28 July 2016 Crossword by Boffles Inventions and Discoveries Across 7 You need his apparatus to ring Graham (9,4) 8 Potter, not Beatrix, but imaginative (8) 9 Aerial bombing system conducted with a musical instrument? (4) 10 The first was Johannes Gutenberg, not Friedrich Lexmark (7) 12 Submarine detector… Continue reading Issue 64: Crossword – Inventions and Discoveries – printable
Month: July 2016
Issue 64: Crossword – Turkey – solution
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Issue 63:2016 07 21:Week in Brief:Financial
21 July 2016 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY BREXIT LANDING: Apart from the banks, the industry which seemed to initially take the hardest knock from the “Leave” vote in the Referendum was property. Whilst gloom still pervades the upper end residential developers in central London – though they were getting pretty glum earlier… Continue reading Issue 63:2016 07 21:Week in Brief:Financial
Issue 63:2016 07 21: The Other Side of the Hill (Neil Tidmarsh)
21 July 2016 The Other Side of the Hill The new Cold War and an old problem with guesswork. by Neil Tidmarsh “All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know from what you do; that’s what I call ‘guessing what was… Continue reading Issue 63:2016 07 21: The Other Side of the Hill (Neil Tidmarsh)
Issue 63: 2016 07 21: Week in Brief: UK
21 July 2016 Week in Brief: UK Government News NEW CABINET: New prime minister Theresa May has now finished assembling her cabinet. In a reshuffle which has been described as ‘brutal’, she has sent George Osborne and Michael Gove, previously Chancellor of the Exchequer and Justice Secretary respectively but both at the heart… Continue reading Issue 63: 2016 07 21: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 63:2016 07 21: Week in Brief International
21 July 2016 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe FRANCE: A lorry was driven 2km through crowds gathered to watch the Bastille Day firework display in Nice. At least 80 people were killed. The driver was shot dead by police after exchanging gunfire with them. He was a French citizen of Tunisian origin. Reportedly a… Continue reading Issue 63:2016 07 21: Week in Brief International
Issue 63: 2016 07 21: The Case For Experts (Lynda Goetz)
21 July 2016 The Case for Experts Why we need to listen to those with knowledge by Lynda Goetz When so much is happening in both the UK and the wider world and events are moving so dizzyingly fast that the whole thing sometimes seems like a giant surrealistic blur, it can be hard to… Continue reading Issue 63: 2016 07 21: The Case For Experts (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 63:2016 07 21: Pedalling to Atlantis (J.R.Thomas)
21 July 2016 Pedalling to Atlantis The Dunwich Dynamo by J.R.Thomas Plato started it. Not pedalling; the legend of Atlantis. It was the fictional city-state which in its political theories dared attack Athens and, as punishment for its hubris, sank into the Atlantic. So compelling was this concept, of the arrogant city-state sinking below the… Continue reading Issue 63:2016 07 21: Pedalling to Atlantis (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 63: 2016 07 21: Gone for a Constitutional (J.R.Thomas)
21 July 2016 Gone For A Constitutional by J.R.Thomas The Shaw Sheet would never wish to rain on Mr Cameron’s parade. On the other hand, it has been an exceptionally wet summer, so a little splashing in the direction of Witney may be excusable. But we splash Mr Cameron with restraint, as there is little… Continue reading Issue 63: 2016 07 21: Gone for a Constitutional (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 63: 2016 07 21: Sparkling Epithets (Chin Chin)
21 July 2016 Sparkling Epithets Boris will have to do better. by Chin Chin I just don’t understand it. There is George W Bush, one of America’s less convincing presidents, described by Boris as “a cross-eyed Texan warmonger”. There is Hillary Clinton, a woman who cannot even control her email account, awarded “blonde hair and… Continue reading Issue 63: 2016 07 21: Sparkling Epithets (Chin Chin)
Issue 63:2016 07 21:On peut faire plus et on peut faire mieux ? (Richard Pooley)
21 July 2016 On peut faire plus et on peut faire mieux? The response to the tragedy in Nice. by Richard Pooley “It is hard to fathom what is happening from here.” So wrote Shaw Sheet’s editor last Friday when asking me to give my view on the previous night’s massacre in Nice. Frankly, I… Continue reading Issue 63:2016 07 21:On peut faire plus et on peut faire mieux ? (Richard Pooley)
Issue 63: 2016 07 21: Mrs May’s Strategy (John Watson)
21 July 2016 Mrs May’s Strategy Can Johnson’s skills get Britain’s views through to the European public? by John Watson As chalices go, the one passed by Mrs May to Boris Johnson and David Davis gets five stars in the Borgia international poison league. As they sit together at Chevening, the country house which they… Continue reading Issue 63: 2016 07 21: Mrs May’s Strategy (John Watson)
Issue 63:2016 07 21: Tantric Central Banking (Frank O’Nomics)
21 July 2016 Tantric Central Banking Dithering over rate moves hides a fundamental impotence. by Frank O’Nomics Yet again the Governor of the Bank of England has strongly hinted at a change to monetary policy and has failed to follow-through. Following at least 3 occasions when he seemed to be preparing markets for an interest… Continue reading Issue 63:2016 07 21: Tantric Central Banking (Frank O’Nomics)
