18 August 2016 Week in Brief: Business and the City SMALL CHANGE; NO CHANGE: The Swedish bank Handelsbanken has become over the last twenty years the wealthy private customer’s bank of choice, both in Scandinavia and in the UK, where it has gone from a modest number of offices in London and a couple of… Continue reading Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Week in Brief: Financial
Author: Neil Tidmarsh
Issue 67: 2016 08 18: The Perils Of Poor Translation (Richard Pooley)
18 August 2016 The Perils of Poor Translation and of banning the burkini. by Richard Pooley The BBC website is my main source of news and I don’t usually have cause to criticize it. But last week the mistranslation in a BBC report of one French word had me fulminating against the actions of a… Continue reading Issue 67: 2016 08 18: The Perils Of Poor Translation (Richard Pooley)
Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Week in Brief: International
18 August 2016 Week In Brief: International Europe AUSTRIA: Nine Iraqi asylum-seekers were arrested in Vienna on suspicion of raping a German tourist on New Year’s day. A man armed with a knife seriously injured two teenagers on a train. The attacker, who is said to have mental health problems, was arrested. FRANCE: The mayor… Continue reading Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Week in Brief: International
Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Crossing The Water (Chin Chin)
18 August 2016 Crossing The Water Of ferries and the like. by Chin Chin There has always been something special about crossing water. In Robert Burns’s poem Tam O’Shanter, it is the barrier of a river which holds back the demons who pursue the eponymous hero on his grey mare. In ancient Rome, the crossing of… Continue reading Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Crossing The Water (Chin Chin)
Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Homo Ludens (Neil Tidmarsh)
18 August 2016 Homo Ludens The world at play – a serious business. by Neil Tidmarsh Have you had a crack at playing Pokemon Go yet? No, neither have I. You do know what Pokemon Go is all about, don’t you? No, neither do I. I haven’t the faintest. To tell you the truth, I… Continue reading Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Homo Ludens (Neil Tidmarsh)
Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Byronic Moments (J R Thomas)
11 August 2016 Byronic Moments by J R Thomas Last week Greek yachts and Greek film makers; this week a natural progression, you may think, to Greek Romanticism and English poets? Well, no. From the sublime beauties of the Greek islands we move to London burger bars. Upmarket ones, though. Byron is the unlikely name… Continue reading Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Byronic Moments (J R Thomas)
Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Tandem Sky Dive (Lynda Goetz)
11 August 2016 Tandem Sky-Dive Literally breath-taking! by Lynda Goetz My plans for last Friday did not include a tandem sky-dive. They did include a visit to the beautician’s with my daughter in the afternoon for a leg-wax and a few hours in the morning to accompany her to the airfield at Dunkeswell, where she… Continue reading Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Tandem Sky Dive (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 65: 2016 08 04: Contents
04 August 2016: Issue 65 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment Wolf At The Door by Neil Tidmarsh Trouble in store for Italy. To The Starting Blocks by J R Thomas How to do conventions. Minimum Requirements by Don Urquhart The value of Mindestanforderungen. A Tale of Two Brexits by Frank O’Nomics The best of markets,… Continue reading Issue 65: 2016 08 04: Contents
Issue 66: 2016 08 11: An Actor’s Life For Me? (Frank O’Nomics)
11 August 2016 An Actor’s Life For Me? 45 lines of dialogue to be an A-list film star. by Frank O’Nomics “I could play that role!” Five words is all it takes for me to generate collective groans from my family. They are usually uttered as we watch a TV crime drama and a studious… Continue reading Issue 66: 2016 08 11: An Actor’s Life For Me? (Frank O’Nomics)
Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Harley Sleek (J R Thomas)
11 August 2016 Harley Sleek by J R Thomas The Marquess of Bath started it, opening Longleat House to the public to raise some cash after the Second World War, but it was the Duke of Bedford who really made country house visiting a mass market activity. The Duke was a natural showman and entrepreneur,… Continue reading Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Harley Sleek (J R Thomas)
Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Shop Your Neighbour (Frank O’Nomics)
11 August 2016 Shop Your Neighbour New rules for financial whistleblowers may lead the way for others. by Frank O’Nomics The financial services industry may finally be about to do something for the greater good. At the start of next month, new legislation on whistleblowing will be brought in for financial firms and, if successful,… Continue reading Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Shop Your Neighbour (Frank O’Nomics)
Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Week in Brief: Business
11 August 2016 Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY NOT TO THE POINT: The troubled saga of the new Hinckley Point power station – or at least, the lack of construction thereof – continues. As readers will recollect, EDF, the French mainly state owned company who had entered into complex arrangements with the British… Continue reading Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Week in Brief: Business
Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Week in Brief: International
11 August 2016 Week in Brief: International Europe BELGIUM: An Algerian armed with a machete attacked two female police officers in Charleroi. He was shot dead by the police. MACEDONIA: A two-week state of emergency was announced after a storm hit the capital Skopje, with 21 people dead, six missing and dozens injured. Hundreds… Continue reading Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Week in Brief: International
