Cover Page, 14 June 2018, Issue 158 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 158: 2018 06 14: Cover page
Issue: 158: MakingWarHistory
Issue 158: 2018 06 14: Lens on the Week
14 June 2018 Lens on the Week UK BREXIT: For those who read Hansard in the bath, the last couple of days must have been fascinating as the bill governing the machinery of Brexit (The EU Withdrawal Bill) returned to the House of Commons. The main purpose of the Bill is relatively non-contentious. All EU law… Continue reading Issue 158: 2018 06 14: Lens on the Week
Issue 158: 2018 06 14: Grenfell Tower
14 June 2018 Grenfell Tower The Rice-Davies Rule. By John Watson True or apocryphal? It could be either, but the story that senior civil servants pencil the initials “MRDA” into the margin of documents is good enough to satisfy any fan of Yes, Minister. The reference, of course, is to the trial of society osteopath… Continue reading Issue 158: 2018 06 14: Grenfell Tower
Issue 158: 2018 06 14: The Singapore Summit
14 June 2018 The Singapore Summit And the absent giant. By Neil Tidmarsh Yes, it really was the meeting of the century. Some disappointed observers are already beginning to write it off as a damp squib adding nothing new to the situation, but the two most interesting comments from the summit suggest they’re mistaken. The… Continue reading Issue 158: 2018 06 14: The Singapore Summit
Issue 158: 2018 06 14: More Bull
14 June 2018 More Bull Change in Spain by J R Thomas Sorry, Senor Rajoy. The curse of the Shaw Sheet struck the affable bearded Spanish Prime Minister within days of our article saying that his handling of the Catalonia crisis had strengthened his position in office. Almost needless to say, he is now an… Continue reading Issue 158: 2018 06 14: More Bull
Issue 158: 2018 06 14: Diary of a Corbynista
14 June 2018 Diary of a Corbynista Nobody Panic by Don Urquhart 7 June One of Theresa May’s factoids in PMQ’s was the assertion that there were now fewer than ever impoverished children in working families. I prefer to get my facts from a reliable source. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation today published a report calling… Continue reading Issue 158: 2018 06 14: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 158: 2018 06 14: Time to be a SKIN
14 June 2018 Time to be a SKIN Spend Kids Inheritance Now. by Frank O’Nomics Frugality is generally heralded as a virtue. A reluctance to plan for our old age is regarded as one of the biggest threats to our ageing society, as the falling proportion in work are seen as having to support the… Continue reading Issue 158: 2018 06 14: Time to be a SKIN
Issue 158: 2018 06 14: Ford Revolution
14 June 2018 Ford Revolution Ontario Results. by J R Thomas The big wheel of Ontario politics turned dramatically indeed last Thursday (see our article None of the Above in last week’s edition). No, not an overwhelming victory for the None of Above Party, who did not appeal, it seems, to any Canadian urge for… Continue reading Issue 158: 2018 06 14: Ford Revolution
Issue 158: 2018 06 14: A Winter’s Tale
14 June 2018 A Winter’s Tale For a summer evening. By Lynda Goetz If one were to go by the title alone, A Winter’s Tale would not seem the obvious play to stage as an open air summer production. However, for those who know the play, it is of course an excellent choice. This is… Continue reading Issue 158: 2018 06 14: A Winter’s Tale
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 158: 2018 06 14: Julie
14 June 2018 Julie (a play by Polly Stenham) the National Theatre reviewed by Adam McCormack Star rating: *** Poor little rich girl Julie is a deeply troubled soul. Tortured by the suicide of her mother, neglected by her extremely wealthy workaholic father and dumped by her boyfriend. With this amount of baggage it is… Continue reading Issue 158: 2018 06 14: Julie
Issue 158: 2018 06 14: Monogamy
14 June 2018 Monogamy (a play by Torben Betts) The Park Theatre reviewed by Adam McCormack Star Rating: **** Caroline Mortimer is a woman that apparently has it all. A celebrity TV chef (the nation’s second favorite domestic goddess), married with 3 children (including a son who has just graduated with a first from Oxford),… Continue reading Issue 158: 2018 06 14: Monogamy
Issue 158: 2018 06 14: Cartoons
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