Cover Page, 28 June 2018, Issue 160 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
28 June 2018 Lens on the Week UK EUROPEAN INTERVENTION INITIATIVE: A letter of intent has been signed by the UK, France, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Estonia, Spain and Portugal to set up a joint military intervention force which could be deployed at times of crisis. This would not be linked to the EU,
28 June 2018 Who To Betray The Brexit mutineers. By John Watson I forget who it was who said that he would never trust a man who would not betray his country for his friends, but whoever it was, he made an important point. You do not have to be Kim Philby to discover that
28 June 2018 Three Emperors A round of applause. By Neil Tidmarsh Ever been to Pyongyang? No, me neither. But we can imagine what it looks like, can’t we? Dark, grey, oppressive, run-down… Well, no, it’s not like that, apparently. Quite the opposite, in fact. The city’s tower blocks are painted in bright pastel colours.
28 June 2018 All Bad, Really? At least the weather is good. By Lynda Goetz It honestly feels as if there has been too much rubbish news this week. More dispiriting information coming out of the Grenfell inquiry; more macho stuff from Trump and his trade wars; more ridiculous political correctness from the literary world*;
28 June 2018 Melania’s Mistake Just a slogan. By Robert Kilconnor Am I the only person who feels sorry for Melania Trump? She is not a professional politician and either out of compassion or to help her husband – or more probably a mixture of the two – she decided to visit one of the
28 June 2018 Cash for Culture by J.R.Thomas Last week the Chancellor worked his conjuring trick and produced another wodge of cash for the NHS, applying a sticking plaster perhaps strong enough to dish Labour, if not to cure the funding problems of our national treasure. He also, shaking out the piggy bank, retrieving those
28 June 2018 Diary of a Corbynista Hammond’s wheels come off by Don Urquhart 21 June Back in March Lord Sugar was highly critical of Jeremy Corbyn’s handling of anti-Semitism in the Labour party. He shared a tweet depicting leader Jeremy Corbyn sitting in a car alongside Adolf Hitler. He later added that Corbyn needed
28 June 2018 Chaos Trump plunges on by Pat Edlin An appeal to raise funds of $1500 to give legal help to immigrants on entering the US, started on only 20th of June, had passed the $20 million mark by Sunday 24th June. “Reunite an Immigrant Parent with their Child” fundraising is just one of
28 June 2018 PPI – The Sequel The next mis-selling scandal to hit your phones will be pension transfers. by Frank O’Nomics Is it me or have those intensely irritating PPI calls started to drop off? Once we got beyond the stage of actually wondering whether we really might have a valid claim, the equivalent
