6 August 2015 Moveable goalposts and flexible border-Are fences the answer? by Lynda Goetz With all the news of migrations focusing on Calais, assaults on the Channel tunnel and overloaded ships sinking in the Mediterranean, it may have escaped your notice that Hungary has been having problems of its own. Having joined the EU eleven… Continue reading Issue 14: 2015 08 05:Moveable goalposts and flexible borders
Author: John Watson
Issue 14: 2015 08 06: Fading Icons: Belting the Green Belts
6 August 2015 Fading Icons: Belting the Green Belts by J.R.Thomas From the consultative process-ridden, consensual lobbyist-polished, days of the first quarter of the twenty first century it is difficult to imagine the vigour of Clement Attlee and his post-war government. What energy, what dedication, what strength of purpose, what clarity of vision, that first unfettered… Continue reading Issue 14: 2015 08 06: Fading Icons: Belting the Green Belts
Issue 14: 2015 08 06: Ancient liberties
6 August 2015 Ancient Liberties by J. R. Thomas One of the great growth industries of the last 40 years is the anti-discrimination business. Whilst not perhaps solely Britain’s gift to the world – we must offer due deference to the USA in this – we have certainly become market leaders in the rooting… Continue reading Issue 14: 2015 08 06: Ancient liberties
Issue 11: 2015 07 16: contents
16 July 2015: Issue 11 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment To boldly go… in the starship Free Enterprise by Neil Tidmarsh The future of space travel is blasting off from the private sector The people who cannot afford it by John Watson There is real pain behind the budget figures All the President’s People by J.R.Thomas… Continue reading Issue 11: 2015 07 16: contents
Issue 11: 2015 07 16: Groping Women
15 July 2015 Groping Women by Lynda Goetz A brief item, of only a dozen or so paragraphs in one of the national dailies, caught my eye the other day. It was, a little further research revealed, based on a piece in the Inverness Chronicle several days earlier. The report was about groups… Continue reading Issue 11: 2015 07 16: Groping Women
Issue 11: 2015 07 16: To boldly go…
16 July 2015 To boldly go… in the starship Free Enterprise by Neil Tidmarsh It’s been a good week for space exploration. NASA scored an impressive double whammy: its New Horizons probe began to send back stunning photos of Pluto from the outer reaches of the solar system; and it announced that it has begun… Continue reading Issue 11: 2015 07 16: To boldly go…
Issue 11: 2015 07 16: INTERNATIONAL NEWS
16 July 2015 Week in Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS AFGHANISTAN: A US drone strike has killed Shahidullah Shahid (a senior Isis commander) and five other militants, according to the Afghan intelligence agency. BAHRAIN: Ibrahim Sharif, an opposition leader who was jailed following Arab Spring protests, has been arrested a month after finishing his four-year sentence. BRAZIL:… Continue reading Issue 11: 2015 07 16: INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Issue 11: 2015 07 16: BUSINESS AND THE CITY
16 July 2015 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY BUSY PARKER: Tim Parker, who is rapidly becoming one of the great and the good, added to his reputation in that august forum when he was announced as the new chairman of the Post Office this week. Mr Parker is already chairman of Samsonite,… Continue reading Issue 11: 2015 07 16: BUSINESS AND THE CITY
Issue 10: 2015 07 09:contents
9 July 2015: Issue 10 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment Negotiations? Which Negotiations? by Neil Tidmarsh The discussions in Vienna are far more important than the debate about Greece Mr Tsipras’s tactics by John Watson Looking for method in the Greek madness Surplus Energy by J.R.Thomas Just what is keeping the oil price down? Features GM Humans… Continue reading Issue 10: 2015 07 09:contents
Issue 10: 2015 07 09: International news
9 July 2015 Week in Brief : INTERNATIONAL NEWS AFGHANISTAN: Four men sentenced to death for leading a mob which murdered a woman accused of burning a Koran have had their sentences reduced. An appeal court in Kabul sentenced three of the men to twenty years in jail and the fourth to ten years.… Continue reading Issue 10: 2015 07 09: International news
Issue 10: 2015 07 09: business news
9 July 2015 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY EMPTYING WALLETS: George Osborne, the Chancellor, has been indicated that his budget speech will announce proposals for a further extension of permitted retail trading on Sundays. By the time you have this issue that will be confirmed, or not, but certainly there is a lot… Continue reading Issue 10: 2015 07 09: business news
Issue 10: 2015 07 09:GM Humans
9 July 2015 GM Humans by Lynda Goetz There have been a lot of items in the news this week, although most of them seem to have been overshadowed by Greece, the prospect of the Budget and the Royal christening – probably in that order. However one of the things which I picked up on… Continue reading Issue 10: 2015 07 09:GM Humans
Issue 9: 2015 07 02: contents
2 July 2015: Issue 9 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment The Referendum Card by John Watson The apex of democracy or just another manoeuvre? The Refugee Crisis; Any Solutions? by Neil Tidmarsh Just what can be done about the Mediterranean migrants? Fading Icons: Digging the National Parks by J.R.Thomas The permission for the North York Moors… Continue reading Issue 9: 2015 07 02: contents
