05 October 2017 Are You Very Satisfied? Really we don’t want to know. by Lynda Goetz Last week the National Trust published its annual report and accounts. Although it reported an encouraging increase in visitor and membership numbers (visitor numbers are up by almost five million since 2013, to 24.5 million this year) it failed… Continue reading Issue 123: 2017 10 05: Are You Very Satisfied? (Lynda Goetz)
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Issue 114: 2017 07 20: Week In Brief: UK
20 July 2017 Week In Brief: UK Brexit BREXIT BILL: The Government has published the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill which will repeal the European Communities Act 1972, the statute which gives EU legislation effect in the UK. The bill, which has the effect of freezing the law as at the date of Brexit so that… Continue reading Issue 114: 2017 07 20: Week In Brief: UK
Issue 109: 2017 06 15: Week in Brief: UK
15 June 2017 Week in Brief: UK Fire HIGH RISE FIRE: Grenfell Tower, a 24 story residential block of flats in West Kensington, caught fire in the early hours of Wednesday. The block, which was built by the Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council in 1994 and refurbished last year, contained 120 flats. It was gutted… Continue reading Issue 109: 2017 06 15: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 99: 2017 04 06: “Absolutely ridiculous…frankly” (Lynda Goetz)
06 April 2017 “Absolutely ridiculous… frankly.” What exactly is the relationship between Jesus and chocolate Easter eggs? By Lynda Goetz The Twittersphere is apparently alive with it; the Church, the Press, descendants of John Cadbury and even the politicians have been wading in on the subject of the National Trust, Cadbury’s Easter Eggs and the… Continue reading Issue 99: 2017 04 06: “Absolutely ridiculous…frankly” (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 86:2017 01 05:Wild Behaviour (J.R. Thomas)
05 January 2017 Wild behaviour A voice crying in the wilderness by J.R.Thomas There can be little that is more dangerous to the public wellbeing than when a new hip philosophy coincides with budgetary restraint. When those who normally call for more expenditure concur with those who are in perpetual attempts to draw closer the… Continue reading Issue 86:2017 01 05:Wild Behaviour (J.R. Thomas)
Issue 82: 2016 12 01: Week in Brief: UK
01 December 2016 Week In Brief: UK Government BREXIT NEGOTIATIONS: Guy Verhofstadt, the chief EU negotiator on Brexit, has suggested that, following the UK’s secession from the EU, individual Britons should be able to pay an annual fee in return for personal EU membership, an idea unlikely to appeal to “leave” MPs. According to reports in… Continue reading Issue 82: 2016 12 01: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 80: 2016 11 17: Week in Brief: UK
17 November 2016 Week in Brief: UK Government BREXIT STRATEGY: A memorandum leaked to The Times, and said to have been written by a consultant from the accountancy firm Deloittes, indicates that civil servants are struggling to produce an exit strategy in time for the giving of the Article 50 notice in March of next… Continue reading Issue 80: 2016 11 17: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 76: 2016 10 20: Week in Brief: UK
20 October 2016 Week in Brief: UK Government BREXIT: In the course of litigation over whether Parliamentary approval is needed before giving notice under article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon, the Government has said that Parliament will have to approve any deal when negotiations are complete. That is because the Constitutional Reform and Governance… Continue reading Issue 76: 2016 10 20: Week in Brief: UK
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
Issue59:2016 06 23:Double Yellow (J.R.Thomas)
23 June 2016 Double Yellow by J.R.Thomas According to the nature notes of a well known country magazine, this week is the traditional time for fledglings to leave their nests and to take to the air. And who can blame them; balmy sunny days, summer horseracing at full peak, Wimbledon about to begin (for… Continue reading Issue59:2016 06 23:Double Yellow (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 38:2016 01 28:Leaving it alone (JR Thomas)
28 January 2015 Leaving It Alone by J.R.Thomas In two esoteric worlds last week there was fluttering and muttering as a philosophy of conservation, long the focus of academic contention, was debated yet again. Two very different worlds; one a country house of world architectural importance in Surrey; the other an obscure railway in central… Continue reading Issue 38:2016 01 28:Leaving it alone (JR Thomas)
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 9: 2015 07 02: Fading Icons: Digging the National Parks
02 July 2015 Fading Icons: Digging the National Parks by J R Thomas Big ideas often take a remarkably long time to come to fruition in British politics. In the USA of the 1860’s, even before the West was finally won, the American federal government began to take public ownership of great swathes of the… Continue reading Issue 9: 2015 07 02: Fading Icons: Digging the National Parks
