Issue 87: 2017 01 12: Week in Brief: UK

12 January 2017 Week in Brief: UK DIPLOMATIC: The Ambassador to Brussels, Sir Ivan Rogers, has resigned in protest at what he has described as “muddled thinking” in Whitehall over the negotiating stance to be adopted by the UK in its discussions with the EU over the terms of disengagement. Retired civil servants have expressed… Continue reading Issue 87: 2017 01 12: Week in Brief: UK

Issue 80: 2016 11 17: Week in Brief: UK

17 November 2016 Week in Brief: UK Government BREXIT STRATEGY: A memorandum leaked to The Times, and said to have been written by a consultant from the accountancy firm Deloittes, indicates that civil servants are struggling to produce an exit strategy in time for the giving of the Article 50 notice in March of next… Continue reading Issue 80: 2016 11 17: Week in Brief: UK

Issue80: 2016 11 17:Free Speech in Toytown (J.R.Thomas)

17 November 2016 Free Speech in Toytown Without advertising revenues there can be no free press                                            by J.R.Thomas PC Plod has long retired, to a quiet cottage in the country where he can grow strawberries and reminisce over the garden gate to passers-by about collars he felt long ago.  It brings a ruminative smile… Continue reading Issue80: 2016 11 17:Free Speech in Toytown (J.R.Thomas)

Issue 54: 2016 05 19: GM Foods (cooking correspondent)

19 May 2016 GM Foods The effect on British television. By our Cooking Correspondent Another first for America.  The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine have come down in favour of Frankenstein foods.  Now it’s official.  A body including more than that 300 Nobel prize winners (gosh, what do you have to do to… Continue reading Issue 54: 2016 05 19: GM Foods (cooking correspondent)

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