Cover Page, 28 January 2021, Issue 264 Welcome to our latest edition. This week we lead with comments on obtaining and administering the vaccine. But we also ask ‘is there “Any Other News” apart from Covid?’ Indeed there is, from Westminster, Washington and elsewhere. Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email… Continue reading Issue 264: 2021 01 28: Cover page
Issue: 264: Jousting Jabs
Issue 264: 2021 01 28: Visiting Care Homes
28 January 2021 Lies, Damned Lies and Coronavirus Visiting Care Homes by David Chilvers This week, we visit some of the statistics regarding prevalence of COVID-19 in UK care homes. This was a big problem in the first wave when the discharge of many elderly patients from hospitals into care homes was believed to have… Continue reading Issue 264: 2021 01 28: Visiting Care Homes
Issue 264: 2021 01 28: Vaccination Race
28 January 2021 The Great Global Vaccination Race By Paul Branch It’s Monday afternoon in the Cotswolds, the log fire is coming along nicely with a warming glow, glistening snow abounds outside still hard from last night’s deep frost making the environment nippy and slippy, and still no sight nor sound of the Rarely Spotted… Continue reading Issue 264: 2021 01 28: Vaccination Race
Issue 264: 2021 01 28: Any Other News?
28 January 2021 Any Other News? Apart from Covid. By Lynda Goetz Last week, my colleague J.R. Thomas wrote about the decline of traditional newspapers. Online news, he argues, has to a large extent rendered these obsolete. Reflect however on some of these headlines: Man sets himself on fire outside government HQ in Belarus; Police… Continue reading Issue 264: 2021 01 28: Any Other News?
Issue 264: 2021 01 28: Deals and Genocide
28 January 2021 Deals and Genocide A foolish idea. By John Watson Sometimes you wonder if MPs have lost their minds altogether and certainly there must be a fair case for calling in the shrinks to examine the 309 who voted to adopt the House of Lords amendment to the Trade Bill designed to prevent… Continue reading Issue 264: 2021 01 28: Deals and Genocide
Issue 264: 2021 01 28: Home, Joe
27 January 2021 Home, Joe by J.R. Thomas Dear Old Joe is back in the place he knows best, the White House. And after eight years working with Mr Obama but having to put up with the second best desk, finally the Oval Office is all his and it really is home at last. The… Continue reading Issue 264: 2021 01 28: Home, Joe
Issue 264: 2021 01 28: Diary of a Corbynista
28 January 2021 Diary of a Corbynista A Plague caused by Poverty by Don Urquhart 21 January A friend pointed me at an article by James Wood in the London Review of Books. It is called These Etonians and deals with his time at the famous school. It has much to recommend it but this… Continue reading Issue 264: 2021 01 28: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 264: 2021 01 28: Three Palaces
28 January 2021 Three Palaces Through the keyhole. By Neil Tidmarsh Three palaces in the news this week – let’s play ‘Through the Keyhole’ and see if you can guess who lives in them. First, a neo-classical pleasure dome on Russia’s sunny Black Sea riviera. Less than ten years old, but with all the luxury… Continue reading Issue 264: 2021 01 28: Three Palaces
Issue 264: 2021 01 28: Cartoons
28 January 2021 Cartoons By AGGro Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 264: 2021 01 28: Crossword
28 January 2021 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 264 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. 263 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
