Cover Page, 8th February 2018, Issue 140 The Article competition is still open. Team up with a friend of a different political persuasion and define a New Politics, make the world a better place, and win a £ Prize. See the Article Cross Party Thinking for the full details. Share this using… Facebook Twitter… Continue reading Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Cover page
Issue: 140: Convictions, Coups
Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Lens on the Week
8 February 2018 Lens on the Week UK BREXIT: It wouldn’t be Brexit without a little sand in the mechanism. Now it takes two forms. First the insistence by the EU that it can withdraw the benefits of market participation during the transition period if the UK is not playing the game. That might be… Continue reading Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Lens on the Week
Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Convictions For Rape
08 February 2018 Convictions For Rape Levelling the playing field. By John Watson Clang, the sound of an iron door closing. Clang, another rapist goes down for ten years. Did he do it? Well, maybe or maybe not. We can’t really be sure, because the defence may not have had access to all the evidence.… Continue reading Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Convictions For Rape
Issue 140: 2018 02 08: The Maldives Coup
08 February 2018 The Maldives Coup Yours, sir. No, yours… By Neil Tidmarsh The last seven days have seen some stiff competition for the Irony of the Week award. There was the duck-hunter in Maryland who found that the tables were turned when a 6kg duck decked him, sending him to hospital with concussion and… Continue reading Issue 140: 2018 02 08: The Maldives Coup
Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Reality Check
8 February 2018 Reality Check Bear market or buying opportunity? by Frank O’Nomics No one likes a clever dick. Don’t worry – this is not one of those “I told you so” kind of articles, where a smug Cassandra finally has their day in the sun, when a market does what they said it… Continue reading Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Reality Check
Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Healthy Cynicism
o8 February 2018 Healthy Cynicism Springing leaks by J.R. Thomas Donald has really gone and done it now. Russian influence in your electoral campaign? Who cares… Misbehaviour with ladies at the golf club? Yes, indeed, but so what? Unfunded tax cuts? Hey, it worked OK for Ronnie, didn’t it? (Didn’t it?) But insult the British… Continue reading Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Healthy Cynicism
Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Diary of a Corbynista
08 February 2018 Diary of a Corbynista Eagerly anticipating the sweetness and light of Brexit Clarity by Don Urquhart 1 February Today it is reported that an Iranian-American married couple, Karan Vafadari and Afarin Neyssar have been sentenced to 27 and 16 years respectively for hosting parties attended by foreign diplomats and Iranian associates during which… Continue reading Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Country Living
08 February 2018 Country Living A valid choice in spite of certain ‘deprivations’. By Lynda Goetz Not all, but many of those who live in the country have made a conscious decision to do so. It may well mean that they do not have world-class theatre on the doorstep; that public transport is either minimal… Continue reading Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Country Living
Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Coffee Table Books
08 February 2018 Coffee Table Books Fire and Fury. By Chin Chin For Christmas I received a nice new Kindle. Every book, every page, now available in black and white with the font pleasantly readable, it is a pleasure to use. No need to buy any more hard copies. No need to wait in for… Continue reading Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Coffee Table Books
Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Quiz
08 February 2018 Quiz By Boffles Do you know? What do Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have in common apart from billions of dollars and computing? Who were the fourth and fifth men of the Cambridge spy ring? What was the Red Orchestra? What was the largest volcanic eruption in recorded… Continue reading Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Quiz
Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Gun
8 February 2018 Gun (a play by William Hartley) Waterloo East Theatre reviewed by Adam McCormack Star rating: **** A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do – and for Roscoe Porter that means avenging the death of his virtuous sheriff brother John, finding the mysterious masked killer Omega and disposing of the key… Continue reading Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Gun
Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Quiz – Answers
08 February 2018 Quiz – Answers By Boffles They both dropped out of Harvard. Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross. The collective name given by Nazi counter-intelligence to Soviet spy rings operating in Europe and a resistance group in Germany itself in World War II. The eruption of Mt Tambora in Indonesia… Continue reading Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Quiz – Answers
Issue 140: 2018 02 08: Crossword
08 February 2018 Crossword by Boffles Plain Vanilla 29 Click for this Week’s interactive online crossword Click for a printable version of this Week’s crossword Click for the solution to last week’s crossword, Tech and Social Media. Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
