Cover Page, 18 March 2021, Issue 271 Welcome to our latest edition. This week we lead with comments on Joe Biden’s silent honeymoon. We also consider that comment by Mandy Rice-Davies – and Astra Zeneca; the latest Covid-19 statistics; policing protests during lockdown; translating Amanda Gorman; inflation and bartering; a Corbynista’s week; trade, morals and… Continue reading Issue 271: 2021 03 18: Cover page
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Issue 271: 2021 03 18: The Revolution Begins
18 March 2021 The Revolution Begins by J.R. Thomas Like many Americans and commentators, we have been waiting for President Joe Biden’s first press conference to hear direct from the President as to what his strategies and intentions are in these first months of his presidency, and to hear him answer questions about an increasingly… Continue reading Issue 271: 2021 03 18: The Revolution Begins
Issue 271: 2021 03 18: Dissing the Jab
18 March 2021 Dissing the Jab MRDA By John Watson Great Philosophers? Who is your favourite? Aristotle? Descartes? Bertrand Russell? Mandy Rice-Davies? Mandy who? For the younger reader, Mandy was the attractive Welsh party girl who gave evidence at the trial of Stephen Ward, part of the Profumo affair which racked the British establishment in… Continue reading Issue 271: 2021 03 18: Dissing the Jab
Issue 271: 2021 03 18: Testing Numbers
18 March 2021 Lies, Damned Lies and Coronavirus Testing numbers by David Chilvers This week, we look at the Test and Trace system. On 10th March, the Public Accounts Committee produced a fairly damning report on the system, with a number of recommendations for improvement. One recommendation was that “NHST&T should put in place a… Continue reading Issue 271: 2021 03 18: Testing Numbers
Issue 271: 2021 03 18: Patel, Policing & Politics
18 March 2021 Patel, Policing and Politics More haste… By Lynda Goetz A text from a very good friend pinged into my WhatsApp box on Sunday evening, ‘Cressida Dick has to go’. I slept on it and waited until Monday morning before sending my reply. I didn’t agree and the unrolling of events and general… Continue reading Issue 271: 2021 03 18: Patel, Policing & Politics
Issue 271: 2021 03 18: Climbing That Hill
18 March 2021 Climbing That Hill Translating Amanda Gorman. By Neil Tidmarsh Marieke Lucas Rijnevelde is a young Dutch novelist and poet. Last year, they (Marieke identifies as both male and female and so chooses to use gender-neutral personal pronouns) won the International Booker Prize for their debut novel The Discomfort of Evening. This year,… Continue reading Issue 271: 2021 03 18: Climbing That Hill
Issue 271: 2021 03 18: Like watches for chocolate
18 March 2021 Like watches for chocolate Inflation is in the eye of the beholder – and rising. by Frank O’Nomics An old joke: A man walks into a hardware shop and asks the price of a gardening fork. “£20” comes the reply. “But they only charge £15 down the road”. “So why didn’t you… Continue reading Issue 271: 2021 03 18: Like watches for chocolate
Issue 271: 2021 03 18: Diary of a Corbynista
18 March 2021 Diary of a Corbynista The real cancel culture by Don Urquhart 10 March Tim Davie has been Director General of the BBC for nearly 6 months. His appointment raised some concerns about political bias given that he had been Deputy Chairman of the Hammersmith and Fulham Conservative Party. The appointment of a… Continue reading Issue 271: 2021 03 18: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 271: 2021 03 18: For the Birds
18 March 2021 For the Birds Influencing trading partners. By Robert Kilconner Analysing the government’s new integrated review of foreign defence policy will take some time but one of the comments made about it is striking. Sir Alexander Younger, ex-chief of MI6, dismissed the theory that China would gradually get richer and become more like… Continue reading Issue 271: 2021 03 18: For the Birds
Issue 271: 2021 03 18: Crossword
18 March 2021 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 271 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. 270 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 271: 2021 03 18: Cartoons
18 March 2021 Cartoons By AGGro Share this… Continue reading Issue 271: 2021 03 18: Cartoons
