15 December 2016 Week in Brief: UK WEARING THE TROUSERS: Nicky Morgan, sacked from the role of education secretary by Mrs May, has been banned from meetings at Downing Street after publicly criticising the Prime Minister’s trousers. Apparently Mrs Morgan, an aspirant for the leadership following the resignation of David Cameron, was troubled by their… Continue reading Issue 84: 2016 12 15: Week in Brief: UK
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Issue 52:2016 05 05: The Hunger Gap (Neil Tidmarsh)
05 May 2016 The Hunger Gap Food for thought. by Neil Tidmarsh Have they gone too far this week? The pro-Russian separatists of Ukraine might have got away with the annexation of Crimea, they might have got away with establishing the breakaway peoples’ republics of Luhansk and Donetsk, but have they at last bitten off… Continue reading Issue 52:2016 05 05: The Hunger Gap (Neil Tidmarsh)
Issue 50: 2016 04 21: Week in Brief: UK
21 April 2016 Week in Brief: UK European Referendum TREASURY REPORT: The Treasury have published their analysis of the economic effects of Brexit. This estimates the amount by which leaving would reduce GDP in the year 2030 on three different bases: that the UK’s relationship with the EU becomes equivalent to that of Norway (a… Continue reading Issue 50: 2016 04 21: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 31: 2015 12 03: Cultural Larceny
03 December 2015 Cultural Larceny By Chin Chin I have a horrible, horrible suspicion that I have indulged in colonial racism. No, not “cultural appropriation”, nothing as bad as that, thank God, but the slightly more venal sin of under-appreciating the Canadians. You see, apart from knowing that there is tundra there, and forest and… Continue reading Issue 31: 2015 12 03: Cultural Larceny
