Cover Page, 23 September 2021, Issue 294 Welcome to our latest edition. This week we consider: Boris’s reshuffle and political momentum; the issues challenging universities today; shillings, pennies, ounces, pounds and pints; Hollywood and China; plus of course a Corbynista’s diary, cartoons from AGGro and a crossword from Boffles. Share this… Continue reading Issue 294: 2021 09 23: Cover page
Issue: 294: Booting Up
Issue 294: 2021 09 23: Moving On
23 September 2021 Moving On The reshuffle. By John Watson In this column we have repeatedly called for Boris Johnson to replace some of the loyalists in his cabinet with people of more administrative ability, so it would be churlish not to comment when he appears to have done just that. What, then, should we… Continue reading Issue 294: 2021 09 23: Moving On
Issue 294: 2021 09 23: University Issues
23 September 2021 University Issues Challenging. By Lynda Goetz There have been a number of developments on the University front over the last week or so. Do any of them bring hope of a change in a system which one young journalist, Madeline Grant of The Telegraph, described in an article as ‘rotten’? Perhaps one of… Continue reading Issue 294: 2021 09 23: University Issues
Issue 294: 2021 09 23: Measure For Measure
23 September 2021 Measure for Measure Ringing the changes. By Robert Kilconner The proposal that now we have left the EU it should no longer be compulsory for suppliers of foods et cetera to use the metric system will leave plenty of scope for confusion. For once, however, it will be the younger generation who… Continue reading Issue 294: 2021 09 23: Measure For Measure
Issue 294: 2021 09 23: Diary of a Corbynista
23 September 2021 Diary of a Corbynista Pre Conference Rumblings by Don Urquhart 15 September Everything was going according to plan in PMQ’s. The PM had his carefully scripted replies to Starmer, generally a mixture of halftruths, insults and evasions delivered with great gusto to the delight of his sycophantic followers. Then Sir Roger Gale… Continue reading Issue 294: 2021 09 23: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 294: 2021 09 23: Shang-Chi goes to Hollywood
23 September 2021 Shang-Chi goes to Hollywood But not to China. By Neil Tidmarsh Poor old Hollywood. The dream factory is being troubled by nightmares. Desperate for a slice of the $9 billion Chinese box office, not only is it making ‘Chinese’ films but it’s all too willing to appease the officials who control access… Continue reading Issue 294: 2021 09 23: Shang-Chi goes to Hollywood
Issue 294: 2021 09 23: Crossword
23 September 2021 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 294 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. 293 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 294: 2021 09 23: Cartoons
23 September 2021 Cartoons By AGGro Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
