Cover Page, 22nd February 2018, Issue 142 The Article competition is still open. Team up with a friend of a different political persuasion and define a New Politics, make the world a better place, and win a £ Prize. See the Article Cross Party Thinking for the full details. Share this using… Facebook Twitter… Continue reading Issue 142: 2018 02 22: Cover Page
Issue: 142: For Sale?
Issue 142: 2018 02 22: Lens on the week
22 February 2018 Lens on the Week UK BREXIT HIGH NOON: The Government’s internal wrangling over Brexit is now focussed on the length of the transitional period. The European Research Group, a body chaired by Jacob Rees-Mogg and including among its members more than 60 Conservative MPs, has delivered a letter to the Prime Minister… Continue reading Issue 142: 2018 02 22: Lens on the week
Issue 142: 2018 02 22: Diary of a Corbynista
22 February 2018 Diary of a Corbynista Fake figures, charity charlatans and trial by troll by Don Urquhart 15 February Across the Dispatch Box May and Corbyn exchange crime statistics. He claims that things are getting worse; she produces figures to prove that crime is decreasing. Yesterday Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire &… Continue reading Issue 142: 2018 02 22: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 142: 2018 02 22: A Deadly Business
22 February 2018 A Deadly Business The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. By Neil Tidmarsh Here’s a question: which is more difficult to buy in the USA – a handgun or an assault rifle? Well, a rifle, surely? Isn’t it obvious – the deadlier the weapon, the more difficult it is to get your… Continue reading Issue 142: 2018 02 22: A Deadly Business
Issue 142: 2018 02 22: Hallyday’s Family
22 February 2018 Hallyday’s Family The right to disinherit. By Lynda Goetz Johnny Hallyday is not a name well-known in this country, but to millions of French men and women he was a mega star, often known simply as ‘Johnny’; their very own rock icon, at a time when the Americans and the English had… Continue reading Issue 142: 2018 02 22: Hallyday’s Family
Issue 142: 2018 02 22: Czeching On Corbyn
22 February 2018 Czeching on Corbyn What a waste of time. By John Watson Once upon a time, in the dark days of the 1980s when the world was young and Amazon had not been invented, Jeremy Corbyn met a Czech spy. Maybe he knew the Czech was a spy: maybe he thought he was… Continue reading Issue 142: 2018 02 22: Czeching On Corbyn
Issue 142: 2018 02 22: Mercy strained
22 February 2018 The quality of mercy is strained Are we all the architects of charity failings? By Frank O’Nomics Charity has had its Weinstein moment. That the film industry might be a haven for sexual predators will have surprised few, but when organisations that exist to help the vulnerable and disadvantaged are similarly charged,… Continue reading Issue 142: 2018 02 22: Mercy strained
Issue 142: 2018 02 22: Telling It As It Is
22 February 2018 Telling It As It Is By J R Thomas Your correspondent’s first exposure to a work of Will Shakespeare was “Julius Caesar” at a provincial theatre. Caesar appeared as a Mussolini lookalike, all fascistic salutes and tightly tailored trouserings, with sneering acolytes strutting around behind him. We schoolboys got the message; this… Continue reading Issue 142: 2018 02 22: Telling It As It Is
Issue 142: 2018 02 22: McGovern’s Law
22 February 2018 McGovern’s Law The new maths. By Chin Chin It cost me a night’s sleep, that terrible story about education minister, Nick Gibb, who refused to multiply 9 by 8 when asked to do so by Jeremy Kyle on live television. He may have been criticised for his decision, but imagine what would… Continue reading Issue 142: 2018 02 22: McGovern’s Law
Issue 142: 2018 02 22: Cartoons
22 February 2018 Cartoons by AGGro Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
What’s on in March
22 February 2018 What’s on in March 2018 or what will be in the news? THURS 1st *SAINT DAVID’S DAY. Patron saint of Wales – wear a leek or a daffodil * New car registration GK18 NEW * Last official date for using the old paper £10 note – after this date, they will no… Continue reading What’s on in March
Issue 142: 2018 02 22: Crossword
22 February 2018 Crossword by Boffles Troubled Times Click for this Week’s interactive online crossword Click for a printable version of this Week’s crossword Click for the solution to last week’s crossword, Carnival. Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 142: 2018 02 22: Letter to the Editors
22 February 2018 Letter to the Editors With reference to Financing Councils To The Editors The Shaw Sheet Dear Sirs John Watson suggests a very sensible way of raising extra cash for local authorities in his article Financing Councils, published last week. Getting the public more involved in those matters which touch on all our… Continue reading Issue 142: 2018 02 22: Letter to the Editors
