25 August 2016 Week In Brief: UK Government FREE SPEECH: Concerns over the impact on free speech are leading to delays in laws to silence hate preachers such as Anjem Choudary. Despite his conviction, hate videos, spread by his acolytes, are still being found on YouTube. As many as 5 associates of Mr Choudary have been placed… Continue reading Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Week in Brief: UK
Author: Neil Tidmarsh
Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Divine Intervention (Chin Chin)
25 August 2016 Divine Intervention A tribute to the wisdom of the Almighty. By Chin Chin There may be a sporting chance of contact with the Almighty on the road to Damascus but I would have put the odds against an encounter at a filling station on the E45, a main road in the north… Continue reading Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Divine Intervention (Chin Chin)
Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Avoidable Accidents (Lynda Goetz)
25 August 2016 Avoidable Accidents Are we losing our sense of personal responsibility? by Lynda Goetz I thought long and hard before putting pen to paper (so to speak) on this subject. The tragic accidents around the coast over the weekend have left several families bereaved and children in hospital and, without knowing the particular… Continue reading Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Avoidable Accidents (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Which War, Mr Smith? (Neil Tidmarsh)
25 August 2016 Which War, Mr Smith? The wars in Syria aren’t primarily about Isis. By Neil Tidmarsh This week, Labour leadership candidate Owen Smith said that we must engage in talks with Isis to try to end the Syrian war. “The Syrian war”? Which war did he mean, exactly? Did he mean the civil… Continue reading Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Which War, Mr Smith? (Neil Tidmarsh)
Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Week in Brief: International
25 August 2016 Week in Brief: International Europe FRANCE: More Mediterranean and Channel resorts have banned the burkini. In Nice, four women have already been fined for being insufficiently naked in public, and six others have left the beach after being warned to show more flesh. Prime minister Manuel Valls has supported the bylaws. Mr… Continue reading Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Week in Brief: International
Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Contents
11 August 2016: Issue 66 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment Fiddling With Our Abbreviations by John Watson An unforgivable impertinence and condescension. Byronic Moments by J R Thomas Posh burgers and (un)poetic justice. What You Get Up To Next Summer by Neil Tidmarsh Someone will know. Shop Your Neighbour by Frank O’Nomics Encouraging the whistleblowers. Grammar Schools… Continue reading Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Contents
Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Catch 22 For Pension Funds (Frank O’Nomics)
18 August 2016 QE: Catch 22 For Pension Funds The unintended consequences of quantitative easing could be terminal for the pensions industry. by Frank O’Nomics The latest round of quantitative easing from the Bank of England risks driving businesses into failure and retired households into penury. That may seem an overly dramatic statement, but a… Continue reading Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Catch 22 For Pension Funds (Frank O’Nomics)
Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Sliding Down The Hill (J R Thomas)
18 August 2016 Sliding Down The Hill by J R Thomas This spring, an observer of this year’s USA presidential race suggested that Donald Trump was actually a candidate put up by the Clinton campaign team to disrupt the GOP 2016 run. How we all laughed at that one – even when those wise-guys pointed… Continue reading Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Sliding Down The Hill (J R Thomas)
Issue 67: 2016 08 18: The Child Sex Abuse Inquiry (John Watson)
18 August 2016 The Child Sexual Abuse Inquiry Saving something from the wreckage. By John Watson Another disaster: another enquiry. Last week saw the publication of the Chilcot enquiry into the war in Iraq. It ran to more than 1 million words and related to events which occurred more than ten years ago. There was an… Continue reading Issue 67: 2016 08 18: The Child Sex Abuse Inquiry (John Watson)
Issue 67: 2016 08 18: New Labels For Old (Lynda Goetz)
18 August 2016 New Labels For Old Some indispensable advice. by Lynda Goetz This being the ‘silly season’, The Daily Telegraph letters’ pages have, for a number of days and following a request for advice from a reader, been full of words of wisdom about removing old labels from jam jars – prior to filling them with… Continue reading Issue 67: 2016 08 18: New Labels For Old (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Shorter Concerts? (Lynda Goetz)
18 August 2016 Shorter Concerts? No intervals, or just better loos? by Lynda Goetz Two rather insignificant pieces of news this week provided some food for thought. The first was an article by the classical pianist Stephen Hough in the Radio Times in which he suggested that the format for classical concerts should perhaps be… Continue reading Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Shorter Concerts? (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Tinker, Tailor… (J R Thomas)
18 August 2016 Tinker, Tailor… by J R Thomas ….Soldier, Sailor. Rich Man is the next in that traditional playground chant; though probably not heard so much in modern playgrounds, tinkering and tailoring having pretty much passed on, soldiering not popular, sailors mostly registered to foreign ports. Rich men, though, they continue to fascinate. Last… Continue reading Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Tinker, Tailor… (J R Thomas)
Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Week in Brief: UK
18 August 2016 Week In Brief: UK Government POST-BREXIT FUNDING PLEDGE: Science University research and infrastructure projects will have their levels of EU funding guaranteed after Brexit under a Treasury plan which will cost £4 billion per year. Payments to farmers will also be guaranteed for four years. BREXIT DELAY: The government had been expected to… Continue reading Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Week in Brief: UK
