Cover Page, 24 January 2019, Issue 186 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 186: 2019 01 24: Cover page
Issue: 186: Lego your Hedge
Issue 186: 2019 01 24: Lens on the Week
24 January 2019 Lens on the Week UK TIME FOR REALITY: We have always thought that Brexit would remain uncertain to the last possible second and we weren’t wrong about that. Now, though, the participants are waking from their slumbers as the courtiers did when the prince kissed Sleeping Beauty. For a start, there are… Continue reading Issue 186: 2019 01 24: Lens on the Week
Issue 186: 2019 01 24: Lack of Trust
24 January 2019 Lack of Trust Endemic and getting worse? By Lynda Goetz I have just finished re-reading Anthony Seldon’s book ‘Trust’; first written and published in 2009, this book addresses in a constructive manner the issue of lack of trust in modern Western society, with particular reference to Britain. It still makes for particularly relevant… Continue reading Issue 186: 2019 01 24: Lack of Trust
Issue 186: 2019 01 24: Twist in the Helix
24 January 2019 Twist in the Helix James Watson’s views. By John Watson What on earth are we to make of it? We who are not experts on statistical analysis and prefer to curl up with a good crime thriller than to read the latest treatise on genetics. On one side sits James Watson, Nobel… Continue reading Issue 186: 2019 01 24: Twist in the Helix
Issue 186: 2019 01 24: Hedge Funds or Lego?
24 December 2019 Sell Hedge Funds – Buy Lego Seeking uncorrelated consistent returns. By Frank O’Nomics One of the main attractions of putting money into hedge funds is that they can, along with other “alternative” investments, (supposedly) deliver returns that are uncorrelated with long only investments in conventional asset classes. It is not surprising then… Continue reading Issue 186: 2019 01 24: Hedge Funds or Lego?
Issue 186: 2019 01 24: Mrtak Sangh
24 January 2019 Mrtak Sangh Posthumous lives. By Neil Tidmarsh Right, that’s enough misery. This column has considered nothing else for the last fortnight. Not a very cheering start to the new year, even if January is the dreariest month. So let’s have something heart-warming from the newspapers this week. Sidney disappeared from his home… Continue reading Issue 186: 2019 01 24: Mrtak Sangh
Issue 186: 2019 01 24: Corbyn is Coming
24 January 2019 Corbyn is Coming The pendulum swings. By J R Thomas Politicians and those who write about them seem to have a strange fascination with “Game of Thrones”. All that back stabbing and nastiness, naked girls and rampaging dragons, seem to have an irresistible allure. Now the significant line of the series, “winter… Continue reading Issue 186: 2019 01 24: Corbyn is Coming
Issue 186: 2019 01 24: Diary of a Corbynista
24 January 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Questionable Question Time by Don Urquhart 17 January Jeremy Corbyn insisted that no deal be taken off the table before he would meet the Prime Minister to discuss the Brexit way forward. By doing this he has hijacked the agenda and made clear his lack of confidence in… Continue reading Issue 186: 2019 01 24: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 186: 2019 01 24: Cartoons
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Issue 186: 2019 01 24: Crossword
24 January 2019 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 186 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 185 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
