Cover Page, 15 November 2018, Issue 178 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 178: 2018 11 15: Cover page
Issue: 178: Armistice 100
Issue 178: 2018 11 15: Lens on the Week
15 November 2018 Lens on the Week UK BREXIT: The deal announced yesterday between the Government and the EU regarding Brexit was being denounced by the various political factions before they had had a chance to read it. At the moment the draft is only available to members of the Cabinet so we will have… Continue reading Issue 178: 2018 11 15: Lens on the Week
Issue 178: 2018 11 15: Nutters’ Paradise
15 November 2018 Nutters’ Paradise A second referendum. By John Watson What can it be? Is it a revival of the leprosy which spread across Europe at the time of the Crusades? Is it a return of the bubonic plague which destroyed whole villages in the Middle Ages? No, there are no rotting limbs or… Continue reading Issue 178: 2018 11 15: Nutters’ Paradise
Issue 178: 2018 11 15: The Price of Peace
15 November 2018 The Price of Peace $90 million, for starters. By Neil Tidmarsh “Where words prevail not, violence prevails: But gold doth more than either of them both.” These words – from Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy (1592) – were quoted in The Times last week, with reference to nothing in particular. They simply… Continue reading Issue 178: 2018 11 15: The Price of Peace
Issue 178: 2018 11 15: The Hanging Chads
15 November 2018 The return of the hanging chads US Midterms by J.R.Thomas Yes folks, they are back. You thought they had faded into oblivion after that historic tussle between Gore and GW, but you can’t really keep a good thing down. At least in Florida. The mid term elections may have been last Tuesday… Continue reading Issue 178: 2018 11 15: The Hanging Chads
Issue 178: 2018 11 15: Fountain of Youth
15 November 2018 Fountain of Youth Unending Legislation. By Lynda Goetz Mankind’s search for eternal youth is nothing new. It is indeed as old as mankind itself. However, our current scientific knowledge and scepticism mean that the old routes to this nirvana are closed to us. No matter. The modern world has new ways of… Continue reading Issue 178: 2018 11 15: Fountain of Youth
Issue 178: 2018 11 15: RIP RPI
15 November 2108 RIP RPI Change the inflation measure for everything including gilts. by Frank O’Nomics Is this just another government “cake” event (as in having it and eating it)? The announcement that the inflation index to be used for National Savings products will be changed to CPI from RPI is hardly the stuff of… Continue reading Issue 178: 2018 11 15: RIP RPI
Issue 178: 2018 11 15: Diary of a Corbynista
15 November 2018 Diary of a Corbynista Brexit in Perspective by Don Urquhart 8 November Dominic Raab is the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. Here’s how BBC News reported reaction to his admission yesterday that he hadn’t quite understood how reliant UK trade in goods is on the Dover-Calais crossing. Shadow Brexit… Continue reading Issue 178: 2018 11 15: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 178: 2018 11 15: The Math Lesson
15 November 2018 The Math Lesson Other eyes, other worlds. By Richard Pooley What comes to mind when I say “African village”? Lots of conical huts, reed-roofed and mud-walled, chickens scratching for food in the dirt, goats searching for something to eat among the few stunted bushes, children laughing as they play, a sinuous line… Continue reading Issue 178: 2018 11 15: The Math Lesson
Issue 178: 2018 11 15: Selling CVs
15 November 2018 Selling CVs A new industry. By Young Chin When chatting about his proposals for Sodom, the Lord promised to spare the city if Abraham could find ten good men in it. Unfortunately the locals failed the test, and as I suppose that the EU will fail it too it seems inevitable that… Continue reading Issue 178: 2018 11 15: Selling CVs
Issue 178: 2018 11 15: Hadestown
15 November 2018 Hadestown The National Theatre reviewed by Adam McCormack Star rating: ***** On any given evening there are some 200 different theatrical productions in London, many of which are worth seeing. Getting round all is impossible, so why then, having seen Hadestown, have I immediately booked more tickets? The reason is quite simple… Continue reading Issue 178: 2018 11 15: Hadestown
Issue 178: 2018 11 15: Crossword
08 November 2018 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 178 Click for this Week’s interactive online crossword Click for a printable version of this Week’s crossword Click for the solution to crossword, No 177 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 178: 2018 11 15: Cartoons
15 November 2018 Cartoons By AGGro Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
