Cover Page, 06 December 2018, Issue 181 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
6 December 2018 Lens on the Week UK BREXIT: The forced disclosure of the government’s legal advice on the withdrawal agreement has dominated the first two days of the five-day Brexit debate. The advice makes it clear that once we have signed the Withdrawal Agreement it becomes impossible to escape from the back stop arrangements
06 December 2018 No Deal: A Dead Duck? Mrs May’s Plan B. By John Watson “Leave or Remain?”, “Deal or No Deal?”, “Hard or Soft?”. These are the questions being debated across every dinner table in the land. Well, not actually every dinner table. Some have simply had enough of it all, and have understandably
6 December 2018 Diary of a Corbynista How to destroy an education system by Don Urquhart 29 November On the BBC Hannah Richardson reports that some universities are increasingly recruiting students with unconditional offers. They are telling students that A-level grade requirements will be dropped completely if they put the university down as their first
06 December 2018 The Battle For France Reform v Reaction. By Neil Tidmarsh Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose? Well, no, not quite. Ok, President Macron has admitted defeat this week and suspended his planned rise in fuel taxes after almost a month of widespread and often violent protest. This third Battle For
06 December 2011 Art for Art’s sake? Buy an auction house not a painting. By Frank O’Nomics The recent sale of Edward Hopper’s painting, Chop Suey, for $92 million is remarkable for two reasons. The first is the obvious one that this was a new record for the artist. The second requires a little investigation,
06 December 2018 A Modern Christmas In a digital age. By Chin Chin “Christmas comes but once a year” and that’s quite enough in my book. Yes, I can see that it was fun in Victorian times, sitting there in front of a roaring fire, glass in hand, attentive females listening admiringly to one’s reading
06 December 2019 Mantegna and Bellini The National Gallery (until 27 January 2019). Reviewed by William Morton Time for two major Old Masters, who were contemporaries, court painters and related by marriage. Andrea Mantegna (c.1431- 1506) studied in Padua under a painter called Squarcione, who passed on to him an interest in Roman sculpture and
06 December 2018 Oceania The Royal Academy Reviewed by Adam McCormack Oceania is a vast area of the globe covering, depending on the definition used, as much as one third of the earth’s surface. It extends as far north as Hawaii, south to New Zealand, west to Australia and east to the Pitcairn Islands and
06 December 2018 Letter to the Editors Police Tactics Dear Sir I read with interest Jack Wippell’s column on police tactics, and for the most part it is hard to disagree with the objective points that he makes. The trouble when discussing the police is that from an individual viewpoint it is hard to be
