7 May 2015 Vets Bills and NHS Costs by Lynda Goetz I had to take the dog to the vet this week and the impressive, if quite expensive, treatment it was given has prompted some thoughts about our expectations of the service veterinary practices provide for our animals and those provided by the NHS for… Continue reading Issue 2:2015 05 14:Vets Bills and NHS Costs
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Issue1: 2015 05 07 Wolf Whistles
7 May 2015 Wolf Whistles Lynda Goetz When I was teaching English in Seville more years ago than I now care to calculate, I was around the same age as Poppy Smart is now. My walk each day from my flat to the ‘Instituto Britannico’ ,where I taught, took me through the streets of… Continue reading Issue1: 2015 05 07 Wolf Whistles
Issue 1:2015 07 05 City news
7 may 2015 Week in brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY J SAINSBURY: Sainsbury followed the other UK major supermarket chains in reporting weakness in 2014 trading with a 15% fall in trading profits, to £681m. As with Tesco, who shocked the market with record losses last month, Sainsbury took large one-off special charges and… Continue reading Issue 1:2015 07 05 City news
Issue 1: 2015 05 07 UK NEWS
7 May 2015 Week in Brief: UK NEWS ELECTION NEWS: As election day dawns, the polls still show the parties neck and neck with the Conservatives ahead by a whisker. It seems likely that tactical voting will save Mr Clegg at Sheffield Hallam but on the broader stage it may well be that no… Continue reading Issue 1: 2015 05 07 UK NEWS
Issue 1: 2015 05 07 Fading Icons: The stuffing is pulled out of the National Trust
7 May 2015 Fading Icons: The stuffing is pulled out of the National Trust by R J Thomas Injudicious if revealing words have got Dame Helen Ghosh, Director General of the National Trust, the rural land and buildings conservation group and the largest landowner in England and Wales, into boiling water with the traditionalist wing… Continue reading Issue 1: 2015 05 07 Fading Icons: The stuffing is pulled out of the National Trust
Issue 1: 2015 05 07 international news brief
7 May 2015 Week in brief: INTERNATIONAL GREECE: A delay in pension payments saw pensioners queuing at banks, emptying their accounts and breaking into a board meeting of the state pension fund to demand that it stops transferring its cash reserves to the government (an emergency decree to keep the country solvent has recently forced… Continue reading Issue 1: 2015 05 07 international news brief
Issue 1: 2015 05 07 contents page
7 May 2015: Issue 1 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment Democracy under siege by John Watson Manipulation of the electoral system is not restricted abuses of the type identified by the Election Court as having occurred in Tower Hamlets. Parliament should look to its own processes. Saudi Arabia and Yemen by Neil Tidmarsh Just… Continue reading Issue 1: 2015 05 07 contents page
Issue 1: 2015 Democracy under siege
7 May 2015 Democracy under siege by John Watson It is not often that a 200 page legal judgement can be described as “a good read”, so the decision of the Election Court in relation to the Tower Hamlets mayoral elections of 2014 is something of an achievement. The judge, Richard Mawrey QC, is dispassionate… Continue reading Issue 1: 2015 Democracy under siege
Issue 1: Crossword – Russia
7 May 2015 Crossword by Boffles How well do you know Russia? Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
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