Cover Page, 08 March 2018, Issue 144 The Guardian website solicits donations from readers to help fund its production. We don’t do that, but would ask instead that you forward our articles to, and recommend us to, any contacts of yours who would be interested. If you can persuade them to register for our weekly… Continue reading Issue 144: 2018 03 08: Cover page
Issue: 144: May Week
Issue 144: 2018 03 08: Lens on the week
08 March 2018 Lens on the Week UK BREXIT: Mrs May’s big speech on the Friday setting out the government breaks at strategy seems to have averted any immediate breach in the Parliamentary Conservative Party. WIGGINS: A report of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the House of Commons states that Bradley Wiggins… Continue reading Issue 144: 2018 03 08: Lens on the week
Issue 144: 2018 03 08: Picking Cherries
08 March 2018 Picking Cherries The Brexit speech. By John Watson You would be Bletchley Park material if you could reverse engineer the speech which Mrs May made on Friday and deduce where the negotiations between the UK and the EU really are. There was much that was vague and bits that sounded overoptimistic, inevitably… Continue reading Issue 144: 2018 03 08: Picking Cherries
Issue 144: 2018 03 08: Putin’s Russia
8 March 2018 Putin’s Russia State of the Nation By Neil Tidmarsh Last Thursday, President Putin gave his annual ‘state of the nation’ address to the country’s MPs and other members of Russia’s political elite. It began as usual, promising to be the normal dreary two hours of dull and predictable assessments of the country’s… Continue reading Issue 144: 2018 03 08: Putin’s Russia
Issue 144: 2018 03 08: Planning And Infrastructure
08 March 2018 Planning and Infrastructure New homes and… By Lynda Goetz Theresa May’s statement on Monday was welcome. Yes, we do need new homes for the younger generation. Yes, we need them to be affordable and yes, yes, yes, we would love them not to be little identikit rabbit hutches. However… However, what we… Continue reading Issue 144: 2018 03 08: Planning And Infrastructure
Issue 144: 2018 03 08: Sell May and Go Away?
08 March 2018 Sell May and go away? By J R Thomas No, the heading is not a mess up by the titles editor; nor is this a sheet of investment advice. Though maybe, in the broadest sense, it is. What is it about 10 Downing Street that so attracts politicians? One can understand the… Continue reading Issue 144: 2018 03 08: Sell May and Go Away?
Issue 144: 2018 03 08: Diary of a Corbynista
08 March 2018 Diary of a Corbynista Mrs May Breaks Cover. By Don Urquhart 1 March Alison Michalska, President of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services was on today’s Daily Politics. In Nottingham City, where she is based, 60% of families live in poverty. Central government cuts have had a devastating effect. Kevin Hollinrake… Continue reading Issue 144: 2018 03 08: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 144: 2018 03 08: Dad and your dinner
08 March 2018 Pensions: Is your dad still eating your dinner? Making the old subsidise the young may be a mistake. by Frank O’Nomics You must remember the feeling. Your father comes home from work as you are eating your fish fingers, reaches over and pinches one. It was intensively frustrating then and many contend… Continue reading Issue 144: 2018 03 08: Dad and your dinner
Issue 144: 2018 03 08: The Aid Wars
08 March 2018 The Aid Wars by James Morton A year ago I was incautious enough to write to the Editor of the Times responding to their article: Consultants Take Billions From Foreign Aid Budget. As one who had spent of 30 years at the coalface of overseas aid, I felt that I had to… Continue reading Issue 144: 2018 03 08: The Aid Wars
Issue 144: 2018 03 08: The Storm’s The Thing
08 March 2018 The Storm’s The Thing An ill wind. By Chin Chin It has been quite a year for those who like extreme weather. With the UK reeling under the twin impact of the Beast from the East and Hurricane Emma, their hobby has been delivered to the doorstep as if it had been… Continue reading Issue 144: 2018 03 08: The Storm’s The Thing
Issue 144: 2018 03 08: Macbeth
08 March 2018 Macbeth The National Theatre reviewed by Adam McCormack Star Rating: *** Onto a dystopian dimly lit stage runs a man in fear for his life. Together with the gruesome beheading that follows, this sets the tone for a very bleak production of Macbeth. In an apparently plastic ridden post-apocalyptic world, where armour… Continue reading Issue 144: 2018 03 08: Macbeth
Issue 144: 2018 03 08: Summer And Smoke
08 March 2018 Summer and Smoke (Tennessee Williams) Almeida Theatre (until 7 April) Reviewed by William Morton Star rating: **** Tennessee Williams was very prolific, writing approximately 30 major plays. After enjoying great success with The Glass Menagerie and A Street Car named Desire, his work fell out of favour to some extent, although he… Continue reading Issue 144: 2018 03 08: Summer And Smoke
Issue 144: 2018 03 08: Quiz – Answers
08 March 2018 Quiz – Answers By Boffles 1.Sir Peter Lely 2.The wren 3.Iceland and Liechtenstein 4. Hedy Lamarr with her co-inventor, George Antheil 5. President Garfield, shot by a madman in a railway waiting room in 1881 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
