Issue 69: 2016 09 01: Week in Brief: UK

01 September Week in Brief: UK Politics IMMIGRATION: The total number of EU citizens living in Britain topped 3 million for the first time last year.  Figures from the Office of National Statistics show the largest group as being 831,000 Poles which now exceeds the 795,000 British residents born in India. Net migration now stands at… Continue reading Issue 69: 2016 09 01: Week in Brief: UK

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 65: 2016 08 04: Week in Brief: UK

04 August 2016 Week in Brief: UK Government News HINKLEY POINT: The Government has postponed a decision on Hinkley Point C pending a further review. The announcement, which was made just before the deal was due to be signed, took the energy industry by surprise. It is understood that EDF, the French company which was… Continue reading Issue 65: 2016 08 04: Week in Brief: UK

Issue 64: 2016 07 28: Week in Brief: UK

28 July 2016 Week in Brief: UK Government   BREXIT: At a meeting with Mrs May, President Hollande indicated that France will keep to the Le Touquet agreement under which British border police operate in Calais. While stressing that ties between the two nations would remain strong, he also said that Britain would have to… Continue reading Issue 64: 2016 07 28: Week in Brief: UK

Issue 63: 2016 07 21: Mrs May’s Strategy (John Watson)

21 July 2016 Mrs May’s Strategy Can Johnson’s skills get Britain’s views through to the European public? by John Watson As chalices go, the one passed by Mrs May to Boris Johnson and David Davis gets five stars in the Borgia international poison league. As they sit together at Chevening, the country house which they… Continue reading Issue 63: 2016 07 21: Mrs May’s Strategy (John Watson)

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