25 February 2016 Week in Brief: UK SUGAR: An investigation has found that hot flavoured drinks sold in outlets such as Starbucks and Costa Coffee contain very high levels of sugar – as much as 25 teaspoons which is the equivalent of 3 times the amount in a can of Coca Cola. Both companies said… Continue reading Issue 42: 2016 02 25: Week in Brief – UK
Tag: Jeremy Corbyn
Issue 38: 2016 01 28: Labour’s Lessons From Defeat (John Watson)
28 January 2016 Labour’s Lessons from Defeat What we expect from Mr Corbyn. By John Watson The closure of Kellingley colliery may represent the end of deep mining for coal in the UK but the reader certainly has to do a lot of digging to extract from Margaret Beckett’s report “Learning the Lessons from Defeat”… Continue reading Issue 38: 2016 01 28: Labour’s Lessons From Defeat (John Watson)
Issue 35: 2016 01 14: Week in Brief: UK
14 January 2016 Week in Brief: UK EU REFERENDUM: David Cameron has changed his mind and has said that he will allow minsters to campaign in favour of the UK leaving the EU. The effect is to suspend the usual principle of collective cabinet responsibility. DOCTORS’ STRIKE: The strike of junior doctors has started, after… Continue reading Issue 35: 2016 01 14: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 35: 2016 01 07: Week in Brief: UK
07 January 2016 Week in Brief: UK FLOODS: The severe floods which have affected the North of England and Scotland have caused £billions worth of damage. It is thought that most of the damage is not covered by insurance. The Government has been criticised for what is seen as a North/South divide, with insufficient funds… Continue reading Issue 35: 2016 01 07: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 34: 2015 12 24: Week in Brief: UK
24 December 2015 Week in Brief: UK LIBYA: The Government is preparing to send 1,000 troops to Libya to support local forces in an attempt to stop Isis fighters from dominating the country. LABOUR PARTY: Jeremy Corbyn has been warned by Peter Mandelson that the party has lost 30,000 members recently, through the resignations of… Continue reading Issue 34: 2015 12 24: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 32: 2015 12 10: Icecream and Revolution
10 December 2015 Ice-Cream and Revolution by J R Thomas North of Waterbury, Vermont, on the road to Stowe is an American shrine. Not the Von Trapp Family Lodge and Von Trapp Timeshare Homes (and Von Trapp Brewery and Von Trapp Austrian Restaurant and and and…). If you get there you have gone too far… Continue reading Issue 32: 2015 12 10: Icecream and Revolution
Issue 28: 2015 11 12: Class War Is Alive And Well
12 November 2015 Class War Is Alive And Well by Watson Low Andrew Neil hosts a weekly political programme called This Week which exemplifies the cosy “after you, Claude” approach of establishment politicians. Michael Portillo shares a settee with Alan Johnson or Diane Abbott and they clearly have much more that unites them than divides… Continue reading Issue 28: 2015 11 12: Class War Is Alive And Well
Issue 28: 2015 11 12: Sea Green Incorruptible
12 November 2015 Sea Green Incorruptible by Don Urquhart Thomas Carlyle described Citoyen Robespierre as a sea green incorruptible and were he around today might similarly characterise Jeremy Corbyn. In recent PMQ’s, the leader of the opposition used up 9 of his 12 allotted questions making the same inquiry of David Cameron – “Are you… Continue reading Issue 28: 2015 11 12: Sea Green Incorruptible
Issue 27:2015 11 05: Ban It
05 November 2015 Ban It Go on, Great Leader, you know you want to By Neil Tidmarsh China is overtaking us in the race for the future; it’s already so far ahead that the West is finished and little Britain is no longer significant. So we are told. I’ve never really believed it myself –… Continue reading Issue 27:2015 11 05: Ban It
Issue 26: 2015 10 29 Be wary of what you wish for
29 October 2015 Be wary of what you wish for Corbyn, a leader some may want by Tom Dowling It is a severe black mark against the Conservatives that Ed Miliband was ever allowed become a viable electoral threat. Having seen him off, the party is now in great danger of making the opposite mistake… Continue reading Issue 26: 2015 10 29 Be wary of what you wish for
Issue 25: 2015 10 22 Guano Politik
22 October 2015 Guano Politik By Don Urquhart I had the good fortune recently to spend a couple of days in Bristol. We took the ferry from the Pump House to the SS Great Britain, which is now an admirable museum. Man of the people that I am, I was particularly keen to inspect the… Continue reading Issue 25: 2015 10 22 Guano Politik
Issue 25: 2015 10 22 A rumbling of tumbrils
22 October 2015 A Rumbling of Tumbrils What Blairite Labour MPs need to do to avoid the slaughter. by John Watson Perhaps it was Batman. Perhaps it was Superman. After so many years it is hard to remember which. Still, the story in the comic was a vivid one. The inhabitants of a futuristic city… Continue reading Issue 25: 2015 10 22 A rumbling of tumbrils
Issue 24: 2015 10 15: Week in Brief: UK
15 October 2015 Week in Brief: UK LEON BRITTAN: The Metropolitan police have apologised to Lady Brittan, the widow of Lord Brittan of Spennithorne, for their failure to inform the Brittans that rape allegations against Lord Brittan had been abandoned before Lord Brittan’s death from cancer. An investigation by the BBC’s “Panorama” programme has cast… Continue reading Issue 24: 2015 10 15: Week in Brief: UK
