Entries Tagged as 'News'
Aspects for the week beginning 15 October 2023
Strictly Come Dancing – Part 2 The standard in the first few weeks has been high again, with some astonishing performances. We have lost Les Dennis, so I won’t have the opportunity to write about him (!), but will now launch into the analysis of four more contestants. Amanda Abbington I will start with the […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 8 October 2023
Pat Arrowsmith (1930 – 2023) The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament War and Peace “In plain words: now that Britain has told the world she has the H-bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject, in all circumstances, nuclear warfare.” ~ J.B. Priestley, 1957 Peace […]
Aspects for the week beginning 24 September 2023
Rishi Sunak “The UK was well-ahead of the rest of the world in decarbonising, so we would be doing other countries a favour if we slowed down a bit.” ~ John Crace This I hope will be a short blog (his third from me), just to examine the question “What was he thinking?”, i.e. why […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 3 September 2023
The Ministry of Defence “Just then, Sunak received a letter from Ben Wallace saying he was resigning as defence secretary. And that reminded him he was supposed to be doing a mini-reshuffle. Who to replace Wallace? There just wasn’t any talent left in the Tory ranks. So he supposed it would have to be Grant […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 27 August 2023
Nadine Dorries Nadine Dorries, MP for Mid-Bedfordshire, finally resigned yesterday after declaring she would do so on 9th June, having kept the nation dangling. Opposition parties have already been polishing their strategies for an upcoming by-election. Birth Chart Nadine has half her planets (5) in Fixed signs – is that what gave her the sticking […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 6 August 2023
Angela Rippon Angela Rippon has been announced as a contestant for the forthcoming series of Strictly Come Dancing. She is, apparently, at 78 the oldest contestant so far to compete. They are announcing her as “Rip Off Britain” Angela, a reference to the current programme she presents. But she has been known to the public […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 30 July 2023
George Alagiah (1955 – 2023) “My parents moved us first to Africa and then to Britain, always in search of something better for their children.” ~ George Alagiah The much loved, admired and respected foreign correspondent and newsreader George Alagiah died this week aged 67. His love of travel, humanity, the world and in turn […]
Aspects for the week beginning 16 July 2023
Three By-Elections With very little astrological data to go on, I will attempt to look at the picture for the three by-elections taking place in England on Thursday, to see how well Labour and the Lib Dems may fare. The by-elections came about as a result of the resignation as an MP by Boris Johnson […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 25 June 2023
Yevgeny Prigozhin Russian Yevgeny Prigozhin created turmoil this week, not just in his native land, but around the world, challenging the status quo. In the UK, he occasioned a COBRA meeting. Rishi Sunak was in touch with allies, and urged all parties to protect civilians. The implications of Prigozhin’s mutiny, as head of the fighting […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 18 June 2023
Glenda Jackson (1936 – 2023) “Any prize was a benign irrelevance for her. People often say they don’t care about awards: Jackson really did not. Neither gushing nor contemptuous…” ~ Susannah Clapp, Theatre critic for the Observer Actor and Politician in equally effective measure, Glenda Jackson died this week, after a short illness, at the […]
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