AXBRIDGE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE NEWS
Has your team communication taken a hit during lockdown? The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed the workplace and accelerated trends…
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE Book Review: Julian Treslove’s comical journey into the world of Jewishness leaves him with a bloody nose in an anti-semitic assault and concerns about circumcision in Howard Jacobson’s comic novel
The Finkler Question. By Howard Jacobson. There’s a scene in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall when he appears to show a sort of…
AGENDA WEST BUSINESS NEWS: As retailers Anne Summers and Moss Bros join the growing movement seeking CVAs there’s a new turn-off for the High Street: unclear social distancing signs
Companies in trouble are seeing the CVA (Company Voluntary Agreement) as the the go-to saviour from insolvency in these troubled…
AGENDA WEST BUSINESS NEWS: Creditors beware: newspaper industry in freefall during Covid-19 as sales plunge 39% as publisher Archant seeks to dump their pension fund and leave shareholders with nothing
Pic: FT The Guardian has reported that The Financial Times and the i newspaper saw declines in circulation of 39% and 38%, respectively. They said:…
Axbridge Chamber of Commerce: Meeting at the Lamb Inn on Tuesday, 22nd September, 2020 – but you must book your place as only 12 can attend
Axbridge Chamber of Commerce: Meeting at the Lamb Inn 22nd September, 2020 – but you must book your place as…
AXBRIDGE PAGEANT: When people in Axbridge (or ‘Alse Bruge’) spoke Norman French and the town was given its first charter by ‘Good’ King John – who also freed the serfs – hurray!
AXBRIDGE PAGEANT: When people in Axbridge (or ‘Alse Bruge’) spoke Norman French and the town was given its first charter…
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE COMMENT: each screened TV and cinematic adaptation and version of a novel needs to be judged on its own merits
Brideshead Revisited, 2008 Don’t judge a book by its cover or a film by its blurb is a pretty good…
AXBRIDGE PAGEANT: today would have been day two of the event but Covid-19 has put pay to that. Here’s more about one of the scenes in which Christianity arrives along with the mystery plays – and there’s even a miracle
Christianity: more than just a religion with architecture, learning, literature, music and philosophy to name but a few improvements This…
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE BOOK REVIEW: an epic story of paternal betrayal, female genital mutilation, brotherly rivalry and the turbulence of Ethiopian politics in Abraham Verghese’s very long and over detailed but highly informative novel Cutting for Stone
Women are either saints or sinners, men are heroes or tragically flawed in a lengthy surgically embellished epic novel about…
AXBRIDGE PAGEANT: it would have happened today but due to COVID-19 it’s been put back – here’s a story about the very first inhabitants who indulged in bloody battles with the Danes
A mint, a Burh and the founding of Saxon ‘Axanbrycg’ to resist the Danes This is an extract from the…