Month: June 2016

Issue59:2016 06 23: Could cash be king? (Frank O’Nomics)

23 June 2016 Could cash be king? by Frank O’Nomics There is a point in the classic film (of the play) Glen Garry Glen Ross when the top real estate salesman (played by Al Pacino) derides the leads being given to him by his office manager (Kevin Spacey), using the phrase “money in the mattress”. … Continue reading Issue59:2016 06 23: Could cash be king? (Frank O’Nomics)

Issue 59: 2016 06 23: A Jolly Voting Day (John Watson)

23 June 2016 A Jolly Voting Day Quiet, too damned quiet! by John Watson In most parts of Britain, voting day is an oasis of peace. Before it, came the last stages of the campaign, the opposing factions shouting their wares like coster-mongers in a Victorian engraving. Afterwards will come the recriminations and the wrangling… Continue reading Issue 59: 2016 06 23: A Jolly Voting Day (John Watson)

Issue 59:2016 06 23: Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue (J.R.Thomas)

23 June 2016 Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue by J.R.Thomas Late June 2016.  It’s a hot night in Washington DC.  The politicians were up late, their conversations frenzied and urgent and more than a little alcohol fuelled, but finally everybody got to bed.  But now it is 4.30am, that dangerous hour before dawn.  And the Speaker… Continue reading Issue 59:2016 06 23: Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue (J.R.Thomas)

Issue 59:2016 06 23:Week in Brief International

23 June 2016 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe AUSTRIA:  The far-right Freedom Party is contesting the results of the recent presidential elections, which they lost by just 0.01% of the vote.  A court will decide by July 6 whether to uphold the challenge. CYPRUS:  Two firefighters have died and one has been injured as… Continue reading Issue 59:2016 06 23:Week in Brief International

Issue59: 2016 06 23:Week in Brief Financial

23 June 2016 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY GO EAST, YOUNG PERSON:  About a decade ago it was almost impossible to get a Business Class Flight to India.  Many western businesses saw liberalisation by the then Indian government as an opportunity to get into one of the world’s fastest expanding economies.  The tax… Continue reading Issue59: 2016 06 23:Week in Brief Financial

Issue59:2016 06 23:Double Yellow (J.R.Thomas)

23 June 2016 Double Yellow by J.R.Thomas According to the nature notes of a well known country magazine, this week is the traditional time for fledglings to leave their nests and to take to the air.   And who can blame them; balmy sunny days, summer horseracing at full peak, Wimbledon about to begin (for… Continue reading Issue59:2016 06 23:Double Yellow (J.R.Thomas)

Issue 59:2016 06 23:Anatomy of a debate (Don Urquhart)

23  June 2016 Anatomy of a Debate A different way of keeping the score by Don Urquhart The worst are full of passionate intensity wrote Yeats just after the Great War.  The words came into my mind just before the great EU referendum debate. On Tuesday 21st June 2016, David Dimbleby hosted a debate at… Continue reading Issue 59:2016 06 23:Anatomy of a debate (Don Urquhart)

Issue 59:2016 06 23: A sportsman’s sketches (Neil Tidmarsh)

23 June 2016 A Sportsman’s Sketches With apologies to Ivan Turgenev. by Neil Tidmarsh It’s been a bad week for Russian sport. The Russian soccer team are out of the Euro 2016 championships.  Beaten by giants, perhaps?  By Germany, or Spain, or Italy?  No.  By Wales.  And Slovakia.  In the first round. At least it… Continue reading Issue 59:2016 06 23: A sportsman’s sketches (Neil Tidmarsh)

Issue 59: 2016 06 23: Week in Brief: UK

23 June 2016 Week in Brief: UK Jo Cox ASSASSINATION OF JO COX: The murder of Jo Cox, the MP for Batley and Spen, outside her surgery in Birstall, near Leeds, has been met with revulsion and sadness on all sides of British politics. Parliament was recalled to pay tribute to Mrs Cox on Monday… Continue reading Issue 59: 2016 06 23: Week in Brief: UK

Issue 59: 2016 06 23: The Shaw Sheet Party

23 June 2016 The Shaw Sheet Party Where we are going. by the Shaw Sheet team Last Thursday evening, in an Islington garden, staff and readers of the Shaw Sheet met to celebrate its first year of publication. We were a little late, of course. The fact that we are now at issue 59 indicates… Continue reading Issue 59: 2016 06 23: The Shaw Sheet Party

Issue 59: 2016 06 23: Following The Map (Chin Chin)

23 June 2016 Following The Map Satnav would not have taken us to Naseby. By Chin Chin Harbingers of doom come in a number of forms and, generally speaking, depend on which god you happen to have offended. Upset the gods of ancient Rome and you can expect elderly soothsayers at every turn, droning on… Continue reading Issue 59: 2016 06 23: Following The Map (Chin Chin)

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