23 November 2017 Keeping Our Balance Sexual predators. By John Watson Mirrors are the harbingers of self-doubt. To shave effectively in the morning you need to concentrate very carefully on the image which confronts you. How easy it is to fall, by way perhaps of a short narcissistic reverie, into a critical examination of the… Continue reading Issue 130: 2017 11 23: Keeping Our Balance (John Watson)
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Issue 120:2017 09 14:High Office, and How To Hold It(J.R.Thomas)
14 September 2017 High Office, and How To Hold It Boris’s wilderness years by J.R.Thomas If you had asked Boris in May 2016 what he expected to be doing in the autumn of 2017, you would doubtless have got a witty but evasive answer. To those who persevered, sat with him after a fine feast,… Continue reading Issue 120:2017 09 14:High Office, and How To Hold It(J.R.Thomas)
Issue 118: 2017 08 17: Tyranny (John Watson)
17 August 2017 Tyranny The reason to hang on. By John Watson With Mugabe at 93, Jacob Zuma at 75, and the constitution of Rwanda being altered so that President Kagame can remain in power until 2034, it is worth reflecting on why it is that people cling to power long after their main political… Continue reading Issue 118: 2017 08 17: Tyranny (John Watson)
Issue 100: 2017 04 13: The Luck of Mrs May (Robert Kilconner)
13 April 2017 The Luck Of Mrs May A fairy tale. By Robert Kilconner “I feel sorry for Mrs May”. The speaker was a wise friend who is usually right and to whom I always listen. Naturally, I nodded in agreement and felt sorry for Mrs May too. It must be awful, when you think… Continue reading Issue 100: 2017 04 13: The Luck of Mrs May (Robert Kilconner)
Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Trieste (Chin Chin)
11 August 2016 Trieste A city of spies. By Chin Chin Churchill is often credited with saying that “the Balkans produce more history than they can consume locally” but the phrase was actually turned, or at least first turned, in relation to the people of Crete by the brilliant short story writer, Saki. Still,… Continue reading Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Trieste (Chin Chin)
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 20: 2015 09 17: A cruel and ugly truth
17 September 2015 A cruel and ugly truth by Neil Tidmarsh One of the most interesting things I read this week was a letter to the Guardian from Leslie Brent, Emeritus Professor, University of London. As one of the Kindertransport children of 1938-39, he is urging a more generous response to the current refugee crisis.… Continue reading Issue 20: 2015 09 17: A cruel and ugly truth
