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About Lavinia Thompson

A university lecturer for many years, both at home and abroad, Lavinia Thompson retired in 2008 and has since taken up freelance journalism. She is currently studying for a distant learning degree in geo-political science and lives in Norwich with her partner. More Posts

And so it comes to this (again)

When big issues are involved, whether you’re talking national/political things like an ‘In/Out’ EU Referendum or a NHS junior doctor’s dispute, it’s jolly hard for we non-participants on the side-lines to understand properly the protagonists’ respective arguments, still less the [...]

February 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

To bomb or not to bomb

I don’t know about you, but the funny thing is the more I consider the Government’s desire to join the supposed ‘coalition of the willing’ to bomb ISIS into oblivion in Syria the more I think it’s a fifty-fifty call at best. The core of my continued dithering is my concern over the [...]

November 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

A little something is troubling me

Through the UK media – and only out of passing interest – I have kept myself broadly across the developing situation this week at the Sharm el-Sheikh resort in Egypt, from which the Russian aeroplane crashed (or now perhaps was blown up) not too long after take-off last weekend with the deaths [...]

November 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

And so the world keep turning

In the world of politics, statesmanship and ‘the way things are’ two developments struck me yesterday as highlighting some of the eternal complexities that those operating power, or aspiring to do so, face in the modern world. Firstly, on the final day of its autumn conference, the British [...]

October 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

None of this makes sense

Let’s just get this right. Yesterday in its referendum the Greek nation backed its Prime Minister and thereby rejected the latest EU-led bailout deal, which the EU claims was no longer on the table anyway. Mr Tsipras will now claim that he has a democratic mandate for ‘no more austerity’ and [...]

July 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

This one could run and run

With Greece having defaulted upon its debt by failing to pay the IMF by the deadline, we are now going to see a period of intense negotiations and daily speculations as Europe and sundry institutions try to find a way out of the crisis. Against this background the Greeks are about to hold their [...]

July 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

We’re doomed! (Don’t panic …)

Two media stories took my eye yesterday. The first was a report in The Times on the latest long term outlook issued by the Office for Budget Responsibility. [I would have wished to ‘link’ my readers directly to it, but I refuse no principle to pay the subscription in order to be able to do [...]

June 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

Entrails of the General Election

To be recommended to Rust readers today, a long-form article by Patrick Wintour entitled The Undoing of Ed Miliband – and how Labour lost the Election which appears on the website of – THE [...]

June 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

Working out what happened

Life constantly goes forward and thus the General Election result announced on 8th May is fast receding into the past. For the average punter/voter, trying to follow the antics of the ‘losing’ parties is a complicated task involving (as it inevitably does) a delicate tippy-toeing between the [...]

May 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

Rummaging through the embers

It is the morning after the night before and the media pundits are now running amok on all broadcasting channels. One of their main quests is to try to work out how and why the boffin from Strathclyde University who oversaw the GfK, NOP and Ipsos MORI ‘exit poll’ prediction on behalf [...]

May 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

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