26 May 2016 All that glisters – may not be an investment Should you be hoarding gold? by Frank O’Nomics Beware – the gold bugs are back. After a torrid time, and a fall from the heady heights of almost $1900 per oz in 2009 to just $1050 late last year, gold has seen the… Continue reading Issue 55:2016 05 26: All that glisters – may not be an investment (Frank O’Nomics)
Category: Features
Issue 55: 2016 05 26:Dig your garden (J.R. Thomas)
26 May 2016 Dig Your Garden by J.R.Thomas This week is the traditional opening of the English summer season, which revs up via Ascot , Wimbledon and Henley to a peak of outdoor sociability in late June, runs down into more informal and private gatherings in July, and ends in mid-July as the exhausted participants… Continue reading Issue 55: 2016 05 26:Dig your garden (J.R. Thomas)
Issue54 :2016 05 19: Shred the Dosh (J.R. Thomas)
19 May 2016 Shred the Dosh by J.R.Thomas This is not a good time to be rich and powerful in Britain. The rich are generally not popular: the powerful even less so. There are compensations of course in having lots of money; the yachts, the supercars, the champagne. But even so, wealth has slightly lost… Continue reading Issue54 :2016 05 19: Shred the Dosh (J.R. Thomas)
Issue 54:2016 05 19:The acquisition of the Bank of Mum and Dad (Frank O’Nomics)
19 May 2016 The acquisition of the Bank of Mum and Dad by Frank O’Nomics The Bank of Mum and Dad is big – and it is getting bigger. We should not be surprised. A bank that charges very little (or no) interest and will lend for very long (or infinite) periods, the BOMAD is… Continue reading Issue 54:2016 05 19:The acquisition of the Bank of Mum and Dad (Frank O’Nomics)
Issue 54: 2016 05 19: The Eye of the Beholder(J.R.Thomas)
19 May 2016 The Eye of the Beholder by J.R.Thomas London is in the grip of a boom at the moment. Not in luxury flats, though there has been. Or in bicycle superhighways, though there is. Nor in high rise buildings, though that cannot be denied. No, the boom we refer to is in learned,… Continue reading Issue 54: 2016 05 19: The Eye of the Beholder(J.R.Thomas)
Issue 54: 2016 05 19: GM Foods (cooking correspondent)
19 May 2016 GM Foods The effect on British television. By our Cooking Correspondent Another first for America. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine have come down in favour of Frankenstein foods. Now it’s official. A body including more than that 300 Nobel prize winners (gosh, what do you have to do to… Continue reading Issue 54: 2016 05 19: GM Foods (cooking correspondent)
Issue 54: 2016 05 19: Pub Cricket (Chin Chin)
19 May 2016 Pub Cricket Peace on the road By Chin Chin A game of pub cricket, yes, that used to be the key to keeping the family happy when setting out by car on a long drive to Wales or Scotland. It was a good game because there was no element of skill in… Continue reading Issue 54: 2016 05 19: Pub Cricket (Chin Chin)
Issue 53: 2016 05 12: Children starting school… (Lynda Goetz)
12 May 2016 Children Starting School… … swiping but not speaking. by Lynda Goetz ‘Around one in three children starting school is not ready for the classroom, with many lacking social skills, suffering speech problems or not toilet trained.’ A reception class (with apologies and acknowledgements to the late Joyce Grenfell): Good morning, children. I’m… Continue reading Issue 53: 2016 05 12: Children starting school… (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 53: 2016 05 12: Facebook Friends (Chin Chin)
12 May 2016 Facebook Friends Their vanity exposed. By Chin Chin Well I’m certainly not going to Leeds. Nor indeed to Manchester where the great Yorkshire chef Michael O’Hare is opening his second restaurant, come to that. Yes, I know he has a Michelin star and that his recipe for barbequed prawn brains puts him… Continue reading Issue 53: 2016 05 12: Facebook Friends (Chin Chin)
Issue 53:2016 05 12: The hazards of pension protection (Frank O’Nomics)
12 May 2016 The hazards of pension protection by Frank O’Nomics News of the failure of BHS, and the consequent takeover of a pension fund that is £571 million in deficit by the Pension Protection Fund, raises questions which go to the very essence of the way in which PPF operates. To begin with, is… Continue reading Issue 53:2016 05 12: The hazards of pension protection (Frank O’Nomics)
Issue 52: 2016 05 05: Worldwide Educational Rankings (Lynda Goetz)
05 May 2016 Worldwide Educational Rankings Are SATS tests really going to help? by Lynda Goetz “In my country the highest regard is given to marks and not learning”. This comment was made online by one Niharika Lahora from India in response to a request for input on what would improve education systems worldwide. http://www.mbctimes.com/english/20-best-education-systems-world.… Continue reading Issue 52: 2016 05 05: Worldwide Educational Rankings (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 52: 2016 05 05:Never Loved You Anyway (J.R. Thomas)
05 May 2016 Never Loved You Anyway by J.R.Thomas She’s gone. And you know what? I don’t care. No, more than that, I’m rejoicing. “Go”, I shouted at the end, in those final days when we both knew and it was just the parting moves that had to play out, “Go, and never come back”. … Continue reading Issue 52: 2016 05 05:Never Loved You Anyway (J.R. Thomas)
Issue 52: 2016 05 05: Crisis at the Ministry of Misery and Discord (Chin Chin)
05 May 2016 Crisis at the Ministry of Misery and Discord by Chin Chin MINUTES (as smuggled out by an undercover reporter from the Shaw Sheet) Present: The Minster, The Permanent Secretary, The Deputy Secretary and the Assistant Undersecretary. MINISTER: Well, you have made a mess of it. Honestly, you lot couldn’t arrange discord at… Continue reading Issue 52: 2016 05 05: Crisis at the Ministry of Misery and Discord (Chin Chin)
