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List of This Week’s Articles
Lens on the Week
Lens on the Week
Focus on the News
14 March 2019 Lens on the Week UK MAYDAY: Mrs May’s revised Brexit agreement was defeated by 391 to 242 with 12 abstentions. That clearly marks the end of her attempts to make it sufficiently palatable to MPs to pass the Commons. Three green bottles were left on the wall; No Brexit, Hard Brexit and
Comment
The Megarich?
A Times investigation
14 March 2019 The Megarich? A Times investigation. By John Watson 28 billionaires out of 93. Almost one third of British billionaires live in tax havens (assuming you regard Switzerland as a tax haven and not somewhere you go to make cuckoo clocks and listen to cowbells). So at any rate says The Times in
Comment
The Game of Cheat
A Plan B for Brexit
14 March 2019 The Great Game of Cheat A Plan B for Brexit. By J R Thomas In the build up to the Battle of El Alamein in 1941, that gifted German general Erwin Rommel spent a great deal of time planning the battle and how he would win it against the British and Anzac
Comment
The Blame Game
The need to find fault
14 March 2019 The Blame Game The need to find fault. By Lynda Goetz As Theresa May’s unsatisfactory deal was resoundingly defeated in Parliament for the second time on Tuesday night, she herself looked distant and resigned. Elsewhere, however, the blame game had already started. ‘If it weren’t for those bloody Brexiteers sabotaging all her
Comment
El Helicoide
Hell in Caracas
14 March 2019 El Helicoide Hell in Caracas. By Neil Tidmarsh The massive and futuristic El Helicoide centre in Caracas was designed and built as a shopping mall – but it’s now the headquarters of Venezuela’s security service and intelligence agency SEBIN (the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service). What a perfect metaphor for the failure of
Comment
Diary of a Corbynista
Nothing has Changed
14 March 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Nothing has changed by Don Urquhart 7 March Naz Shah, the MP for Bradford West asked the Leader of the House to schedule a debate on Islamophobia. Instead Ms Leadsom advised her to seek the advice of Foreign Office ministers on the subject. And while she‘s about it
Comment
Trump’s Mistake
A fading economy?
14 March 2019 Donald Trump’s big mistake Is the US economy fading? By Frank O’Nomics In politics timing is everything. Just when those who want a political change in the US were beginning to despair over a lack of credible opposition, signs emerge that the economic tide could be turning against the President. One should
Letters
Letter to the Editors
Anti-semitism
14 March 2019 Letter to the Editors Anti semitism from Anthony Silver Dear Sir, In the ranking of social sins, the rise of the ‘isms’ (sexism, racism, ageism etc….) has been the most dramatic over the last decade. So when a political party is consistently accused of same, their goto solution should be not
Crossword
Crossword
No 193
14 March 2019 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 193 Click for this Week’s interactive online crossword Click for a printable version of this Week’s crossword Click for the solution to crossword, No 192 Share this using...FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail
Cartoons
Cartoons
A Visual Perspective
14 March 2019 Cartoons By AGGro Share this using...FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail
