Cover Page, 31 May 2018, Issue 156 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 156: 2018 05 31: Cover page
Issue: 156: Italian Job
Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Lens on the Week
31 May 2018 Lens on the Week UK BREXIT: As the row within the Cabinet about Britain’s relationship with the customs union rages on, the manufacturers association EEF has said that max fac, one of the two possible approaches, is not credible. The chief executive of EEF Stephen Phipson has said in a letter to… Continue reading Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Lens on the Week
Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Exclusion From Galileo
31 May 2018 Exclusion From Galileo An unwise stick. By John Watson If the work of Galileo threw light into dark places, the row over the satellite system which is named after him promises to do the same. Galileo is the EU’s answer to the American Global Positioning System, and once up and running it… Continue reading Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Exclusion From Galileo
Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Italy
31 May 2018 Italy 88 days and counting. By Neil Tidmarsh What has happened in Italy? What is happening in Italy? Nothing. Nothing? But the newspapers have been full of it this week: all the comings and goings at the president’s palace on the Quirinal Hill in Rome; dramatic falls in Italian markets; cries of… Continue reading Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Italy
Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Stop It Right Now!
31 May 2018 Stop That! Stop It Right Now! Interfering loses elections. By J R Thomas W E Gladstone was very clear what caused the dramatic and unexpected loss of office by the Liberal Party in the 1874 election. Said he: “We have been borne down in a torrent of gin and beer…” That, perhaps… Continue reading Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Stop It Right Now!
Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Diary of a Corbynista
31 May 2018 Diary of a Corbynista A Third Way on Brexit by Don Urquhart 24 May A report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Health Foundation said the NHS would need an extra 4% a year – or £2,000 per UK household – for the next 15 years. We have to deal… Continue reading Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Turbo-Giving
30 May 2018 Turbo-giving Three steps to greater charity. By Frank O’Nomics What if I told you that you could, at no extra cost to yourself, increase your charitable giving by 125%? Wouldn’t the satisfaction of charity be so much greater if you could get the tax man and corporate UK to supplement your generosity? … Continue reading Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Turbo-Giving
Issue 156: 2018 05 31: The French Village
31 May 2018 The French Village What is its future? By Richard Pooley I was back in England at the end of April, most of the time with my in-laws. They live in a sprawling village of 818 people between Stroud and Cirencester. It has a primary school, a pub and a village shop/sub-post office.… Continue reading Issue 156: 2018 05 31: The French Village
Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Crossword
31 May 2018 Crossword By Boffles Plain Vanilla 33 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, language Skills Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Quiz
31 May 2018 Quiz By Boffles Do you know? What detached human body parts have been discovered on a number of occasions on the coasts of British Columbia and Washington State? What is a bonobo? Who is the captain of the England limited overs cricket team and where was he born?… Continue reading Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Quiz
Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Cartoons
31 May 2018 Cartoons by AGGro … Continue reading Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Cartoons
What’s on in June 2018
31 May 2018 What’s On in June 2018 …or what will be in the News 1. Fri * Volunteers Week – until 7th June * Cricket – England v Pakistan, second Test, Headingley – until 5th June * Ronnie Wood (Rolling Stones) is 71 & Morgan Freeman is 81 today 2. Sat *… Continue reading What’s on in June 2018
Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Quiz – Answers
31 May 2018 Quiz – Answers By Boffles Feet. As far as far as can be established this is not the result of some odd form of foot fetishism or foul play- they have simply become detached as result of the normal process of decay from bodies in the sea. A dwarf chimpanzee.… Continue reading Issue 156: 2018 05 31: Quiz – Answers
