Cover Page, 02 May 2019, Issue 200 Welcome to our 200th issue! We hope you enjoy this edition and continue to follow us for the next two hundred. Our thanks to all our readers, whether this is your first look at us or whether you have been with us from the very beginning. All our… Continue reading Issue 200: 2019 05 02: Cover page
Issue: 200: Coming of Age
Issue 200: 2019 05 02: Lens on the Week
02 May 2019 Lens on the Week UK ZERO EMISSIONS: As a first dividend from the public concern reflected in the Extinction Rebellion protests, the Government is to reduce the target for 2050 emissions to zero. That of course is the easy bit with ministers having different views as to how the reduction is to… Continue reading Issue 200: 2019 05 02: Lens on the Week
Issue 200: 2019 05 02: Carping and Sneering
02 May 2019 Carping and Sneering Meanness of thought. By John Watson Carping is a human instinct but not a particularly attractive one. That is perhaps not surprising when you bear in mind that the temptation to find fault with conduct which is generous or altruistic has its origins in envy, itself not the nicest… Continue reading Issue 200: 2019 05 02: Carping and Sneering
Issue 200: 2019 05 02: Know Your Enemy
02 May 2019 Know Your Enemy Nominations and nicknames. By J R Thomas Know your enemy indeed. That, Joe, is the person behind you, not the one currently sitting in the White House. Joe Biden finally announced that he would throw his hat (an elderly but well maintained trilby, we guess) in the ring for… Continue reading Issue 200: 2019 05 02: Know Your Enemy
Issue 200: 2019 05 02: Diary of a Corbynista
2 May 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Tories in free fall by Don Urquhart 25 April It should be clear to everyone that we live in a society where many are in poverty, the public services are falling apart, and where younger people are struggling to get decent jobs and housing. It is therefore heartening… Continue reading Issue 200: 2019 05 02: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 200: 2019 05 02: Dementia Tax Take 2
2 May 2019 Dementia Tax: Take 2 Funding social care. by Frank O’Nomics “Oi! Get off our land!” Such might be the exclamations from the Labour hierarchy this week, as a Tory think tank had the temerity to come up with a policy that appears to trespass on the traditional left wing ground of tax… Continue reading Issue 200: 2019 05 02: Dementia Tax Take 2
Issue 200: 2019 05 02: Asteroid Attack
02 May 2019 Asteroid Attack The universe strikes back. By Neil Tidmarsh Oh no, not another apocalypse looming on the horizon! As if climate change (Extinction Rebellion, Greta Thunberg) and the decay of democracy (almost 60% of Americans, over 50% of Britons and over 40% of Germans are dissatisfied with democracy, according to a survey… Continue reading Issue 200: 2019 05 02: Asteroid Attack
Issue 200: 2019 05 02: Ruffled Feathers
02 May 2019 Ruffled Feathers Conservation consternation. By Lynda Goetz In a vaguely amusing piece entitled ‘Guiltless Food… is it possible?’ in last week’s Countryman’s Weekly by contributor Ryan Lynch, he related a pub conversation prompted by his dog, a Chesapeake Bay Retriever, bred for retrieving ducks. The ‘young lady’ interrogating him about the dog… Continue reading Issue 200: 2019 05 02: Ruffled Feathers
Issue 200: 2019 05 02: Reparations and Bunkum
02 May 2019 Reparations and Bunkum Cambridge University. By Robert Kilconner About bloody time too. Under the leadership of Vice Chancellor Stephen Toope, a Canadian academic, Cambridge has at last decided to face up to its past and to run a project to identify whether, and if so by how much, the university gained from… Continue reading Issue 200: 2019 05 02: Reparations and Bunkum
Issue 200: 2019 05 02: Crossword
2 May 2019 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 200 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 199 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 200: 2019 05 02: Cartoons
2 May 2019 Cartoons By AGGro … Continue reading Issue 200: 2019 05 02: Cartoons
