01 September 2016 All Well The policy void at the heart of the US campaign by J.R. Thomas Mr Trump’s doctor says that he has never met a man of Mr Trump’s age (that’s 70, folks) in such good health. Mrs Clinton says that she is vigorously fit and enjoying every minute of her campaign. … Continue reading Issue 69: 2016 09 01: All Well (J.R.Thomas)
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Issue 69: 2016 09 01: Furling the Umbrella (J.R.Thomas)
01 September 2016 Furling the Umbrella A banking scandal not worth the mention by J.R.Thomas Strange goings on at Lloyds Bank. Once the smallest and most conservative of the big Four UK clearing banks, and certainly always the most careful and cautious, especially in relation to any novelty such as technology, it was also one… Continue reading Issue 69: 2016 09 01: Furling the Umbrella (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Fit To Be Fat (J R Thomas)
25 August 2016 Fit to be Fat A matter of choice. by J.R.Thomas Mrs May has done it now. In office a matter of weeks and she has put her lovely kitten heels right into a dangerous place. She has upset Jamie Oliver! Has the woman no sense at all? Does she not realise that… Continue reading Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Fit To Be Fat (J R Thomas)
Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Fading Icons – No Service (J R Thomas)
25 August 2016 Fading Icons – No Service If only they were all like Tebay. by J.R.Thomas You really can’t avoid them, at least without turning off the motorway. Perhaps it is truer to say, we don’t want to avoid them, driven up the exit ramp by hunger or nagging necessity or that insistent flashing… Continue reading Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Fading Icons – No Service (J R Thomas)
Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Sliding Down The Hill (J R Thomas)
18 August 2016 Sliding Down The Hill by J R Thomas This spring, an observer of this year’s USA presidential race suggested that Donald Trump was actually a candidate put up by the Clinton campaign team to disrupt the GOP 2016 run. How we all laughed at that one – even when those wise-guys pointed… Continue reading Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Sliding Down The Hill (J R Thomas)
Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Tinker, Tailor… (J R Thomas)
18 August 2016 Tinker, Tailor… by J R Thomas ….Soldier, Sailor. Rich Man is the next in that traditional playground chant; though probably not heard so much in modern playgrounds, tinkering and tailoring having pretty much passed on, soldiering not popular, sailors mostly registered to foreign ports. Rich men, though, they continue to fascinate. Last… Continue reading Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Tinker, Tailor… (J R Thomas)
Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Harley Sleek (J R Thomas)
11 August 2016 Harley Sleek by J R Thomas The Marquess of Bath started it, opening Longleat House to the public to raise some cash after the Second World War, but it was the Duke of Bedford who really made country house visiting a mass market activity. The Duke was a natural showman and entrepreneur,… Continue reading Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Harley Sleek (J R Thomas)
Issue 65: 2016 08 04: Chevalier(j.R Thomas)
4 August 2016 Chevalier A film by Athina Rachel Tsangari Reviewed by J.R.Thomas If you are hoping to make a big rating soap opera for TV, what you firstly need is a central and defining setting – a Coronation Street or a Downton Abbey. And if what you are about is more ambitious, say a… Continue reading Issue 65: 2016 08 04: Chevalier(j.R Thomas)
Issue 65:2016 08 04: To the starting blocks (J.R.Thomas)
4 August 2016 To The Starting Blocks How to do conventions. by J.R.Thomas It is probably not Mr Trump’s style, but he might have learnt much if he had cleared his diary last week, found a comfortable chair, a plate of cookies, a flask of coffee, and watched the Democratic Convention. That’s how to… Continue reading Issue 65:2016 08 04: To the starting blocks (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 64: 2016 07 28: An unconventional convention (J.R.Thomas)
28 July 2016 An Unconventional Convention by J.R.Thomas Mr Trump’s reputation for slick presentation took a bit of a dive in Cleveland last week. Given that Donald proclaims one of his great business assets as the value of the Trump name, it seemed a strangely unplanned and badly rehearsed launch for the forthcoming Trump presidential… Continue reading Issue 64: 2016 07 28: An unconventional convention (J.R.Thomas)
Issue64:2016 07 28:Electric Hero (J.R.Thomas)
28 July 2016 Electric Hero Is Musk the new Victorian? by J.R.Thomas The streets and squares of central London show that our Victorian forbears were pretty careful in their choice of heroes. Statues abound, many of great size and of majestic proportions, and most of military, naval, and scientific figures. A few politicians and royals,… Continue reading Issue64:2016 07 28:Electric Hero (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 63:2016 07 21: Pedalling to Atlantis (J.R.Thomas)
21 July 2016 Pedalling to Atlantis The Dunwich Dynamo by J.R.Thomas Plato started it. Not pedalling; the legend of Atlantis. It was the fictional city-state which in its political theories dared attack Athens and, as punishment for its hubris, sank into the Atlantic. So compelling was this concept, of the arrogant city-state sinking below the… Continue reading Issue 63:2016 07 21: Pedalling to Atlantis (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 63: 2016 07 21: Gone for a Constitutional (J.R.Thomas)
21 July 2016 Gone For A Constitutional by J.R.Thomas The Shaw Sheet would never wish to rain on Mr Cameron’s parade. On the other hand, it has been an exceptionally wet summer, so a little splashing in the direction of Witney may be excusable. But we splash Mr Cameron with restraint, as there is little… Continue reading Issue 63: 2016 07 21: Gone for a Constitutional (J.R.Thomas)
