19 October 2017 Bad News Opportunity Using the Hollywood sex scandal. By Chin Chin Well there’s an opportunity to be sure. While the attention of the nation is focused on Hollywood actresses and casting couches, other news can be slipped out without anyone spotting it. What is it you said? Something about the Treasury having… Continue reading Issue 125: 2017 10 19: Bad News Opportunity (Chin Chin)
Category: Features
Issue 125:2017 10 19:Diary of a Corbynista (Don Urquhart)
19 October 2017 Diary of a Corbynista To the Conference and Beyond by Don Urquhart 26 September Theresa May desperately needs something before next week’s Tory Party conference. This week she is meeting Donald Tusk, the European Council President. If it looks as if she has achieved a breakthrough she can then proclaim herself a… Continue reading Issue 125:2017 10 19:Diary of a Corbynista (Don Urquhart)
Issue 124: 2017 10 12: A Sense Of Belonging (Lynda Goetz)
12 October 2017 A Sense Of Belonging A primal need. By Lynda Goetz I happened by chance to listen to part of a programme on Radio 4 this morning on the choral history of Britain. In it, the British baritone and composer Roderick Williams OBE was exploring the way music used to be much more… Continue reading Issue 124: 2017 10 12: A Sense Of Belonging (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 124: 2017 10 12: Essay Shopping (Chin Chin)
12 October 2017 Essay Shopping Room for diversification. By Chin Chin Some people would carp at anything and the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education clearly has more than its fair proportion of naysayers. Their latest target? Essay websites providing material which the student can use to obtain his or her degree or Ph.D. What… Continue reading Issue 124: 2017 10 12: Essay Shopping (Chin Chin)
Issue 123: 2017 10 05: Are You Very Satisfied? (Lynda Goetz)
05 October 2017 Are You Very Satisfied? Really we don’t want to know. by Lynda Goetz Last week the National Trust published its annual report and accounts. Although it reported an encouraging increase in visitor and membership numbers (visitor numbers are up by almost five million since 2013, to 24.5 million this year) it failed… Continue reading Issue 123: 2017 10 05: Are You Very Satisfied? (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 123: 2017 10 05: Top Facts (Chin Chin)
05 October 2017 Top Facts Their use and the Zulu principle. By Chin Chin Well, strike me purple. There I was with a really top fact, convinced that I was the only one who knew it, when the first person I tried it out on came up with the answer in seconds. It all comes… Continue reading Issue 123: 2017 10 05: Top Facts (Chin Chin)
Issue 122: 2017 09 28: Freshers’ Week (Chin Chin)
28 September 2017 Freshers’ Week Horticulture can breed distress. By Chin Chin I do not know whether Jacob Rees-Mogg objects to being known as the hon member for the 18th century, but I certainly resent it when changes which took place in my lifetime are described as ancient history. There was a bad example of… Continue reading Issue 122: 2017 09 28: Freshers’ Week (Chin Chin)
Issue 122: 2017 09 28: It’s still September for heavens sake! (Lynda Goetz)
28 September 2017 It’s Still September, For Heaven’s Sake! Christmas is three months away. By Lynda Goetz Last Monday was 25th September, the birthday of one of my nieces, and also three months before 25th December, Christmas Day. A few days earlier I was shopping and thought I should get a card and some wrapping… Continue reading Issue 122: 2017 09 28: It’s still September for heavens sake! (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 122:2017 09 28:Hypothetically( J.R.Thomas)
28 September 2017 Hypothetically A suggestion to Mr Hammond. By J.R. Thomas We live in a world which our not so distant ancestors would have found very surprising. Not the invention of the motor car, or the mobile telephone, or women being allowed to work in offices alongside men, or even free education for all.… Continue reading Issue 122:2017 09 28:Hypothetically( J.R.Thomas)
Issue 121:2017 09 21:I Spy (J.R.Thomas)
21 September 2017 I Spy New work from Herron and le Carré by J.R. Thomas If the middle years of the last century were the golden years of detective fiction, the last fifty were those of the spy thriller. As Britain’s presence on the international stage slowly shrinks, the reader searching for perplexity seems to… Continue reading Issue 121:2017 09 21:I Spy (J.R.Thomas)
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 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)
Issuw 120: 2017 09 14:It’s behind you (J.R.Thomas)
14 September 2017 It’s Behind You Surveillance – by Uber by J.R. Thomas Gene Hackman as Harry Caul in The Conversation Or in front of you; or above you; or all around you. Privacy is so yesterday. And that mobile phone in your bag or pocket so handy. But do you know who it… Continue reading Issuw 120: 2017 09 14:It’s behind you (J.R.Thomas)
