18 May 2017 Week In Brief: UK Election news LABOUR MANIFESTO: Following leaks of a draft, the Labour manifesto was launched on Tuesday, pledging, amongst other things: that tuition fees and zero hour contracts would be scrapped and fracking for oil abolished; that the triple lock on pensions would be retained; that 10,000 new police… Continue reading Issue 105: 2017 05 18: Week in Brief: UK
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Issue 59: 2016 06 23: Week in Brief: UK
23 June 2016 Week in Brief: UK Jo Cox ASSASSINATION OF JO COX: The murder of Jo Cox, the MP for Batley and Spen, outside her surgery in Birstall, near Leeds, has been met with revulsion and sadness on all sides of British politics. Parliament was recalled to pay tribute to Mrs Cox on Monday… Continue reading Issue 59: 2016 06 23: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 43:2016 03 03:Going to the dogs with canine dopplegangers (Frank O’Nomics)
03 March 2016 Going to the dogs with canine doppelgangers by Princess Lottie of Islington (with help from Frank O’Nomics) The world seems to be awash with people who are obsessed by animals and two recent books highlight the fact that some men are taking this obsession to the extreme by, at least temporarily, changing… Continue reading Issue 43:2016 03 03:Going to the dogs with canine dopplegangers (Frank O’Nomics)
Issue 28: 2015 11 12: Neat and Nimble
12 November 2015 Neat and Nimble By Chin Chin When Flanders and Swan wrote their famous song about the gasman, they based the lyrics on those of a Victorian ditty in which the singer falls in love with a young woman who, while “dashing away with the smoothing iron,” steals his heart away. In fact… Continue reading Issue 28: 2015 11 12: Neat and Nimble
