? The oil price has been heading down for months, but the Saudis, unlike in previous price slumps, have kept their production up, with much speculation as to what their strategy was – the most popular… Continue reading Issue 15: 2015 08 13: Week in Brief Financial
Issue 14: 2015 08 06:letters
6 August 2015 Letter Labour leadership I think JR Thomas in Issue 13 might be underestimating the appeal and therefore the chances of Jeremy Corbyn. I write as a lifelong Lefty who has not voted Labour for many years, preferring the policies of the Green Party. I have registered as a Labour Party supporter only… Continue reading Issue 14: 2015 08 06:letters
