29 June 2017 Week in Brief: UK From the Brexit kitchen QUEEN’S SPEECH: Last week’s Queen’s speech, a two-year programme of 27 measures, 8 of which related to Brexit, omitted many manifesto pledges. Gone was the proposal to means test winter fuel allowance; gone were the plans to replace free school lunches with breakfast;… Continue reading Issue 111: 2017 06 29: Week In Brief: UK
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Issue 79: 2016 11 10: Madagascar Today (Lynda Goetz)
10 November 2016 Madagascar Today (Part 2) A fascinating and tragic country. by Lynda Goetz “Madagascar has become the world’s poorest country,” asserted the guide with whom I stood watching the out-of-control fire approach closer and closer to our very basic lodge on the edge of the Ankarana Special Reserve. “It shouldn’t be, because it… Continue reading Issue 79: 2016 11 10: Madagascar Today (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 50: 2016 04 21: Indian Thoughts (William Morton)
21 April 2016 Indian Thoughts The new still making good use of the old. by William Morton Something that strikes one when visiting India is the extent of the real estate and infrastructure the new State of India inherited from the British when it gained independence. Ranging from railways and canals to barracks and court… Continue reading Issue 50: 2016 04 21: Indian Thoughts (William Morton)
