17 November 2016 Why 2016? What has triggered the “interesting times”? By John Watson Some children want to become engine drivers. Others want to become political pollsters. But those inclining to the latter career have traditionally been put off it by their parents. You need to be good at maths, for one thing. You need… Continue reading Issue 80: 2016 11 17: Why 2016? (John Watson)
Author: Neil Tidmarsh
Issue 80: 2016 11 17: Week in Brief: UK
17 November 2016 Week in Brief: UK Government BREXIT STRATEGY: A memorandum leaked to The Times, and said to have been written by a consultant from the accountancy firm Deloittes, indicates that civil servants are struggling to produce an exit strategy in time for the giving of the Article 50 notice in March of next… Continue reading Issue 80: 2016 11 17: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 80: 2016 11 17: Nigel Farage (Lynda Goetz)
17 November 2016 Nigel Farage Fascist, racist, self-publicist or voice of the people? by Lynda Goetz In an interview with Henry Mance, political correspondent of the FT, back in April, in the different world we inhabited before Brexit, Nigel Farage, leader of the populist party UKIP, apart from being true to form in consuming vast… Continue reading Issue 80: 2016 11 17: Nigel Farage (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 80: 2016 11 17: Christmas Preparations (Lynda Goetz)
17 November 2016 Christmas Preparations What should I be doing now? by Lynda Goetz For all those of you who, like me, swear every year that they will be more organised next year (and of course fail each time), here is a list of what you should be focusing on in the next couple of… Continue reading Issue 80: 2016 11 17: Christmas Preparations (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 79: 2016 11 10: Contents
10 November 2016: Issue 79 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment Enemies Of The People? by John Watson What Mrs May needs to do now. To The Winner… by J R Thomas Some whys and wherefores. Give us a ‘T’, give us an ‘R’… by Neil Tidmarsh The forty-fifth president of the United States of… Continue reading Issue 79: 2016 11 10: Contents
Issue 80: 2016 11 17: The Paxman Doll (Chin Chin)
17 November 2016 The Paxman Doll A tale of perversion? By Chin Chin Offended, and quite right too. The complaint (see Week in Brief UK) may have been a little late, but who could deny that Jeremy Paxman’s joke about Reading University’s University Challenge team taking a hand-knitted doll modelled on him to bed was… Continue reading Issue 80: 2016 11 17: The Paxman Doll (Chin Chin)
Issue 79: 2016 11 10: Week in Brief: UK
10 November 2016 Week in Brief: UK Government BREXIT VOTE: The Government is to appeal against the High Court’s ruling that giving notice to leave the EU under Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon requires an Act of Parliament. The Attorney General’s argument that, because the action was under an international treaty it could… Continue reading Issue 79: 2016 11 10: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 79: 2016 11 10: Madagascar Today (Lynda Goetz)
10 November 2016 Madagascar Today (Part 2) A fascinating and tragic country. by Lynda Goetz “Madagascar has become the world’s poorest country,” asserted the guide with whom I stood watching the out-of-control fire approach closer and closer to our very basic lodge on the edge of the Ankarana Special Reserve. “It shouldn’t be, because it… Continue reading Issue 79: 2016 11 10: Madagascar Today (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 79: 2016 11 10: Drinking and Using (Chin Chin)
10 November 2016 Drinking and Using An exhortation By Chin Chin We all leave our footprints on the planet. In the case of Hadrian it was Roman walls and gateways; in the case of Shakespeare, plays written in immortal verse; in my case it will be a collection of wine bottles full of what was… Continue reading Issue 79: 2016 11 10: Drinking and Using (Chin Chin)
Issue 79: 2016 11 10: Enemies Of The People? (John Watson)
10 November 2016 Enemies Of The People? What Mrs May needs to do now By John Watson For those who thought that there was a limit to the amount of nonsense that could be talked over a few days, the reaction to the Divisional Court’s decision in the Article 50 case must come as a… Continue reading Issue 79: 2016 11 10: Enemies Of The People? (John Watson)
Issue 78: 2016 11 03: Contents
03 November 2016: Issue 78 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment The Nissan Deal by John Watson Driven by the Devil. It’s My Party… by J R Thomas The GOP and the future. The International Criminal Court by Neil Tidmarsh Or the International Caucasian Court? Time to rob (grandpa) Peter to pay (grandson) Paul?… Continue reading Issue 78: 2016 11 03: Contents
Issue 78: 2016 11 03: The Nissan Deal (John Watson)
03 November 2016 The Nissan Deal Driven by the Devil. By John Watson It would be nice, of course, to be Jehovah but as vacancies do not often arise in the divine sector, perhaps it would be better to go for the rather more modest post of Business Secretary. Not quite as good in the… Continue reading Issue 78: 2016 11 03: The Nissan Deal (John Watson)
Issue 78: 2016 11 03: Week in Brief: UK
03 November 2016 Week in Brief: UK Government HEATHROW: A series of legal challenges is now getting underway against the new runway at Heathrow. One group, representing Teddington residents, has suggested that Sir Howard Davies, who chaired the enquiry which recommended the proposal, was biased because of his links with GIC Private Ltd, an owner… Continue reading Issue 78: 2016 11 03: Week in Brief: UK
