08 December 2016 Left a Bit, Right a Bit What it says on the tin. by J.R.Thomas A thoughtful sage on the BBC last week referred to Mr Trump’s victory in the Presidential contest as a part of an international phenomenon in politics: the rise of the extreme right. Mr Trump campaigned, readers may recall,… Continue reading Issue 83:2016 12 08:Left a Bit, Right a Bit (J.R.Thomas)
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Issue 82:20106 12 01:After the Revolution (J.R.Thomas)
1 December 2016 After the Revolution Castro’s legacy. by J.R.Thomas “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” advised Gil Scott-Heron, Chicago born anti-system soul and jazz singer. But he had reckoned without the advertising skills of Fidel Castro, instigator, leader, publicist and proprietor of the Cuban Revolution. Mr Castro, who died earlier this week, at the… Continue reading Issue 82:20106 12 01:After the Revolution (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 82:2016 12 1:Hooting and shunting (J.R.Thomas)
1 December 2016 Hooting and Shunting Sorting the ticket price confusion. by J.R.Thomas How difficult can it be to run a railway? Not the driving and signalling bits; your technically unaccomplished correspondent accepts that all those electrical impulses and wires must make a modern train very complicated. In the good old days you just chucked… Continue reading Issue 82:2016 12 1:Hooting and shunting (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 81:2016 11 24: Bad Hair,Good Hair (J.R.Thomas)
24 November 2016 Bad Hair, Good Hair Just who is Mr Trump? by J.R.Thomas Mrs Clinton really does not help herself. Last week she appeared at a charity rally to give her first post electoral defeat speech. Her hair looked unwashed, she wore no makeup, she was down beat in a trouser suit. Observers split… Continue reading Issue 81:2016 11 24: Bad Hair,Good Hair (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 81:2016 11 24:The Last Emperor (J.R.Thomas)
24 November 2016 The Last Emperor The lessons from Franz Joseph for Mr Juncker. by J.R.Thomas In Vienna there is a sight which few visitors go and see; yet to students of pre First World War history it must be one of the most evocative of all those places in the great Imperial Capital where… Continue reading Issue 81:2016 11 24:The Last Emperor (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 80: 2016 11 17:Hallelujah (J.R.Thomas)
17 November 2016 Hallelujah Leonard Cohen, poet, song writer, singer: 1934 – 2016 by J.R.Thomas Everybody knows the fight was fixed. The poor stay poor, the rich get rich. That’s how it goes. Everybody knows. An extraordinarily pointed juxtaposition of events in the USA on Thursday last. President-elect Donald Trump and family rolled up to… Continue reading Issue 80: 2016 11 17:Hallelujah (J.R.Thomas)
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 79:2016 11 10:Military Manoeuvres (J.R.Thomas)
10 November 2016 Military Manoeuvres Noise in quiet places by J.R.Thomas Maybe you live in one of the wilder places of Britain; maybe you just dream of moving there; or merely you satisfy yourself with a week’s walking in August or on odd weekends (most of it spent on the motorway, stationary). But many of… Continue reading Issue 79:2016 11 10:Military Manoeuvres (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 78:2016 1011 03:Fading Icons-The Pea Souper(J.R.Thomas)
03 October 2016 Fading Icons – The Pea Souper by J.R.Thomas In the early years of the Second World War, James Lees-Milne, socialite, secret diarist, architectural historian, and at the time, junior member of Britain’s armed forces, was driving from his parent’s home in Worcestershire back to his house in Chelsea. It was November… Continue reading Issue 78:2016 1011 03:Fading Icons-The Pea Souper(J.R.Thomas)
Issue 78: 2016 11 02: It’s my party……(J.R,Thomas)
03 November 2016 It’s my party… by J.R.Thomas Whether Mr Trump wins or loses next week, one thing is for certain; the Republican Party is a smouldering wreck. The Donald has driven his bulldozer of personal ambition through the Grand Old Party and debris will continue to cascade into the basement for months, years, yet. … Continue reading Issue 78: 2016 11 02: It’s my party……(J.R,Thomas)
Issue 77: 2016 10 27: Bad For Business (J R Thomas)
27 October 2016 Bad For Business The US Presidential election is the only show in town. by J.R.Thomas If you are an American media mogul you must be very pleased with the way the Presidential campaigns are panning out. The three Presidential candidate debates might be horrific to the student of serious politics, but they… Continue reading Issue 77: 2016 10 27: Bad For Business (J R Thomas)
Issue 77: 2016 10 27: Brave New World – Coming Soon? (J R Thomas)
27 October 2017 Brave New World – Coming Soon? The housing crisis: a bottom-up approach. by J.R.Thomas Mrs May has many things to worry about in her international agenda, and even more in the domestic realm. But one problem she will be pressed to address, one that has been bubbling away in every Prime Minister’s… Continue reading Issue 77: 2016 10 27: Brave New World – Coming Soon? (J R Thomas)
Issue 76: 2016 10 20: Fading Icons: No More A’Roving? (J R Thomas)
20 October 2016 Fading Icons: No More A’Roving? A lament for the Landy. by J R Thomas It may seem a little strange to nominate Land Rover as a “Fading Icon” in our occasional series. Many readers may feel that every second car on the road is a Land Rover, towering monster cars with blacked… Continue reading Issue 76: 2016 10 20: Fading Icons: No More A’Roving? (J R Thomas)
