Cover Page, 06 September 2018, Issue 168 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
06 September 2018 Lens on the Week UK SALISBURY POISONINGS: The tale of the poisoning of Yulia and Sergei Skripal begins to gather flesh with the CPS releasing the names of the would-be murderers. Not the real names, of course, the would-be assassins seem to have been Russian agents working under aliases, but this deficiency
06 September 2018 Nutty Or Nuanced? Corbyn’s media proposals. By John Watson It has been a difficult end to August. Politicians returned from holidays with their batteries recharged ready to fight for their ideals. Lances were couched. Tans had been burnished. They were ready to do or die on the great issue of the day,
06 September 2018 Diplomats in Danger Summer palaces and microwaves. By Neil Tidmarsh In August 1860, an army of 20,000 British and French troops disembarked from a fleet of 206 ships anchored in China’s Pehtang River, and began to march on Beijing. Their mission was to coerce the Emperor Hsien Feng into ratifying the Treaty
06 September 2018 Sensible Season Now who’s being silly? By J R Thomas The 2018 Silly Season is over at last and political historians can begin working out which, in these remarkable times, were the real events, which the stupid, and which the merely silly. And if anything was of any real consequence at
30 August 2018 Letter to the Editor Reference to Julius Streicher Dear Sir I understand the strategy (of now quoting from sources to support his anti Israel/pro-Palestinian platform) behind the change in your diarist’s approach, and in many ways his recent diaries have been a welcome improvement on his past efforts etc…. Am I
06 September 2018 Mark Carney: 50 “whys” to leave your lover The “unreliable boyfriend” has outstayed his welcome. By Frank O’Nomics Just when we were starting to assess the runners and riders to be the next Bank of England Governor it seems that the race has been postponed. Comments from Mark Carney this week suggest
06 September 2018 Guarding the Gardiennes A film by Xavier Beauvois. Reviewed by J R Thomas Sometimes it seems a pity that English does not follow Latin derived languages in having gender sensitive nouns. Of course in an age when we have all genders and none, we are never going to get our words defined
