Cover Page, 04 April 2019, Issue 196 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 196: 2019 04 04: Cover page
Issue: 196: Purgatory
Issue 196: 2019 04 04: Lens on the Week
04 April 2019 Lens on the Week UK DEADLOCK: Yet again the House of Commons has been unable to identify a form of Brexit which has majority support. Closest came a proposal from Ken Clarke for a continuing customs union with the EU which, attracting support from Labour, only failed by three votes. The trouble… Continue reading Issue 196: 2019 04 04: Lens on the Week
Issue 196: 2019 04 04: Use The Bully Boys
04 April 2019 Use The Bully Boys Save the environment. By John Watson Move a big stone in the garden and what do you find? If your garden is of the patio variety maybe not much at all, but if it is a good healthy country garden there will be life a plenty. Worms, slaters,… Continue reading Issue 196: 2019 04 04: Use The Bully Boys
Issue 196: 2019 04 04: One Step Forward…
04 April 2019 “One Step Forward…” In a fix. By J R Thomas “…all those with safe jobs,” runs a variant of the old joke. “Not you, Theresa.” But first we must say, farewell, Dominic Grieve. Mr Grieve, patrician in appearance and behaviour, was briefly almost famous for being Attorney General under David Cameron until… Continue reading Issue 196: 2019 04 04: One Step Forward…
Issue 196: 2019 04 04: Diary of a Corbynista
4 April 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Save me, Jeremy! By Don Urquhart 28 March Independent Group MP Anna Soubry attempted to raise a point of order after The Speaker had announced the results of the indicative votes. As The Evening Standard reports, she was shouted down by the Tories opposite. It was reminiscent of… Continue reading Issue 196: 2019 04 04: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 196: 2019 04 04: April 01 Politics
04 April 2019 April 01 Politics Names, clowns and presidents. By Neil Tidmarsh Change UK? The name was announced a day or two short of April 01, but there was something unlikely and amusing about it nevertheless. Was it some sort of joke? It’s still early days for the eleven breakaway MPs of the Independent… Continue reading Issue 196: 2019 04 04: April 01 Politics
Issue 196: 2019 04 04: House Price Protection
04 April 2019 House Price Protection Stress-free home ownership? By Frank O’Nomics Are you worried about a bear market for house prices? You probably should be. If a recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth, then that is where the London property market is after seven successive falls. It is not just… Continue reading Issue 196: 2019 04 04: House Price Protection
Issue 196: 2019 04 04: Being Mortal
04 April 2019 Being Mortal* And associated problems. By Lynda Goetz Being human, and without the benefit of any religious beliefs, I am not too keen on the idea of death. However, nor have I ever been very enthusiastic about the idea of immortality; particularly the sort envisaged by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels. For… Continue reading Issue 196: 2019 04 04: Being Mortal
Issue 196: 2019 04 04: Top Girls
04 April 2019 Top Girls A play by Caryl Churchill, at the National Theatre Reviewed by Adam McCormack Star Rating: *** If you could sit next to any great figures from history at a dinner party who would they be? This was a standard question on a graduate application form for many years and the… Continue reading Issue 196: 2019 04 04: Top Girls
Issue 196: 2019 04 04: Crossword
04 April 2019 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 196 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 195 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 196: 2019 04 04: Cartoons
04 April 2019 Cartoons By AGGro … Continue reading Issue 196: 2019 04 04: Cartoons
