Cover Page, 07 February, Issue 188 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 email,… Continue reading Issue 188: 2019 02 07: Cover page
Issue: 188: Freeing Speech
Issue 188: 2019 02 07: Lens on the Week
7 February 2019 Lens on the Week UK ARE YOU HOT? No this isn’t a teenage dating game but something we should all be worrying about because if you are not hot now you soon will be. New met office forecasts show climate change accelerating faster than previously thought with predictions of 1.5 C above… Continue reading Issue 188: 2019 02 07: Lens on the Week
Issue 188: 2019 02 07: Steamroller Loose
7 February 2019 Beware: Steamroller Loose Business and Brexit. by J R Thomas If you are one of those readers who look through Lens on the Week before grappling with the heavier stuff lurking further down, you might have noticed an odd passing remark in this week’s Business Section. Diageo, that behemoth of alcohol, still… Continue reading Issue 188: 2019 02 07: Steamroller Loose
Issue 188: 2019 02 07: No Deal
07 February 2019 No Deal The risk to the EU. By John Watson They are difficult times indeed. German growth was down to 1.5% in 2018; Italy is on the edge of recession. And is it all because of the possibility of a no-deal Brexit? Of course not. The weakness of the global economy is… Continue reading Issue 188: 2019 02 07: No Deal
Issue 188: 2019 02 07: Blame it on Brexit
07 February 2019 Blame it on Brexit A universal scapegoat. By Frank O’Nomics Brexit, according to most media reports, is responsible for all of our woes. News that Nissan has reconsidered the production of its new X-Trail car, deciding that making it in Japan makes much more economic sense than Sunderland, is being used as… Continue reading Issue 188: 2019 02 07: Blame it on Brexit
Issue 188: 2019 02 07: Freeing Speech
07 February 2019 Freeing Speech Government acts at last. By Lynda Goetz It has been a long time coming, but finally the Government has published a 53-page document setting out uniform Guidance on the issue of free speech in universities. This, as those who have an interest in such things (and of course those who read… Continue reading Issue 188: 2019 02 07: Freeing Speech
Issue 188: 2019 02 07: Zayed Sports City
07 February 2019 Zayed Sports City Politics, sport, religion. By Neil Tidmarsh It isn’t often that world politics, sport and religion all occupy the same space at more or less the same time, but consider these three very recent events: On January 22, a man was arrested for wearing the wrong shirt, and could now… Continue reading Issue 188: 2019 02 07: Zayed Sports City
Issue 188: 2019 02 07: Diary of a Corbynista
7 February 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Venezuela back in Fashion by Don Urquhart 31 January We got through a whole Question Time without the key issues – Hamas, Hezbollah and the IRA, getting a mention. But Hurrah! There was a question about Venezuela and this allowed Tory MP Helen Whateley to point out that… Continue reading Issue 188: 2019 02 07: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 188: 2019 02 07: The Scottish National Party
07 February 2019 The Scottish National Party What’s gone wrong for it? By Antoninus It should all have been so easy for the SNP. In the EU referendum, Scotland voted 62% to remain, the highest pro-EU vote of any UK region. As it became clear that both the Conservative government and Labour opposition would honour… Continue reading Issue 188: 2019 02 07: The Scottish National Party
Issue 188: 2019 02 07: Crossword
07 February 2019 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 188 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 187 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp