Cover Page, 05 July 2018, Issue 161 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 161: 2018 07 05: Cover page
Issue: 161: Life&Death2Some
Issue 161: 2018 07 05: Lens On The Week
05 July 2018 Lens on the Week UK NHS: Steve Powis, medical director of the NHS, has drawn up a list of seventeen surgical procedures seen as useless or unnecessary, which will be weeded out of the general offering. It has been estimated that unnecessary treatment, sometimes of ailments which would cure themselves with time… Continue reading Issue 161: 2018 07 05: Lens On The Week
Issue 161: 2018 07 05: World’s Worst President
05 July 2018 World’s Worst President And the winner isn’t… By J R Thomas There are currently a number of contenders for this illustrious and hard-fought title. So who is likely to be this decade’s winner? Perhaps President Xi Jinping, converting himself to President for life of the Peoples’ Republic of China; or President Erdogan,… Continue reading Issue 161: 2018 07 05: World’s Worst President
Issue 161: 2018 07 05: Don’t Sell (until you see
05 July 2018 Don’t Sell (until you see the whites of their socks) Central bankers are traders too. By Frank O’Nomics At the start of the year, many argued that we should await a “blow-off” top to markets before starting to sell. Such statements display arrogance, or the “greater fool” theory, and highlight the danger… Continue reading Issue 161: 2018 07 05: Don’t Sell (until you see
Issue 161: 2018 07 05: Franco’s Ghost
05 July 2018 Franco’s Ghost Amnesia isn’t easy. By Neil Tidmarsh The Valley of the Fallen lies in the barren Guadarrama mountains thirty miles north west of Madrid. At its heart is a massive Roman Catholic basilica – an underground crypt quarried out of the side of a mountain – which holds the remains of… Continue reading Issue 161: 2018 07 05: Franco’s Ghost
Issue 161: 2018 07 05: Expert Patients
05 July 2018 Expert Patients The new NHS app. By John Watson Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat is one of the funniest books in the English language. It begins, however, with a perceptive (and, of course, funny) commentary on patient behaviour. The hero is not feeling well and decides that he will consult… Continue reading Issue 161: 2018 07 05: Expert Patients
Issue 161: 2018 07 05: Diary of a Corbynista
5 July 2018 Diary of a Corbynista Education, Education, Education. By Don Urquhart 28 June Today the EU leaders meet in Brussels with immigration the main agenda item. Several countries have closed their borders and now Bavaria seeks to join them in defiance of Angela Merkel’s “open door” policy. Horst Seehofer is the leader of… Continue reading Issue 161: 2018 07 05: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 161: 2018 07 05: Rural Life
05 July 2018 Rural Life Need for housing, jobs and connectivity. By Lynda Goetz This week, for those of you who are not aware of the fact (probably most of you), is Rural Housing Week (it is also NHS Health Information Week, Sarcoma Awareness Week, School Diversity Week, National Dim Sum Week as well as… Continue reading Issue 161: 2018 07 05: Rural Life
Issue 161: 2018 07 05: Crossword
05 July 2018 Crossword Number 161 By Boffles 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, No 160 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
What’s on in July 2018
28 June 2018 What’s on in July 2018 by AGGro Sun 1st * Formula 1 – Austrian Grand Prix, Spielberg * Cricket – Women’s T20 tri-series final, Chelmsford Debbie Harry (Blondie) is 73 today Mon 2nd * TENNIS – WIMBLEDON – until 15th July * Cricket – England v India T20s * Cricket –… Continue reading What’s on in July 2018
