14 May 2015 Crossword by Boffles Celebration of the Bard To see a printable version of this crossword Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Author: John Watson
Issue5|:2015 06 04:“Your train is delayed because someone couldn’t be bothered to live anymore”
4 June 2015 “Your train is delayed because someone couldn’t be bothered to live anymore” by Lynda Goetz Shocking, yes, but consider the other viewpoint. On Friday May 22nd the 16.36 from Paddington to Plymouth was apparently delayed by a suicide. This is not as uncommon as many people would like to believe.… Continue reading Issue5|:2015 06 04:“Your train is delayed because someone couldn’t be bothered to live anymore”
Issue 4:2015 05 28:Breakfast through the ages
28 May 2015 Breakfast through the Ages by Lynda Goetz Adelle Davis (1904-1974), an American health guru (about whom I know very little), has been attributed with the quote “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper”. I have also heard it as ‘Breakfast like a king; lunch like… Continue reading Issue 4:2015 05 28:Breakfast through the ages
Issue 4:2015 05 28: A surfeit of Lampreys?
28 May 2015 A surfeit of Lampreys? By Chin Chin It is the English summer again with its associations with strawberries and cream and with the crack of willow on leather. These days, however, there is something else too. There is the beginning of a search for the remains of another English king, buried, as… Continue reading Issue 4:2015 05 28: A surfeit of Lampreys?
Issue 4: 2015 05 28:The Queen’s Speech
28 May 2105 The Queen’s Speech by John Watson The speech which the Queen makes at the opening of Parliament is always something of a mixture and that is never more so than immediately after a general election. The Queen doesn’t write it herself, of course. Although she reads it out, it is written by… Continue reading Issue 4: 2015 05 28:The Queen’s Speech
Issue 4 :2015 05 28: UK News
28 May 2015 Week in Brief:UK NEWS QUEEN’S SPEECH: Yesterday saw the opening of Parliament and the Queens’s speech which outlines the government’s legislative programme. Included were proposals to ensure that : people who work thirty hours a week at the National Minimum Wage do not pay income tax; there will be no rise in… Continue reading Issue 4 :2015 05 28: UK News
Issue 4:2015 05 28:Business and the City
28 May 2015 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY THE PROPERTY MARKET: The De Montfort Report, the comprehensive annual survey of debt trends in the UK commercial property market has been published. This long running report, compiled by De Montfort University by analysis of detailed returns from what is believed to be around… Continue reading Issue 4:2015 05 28:Business and the City
Issue 3:2015 05 21:Contents
21 May 2015: Issue 3 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment Samurai Rising by Neil Tidmarsh Should we be worried or reassured by Japan’s move away from its ‘peace clause’? Not quite gentlemen: will the Guardian go back to Manchester? by John Watson It just isn’t nice to read other people’s correspondence. In a Pickle by… Continue reading Issue 3:2015 05 21:Contents
Issue3: 2015 05 21:Not quite gentlemen: will the Guardian go back to Manchester?
21 May 2015 Not quite gentlemen: will the Guardian go back to Manchester? by John Watson Readers familiar with Conan Doyle’s Brigadier Gerard stories (and if you haven’t read them you should – they are every bit as good as Sherlock Holmes), will remember the one about his escape from Dartmoor. In his flight across… Continue reading Issue3: 2015 05 21:Not quite gentlemen: will the Guardian go back to Manchester?
Issue3:2015 05 21:‘Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense’ (Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland )
21 May 2015 ‘Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense’ (Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland ) by Lynda Goetz Last week head teacher Janet Felkin was apparently cleared of a ‘disability hate crime’. A what?! I checked my copy of George Orwell’s ‘1984’ and could only find reference to a ‘thought… Continue reading Issue3:2015 05 21:‘Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense’ (Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland )
Issue 3 :2015 05 21: Samauri Rising
21 May 2015 SAMURAI RISING by Neil Tidmarsh Should we be worried or reassured by Japan’s move away from its ‘peace clause’? This week, the deputy commander of the Royal Marines, Brigadier Richard Spencer, has been advising Japan on the creation of a marine commando force. Last week, Japan announced that it is hoping to… Continue reading Issue 3 :2015 05 21: Samauri Rising
Issue3: 2015 05 21:Welcome to Ourtown; twinned with Votreville
21 May 2015 Welcome to Ourtown; twinned with Votreville by Lynda Goetz Is there a future for Town Twinning? As the smiling young waitress cleared the plates, the attractive, petite French (or rather Bretonne) woman in her early 40s laughed and handed her phone across the table to me by way of response… Continue reading Issue3: 2015 05 21:Welcome to Ourtown; twinned with Votreville
Issue 3: 2015 05 21:Harriered to Death
21 May 2015 Harriered to Death by R.J. Thomas On a northern hillside there are strange goings on. Half hidden in a heather moor above the Forest of Bowland in North Lancashire are a small group of camouflaged figures, with survival rations and powerful binoculars, keeping a round the clock vigil. This is not,… Continue reading Issue 3: 2015 05 21:Harriered to Death
