17 May 2018 Lens on the Week UK BREXIT: The debate within the Cabinet over the best form of customs partnership to pursue rumbles on, the contenders being the system which combines the collection of tariffs at EU rates with a repayment of the excess over UK rates where goods are consumed here (a system
Cover Page, 17 May 2018, Issue 154 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
17 May 2018 Jaw-Jaw in the Sun Impasse in Catalonia by J.R. Thomas Jaw-Jaw is better than war-war, said Winston Churchill. And also better than trying to govern Catalonia, might add Mariano Rajoy, the current Spanish prime minister. Mr Rajoy has had that unenviable task since last October when his gamble of forcing new
17 May 2018 The Past Is Never Dead It isn’t even the past. By Neil Tidmarsh Let’s take a break from the Present this week, and escape into the Past with some current stories about heritage – Rome’s Colosseum, Marie Antoinette’s toy farm, Abraham Lincoln’s top hat – which can’t possibly have any bearing on
17 May 2018 Dog Aggression Who’s to blame? By Lynda Goetz Last week, both The Times and The Telegraph carried a picture of an attractive young blonde woman cradling a pop-eyed Chihuahua with headlines to the effect that the poor creature had been attacked by an ‘out-of-control’ hound owned (would you believe!) by a Cruft’s
17 May 2018 Grenfell Tower Inquiry Politics and Panels? By John Watson “Yes, but who?” That is the question posed by Sir Martin Moore-Bick, Chairman of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, when he heard that the Prime Minister is to appoint two panel members to assist with its second phase. Of course, he didn’t put it
17 May 2018 Silver Striver Or Skiver? The danger and futility of taxing the elderly. By Frank O’Nomics The UK faces a huge economic problem as a result of its ageing population. Recent projections of the increased money needed for education, health and social security spending by 2040 amount to an additional £63bn – the
17 May 2018 Diary of a Corbynista Irish Eurovision Scandal by Don Urquhart 10 May The “smoking gun” I referred to in last week’s Shawsheet was picked up by a senior Labour politician. Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, seems to share my opinion of the Debbie Abrahams sacking. It feels to me like
