17 March 2016 Teaching Maths UK at 26th by John Watson “A mile wide and an inch deep” might be an achievement if one was talking about some new way of manufacturing plate-glass. It certainly isn’t, however, when the subject is the nation’s maths curriculum. And yet that is the expression used by Andreas Schleicher,… Continue reading Issue 45: 2016 03 17: Teaching Maths (John Watson)
Month: March 2016
Issue 45:2016 03 17:A Lenten Change of Heart in the Kremlin (Neil Tidmarsh)
17 March 2016 A Lenten Change of Heart in the Kremlin Does Putin read Shaw Sheet? by Neil Tidmarsh Remember the piece in Shaw Sheet four weeks ago called ‘Maskivrovka’? It concluded by saying; “Perhaps someone ought to tell the Russian leadership that … Lent is now upon us, and Lent is the season for… Continue reading Issue 45:2016 03 17:A Lenten Change of Heart in the Kremlin (Neil Tidmarsh)
Issue 45: 2016 03 17:Forever Young(Chin Chin)
17 March 2016 Forever young Should songwriters respect old age? by Chin Chin Not me, of course. My hair is absolutely splendid, Boris-like, indeed. Still, it seems that there are those who find the lyrics of the Beatles song “When I am sixty-four” with its reference to hair loss, a tad less amusing as they… Continue reading Issue 45: 2016 03 17:Forever Young(Chin Chin)
Issue 45: 2016 03 17: Week in Brief: UK
17 March 2016 Week in Brief: UK HEALTHCARE: In a speech at Lancaster house, the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, announced measures designed to enable the NHS to learn from its mistakes. Modelled on the system for enquiring into airline accidents, there will be a review of all hospital deaths and a new investigation branch which… Continue reading Issue 45: 2016 03 17: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 45:2016 03 17:First Char Your Grouse (J.R.Thomas)
17 March 2016 First Char Your Grouse By J.R.Thomas Occasionally the Shaw Sheet gets into its tattered tweeds, pulls on its muddy wellies, exchanges the bowler hat for a flat cap, and heads for the hills and dales of rural Britain. Life is different there and what causes excitements in the Great Wen raises not… Continue reading Issue 45:2016 03 17:First Char Your Grouse (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 45:2016 03 17: Budget Summary
17 March 2016 Budget Summary In yesterday’s budget, his eighth, George Osborne announced a reduction in the growth forecast for 2016 to 2%, from the 2.4% given in the autumn statement. The lower figures for GDP means that debt as a share of GDP is revised upwards although cash debt levels for the current year… Continue reading Issue 45:2016 03 17: Budget Summary
Issue 45: 2016 03 17: Retirement Now (Lynda Goetz)
17 March 2016 Retirement Now In this, the second of her occasional series of interviews on retirement, Lynda Goetz talks to Miles Hapgood on what retirement means to him. Unlike our first interviewee Kevin Rodgers* who was London-based, Miles Hapgood has lived and worked in the South West for most of his career. Miles Hapgood… Continue reading Issue 45: 2016 03 17: Retirement Now (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 45: Crossword – Plain Vanilla 5 – solution
17 March 2016 Crossword by Boffles Plain Vanilla 5 – solution Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 45: Crossword – Plain Vanilla 6
17 March 2016 Crossword by Boffles Plain Vanilla 6 To see a printable version of this crossword Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 45: Crossword – Plain Vanilla 6 – printable
17 March 2016 Crossword by Boffles Plain Vanilla 6 Across 1 Links are often made where this is played (4) 3 Gulf state (3,5) 9 Isolated area of a state such as Danzig (7) 10 Threatened layer (5) 11 Betjeman wanted some to fall on Slough (5) 12 Treatment… Continue reading Issue 45: Crossword – Plain Vanilla 6 – printable
Issue 44: 2016 03 10: Mother’s Day or Mothering Sunday (Lynda Goetz)
10 March 2016 Mother’s Day or Mothering Sunday, “Bah Humbug!” Why the modern celebration is a fabrication and a guilt trip. by Lynda Goetz “Mother’s Day is really just a test of your other half’s gift-giving skills,” pronounced Bryony Gordon in The Sunday Telegraph’s Stella Magazine. What?! (I think I might just be allowed to… Continue reading Issue 44: 2016 03 10: Mother’s Day or Mothering Sunday (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 44: Crossword – Plain Vanilla 5
10 March 2016 Crossword by Boffles Plain Vanilla 5 To see a printable version of this crossword Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 44: Crossword – Plain Vanilla 5 – printable
10 March 2016 Crossword by Boffles Plain Vanilla 5 Across 1 On the Beaufort Scale, 7 and above (4) 3 Notorious prison island (8) 9 Developed the radio telegraph (7) 10 Question heatedly (5) 11 It flowed with milk and honey (8,4) 13 Supposedly, Victoria was not (6) … Continue reading Issue 44: Crossword – Plain Vanilla 5 – printable
