07 December 2017 Lens on the Week UK AN IRISH KNOT: Forget when and what the DUP knew. Forget whether the choreography of Mrs May’s meeting with Mr Juncker was premature. The problem of the Irish border which currently bedevils the Brexit negotiations is a real one and the best way to disentangle the strands… Continue reading Issue 132 :2017 11 07:Lens on the week
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Issue 118:2017 08 17:The Korean Crisis (Neil Tidmarsh)
17 August 2017 The Korean Crisis A world-changer, even without a nuclear apocalypse. By Neil Tidmarsh Next week, South Korea and the USA are due to begin their annual joint military exercises. North Korea regards these defensive manoeuvres as offensive, and its leader Kim Jong-un is threatening to fire missiles towards the Pacific island of… Continue reading Issue 118:2017 08 17:The Korean Crisis (Neil Tidmarsh)
Issue 110: 2017 06 22: Week In Brief International
22 June 2017 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe BELGIUM: A suspected Islamist suicide bomber was shot dead when he detonated an explosive device near the ticket offices at Brussels Central Station. FRANCE: President Macron’s party La République en Marche won an absolute majority in the second and final round of parliamentary elections. La… Continue reading Issue 110: 2017 06 22: Week In Brief International
Issue 104:2017 05 11:Congratulations, new President M. Now stop World War III.(Neil Tidmarsh)
11 May 2017 Congratulations, new President M. Now stop World War III. President Moon, that is, not President Macron. by Neil Tidmarsh The shadow of apocalyptic confrontation falls across the Korean peninsula. The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un refuses to abandon his nuclear weapons programme, in defiance of the UN. He boasts that his intercontinental… Continue reading Issue 104:2017 05 11:Congratulations, new President M. Now stop World War III.(Neil Tidmarsh)
Issue 101: 2017 04 20: Cracking Eggs With Donald, JR Thomas
20 April 2017 Cracking Eggs With Donald President Trump’s Easter message. by J.R.Thomas President Trump, clad in jeans and sweat shirt, appeared on the White House lawns to distribute Easter favours, join in the egg painting, dance with the Easter Bunny, and fling handfuls of mini eggs into the grass, crying “Take that, you suckers”…… Continue reading Issue 101: 2017 04 20: Cracking Eggs With Donald, JR Thomas
Issue 44:2016 03 10: Week in Brief International
10 March 2016 Week in Brief: INTERNATIONAL Europe EU: At the EU summit in Brussels, Angela Merkel backed proposals to double the amount of EU funding from €3 billion to €6 billion to be given to Turkey and to grant its citizens the right to visa-free travel within the Schengen zone, in return for its… Continue reading Issue 44:2016 03 10: Week in Brief International
Issue 17:20015 08 27: International News
27 August 2015 Week in Brief:INTERNATIONAL NEWS BANGLADESH: Counter-terrorism police have arrested three supreme court lawyers accused of financing a militant Islamic group. BRAZIL: Eduardo Cunha, the Speaker of the Lower House of Congress, has been charged with receiving bribes of £3 million in the scandal engulfing Petrobas, the state-owned oil company. Scientific tests in… Continue reading Issue 17:20015 08 27: International News
