04 October 2018 The Dark Side of Paltrow’s World The real global danger of medical pseudoscience. By Jack Wippell As the storm of headlines generated by the conference season and Kavanaugh continues, you could be forgiven for missing the opening of a pop-up shop, Goop, in Notting Hill on Tuesday. Gwyneth Paltrow’s wellness brand has… Continue reading Issue 172: 2018 10 04: Pseudoscience
Issue: 157: One Year On
Issue 158: 2018 06 14: The Tower
07 June 2018 “The Tower” Andrew O’Hagan’s examination of the Grenfell Tower disaster. By J R Thomas The Tower is an extraordinary piece of investigative journalism, written by the novelist and essayist, Andrew O’Hagan. It is the result of O’Hagan’s detailed examination of what happened before, during, and after the disastrous and heartbreaking fire in Grenfell… Continue reading Issue 158: 2018 06 14: The Tower
Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Cover page
Cover Page, 07 June 2018, Issue 157 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 157: 2018 06 07: Cover page
Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Lens on the Week
07 June 2018 Lens on the Week UK BREXIT: In a shift of policy Labour have decided to vote for “full acccess” to the single market and “shared institutions and regulations” with the EU. It is not entirely clear how far this goes and whether they advocate “free movement”. Perhaps this will be clarified soon. Meanwhile… Continue reading Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Lens on the Week
Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Top Prigs
07 June 2018 Top Prigs A British triumph. By John Watson Visas refused; funds frozen. The attack by the UK authorities on Russian oligarchs seems to be well under way. Much of it is a reaction to the nerve gas attack in Salisbury and to Russian aggression in the Middle East. We cannot strike at… Continue reading Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Top Prigs
Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Back From The Dead
07 June 2018 Back From The Dead It lives! It lives! By Neil Tidmarsh So the Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko is still alive, after all. His return from the dead was billed as a riff on a Sherlock Holmes story, but let’s hope it doesn’t morph into some sort of inside-out, back-to-front variation on the… Continue reading Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Back From The Dead
Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Virtually Speaking
07 June 2018 Virtually Speaking What should we be doing? By Lynda Goetz We seem as a nation to be very conflicted and somewhat confused at this moment. Not just as regards Brexit, but on so many other issues too. Looking at events and news items from this week alone, there are a number which… Continue reading Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Virtually Speaking
Issue 157: 2018 06 07: None of the Above
07 June 2018 None Of The Above Ontario election latest. By J R Thomas Many of our readers are no doubt even now laying in stocks of Molson Light and moose sandwiches to get them through the night of 7th June. If they are, they may be surprised that most Ontario voters are planning on… Continue reading Issue 157: 2018 06 07: None of the Above
Issue 157: 2018 06 07: The UK Family Silver
7 June 2018 The fate of the UK family silver What would you do with £400 million? by Frank O’Nomics Fancy paying some extra Council Tax to help your cash strapped borough? I thought not. How about giving the state a slug of cash to help the ease the burden of the National Debt? From… Continue reading Issue 157: 2018 06 07: The UK Family Silver
Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Jowell Silence Heckled
07 June 2018 Jowell Silence Heckled The solids in the pool. By Robert Kilconner Most people, whether members of the Labour Party or not, will be disgusted at the heckling which interrupted the one-minute silence held at a meeting of the Hampstead and Kilburn Constituency Labour Party to commemorate Tessa Jowell. Of course some will… Continue reading Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Jowell Silence Heckled
Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Diary of a Corbynista
7 June 2018 Diary of a Corbynista The people assemble by Don Urquhart 31 May Michael Gove promised us a brave new world of free schools being demanded by parents in areas ill-served by the “blob” of local authority bureaucracy. The reality is predictably quite different. A study from the Sutton Trust social mobility charity… Continue reading Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 157: 2018 06 07: My Name is Lucy Barton
07 June 2018 My Name is Lucy Barton The Bridge Theatre reviewed by Adam McCormack Star rating: **** Turning a novel into a stage production is not easy. Nuances, thoughts and emotions that can be effectively expressed in prose are difficult to replicate in drama. This difficulty is enhanced further if the production is a… Continue reading Issue 157: 2018 06 07: My Name is Lucy Barton
Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Building The Wall
07 June 2018 Building The Wall A play by Robert Schenkkan at the Park Theatre Reviewed by John Watson *** The acting by Angela Griffin and Trevor White is first class. The dialogue is well written in a courtroom drama sort of way, and yet there is something a little unsatisfactory about this production. The… Continue reading Issue 157: 2018 06 07: Building The Wall
