02 March 2017: Issue 94 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment Political Teflon by John Watson The contribution Mr Blair ought to make. The Occasional Shaw Sheet Cock-up Awards by Neil Tidmarsh And the winner of this week’s international Ossca is… Old Iron And Pots by J R Thomas Analysis of the by-election results. Football… Continue reading Issue 94: 2017 03 02: Contents
Author: Neil Tidmarsh
Issue 95: 2017 03 09: Quiz (William Morton)
09 March 2017 Do You Know? by Boffles Who was the last man to walk on the Moon? 2. What was Gauguin’s job before he dropped out? 3. What was Rimsky-Korsakov’s first career? What was the Great Hedge of India? Who or what is Billy Whizz? Share this using… Facebook… Continue reading Issue 95: 2017 03 09: Quiz (William Morton)
Issue 95: 2017 03 09: Quiz – answers (William Morton)
09 March 2017 Do You Know? Answers. by Boffles Gene Cernan on 14 December 1972 during the Apollo 17 mission. Stockbroker. He was a naval officer. A customs barrier running for hundreds of miles in India and consisting for much of its length of a thorn hedge and constructed by the British to enforce payment… Continue reading Issue 95: 2017 03 09: Quiz – answers (William Morton)
Issue 95: 2017 03 09: Oxford (Chin Chin)
09 March 2017 Oxford – An Education For The Feeble Minded? Safe spaces scores should sort the sheep from the goats. By Chin Chin We all like reading about witchcraft and that is one of the main reasons why, when I saw that Michael Gove’s article Silencing dissent will blight our universities in Friday’s The Times… Continue reading Issue 95: 2017 03 09: Oxford (Chin Chin)
Issue 95: 2017 03 09: Delivering the truth (John Watson)
09 March 2017 Delivering The Truth A focus on the arteries. By John Watson Politics by its very nature spawns slogans and also those descriptive expressions which bob along in their wake. We all remember the “wets” of the Thatcherite era, and the “big tent” of Tony Blair; time was when you could not go… Continue reading Issue 95: 2017 03 09: Delivering the truth (John Watson)
Issue 95: 2017 03 09: Is he French toast? (Richard Pooley)
09 March 2017 Is He French Toast? Why Fillon may yet win. By Richard Pooley “Lorsqu’un politicien n’est pas cru, il est cuit.” So wrote François Kersaudy, French historian, professor of English at the University of Paris and author of a book on Churchill and De Gaulle. The good professor would probably translate his comment,… Continue reading Issue 95: 2017 03 09: Is he French toast? (Richard Pooley)
Issue 95: 2017 03 09: Taking Responsibility For Ourselves (Lynda Goetz)
09 March 2017 Taking Responsibility For Ourselves Deciding you weren’t ‘into it’ does not mean you have been raped. By Lynda Goetz This is a subject I have addressed before on different occasions and in different ways (see Anonymity or spotlight in rape cases?) and is one on which I find I share almost 100% the views… Continue reading Issue 95: 2017 03 09: Taking Responsibility For Ourselves (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 95: 2017 03 09: Week in Brief: UK
09 March 2017 Week in Brief: UK BHS: Sir Philip Green has agreed to pay £363 million into the BHS pension scheme. Commentators have said that the payment was made in an attempt to salvage his reputation and to ensure that he would keep his knighthood. BREXIT: The Government suffered a defeat in the House… Continue reading Issue 95: 2017 03 09: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 95: 2017 03 09: Budget 2017 (Frank O’Nomics)
09 March 2017 Budget 2017 Biting the hands that feed you. By Frank O’Nomics Pre-Brexit caution is prudent, but the Chancellor may have undermined part of the engine of growth. The numbers look impressive. The independent forecasts from the Office of Budget Responsibility show UK growth forecasts of 2.0% this year and, despite a dip,… Continue reading Issue 95: 2017 03 09: Budget 2017 (Frank O’Nomics)
Issue 93: 2017 02 23: Contents
23 February 2017: Issue 93 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment Walking On The Seabed by John Watson The withdrawal of the Kraft bid is a stroke of luck for the government. The Future Of Civil Partnerships by Lynda Goetz To be extended or abolished? Dangerous Leanings by J R Thomas 38 degrees and… Continue reading Issue 93: 2017 02 23: Contents
Issue 94: 2017 03 02: Week in Brief: UK
02 March 2017 Week in Brief: UK WOOD PELLETS: A study just published has revealed that the UK pays millions of pounds in subsides to power stations to encourage them to burn American wood pellets. The report concludes that felling trees and transporting the pellets across the Atlantic to be burnt in the power stations… Continue reading Issue 94: 2017 03 02: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 94: 2017 03 02: En Primeur (Chin Chin)
02 March 2017 En Primeur Wines for the future? By Chin Chin If the state of London high streets is anything to go by, estate agency is a very overcrowded profession. What happens, then, when the profession reaches saturation point? When, whether due to declining markets or computerisation, there are just not enough jobs to… Continue reading Issue 94: 2017 03 02: En Primeur (Chin Chin)
Issue 94: 2017 03 02: Political Teflon (John Watson)
02 March 2017 Political Teflon The contribution Mr Blair ought to make. By John Watson A week is a long time in politics and, from the commentator’s point of view, things quickly move on. In this column, a week ago, I was talking about Mrs May’s good luck, instancing both her ascent to the leadership… Continue reading Issue 94: 2017 03 02: Political Teflon (John Watson)
