08 September 2016 The Bounce-Back In Activity A revival, or just maths? By John Watson Supporters of the England cricket team are entitled to celebrate its triumph over Pakistan in the Fifty Over version of the game. Records have fallen; the numbers are terrific; open the champagne! Despite the self-satisfied smiles on the faces of… Continue reading Issue 70: 2016 09 08: The Bounce Back In Activity (John Watson)
Author: Neil Tidmarsh
Issue 70: 2016 09 08: Domestic Abuse (Lynda Goetz)
08 September 2016 Domestic Abuse It’s all about control. by Lynda Goetz Apparently, one in eleven adults in the UK listens to The Archers. The weekly audience is some five million. The fascination with the storyline about Rob and Helen Titchener, which has been going on for nearly three years, has become national news in… Continue reading Issue 70: 2016 09 08: Domestic Abuse (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 70: 2016 09 08: Week in Brief: UK
08 September 2016 Week in Brief: UK General Politics CHILD ABUSE ENQUIRY: Dame Lowell Goddard, the New Zealand judge who recently resigned from the chairmanship of the abuse enquiry, has said that its extensive scale and size makes it unmanageable. She has suggested that her resignation presents an opportunity to remodel it with less focus… Continue reading Issue 70: 2016 09 08: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 70: 2016 09 08: Polonius’s Moment (Chin Chin)
08 September 2016 Polonius’s Moment What to say to them as they go off to university. By Chin Chin The beginning of the academic year is the time for a Polonius speech. Student loans are in place to cover university fees but the amount available for living expenses looks woefully thin. It is the moment… Continue reading Issue 70: 2016 09 08: Polonius’s Moment (Chin Chin)
Issue 69: 2016 09 01: Week in Brief: UK
01 September Week in Brief: UK Politics IMMIGRATION: The total number of EU citizens living in Britain topped 3 million for the first time last year. Figures from the Office of National Statistics show the largest group as being 831,000 Poles which now exceeds the 795,000 British residents born in India. Net migration now stands at… Continue reading Issue 69: 2016 09 01: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 69: 2016 09 01: Burkini Ban (Lynda Goetz)
01 September 2016 Burkini Ban Intolerance or safeguard? by Lynda Goetz When I first heard about the burkini ban a few weeks ago, my reaction was mixed. My first thought (like that of so many others, I am sure) was that it sounded like an unacceptable intolerance on the part of a right-wing French mayor… Continue reading Issue 69: 2016 09 01: Burkini Ban (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Contents
25 August 2016: Issue 68 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment The Lessons of Rio by John Watson The resurgence of British sport gives us an example. Fit To Be Fat by J R Thomas A matter of choice. Which War, Mr Smith? by Neil Tidmarsh The wars in Syria aren’t primarily about Isis. Didn’t We Do Well?! by… Continue reading Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Contents
Issue 69: 2016 09 01: With Autumn Comes Brexit (John Watson)
01 September 2016 With Autumn Comes Brexit The seconds will soon be out of the ring. by John Watson All in all it has been a good summer. The sun has shone and Team GB has done spectacularly well at the Olympics. A new government has moved into place with a minimum of fuss, and… Continue reading Issue 69: 2016 09 01: With Autumn Comes Brexit (John Watson)
Issue 69: 2016 09 01: Talking About Holidays (Chin Chin)
01 September 2016 Talking About Holidays A question of points on the board. By Chin Chin Like fruit, topics of conversation have their season, one week’s chatter supplanting another. This time it is Olympic medals; then it will be a new book; the week after that a corruption scandal spiced with a little sex on… Continue reading Issue 69: 2016 09 01: Talking About Holidays (Chin Chin)
Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Contents
18 August 2016: Issue 67 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment The Child Sex Abuse Inquiry by John Watson Saving something from the wreckage. Sliding Down The Hill by J R Thomas Trump stumbles. Homo Ludens by Neil Tidmarsh The world at play – a serious business. The Perils of Poor Translation by Richard Pooley and of… Continue reading Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Contents
Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Fit To Be Fat (J R Thomas)
25 August 2016 Fit to be Fat A matter of choice. by J.R.Thomas Mrs May has done it now. In office a matter of weeks and she has put her lovely kitten heels right into a dangerous place. She has upset Jamie Oliver! Has the woman no sense at all? Does she not realise that… Continue reading Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Fit To Be Fat (J R Thomas)
Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Fading Icons – No Service (J R Thomas)
25 August 2016 Fading Icons – No Service If only they were all like Tebay. by J.R.Thomas You really can’t avoid them, at least without turning off the motorway. Perhaps it is truer to say, we don’t want to avoid them, driven up the exit ramp by hunger or nagging necessity or that insistent flashing… Continue reading Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Fading Icons – No Service (J R Thomas)
Issue 68: 2016 08 25: The Lessons of Rio (John Watson)
25 August 2016 The Lesson Of Rio The resurgence of British sport gives us an example. By John Watson When, in the early 1930s, a director of Cunard was asked by King George V what name the company proposed to give to its new liner, instead of replying “The Queen Victoria”, he said “We propose… Continue reading Issue 68: 2016 08 25: The Lessons of Rio (John Watson)
