Cover Page, 13 December 2018, Issue 182 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 182: 2018 12 13: Cover page
Issue: 182: Close Shave
Issue 182: 2018 12 13: Lens on the Week
13 December 2018 Lens on the Week UK BREXIT: It has been a busy week in politics. First out of the blocks was the European Court of Justice with its ruling on Monday that Britain can unilaterally withdraw its article 50 notice and remain in the EU. No surprise there as the Court followed the… Continue reading Issue 182: 2018 12 13: Lens on the Week
Issue 182: 2018 12 13: A French Lesson For Us
13 December 2018 A French Lesson For Us “No man is an island”. By John Watson There is a moment in the film Johnny English when Rowan Atkinson shrugs his shoulders in mock bafflement when referring to the French. It was inevitably part of a joke but nonetheless it strikes something of a chord. Near… Continue reading Issue 182: 2018 12 13: A French Lesson For Us
Issue 182: 2018 12 13: Merrily on High
13 December 2018 Ding Dong Merrily On High Take cover! By Neil Tidmarsh Look up there – those lights in the night sky – flashing all kinds of colours through the December darkness… What are they? Are they your neighbour’s Christmas lights, strung across his roof and the trees in his garden? Or are they… Continue reading Issue 182: 2018 12 13: Merrily on High
Issue 182: 2018 12 13: Moving In
13 December 2018 Moving In Moving on. By Lynda Goetz When I bought and moved into my first home in 1981 it was with my new husband (my parents nowhere in sight). At the time we both worked in the City and the house we found was in Clapham; Clapham North, the grottier end, just… Continue reading Issue 182: 2018 12 13: Moving In
Issue 182: 2018 12 13: Macron & les Gilets Jaunes
13 December 2018 Macron & Les Gilets Jaunes Can he continue to reform France? By Richard Pooley To know your own country you must leave it; to know another country you must live in it. I wrote that observation forty years ago. I have been reminded of it several times over the past three weeks… Continue reading Issue 182: 2018 12 13: Macron & les Gilets Jaunes
Issue 182: 2018 12 13: Diary of a Corbynista
13 December 2018 Diary of a Corbynista Tories in Disarray by Don Urquhart 6 December To lighten the mood Day 6 of the Corbynista Advent Calendar has a Disney flavour. Yesterday in the Commons Ian Blackford and Theresa May rehearsed their roles as Jiminy Cricket and Pinocchio in the Commons Christmas Revue. He accuses her… Continue reading Issue 182: 2018 12 13: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 182: 2018 12 13: Home Buying
13 December 2018 Home buying Christmas early or cancelled? By Frank O’Nomics House price falls are being hidden. What a treat! Had I been singled out as a potential buyer who needed a little encouragement? Whatever the reason, it seemed remarkably generous of a house builder to offer to pay the stamp duty on a… Continue reading Issue 182: 2018 12 13: Home Buying
Issue 182: 2018 12 13: Silent Night
13 December 2018 Silent Night Technology stuck in shed by J.R. Thomas It was winter in London and deep underground there was a rumbling and a rattling; could it be an oncoming train? Well, no it couldn’t. Not on the Elizabeth line anyway, or Crossrail as it is better known, and given what is… Continue reading Issue 182: 2018 12 13: Silent Night
Issue 182: 2018 12 13: Cheat the Guillotine!
13 December 2018 Cheat the Guillotine! Save Macron! By Chin Chin It was the little flower which did it. There it was, engraved on the ring which fell out of the Christmas present drawer. Its significance didn’t strike me at first but then I remembered. Wasn’t it a ring like that which alerted Lady Blakeney… Continue reading Issue 182: 2018 12 13: Cheat the Guillotine!
Issue 182: 2018 12 13: Oceania
13 December 2018 Oceania At the Royal Academy. Reviewed by Lynda Goetz It was somehow fitting that 250 years after Lieutenant (later, of course, Captain) James Cook set sail from Plymouth in HMS Endeavour to explore the Southern Hemisphere for the Admiralty and to track the transit of Venus in Tahiti, and 250 years after… Continue reading Issue 182: 2018 12 13: Oceania
Issue 182: 2018 12 13: Letter to the Editors
13 December 2018 Letter to the Editors Labour and the Universities Dear Sir I foolishly read the first bit of Diary of a Corbynista and can’t let the author get away with “It is almost as if his government had not marketised education, making it a dog eat dog free for all rather than… Continue reading Issue 182: 2018 12 13: Letter to the Editors
Issue 182: 2018 12 13: Crossword
13 December 2018 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 182 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 181 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
