Cover Page, 30 August 2018, Issue 167 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
30 August 2018 Lens on the Week UK GCSE GRADES: This year’s GCSE results show an improvement on last year, with both passes and what are now passes at level 7 up by 0.5%. That sounds good on the face of it, particularly bearing in mind that the exams were slightly harder this year, but
30 August 2018 Judgement Day Away with the rules. By John Watson Let’s look at two different stories. The first was splashed all over the front of Tuesday’s The Times. State school headmasters have been manipulating their schools’ positions in the exam tables by excluding children who are unlikely to get good results. Does this
30 August 2018 Summer Storms Will Trump survive? by J R Thomas One more week, almost, to Labour Day, and then normal life can resume in the political salons and smoke free backrooms of Washington. Our attempt to whip up a Stormy Daniels connection by our modestly false news headline above is fated not to
30 August 2018 Diary of a Corbynista Streicher’s Motto! by Don Urquhart 22 August Israel’s expansion into the West Bank continues relentlessly. Haaretz reports: Israel Approves 382 New Homes in West Bank Settlements In addition, plans were advanced Wednesday for an expansion of a residential neighbourhood in Kiryat Netafim settlement by an additional 84 housing
30 August 2018 All That Glitters Gold, Gottingen and Venezuela. By Neil Tidmarsh Two years ago, over a period of two months and ten visits, a 19-year-old boy sold 279 gold bars to a bank in Gottingen, Germany, where he lived. The bank paid him €300,000 for them. It was reportedly keen to buy even
30 August 2018 Inflation: Know Your Onions Food inflation is little to worry about. By Frank O’Nomics Onion prices up 40%, carrots up 80%, beef prices under pressure. News like this not only suggests that soon a decent stew will only be eaten by the wealthy, but also that we should batten down the hatches
30 August 2018 Sex, Gender and Freedom Freedom, the main issue. By Lynda Goetz A friend of mine needs a knee replacement. He is in his 50s and has now been waiting for two and a half years. Unfortunately, as we all know, this is one of the operations restricted by an NHS in financial
