2 July 2015 Week in Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS GREECE: Alexis Tsipras rejected the EU’s final deal on economic reform. Consequently, further bail-out funds were withheld so Greece failed to pay the 1.6 billion euros due to the IMF this week. Tsipras announced a referendum for this Sunday so Greece can vote for or against the austerity… Continue reading Issue 9: 2015 07 02:overseas news
Author: John Watson
Issue 9:2015 07 02:BUSINESS AND THE CITY
2 July 2015 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY BULGING WALLETS: The British Chancellor, George Osborne, has advised British tourists going on holiday to Greece to prepare for banking chaos as a Greek default on its external debts seems more and more likely. The Chancellor’s advice is to carry all the cash needed for… Continue reading Issue 9:2015 07 02:BUSINESS AND THE CITY
Issue 9: 2015 07 02:The Refugee Crisis; Any Solutions?
2 July 2015 The Refugee Crisis; Any Solutions? by Neil Tidmarsh The migrant crisis intensified this week, with violent scenes in Calais, registration procedures breaking down in Greece and Italy and the World Food Programme running out of funds to feed Syrian refugees in Jordan. Last Wednesday, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees reported that… Continue reading Issue 9: 2015 07 02:The Refugee Crisis; Any Solutions?
Issue 8: 2015 06 25: crossword solution
25 June 3015 Solution to issue 7 crossword Generally Marine Across 1 Schooner 6 Ankara 8 Bargee 9 Locker 10 Matelot 12 Oregano 13 Sinking 15 Hawkins 16 Inland 18 Addles 20 Stoker 21 Tientsin Down 1 Sub 2 Horatio Nelson 3 Openly 4 Rail 5 Falkland Isles 7 Airlocks 10 Midships… Continue reading Issue 8: 2015 06 25: crossword solution
Issue 8: 2015 06 25: contents
25 June 2015: Issue 8 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment The threat from outside the bubble by John Watson How public opinion is beginning to rock the consensus on which Europe is built Who was Ioannis Kapodistrias? by Neil Tidmarsh A look at the historic link between Greece and Russia End Austerity now! by J.R.Thomas There… Continue reading Issue 8: 2015 06 25: contents
Issue 8:2015 06 25; overseas news
25 JUNE 2015 Week in Brief:OVERSEAS NEWS GREECE: An emergency meeting in Brussels between Greece and the European Council and the European Central Bank to discuss compromise Greek proposals on pension cuts and VAT increases was postponed in chaos and confusion because Alexis Tsipras failed to submit the proposals in time. Nevertheless, news of… Continue reading Issue 8:2015 06 25; overseas news
Issue 8:2015 06 25:Who Was Ioannis Kapodistrias?
25 June 2015 Who was Ioannis Kapodistrias? by Neil Tidmarsh The Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras flew to Russia this week to meet with President Putin at the Saint Petersburg Economic Forum. But his first engagement on arrival was to lay a wreath at the monument to Ioannis Kapodistrias in Saint Petersburg’s Grecheskaya Ploshchad (Greek… Continue reading Issue 8:2015 06 25:Who Was Ioannis Kapodistrias?
Issue 8: 2015 06 25: Financial news
25 June 2015 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY WORKING HARDER: Or, at least, more efficiently. The Bank of England has several times in recent years expressed serious concerns over UK productivity – lack of, that is, compared with the USA and most of Europe – blaming factors from difficult commuting conditions to the… Continue reading Issue 8: 2015 06 25: Financial news
Issue8: 2015 06 25:Brits in Brive
25 June 2015 Brits in Brive by Robert Rhodes We are now immigrants in France – for the next 5 years. The brief was to rent an old stone house with a large, cultivable garden on the edge of a quiet village no more than 20 kms from Brive-la-Gaillarde. We had ventured across the Channel… Continue reading Issue8: 2015 06 25:Brits in Brive
Issue 7: 2015 06 18:contents
18 June 2015: Issue 7 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment A Question of Trust by John Watson Should it be the judges or the Home Office who have the job of taming the spooks? Troubled Bridge Over Water by J.R.Thomas Doubts assail the Garden Bridge I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes Unto The Hills… but not… Continue reading Issue 7: 2015 06 18:contents
Issue7: 2105 06 18: How to be a Good Housewife/Househusband
18 June 2015 How to be a Good Housewife/Househusband by Lynda Goetz It is distinctly unfashionable these days to be a housewife, but if you do find yourself in this role, you will surely wish to do it to the best of your ability. Here are 10 simple pointers. 1 Make breakfast for… Continue reading Issue7: 2105 06 18: How to be a Good Housewife/Househusband
Issue 7: 2015 06 18:Sir Tim Hunt
18 June 2015 Sir Tim Hunt by Lynda Goetz I had not heard of Sir Tim Hunt until about a week ago. Perhaps I should have done, since he is a Nobel prize-winning scientist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2001 with two other scientists, Paul Nurse and Leland H.… Continue reading Issue 7: 2015 06 18:Sir Tim Hunt
Issue7: 2015 06 18:International news
18 June 2o15 Week in Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS GREECE: The IMF withdrew from talks with Greece, after negotiations about economic reforms remained deadlocked. ITALY: President Putin of Russia met prime minister Matteo Renzi in Milan, reminding him of the high economic price Italy is paying for the EU sanctions against Russia and Russia’s retaliatory embargo… Continue reading Issue7: 2015 06 18:International news
