Cover Page, 26 July 2018, Issue 164 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 164: 2018 07 26: Cover page
Issue: 164: Hot, Hot, Hot
Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Lens on the week
26 July 2018 Lens on the Week UK PUBLIC SECTOR PAY: On the surface it sounds good: pay for junior teachers up 3.5%, for the military up 2% (with a bonus for the current year), 2% for junior doctors, 1.5% for their seniors, 2% for the police. But without new money from the Treasury these… Continue reading Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Lens on the week
Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Fear Of Failing
26 July 2018 Fear of Failing Doctors’ Nightmares. By Lynda Goetz Unless you are a doctor or are somehow personally involved, you will probably have no idea that this week Dr Hazid Bawa-Garba is appealing in the High Court against the General Medical Council’s (GMC) decision to strike her off the medical register – forever;… Continue reading Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Fear Of Failing
Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Diary of a Corbynista
26 July 2018 Diary of a Corbynista Nothing like a dame by Don Urquhart 19 July As a humble component of the Westminster Bubble I thought it was a good time to get out into the country to re-establish connection with the provincials. Coincidentally Theresa May was deciding to undertake a road trip to cheer… Continue reading Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Countdown
26 July 2018 Countdown Sexual politics. By John Watson The dog that doesn’t bark; that feeling of déjà vu. Most of us have moments when we suffer a jar to the senses without quite knowing why. That happened to me as I was watching the introduction to an edition of the game show Countdown by the… Continue reading Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Countdown
Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Peace In Whose Time?
26 July 2018 Peace In Whose Time? Korea, Japan, Russia… and Berwick-Upon-Tweed. By Neil Tidmarsh Tomorrow – Friday 27 July 2018 – will be the 65th anniversary of the signing of the armistice which brought the fighting in the Korean War to an end. The fighting, that is. Not the war itself. That can only… Continue reading Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Peace In Whose Time?
Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Too Hot To Handle
26 July 2018 Too Hot To Handle Weather and warming. By Robert Kilconner Those readers who are fluent in ancient Samarian will recall that in that language the verb “to be hot” is an irregular one both as to form and as to meaning. For the benefit of those whose education was focused on the… Continue reading Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Too Hot To Handle
Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Pollyanna – the deficit
26 July 2018 The Deficit and Pollyanna Economics The improvement in public finances is illusory. By Frank O’Nomics No sooner do the government’s finances improve than someone pops up to tell them how to spend the “windfall”. Data last week showed that public borrowing could come in £7bn lower than forecast, and it seems that… Continue reading Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Pollyanna – the deficit
Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Snuggling in the Heather
26 July 2018 Snuggling in the Heather Losing the Curlew. By J R Thomas There are moments of such wonderful irony that one just has to laugh. Conservation, though we should of course be concerned and correct, does have a tendency to produce laughs at guffaw volume. Owners of diesel cars need a sense of… Continue reading Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Snuggling in the Heather
Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Cartoons
26 July 2018 Cartoons By Aggro Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 164: 2018 07 26: Crossword
26 July 2018 Boffles is away Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
