Entries Tagged as 'News'
Aspects for the week beginning 31 December 2023
Review of the Year 2023 It’s that time again…Time for the Review of the Year! It has been a harrowing year around the world, and for some personally, but I hope that you had some personal highlights. Selections from the blogs, as usual, for those of you who like to review the year… January 22nd: […]
Aspects for the week beginning 3 December 2023
Henry Kissinger (1923 – 2023) “America has lost one of the most dependable and distinctive voices on foreign affairs with the passing of Henry Kissinger. I have long admired the man who fled the Nazis as a young boy from a Jewish family, then fought them in the United States Army”. ~ George W. Bush […]
Categories: Historical · News · Obituary
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 […]
Categories: Celebrities · News
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 […]
Categories: News
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 […]
Categories: News
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 […]
Categories: Celebrities · News
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 […]
Categories: Celebrities · News
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 […]
Categories: News