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29 March 2018 Lens on the Week UK LABOUR ANTISEMITISM: The problems of antisemitism in the Labour party hit a new milestone with a protest by the Jewish Community in Parliament Square. The trouble is that the left’s traditional support for Palestine has long spilled over into antisemitism so the rise of the left within
29 March 2018 No Meeting of Manners Are the French “rude, aggressive and disrespectful”? By Richard Pooley Just when I was beginning to doubt I had anything to write about this week, Monsieur Guillaume Rey came to my rescue. A French waiter working – or maybe, no longer working – in Vancouver, Mr Rey was
29 March 2018 The Flag of Free Trade The Brexit debate. By John Watson The odd thing about Brexit is that it is multi-focussed. At first it was about money, the money it would free up for the NHS balanced against an equally spurious instant economic doom. Then it was about immigration, the waste of
29 March 2018 Diary of a Corbynista Corbyn, the anti-Semite and Stalinist? by Don Urquhart 22 March At Yesterday’s PMQ’s, Jeremy Corbyn went in hard on cuts in local government services. Andrew Gwynne is the shadow minister responsible for local government and Theresa May asked whether he supported certain local labour parties. Haringey where the
29 March 2018 ISAs For Good Turning charity into investment. By Frank O’Nomics As we approach the end of the tax year, most of us once again have left the utilisation of our ISA allowance to the last minute. One of the reasons for being dilatory lies in the difficulty in choosing from the mind-boggling
29 March 2018 Not A Moveable Feast The milk chocolate Easter Act. By Neil Tidmarsh Stop! Put that Easter egg down, madam! Put it down, and step away! Slowly! You’re under arrest! Right, sergeant, get the cuffs on her. And search this house. Get the men in and get the chocolate-sniffer dogs in and turn
29 March 2018 Fantastic Behaviour and Ladies Bathing by J R Thomas Some days it is not just necessary, but vital, to take a rolled ice-cold towel, retire to a darkened room, and sit, pressing the chilled instrument to the throbbing brow, trying to work out, without much hope of enlightenment, the current state of
29 March 2018 Flying Back New seasons for old. By Chin Chin If you have ever read Sir Henry Rider Haggard’s adventure story Nada the Lily, you will recall that Chaka, the brutal Zulu King, liked people to address him in the third person as “The heavens above”. When I read the book at about
29 March 2018 The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour Reviewed by Adam McCormack Star rating **** Banff is a long way to go to watch films, but happily the smart people behind the annual film and book festival appreciate that there is a global audience for films about the great outdoors. The festival takes
