13 October 2016 Week In Brief: UK Government politics BREXIT TERMS: A cross party group of MPs including Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband, Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer, Nicky Morgan and Anne Soubry is pressing for Parliamentary scrutiny of the Brexit terms. This would be a practical problem for the government who are anxious to… Continue reading Issue 75:2016 10 13:Week In Brief UK
Tag: Boris Johnson
Issue 74: 2016 10 06: Boris Johnson, Heir to Palmerston (Chin Chin)
06 October 2016 Boris Johnson, heir to Palmerston A visit to Ankara. By Chin Chin Cripes, it must be jolly difficult, that foreign secretary lark. Round after round of canapés accompanied by good champagne but, my word, you have to keep your eye on the ball. Forget a name or say something indiscreet and, bang,… Continue reading Issue 74: 2016 10 06: Boris Johnson, Heir to Palmerston (Chin Chin)
Issue 71: 2016 09 15: Week in Brief: UK
15 September 2016 Week in Brief: UK Foreign Affairs LIBYA: A report of the House of Commons Defence Committee has heavily criticised David Cameron’s role in the 2011 bombing campaign in Libya. Stating that the then Chief of Defence Staff, Lord Richards, disassociated himself from the claim that the operation was in the national interest,… Continue reading Issue 71: 2016 09 15: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 63: 2016 07 21: Week in Brief: UK
21 July 2016 Week in Brief: UK Government News NEW CABINET: New prime minister Theresa May has now finished assembling her cabinet. In a reshuffle which has been described as ‘brutal’, she has sent George Osborne and Michael Gove, previously Chancellor of the Exchequer and Justice Secretary respectively but both at the heart… Continue reading Issue 63: 2016 07 21: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 63: 2016 07 21: Sparkling Epithets (Chin Chin)
21 July 2016 Sparkling Epithets Boris will have to do better. by Chin Chin I just don’t understand it. There is George W Bush, one of America’s less convincing presidents, described by Boris as “a cross-eyed Texan warmonger”. There is Hillary Clinton, a woman who cannot even control her email account, awarded “blonde hair and… Continue reading Issue 63: 2016 07 21: Sparkling Epithets (Chin Chin)
Issue 63: 2016 07 21: Mrs May’s Strategy (John Watson)
21 July 2016 Mrs May’s Strategy Can Johnson’s skills get Britain’s views through to the European public? by John Watson As chalices go, the one passed by Mrs May to Boris Johnson and David Davis gets five stars in the Borgia international poison league. As they sit together at Chevening, the country house which they… Continue reading Issue 63: 2016 07 21: Mrs May’s Strategy (John Watson)
Issue 62: 2016 07 14: The Chilcot Report and Mrs May (John Watson)
14 July 2014 The Chilcot Report and Mrs May Why there must be no general election. by John Watson “Cripes!” as the late Boris Johnson might have put it. Oh, no, I’m not sure that I got that quite right. It is in “Game of Thrones” that losing generally leads to violent death. Boris is… Continue reading Issue 62: 2016 07 14: The Chilcot Report and Mrs May (John Watson)
Issue 62:2016 07 14: A Rose By Any Other Name (Chin Chin)
14 July 2016 A Rose By Any Other Name Finding a doppleganger amongst the Plantagenets. by Chin Chin “ Edward”. The cry rang out and I saw a man bounding towards me with hand outstreched, a smile of greeting on his face. I rose to welcome him. This was somebody who I knew quite well,… Continue reading Issue 62:2016 07 14: A Rose By Any Other Name (Chin Chin)
Issue 61: 2016 07 07: Week in Brief: UK
07 July 2016 Week in Brief: UK Party Leadership Carousel CONSERVATIVES: In a busy week, Boris Johnson withdrew from the contest to become the next leader of the Conservative party (and thus prime minister), following the withdrawal of Michael Gove’s support for his candidature. Mr Gove then entered the contest himself, despite having said previously… Continue reading Issue 61: 2016 07 07: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 60: 2016 06 30: Week in Brief: UK
30 June 2016 Week in Brief : UK EU Referendum RESULTS: The votes recorded on Thursday’s referendum were as follows: Turnout Leave … Continue reading Issue 60: 2016 06 30: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 60: 2016 06 30:That old Churchillian feeling(J.R.Thomas)
30 June 2016 That old Churchillian feeling Boris Johnson’s claim by J.R.Thomas Set out the features you would like in your next male Tory Prime Minister. A family man, you might say, with perhaps four children, to sketch in a happy home life and stability. Some family background in politics so that he has an… Continue reading Issue 60: 2016 06 30:That old Churchillian feeling(J.R.Thomas)
Issue 59:2016 06 23:Anatomy of a debate (Don Urquhart)
23 June 2016 Anatomy of a Debate A different way of keeping the score by Don Urquhart The worst are full of passionate intensity wrote Yeats just after the Great War. The words came into my mind just before the great EU referendum debate. On Tuesday 21st June 2016, David Dimbleby hosted a debate at… Continue reading Issue 59:2016 06 23:Anatomy of a debate (Don Urquhart)
Issue 57: 2016 06 09: Week in Brief: UK
09 June 2016 Week in Brief: UK EU Referendum WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION: Robert Azevedo, the director-general of the WTO, has warned that, in the event of Brexit, it will take up to ten years to sort out Britain’s new trading relations with the rest of the world. POPULATION FEAR: Boris Johnson has claimed on the… Continue reading Issue 57: 2016 06 09: Week in Brief: UK
