Cover Page, 21 March 2019, Issue 194 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 194: 2019 03 21: Cover page
Issue: 194: Fractious?
Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Lens on the Week
21 March 2019 Lens on the Week UK BREXIT: The Government’s proposal to put Mrs May’s agreement to the house of Commons for a third time has been disrupted by a ruling from the Speaker, John Bercow, that a failed resolution may not be put again in the same parliamentary session. This did not bar… Continue reading Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Lens on the Week
Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Go Joe Go
21 March 2019 Go Joe Go Early runners. by J R Thomas In politics, there is nothing like name recognition. Probably in the mad world of British politics it would not be a good idea to be a Thatcher running for the Labour Party – and certainly not a Blair. But Kinnock… Continue reading Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Go Joe Go
Issue 194: 2019 03 21: White Knuckle Ride
21 March 2019 White Knuckle Ride Last chance for May deal. By John Watson Arlene Foster has said that you do your deal when you can see the whites of the eyes and her theory will now be tested in practice. With Donald Tusk’s statement that the EU will only grant a postponement of Brexit… Continue reading Issue 194: 2019 03 21: White Knuckle Ride
Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Cut Our Taxes, M Macron
21 March 2019 Cut our taxes, Mr Macron But don’t take away what they pay for. By Richard Pooley You may have seen the picture of the black graffito on the pale wall of Cartier’s swanky jewellery store on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris. It was sprayed around the Cartier plaque by a presumably… Continue reading Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Cut Our Taxes, M Macron
Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Diary of a Corbynista
21 March 2019 Diary of a Corbynista The Whites of their Eyes by Don Urquhart 14 March As an Arsenal fan I have always been regarded by fellow gooners as too indulgent of the transgressions of such as Eboué, Arshavin, and more recently Mustaphi and Iwobi. My son received a letter from Theresa Villiers, our… Continue reading Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Double Trouble
21 March 2019 Double Trouble Conspiracy theories. By Neil Tidmarsh Where is the real President Bongo of Gabon? And the real Melania Trump? And the real President Bouteflika of Algeria? And the real President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria..? Hang on, hang on. Shaw Sheet may be a genuine child of the twenty-first century internet, but… Continue reading Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Double Trouble
Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Bin Bags for Life
21 March 2019 Bin Bags For Life Solutions to the plastic problem. By Frank O’Nomics I have given up taking my own bags to the supermarket – on environmental grounds. There is little more annoying than coming up with a solution to a problem, only to discover that the solution only makes the problem worse.… Continue reading Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Bin Bags for Life
Issue 194: 2019 03 21: So Much To Celebrate
21 March 2019 So Much to Celebrate. Bugger Brexit! It’s Spring! By Lynda Goetz It would have been very easy to give in to the temptation to rant about Brexit this week. Who doesn’t want to? Whether you were/are a Remainer or a Leaver, the current mess into which PM, Government and Parliament have led… Continue reading Issue 194: 2019 03 21: So Much To Celebrate
Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Dorothea Tanning
21 March 2019 Dorothea Tanning Tate Modern (27 February – 9 June 2019) Reviewed by William Morton Dorothea Tanning (1910 – 2012) was an interesting character. She was good-looking with an attractive personality and a sense of humour. Brought up in an uninspiring small town in Illinois, she gravitated to the artistic world of New… Continue reading Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Dorothea Tanning
Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Crossword
21 March 2019 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 194 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 193 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Cartoons
21 March 2019 Cartoons By AGGro Share this using…… Continue reading Issue 194: 2019 03 21: Cartoons