Cover Page, 14 February, Issue 189 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 189: 2019 02 14: Cover page
Issue: 189: Just War?
Issue 189: 2019 02 14: Lens on the Week
14 February 2019 Lens on the Week UK BREXIT: The position becomes ever more complicated with: Olly Robbins, the UK’s chief negotiator being overheard predicting that the EU will agree to defer Brexit to give more time; the Prime Minister insisting that we will leave on 29 March and lifting the rule that international treaties… Continue reading Issue 189: 2019 02 14: Lens on the Week
Issue 189: 2019 02 14: Venezuela
14 February 2019 Venezuela The politics of intervention. By John Watson Could it be worse? A collapsing currency, medicines not available, malaria spreading, people fleeing starvation, and all in a country with huge, huge oil reserves. Whatever your politics, the politicians in Venezuela have certainly cocked it up and, to put the cherry on the… Continue reading Issue 189: 2019 02 14: Venezuela
Issue 189: 2019 02 14: Cutting the Books
14 February 2019 Cutting the books How to cope with the tidy police. By Frank O’Nomics How many times do you read a book? Apart from dictionaries most of us, once we have finished (or given up on) a book, rarely touch it again unless we are throwing it away or giving it to a… Continue reading Issue 189: 2019 02 14: Cutting the Books
Issue 189: 2019 02 14: Up the Revolution
14 February 2019 Up the Revolution Who rules? By J R Thomas Matthew Parris is a former politician (Conservative MP for West Derbyshire, 1979 -1986), a traveller, and a prolific writer, some of whose work may well be familiar to readers. His thoughtful, erudite and usually gentle columns appear on a regular basis in The… Continue reading Issue 189: 2019 02 14: Up the Revolution
Issue 189: 2019 02 14: Measuring Happiness
14 February 2019 Measuring Happiness The importance of friends. By Lynda Goetz There is plenty in the news currently, from the no-progress Brexit to the stalemate in Venezuela via the dying days of the Caliphate, so it may seem somewhat frivolous to be discussing happiness at this time. However, this is, interestingly, an underlying theme… Continue reading Issue 189: 2019 02 14: Measuring Happiness
Issue 189: 2019 02 14: The Year of the Pig
14 February 2019 The Year of the Pig Squealer’s blog (with apologies to George Orwell). By Neil Tidmarsh If George Orwell was writing today, would his Animal Farm insurrection be an anti-establishment, alt-right uprising rather than a socialist revolution? Would the pigs Napoleon and Snowball be populist, nationalist rabble-rousers rather than communist dictators? Squealer, their… Continue reading Issue 189: 2019 02 14: The Year of the Pig
Issue 189: 2019 02 14: Diary of a Corbynista
14 February 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Still Playing Chicken by Don Urquhart 7 February Yesterday’s Metro contained an article about increases in offences involving anti-Semitism. On no grounds whatsoever they managed to turn it into a Labour Party issue with an image of the party leader smack bang in the middle. 8 February Ipsos-MORI… Continue reading Issue 189: 2019 02 14: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 189: 2019 02 14: Pierre Bonnard
14 February 2019 Pierre Bonnard – The Colour of Memory Tate Modern (23 January – 6 May 2019). Reviewed by William Morton Nothing particularly staggering happened in Pierre Bonnard’s life (1867- 1947). He dabbled with women a bit but eventually married his long-term partner, Marthe de Méligny, to whom he seems to have been genuinely… Continue reading Issue 189: 2019 02 14: Pierre Bonnard
Issue 189: 2019 02 14: Letter to the Editors
14 February 2019 Letter to the Editors Non-disclosure Agreements from Anthony Silver Dear Sir If Sir Philip Green wants to pinch my cheeks, wrap his arm around my waist and make mildly offensive statements about my weight/attire/ethnicity and then pay me thousands of times the amount I would be normally eligible for in an… Continue reading Issue 189: 2019 02 14: Letter to the Editors
Issue 189: 2019 02 14: Crossword
14 February 2019 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 189 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 188 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
