21 September 2017 Week In Brief: UK Brexit BREXIT BOUNCER: Boris Johnson has preempted the Prime Minister’s speech in Florence next Friday by publishing an article in The Daily Telegraph setting out his own vision for Brexit. The article which has drawn criticism from Amber Rudd for back seat driving, earned a swift rebuke from… Continue reading Issue 121: 2017 09 21: Week in Brief: UK
Author: Neil Tidmarsh
Issue 120: 2017 09 14: Contents
14 September 2017: Issue 120 The week’s news – your chance to catch up: Comment Money And Spires by John Watson Are vice chancellors being paid too much? High Office, And How To Hold It by J R Thomas Boris’s wilderness years. Giving Up by Lynda Goetz Should we be worrying about the medical students or the qualified… Continue reading Issue 120: 2017 09 14: Contents
Issue 121: 2017 09 21: Getting fit from your armchair (Chin Chin)
21 September 2017 Getting Fit From Your Armchair Science marches on. By Chin Chin A bit queasy after overindulgence on the family holiday? A little worried that the fatigue could eventually turn into diabetes? Depressed at the thought of going to the gym to restore yourself to a healthy weight? Well, chaps, worry no longer.… Continue reading Issue 121: 2017 09 21: Getting fit from your armchair (Chin Chin)
Issue 121: 2017 09 21: Boris like Marmite (Lynda Goetz)
21 September 2017 Boris Like Marmite A shambles, a clever tactic or an unacceptable, disloyal attempt at a power grab? By Lynda Goetz Boris does seem to have the same effect on people as Marmite – you either love him or hate him. His 4,200 word ‘speech’, actually delivered as an article in the Saturday… Continue reading Issue 121: 2017 09 21: Boris like Marmite (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 121: 2017 09 21: The Accursed (John Watson)
21 September 2017 The Accursed Child pornography addiction. By John Watson Can there be a sadder story than that of the Australian politician Rachel Carling-Jenkins who discovered that her husband was addicted to child pornography? She reported the matter to the police and is now haunted by the images she saw on his computer. Her… Continue reading Issue 121: 2017 09 21: The Accursed (John Watson)
Issue 120: 2017 09 14: Giving Up (Lynda Goetz)
14 September 2017 Giving Up Should we be worrying about the medical students or the qualified doctors? By Lynda Goetz In an article on 27th August in The Sunday Times, Sian Griffiths and Jonathan Corke reported that 300 students a year quit medical school. An ‘epidemic’ of mental health problems is apparently being blamed. In… Continue reading Issue 120: 2017 09 14: Giving Up (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 120: 2017 09 14: Week in Brief: UK
14 September 2017 Week in Brief: UK Brexit GREAT REPEAL BILL: The bill which resets UK law at the point of Brexit passed its second reading comfortably with the Democratic Unionists and seven Labour MPs supporting the government. Now it will move to committee. Although a further Commons vote has given the Government control of… Continue reading Issue 120: 2017 09 14: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 119: 2017 09 07: Contents
07 September 2017: Issue 119 The week’s news – your chance to catch up: Comment A Celebration Of Statues by John Watson Bobby Lee in Charlottesville? Beware The Loon by J R Thomas And a review of Trump’s progress. No More Heroes? by Frank O’Nomics Has doping in sport undermined all respect for athletes? Kim Jong-un v President… Continue reading Issue 119: 2017 09 07: Contents
Issue 120: 2017 09 14: Quiz
14 September 2017 Quiz by Boffles Do you know? To which Pre-Raphaelite painter was Evelyn Waugh related? Why did The Loom of Youth written by Evelyn’s brother Alec Waugh cause a scandal? Why did Einstein come to regard a letter he wrote to President Roosevelt in 1939 as the one great mistake of his… Continue reading Issue 120: 2017 09 14: Quiz
Issue 120: 2017 09 14: Quiz – Answers
14 September 2017 Quiz – Answers William Holman Hunt, who married (in succession) two sisters, who were cousins of Evelyn’s father. A novel about public school life, it spoke of homosexual relationships between boys. Einstein had advocated in it the development by the USA of atomic bombs. It combines the Japanese… Continue reading Issue 120: 2017 09 14: Quiz – Answers
Issue 120: 2017 09 14: Money And Spires (John Watson)
14 September 2017 Money And Spires Are vice chancellors being paid too much? By John Watson Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, just when it was going on so nicely for the vice chancellors of British Universities, the politicians have to jump in and spoil the party. And what a lovely party it was too.… Continue reading Issue 120: 2017 09 14: Money And Spires (John Watson)
Issue 120: 2017 09 14: Raccoons (Chin Chin)
14 September 2017 Raccoons Shock immigration news. By Chin Chin It is always a shock returning to England. After days of making difficult decisions over which wine to drink with lunch, you find that you have got completely out of touch with current affairs. Perhaps it is best, then, to glance at the news a… Continue reading Issue 120: 2017 09 14: Raccoons (Chin Chin)
Issue 119: 2017 09 07: Week In Brief: UK
07 September 2017 Week In Brief: UK Brexit NEGOTIATIONS: The nation returns from its holidays to find that not much has moved in the negotiation between Mr Davis and Mr Barnier. The EU still insists that further progress on three issues – the “Divorce Bill”, the rights of EU citizens who already live in the… Continue reading Issue 119: 2017 09 07: Week In Brief: UK
