07 September 2017 Turning Left Choosing the way forward. By Chin Chin Just as an army consists mainly of infantry, so most of the people you meet in life are slightly pedestrian. That isn’t to say that they don’t have their uses. Hewers of wood and drawers of water are as essential to the 21st… Continue reading Issue 119: 2017 09 07: Turning Left (Chin Chin)
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Issue 118:2017 08 17:Week in Brief International
17 August 2017 Week in Brief: International Europe FRANCE: A car was driven into a patrol of 16 soldiers in a Paris suburb, injuring six of them. Police arrested an Algerian suspect after a car-chase which ended near Calais. The suspect was shot and wounded. ROMANIA: A sharp rise in illegal immigrants suggests that people… Continue reading Issue 118:2017 08 17:Week in Brief International
Issue 79:2016 11 10:Week in brief(financial)
10 November 2016 Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY LATE SURGE: Royal Bank of Scotland, having despaired of ever selling its Williams and Glyn’s sub-business, announced a couple of weeks ago that it finally had a serious bidder in Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank, the newly independent regional bank formerly owned by National Australian Bank. But… Continue reading Issue 79:2016 11 10:Week in brief(financial)
Issue 25:2015 10 22: Frightened now?
22 October 2015 Frightened Now? By Neil Tidmarsh As Halloween approaches, let us consider the strange light (as from a dim and flickering candle) which four of this week’s news stories cast on the power exercised over the blood of the living and the bones of the dead by the omnipotent forces ruling this world.… Continue reading Issue 25:2015 10 22: Frightened now?
