10 December 2015 In praise of benevolent billionaires by Frank O’Nomics News that Mark Zuckerberg is giving 99% of his fortune to set up a charity to support “personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities” has prompted widespread praise, perhaps most succinctly put by Michael Bloomberg who said that this “sets a… Continue reading Issue 32: 2015 10 10:In praise of benevolent billionaires
Category: Features
Issue 32:2015 10 10:Tutankhamun’s Other Curse
10 December 2015 Tutankhamun’s Other Curse What will archaeologists find beyond the walls of the Boy King’s burial chamber? By Neil Tidmarsh Last week, the Egyptian antiquities ministry made an amazing announcement; radar scans have indicated that there is empty space behind the north and west walls of King Tutankhamun’s burial chamber deep beneath the… Continue reading Issue 32:2015 10 10:Tutankhamun’s Other Curse
Issue 32: 2015 12 10: Bulging with political correctness
10 December 2015 Bulging With Political Correctness By Chin Chin When it comes to natural phenomena, it seems that plates are the main culprits. Lurking deep in the ground, huge tectonic ones move slowly from year to year, and when they crunch into each other, things happen. Maybe an edge is pushed up to form… Continue reading Issue 32: 2015 12 10: Bulging with political correctness
Issue 32: 2015 10 10: Listed Buildings
10 December 2015 Listed Buildings Time to revisit the list? by Lynda Goetz According to the Historic England website, there were approximately 500,000 listed buildings in the UK, as of March 2015. Of these, 92% are Grade II listed. It was reported last week that many of these could be placed in danger because of… Continue reading Issue 32: 2015 10 10: Listed Buildings
Issue 31:2015 12 3: Cameron, Europe and an Unlikely Victory
03 December 2015 CAMERON, EUROPE AND AN UNLIKELY VICTORY by Tom Dowling Britain’s relationship with Europe has divided the country for centuries, so it was difficult to see what David Cameron hoped to achieve when in 2013 he announced that the Conservatives would, if successful in the 2015 General Election, hold a referendum on whether… Continue reading Issue 31:2015 12 3: Cameron, Europe and an Unlikely Victory
Issue 31: 2015 12 03: Buzzing Off
03 December 2015 Buzzing Off by J.R.Thomas There is another much smaller world which mirrors many of the political themes of these troubled times. In it we are at loggerheads, or flower heads maybe would be more accurate, with Europe. There is great concern about the incursion of a number of immigrants, aggressive immigrants,… Continue reading Issue 31: 2015 12 03: Buzzing Off
Issue 31: 2015 12 03: Cultural Larceny
03 December 2015 Cultural Larceny By Chin Chin I have a horrible, horrible suspicion that I have indulged in colonial racism. No, not “cultural appropriation”, nothing as bad as that, thank God, but the slightly more venal sin of under-appreciating the Canadians. You see, apart from knowing that there is tundra there, and forest and… Continue reading Issue 31: 2015 12 03: Cultural Larceny
Issue 30: 2015 11 26:Is your pension manager leaving you underfunded?
26 November 2015 Is your pension manager leaving you underfunded? by Frank O’Nomics UK pension schemes face significant shortfalls. As of the end of April, the aggregate deficit of 6000 defined benefit pension schemes in the UK was calculated (by the Pension Protection Fund) at £243bn, up from £215bn 3 years earlier, and this despite… Continue reading Issue 30: 2015 11 26:Is your pension manager leaving you underfunded?
Issue 30: 2015 11 26: Weather
26 November 2015 Weather By Chin Chin I have a nasty feeling that I am under surveillance. No, it’s not that GCHQ is reading my emails. Even in that temple to prying, it would be difficult to find anyone willing to undertake such an unrewarding and tedious chore. Imagine: “My goodness, Froplinson, he’s started inserting… Continue reading Issue 30: 2015 11 26: Weather
Issue 30: 2015 11 26: The Quality of Justice
26 November 2015 The Quality of Justice by J R Thomas On 28th June 1914 a terrorist event occurred which really did completely change the world. As every school pupil used to know, on that day, in Sarajevo, a group of Serbian Nationalists, coordinated by a resistance movement known rather thrillingly as the Black Hand… Continue reading Issue 30: 2015 11 26: The Quality of Justice
Issue 29: 2015 11 19: On Yer Bikes
19 November 2015 On Yer Bikes by J R Thomas The reign of King Boris is coming to a close; the age of the comedians may be over. For sixteen years London’s Mayors have been rebels, men outside the mainstream, cheeky chappies popular with the public, if less so with their party leaders. It looks… Continue reading Issue 29: 2015 11 19: On Yer Bikes
Issue 29:2015 11 19: Noises Off
19 November 2015 Noises Off by J.R.Thomas It is often said that it is much easier to lose an election than to win one. The leaders of the GOP are rapidly becoming convinced of that, so the frantically flailing Washington rumour mill has it. The contest ought to be looking so different at the moment.… Continue reading Issue 29:2015 11 19: Noises Off
Issue 29: 2015 11 19:L’Affaire des Chemises Arrachées
19 November 2015 L’Affaire des Chemises Arrachées by Richard Pooley Until the appalling slaughter in Paris on Friday night buried all other news in France (even the death of at least 11 people, including perhaps children, in the first accident in the 35-year history of the Train à Grande Vitesse), one of the main talking… Continue reading Issue 29: 2015 11 19:L’Affaire des Chemises Arrachées
