25 May 2017 Bath Brouhaha Prompts A Look At Rubbish And Recycling Global recycling day scheduled for 18 March 2018. By Lynda Goetz. I was rather fascinated by a seemingly trivial story which appeared in the national press this week concerning the residents of Tennyson Road in Bath. The story, featuring a picture attributed to… Continue reading Issue 106: 2017 05 25: Bath Brouhaha (Lynda Goetz)
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Issue 106: 2017 05 25: Week in Brief: UK
25 May 2017 Week in Brief: UK Terrorism EXPLOSION IN MANCHESTER: 22 people were killed and 59 others injured in a terrorist attack on a pop concert at the Manchester Arena. The blast occurred just after a performance by the American singer Ariana Grande and many of the victims were teenage fans. It is understood… Continue reading Issue 106: 2017 05 25: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 106: 2017 05 25: The Magic Flute (reviewed by John Watson)
25 May 2017 The Magic Flute King’s Head Theatre, Islington ***** Reviewed by John Watson Charles Court Opera, specialists in putting on opera in small places, is ideally suited to the Kings Head. This production, directed by John Savournin, cuts the work to the bone. The orchestra is replaced by a piano. The running time… Continue reading Issue 106: 2017 05 25: The Magic Flute (reviewed by John Watson)
Issue 105: 2017 05 18: Contents
18 May 2017: Issue 105 The week’s news- your chance to catch up: Comment The Templars And The Internet by John Watson The ghost of Jacques de Molay. Big Beasts by J R Thomas What will happen to the Lib Dems? Macron’s Discombobulation by Richard Pooley Upset of the French political landscape. Housing Stalemate by Frank O’Nomics… Continue reading Issue 105: 2017 05 18: Contents
Issue 106: 2017 05 25: My Nobel Prize (Chin Chin)
25 May 2017 My Nobel Prize Thank goodness for the ban on cultural appropriation. By Chin Chin I spent Saturday afternoon dusting; not the whole of my house, you will understand, but a patch on the mantelpiece in the front room where the medal for the Nobel prize is going to go. Just how big… Continue reading Issue 106: 2017 05 25: My Nobel Prize (Chin Chin)
Issue 106: 2017 05 25: The Care Blunder (John Watson)
25 May 2017 The Care Blunder The need for Jekyll and Hyde. By John Watson Rather disappointingly Hegel never actually said “thesis, antithesis and then synthesis” but you can see a good illustration of the idea in Mrs May’s political approach. Start with the thesis – the gradual increase in state provision control, which began… Continue reading Issue 106: 2017 05 25: The Care Blunder (John Watson)
Issue 105: 2017 05 18: Week in Brief: UK
18 May 2017 Week In Brief: UK Election news LABOUR MANIFESTO: Following leaks of a draft, the Labour manifesto was launched on Tuesday, pledging, amongst other things: that tuition fees and zero hour contracts would be scrapped and fracking for oil abolished; that the triple lock on pensions would be retained; that 10,000 new police… Continue reading Issue 105: 2017 05 18: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 104: 2017 05 11: Contents
11 May 2017: Issue 104 The week’s news – your chance to catch up Comment Pledges And Promises by John Watson The fun will shortly begin. On the Hill, Off the Rails by J R Thomas The administration takes shape. Sell In May And Go Away by Frank O’Nomics Or should we just put some “Vix” in… Continue reading Issue 104: 2017 05 11: Contents
Issue 105: 2017 05 18: The Templars and the Internet (John Watson)
18 May 2107 The Templars and the internet The ghost of Jacques de Molay By John Watson The ghost of a dead man haunts the internet. Whose can it be? Some unfortunate innocent, wrongly traduced online and driven in his despair to an early grave? No, of course there are such ghosts but this is… Continue reading Issue 105: 2017 05 18: The Templars and the Internet (John Watson)
Issue 105: 2017 05 18: FlowLight (Chin Chin)
18 May 2017 FlowLight Clever, but will it work? By Chin Chin From time to time science produces something which is really useful. The flushing water closet, for one thing: the self-sticking postage stamp for another. Both ideas moved civilisation forward without any apparent downside. Now at last, we may have another: step up, Dr… Continue reading Issue 105: 2017 05 18: FlowLight (Chin Chin)
Issue 104: 2017 05 11: Quiz – Answers
11 May 2017 Quiz – Answers by Boffles Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington. PayPal. Nikola Tesla, the Serbian-American engineer and scientist (1856-1943) who invented the alternating current (AC) induction motor. The Ottoman sultan, Mehmed II. Bosphorus comes from classical Greek and means cow passage (or ox-ford) and the name refers to the myth of… Continue reading Issue 104: 2017 05 11: Quiz – Answers
Issue 104: 2017 05 11: Quiz
11 May 2017 Quiz by Boffles Do you know? About whom did his mother say ‘I don’t know what I shall do with my awkward son Arthur’? From the sale in 2002 of which company did Elon Musk make a fortune? Who is Elon Musk’s electric car company named after? Who captured Constantinople in 1453?… Continue reading Issue 104: 2017 05 11: Quiz
Issue 104: 2017 05 11: Week in Brief: UK
11 May 2017 Week In Brief: UK Royal news DUCAL RETIREMENT: Prince Philip has announced that he will step down from his public role at the end of the summer, shortly after his 96th birthday. From then on, although he may himself decide to attend public events from time to time, other members of the… Continue reading Issue 104: 2017 05 11: Week in Brief: UK
