Month: May 2015

Issue 2: 2015 05 14:Snubbing Putin; should the British Lion have accepted the invitation to the Russian Bear’s party after all?

14 May 2015 Snubbing Putin; should the British Lion have accepted the invitation to the Russian Bear’s party after all? by Neil Tidmarsh   Last Saturday, the allies who defeated Nazi Germany in 1945 celebrated the seventieth anniversary of their victory. The celebrations were inevitably sober and tinged with sadness, given the high price of… Continue reading Issue 2: 2015 05 14:Snubbing Putin; should the British Lion have accepted the invitation to the Russian Bear’s party after all?

Issue 2: 2015 05 1414 :Male and email

14 May 2015 Male and email by Chin Chin The experts all seem to agree. Time spent looking at emails is reducing British productivity. It is bad for health and family life too, with the checking of inboxes whilst on holidays being labelled “sick” by Sir Cary Cooper, Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health at… Continue reading Issue 2: 2015 05 1414 :Male and email

Issue 2:2015 05 14: UK news

14 May 2015 Week in Brief: UK NEWS VE DAY: the celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of VE day began with a two minutes silence on Friday. Wreathes were laid at the Cenotaph by the leaders of the political parties, David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg laying theirs together. The Queen has attended… Continue reading Issue 2:2015 05 14: UK news

Issue 2: 2015 05 07: Pietersen- shades of Achilles

14 May 2015 Pietersen- shades of Achilles by John Watson As far as I know, Achilles was not much of a cricketer so perhaps it is odd that you will find things in common between his life and the career of Kevin Pietersen. We all know about Pietersen, of course, but for those whose copy… Continue reading Issue 2: 2015 05 07: Pietersen- shades of Achilles

Issue 2: 2015 05 14: BUSINESS AND THE CITY

14 may 2015 Week in brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY WATERFORD WEDGWOOD: Two of the oldest manufacturing companies in the British Isles, Waterford (fine crystal) and Wedgwood (fine china), brought together in a highly leveraged merger which ended in financial distress and administration in 2009, have been sold for US$437m. The vendor is the USA… Continue reading Issue 2: 2015 05 14: BUSINESS AND THE CITY

Issue 2: 2015 05 14: Polls Taxing

14 May 2015  Polls Taxing by J.R.Thomas As the spent ballot papers are fed through the shredders of town halls up and down the land, the reproaches begin. Some of the loudest come from the opinion pollsters – reproaching themselves. The practitioners of this mysterious and endlessly reweighted and rebalanced science have fallen into what… Continue reading Issue 2: 2015 05 14: Polls Taxing

Issue 2: 2015 05 14:Man and Superman, at the Lyttelton

Shaw Sheet Man and Superman, at the Lyttelton by J R Thomas   T E Shaw (the pseudonym of Lawrence of Arabia) is not the only Shaw who inspires The Shaw Sheet. His contemporary and friend was his fellow Anglo-Irishman and exile in England, George Bernard Shaw. With felicitous timing the National Theatre is currently… Continue reading Issue 2: 2015 05 14:Man and Superman, at the Lyttelton

Issue 2:2015 05 14:Vets Bills and NHS Costs

7 May 2015 Vets Bills and NHS Costs by Lynda Goetz  I had to take the dog to the vet this week and the impressive, if quite expensive, treatment it was given has prompted some thoughts about our expectations of the service veterinary practices provide for our animals and those provided by the NHS for… Continue reading Issue 2:2015 05 14:Vets Bills and NHS Costs

Issue 2:2015 05 14: FOREIGN NEWS

14 May 2015 Week in brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS   GREECE:  Greece has begun to pay the 200 million euros owed to the IMF this week, by emptying the cash reserves lent to them by the IMF some years ago for emergencies. Prime Minister Tsipras wants to raise more funds by issuing new government debt; the… Continue reading Issue 2:2015 05 14: FOREIGN NEWS

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