18 October 2018 Lens on the Week UK BREXIT: Tusk thinks it is all going down the drain. French and German diplomats believe that an agreement on the Irish question is possible. The former head of MI6 accuses Olly Robbins of putting British security projects under EU control. Philip Hammond and Greg Clark are said to
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18 October 2018 Security and Freedom An uneasy balance. By John Watson “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” We all know the correct answer to that one, don’t we? It is “me” or, more grammatically, “I”, or, if you view things from the mirror’s point of view, “you”. No one,
18 October 2018 Summer’s Lease Adjust with care. By J R Thomas One side effect of Brexit is that the amount of legislation the government has been propelling through Parliament is much reduced. This may or may not be a good thing, depending on the effect on whatever part of your life the government
18 October 2018 The Fashion Industry and the Environment Regulation or Education? By Lynda Goetz It is quite possibly a generational thing, but until last week I had not come across Stacey Dooley. However, Stacey, at the ripe old age of 31 is already a seasoned television presenter, documentary film-maker, author, all-round media personality and
18 October 2018 The Khashoggi Disappearance The USA, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. By Neil Tidmarsh A mechanic servicing an F-16 fighter jet last week at the Belgian airforce’s Florennes base accidentally triggered the plane’s guns. The bursts of automatic fire which he unwittingly unleashed destroyed another F-16 (price-tag $18 million), damaged yet another and left
18 October 2018 Human Rights A crisis. By Jack Wippell Last Friday, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) elected its new members. Ever keeping with its tradition of controversy, the election threw up countries such as Eritrea and Bahrain; perhaps not those you would expect to feature. One could have been forgiven, pre-election, for
18 October 2018 Diary of a Corbynista All in it together? by Don Urquhart 11 October Today I have been attempting to spread the Corbynista message in affluent Surrey, more precisely at Walton Heath where the British Masters was in full swing (see what I did there?). Shocking how few people wanted to divert their
18 October 2018 Mind the (yield) gap The end of a 10-year equity affair. By Frank O’Nomics This week saw a collective sigh of relief from markets. US equities, having withstood a dramatic 1,300-point fall in the Dow in just 2 days last week, rallied strongly, helped by above expected levels of earnings data from
18 October 2018 Stiffening the Cake Prompt Action by Anthony Silver You may have read about the £20m black hole discovered last week within Patisserie Valerie Holdings, an AIM listed company that at the beginning of the week was valued at £450m. Not too much to worry about, one would have thought, after all they
