Cover Page, 27 September 2018, Issue 171 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
27 September 2018 The Great Train Crash Lessons for us all By John Watson As the nights draw in and winter approaches, we all need something good to read in front of the fire. What is it to be? A bodice ripper, a detective story, a thriller? Or perhaps your tastes are more serious than
27 September 2018 Lens on the Week UK BREXIT: A brush off in Salzburg as the EU dismisses the Chequers proposals as unworkable. Davis and the Brexiteers urging for an agreement along the lines of the EU’s recent deal with Canada which eliminates most tariffs. The EU concerned that this would result in goods getting
27 September 2018 MEP’s Accountability Expenses a privacy issue? By Lynda Goetz For some, the idea of a public office with an expense account in the region of £4,000 a month (exclusive of refunds on first-class travel expenses and a daily living allowance of €313 when working in Brussels or Strasbourg) on top of a
27 September 2018 Diary of a Corbynista Labour MP rubbishes Labour Party by Don Urquhart 20 September Wile E. Coyote was a cartoon character obsessed with the capture of the Road Runner bird. He devised ever more surreal stratagems but was always doomed to failure. Theresa May is a British politician…. Following an EU summit
27 September 2018 The Folly of Frugality Saving has become futile. By Frank O’Nomics Saving, conventional logic dictates, is nothing more than deferred consumption. We put a sum of money aside while we are earning so that, when we are not, we still have something to live on. Such logic is instilled in us at
27 September 2018 Jolly Rafting Weather Who is for what? By J R Thomas Perhaps Mrs May is a much more subtle operator than we have all assumed. Why on earth, we all say, did she have that election in June 2017 and blow away a perfect good working majority? What on earth was in
27 September 2018 Surprise, Surprise Certainties and uncertainties. By Neil Tidmarsh We live in unpredictable times. The world is in a state of flux. The old order which has sustained it for decades is under threat. Nothing is certain any more. Take the news from the Maldives this week, for example. President Abdulla Yameen was
27 September 2018 Renewing the People’s National Curriculum China changes the rules. By Jack Wippell The Communist Party has decreed that, by October 15th, all Chinese schools will have to hand over their teaching materials to the ministry of education’s officials, who will then proceed to weed out foreign content. This is no great revelation,
27 September 2018 Antony and Cleopatra The National Theatre reviewed by Adam McCormack Star Rating **** Why should theatre be forced into pigeonholes? Antony and Cleopatra is not one of Shakespeare’s most easily categorised plays, sitting somewhere between history and tragedy, but with elements of high comedy. Simon Godwin’s new production at the National Theatre
