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12 April 2018 Lens on the Week UK MRS MAY’S HESITATION: In the next few days Britain will have to decide whether to participate in the US’s airstrikes against Syria in response to the chemical attack in Douma. So far it has been France which has taken the initiative, egging Trump on and offering its support.
12 April 2018 More Maskirovka Denial, Accusation, Distraction. By Neil Tidmarsh Do you remember the Bad Kid at school? No, not the hero Bad Kid, who made you laugh and cheer because he had the courage to do all the things you wanted to do but were too scared or too sensible to try, and
12 April 2018 The Gender Pay Gap A ‘burning injustice’ – really? By Lynda Goetz I have every sympathy for those women in the BBC who find themselves, however well paid out of the taxpayers licence fee, paid substantially less than male colleagues. Likewise for Tamara Mellon, the entrepreneur, who has confessed that she was,
12 April 2018 Pay Gap Flawed Figures a dreadful mess. By John Watson The pay gap figures are now out and a dreadful muddle they are too. That isn’t because of any failure by those reporting but rather because the formulae which generate the figures are so deeply flawed that they make the numbers they
12 April 2018 Stormy Waters Trump battles on. By J R Thomas So often, it is the little things that sink you. In sailing, not looking up the local weather forecast, or forgetting to take the bailing bucket. But this is not a column about sailing; it is, most weeks, about politics. And in
12 April 2018 Diary of a Corbynista A Pacifist’s Nightmare by Don Urquhart 5 April Correlation is often confused with causation. There were two more violent deaths in London yesterday. A recent spate of stabbings and shootings has brought the number of violent deaths in the capital this year to more than 50, higher even
12 April 2018 Coming Back Macron too macro? By Chin Chin Well, where are they, then? The first signs of spring, where are they? There I was in New Zealand, living life in the sunshine, sitting on a deck gazing over the Pacific, the hard choice of the day being whether that bottle of iced
12 April 2018 On yer bike! Uber’s move into bicycle sharing could transform our cities. By Frank O’Nomics I have been a convert to shared cycle schemes for some time. The convenience of walking up to a TfL cycle stand, picking up a bike and getting to my next appointment quickly by taking some modest
12 April 2018 The Mikado at The King’s Head, Islington. Reviewed by John Watson ***** The Mikado is always fun, but the current production at the Kings Head Theatre, Islington, absolutely sparkles. Gilbert and Sullivan works well in a small theatre, the replacement of an orchestra by a piano being more than compensated for by
