Cover Page, 10 May 2018, Issue 153 Welcome to our new issue. We hope you enjoy our articles and the other features. If you do, we ask that you please forward them 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 153: 2018 05 10: Cover page
Issue: 153: No Good Rate
Issue 153: 2018 05 10: Lens on the Week
10 May 2018 Lens on the Week UK BREXIT TENSIONS: Mrs May should have a print of the Greek hero Ulysses on her wall. It was he who, on his way back from the siege of Troy, had to sail through the straits between the hazards of Scylla and Charybdis, getting through them with the… Continue reading Issue 153: 2018 05 10: Lens on the Week
Issue 153: 2018 05 10: Gender Pension Gap
10 May 2018 Mind The (Gender Pension) Gap The pensions gap dwarfs that of pay. By Frank O’Nomics The waves of press coverage naming and shaming the worst corporate offenders when it comes to gender pay gaps have reached the point of overkill. The worst offenders seem to be financial services firms, and most have… Continue reading Issue 153: 2018 05 10: Gender Pension Gap
Issue 153: 2018 05 10: Local Election Results
10 May 2018 Local Election Results Interest Rates Matter. By John Watson “Whew”, “Could have been worse”, “Not so bad mid-term”, “Corbynism’s high point”, sighs of relief echo in the bar of every Conservative Association. Yes, it could have been worse. No it wasn’t. But before they congratulate themselves on only having lost thirty-one seats,… Continue reading Issue 153: 2018 05 10: Local Election Results
Issue 153: 2018 05 10: Spoilt For Choice
10 May 2018 Spoilt for Choice In so many ways. By Lynda Goetz This week there has been so much in the news that it has been really hard to work out what to focus on. Should it be universities (Cambridge vice-chancellor’s interview with Simon Heffer; Oxford’s removal of Theresa May’s portrait after student protests;… Continue reading Issue 153: 2018 05 10: Spoilt For Choice
Issue 153: 2018 05 10: Diary of a Corbynista
10 May 2018 Diary of a Corbynista A Smoking Gun? by Don Urquhart 3 May The charity Homes 4 Heroes estimates that around 4,500 ex-servicemen are sleeping on the streets. Alexander Palmer served in an Army commando regiment but was discharged in November 2015 after his head was “crushed” in a violent attack. He suffered… Continue reading Issue 153: 2018 05 10: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 153: 2018 05 10: The Iran Deal
10 May 2018 The Iran Deal Trump’s biggest gamble. By Neil Tidmarsh So President Trump has rolled the dice and we can see where they’ve fallen. Is anyone surprised? No, not really. He was a critic of Obama’s deal to freeze Iran’s nuclear enrichment programme even before he was a presidential candidate, and he’s been… Continue reading Issue 153: 2018 05 10: The Iran Deal
Issue 153: 2018 05 10: Housey Housey
10 May 2018 Housey Housey More and more regulation by J.R.Thomas It is almost forty years since Mrs Thatcher won her surprise electoral victory in 1979 and modern memories of her great reforming ministry are, to say the least, mixed. Not all her reforms are recalled with affection and others have become so normalised that… Continue reading Issue 153: 2018 05 10: Housey Housey
Issue 153: 2018 05 10: Letter to the Editor
10 May 2018 Letter to the Editor Fed up with anti-semitism? Dear Sir I flicked over and caught 5 minutes of Simon Scharma’s ‘Story of the Jews’ when he said, and I paraphrase…. that the justification for Israel is not what Hitler tried to do, but what the rest of the world failed to do… Continue reading Issue 153: 2018 05 10: Letter to the Editor
Issue 153: 2018 05 10: Quiz
10 May 2018 Quiz By Boffles Do you know? Who was Amber Rudd’s former husband? To which mainstream party did Oswald Mosley belong before he founded the New Party (later merged with the British Union of Fascists)? Why did Bashar al-Assad change career from eye doctor to dictator? Which Government minister… Continue reading Issue 153: 2018 05 10: Quiz
Issue 153: 2018 05 10: Cartoons
10 May 2018 Cartoons by AGGro Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin… Continue reading Issue 153: 2018 05 10: Cartoons
Issue 153: 2018 05 10: Crossword
10 May 2018 Crossword by Boffles Current Affairs 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, Plain Vanilla 32. Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
What’s on in May 2018
26 April 2018 What’s On in May 2018… or what will be in the news? by AGGro Tues 1st * MAY DAY – International Workers Day * Football – Champions League semi-finals, second legs – until 02/06 * Rita Coolidge is 75 today * 259 years ago: Birth of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington… Continue reading What’s on in May 2018
