14 July 2106 Fading Icons – The End of The Pier Show Now to go up rather than out. by J.R.Thomas Many congratulations to Cleethorpes Pier. In a piece of exciting news which seems to have been overlooked, what with all the excitement of referendum results and political party leadership contests (or not), Cleethorpes… Continue reading Issue 62: 2016 07 14: The end of the pier show (J.R. Thomas)
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Issue 61: 2016 07 07: Brown and Green All Over(j.R.Thomas)
07 July 2016 Brown and Green All Over How Capability Brown rebuilt the countryside. by J.R.Thomas In this wet summer of discontent, with political parties riven apart and leadership contenders knifing each other in the pursuit of power, maybe you feel it is time to retreat from the metropolitan world of shrieking headlines and urgently… Continue reading Issue 61: 2016 07 07: Brown and Green All Over(j.R.Thomas)
Issue 60:2016 06 30: Up the Revolution (J.R.Thomas)
30 June 2016 Up the Revolution by J.R.Thomas Revolutions, like so many things, are creatures of fashion and come in batches. Although the years after 1917 saw revolutions across the world, starting with the main event in Russia, and the late 1940’s saw the revolutionary red blanket fall across much of eastern Europe, it is… Continue reading Issue 60:2016 06 30: Up the Revolution (J.R.Thomas)
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: Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue (J.R.Thomas)
23 June 2016 Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue by J.R.Thomas Late June 2016. It’s a hot night in Washington DC. The politicians were up late, their conversations frenzied and urgent and more than a little alcohol fuelled, but finally everybody got to bed. But now it is 4.30am, that dangerous hour before dawn. And the Speaker… Continue reading Issue 59:2016 06 23: Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue (J.R.Thomas)
Issue59:2016 06 23:Double Yellow (J.R.Thomas)
23 June 2016 Double Yellow by J.R.Thomas According to the nature notes of a well known country magazine, this week is the traditional time for fledglings to leave their nests and to take to the air. And who can blame them; balmy sunny days, summer horseracing at full peak, Wimbledon about to begin (for… Continue reading Issue59:2016 06 23:Double Yellow (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 58:2016 06 16:A Private Life in Public View (J.R.Thomas)
16 June 2016 A Private Life in Public View A portrait of a great writer by J.R.Thomas The Shaw Sheet likes to be first with what is fascinating the world, but sometimes we feel it best to take our time and brood on things. And when the subject of the brooding is a biography of… Continue reading Issue 58:2016 06 16:A Private Life in Public View (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 58: 2016 06 16: Just Give Us The Facts (J.R.Thomas)
16 June 2016 Just Give Us The Facts Muddled politics after a Leave vote by J.R.Thomas Political events develop their own mythology. So, it seems, do referenda. That, for the referendum on Scottish independence, was that the Remain (in the UK) voters were compelled to that position by fear. Fear of what would happen if… Continue reading Issue 58: 2016 06 16: Just Give Us The Facts (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 57:2016 06 09:California Dreamin'(J.R.Thomas)
09 June 2016 California Dreamin’ by J.R.Thomas None of the candidates left in the Presidential primaries really come across as California types. No beach boys here, or beach girls either, no hippie types, no cool dudes, a certain lack of film star charisma. Two New Yorkers, one Chicagoan; but then, Richard Nixon was a pretty… Continue reading Issue 57:2016 06 09:California Dreamin'(J.R.Thomas)
Issue 57:2016 06 09: Another one along shortly (J.R.Thomas)
09 June 2016 Another One Along Shortly by J.R.Thomas The world of British transport politics is unusually surreal, and has become ever more so recently, under the attentions of Messrs Cameron, Osborne, and Johnson. It is an odd thing that we accept that the free market will provide our clothes and our food and our… Continue reading Issue 57:2016 06 09: Another one along shortly (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 56:2016 06 02: Mrs Clinton’s diary (J.R.Thomas)
02 June 2016 Mrs Clinton’s Diary Could it still go wrong? by J.R.Thomas Hillary Rodham has politics embedded in her very bones. She started far from the place she intends to finish, campaigning for Barry Goldwater in the 1964 Presidential election. Goldwater lost overwhelmingly – he won only 38% of the vote and… Continue reading Issue 56:2016 06 02: Mrs Clinton’s diary (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 56: 2016 06 02:The politics of concrete (J.R.Thomas)
o2 June 2016 The Politics of Concrete What do our towers tell us? by J.R.Thomas It has been a good year for aficionados of John le Carre. A biography of him came out in paperback; his novel “The Night Manager” was made into a six part series by the BBC (no expense spared) and… Continue reading Issue 56: 2016 06 02:The politics of concrete (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 55: 2016 05 26:Dig your garden (J.R. Thomas)
26 May 2016 Dig Your Garden by J.R.Thomas This week is the traditional opening of the English summer season, which revs up via Ascot , Wimbledon and Henley to a peak of outdoor sociability in late June, runs down into more informal and private gatherings in July, and ends in mid-July as the exhausted participants… Continue reading Issue 55: 2016 05 26:Dig your garden (J.R. Thomas)
