16 February 2017 Universities challenged Degree applications have hit a tipping point by Frank O’Nomics It could have been my dream job. Greene King is hiring young people to create new ales to help it appeal to a more youthful demographic. Training will take 18 months during which they will learn about brewing, design, marketing… Continue reading Issue 92:2017 02 16:Universities Challenged (Frank O’Nomics)
Month: February 2017
Issue 92:2017 02 16:Cartoons (Aggro)
16 February 2017 Cartoons by Aggro If you enjoyed these cartoons please share them using the buttons above. Please click here if you would like a weekly email on publication of the ShawSheet Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 92: 2017 02 16: Week in Brief: UK
16 February 2017 Week in Brief: UK SPEAKER: John Bercow, the Speaker of the House of Commons, is facing calls from MPs to resign after he declared that he would prevent Donald Trump from addressing MPs and peers in Westminster Hall during the proposed state visit. Diplomatic sources have said that there has been no… Continue reading Issue 92: 2017 02 16: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 92: 2017 02 16: Twitter In Adolescence (John Watson)
16 February 2017 Twitter In Adolescence Is Trump releasing its political potential? By John Watson “Tweet, tweet”, “tweet tweet”; those are not quotes stolen from Warner Brothers but the achievements of the Presidential fingers as they race across his mobile phone, reacting to events as quickly as a gunslinger in a Western. Threat to world… Continue reading Issue 92: 2017 02 16: Twitter In Adolescence (John Watson)
Issue 92:2017 02 16:Dropping the pilot(J.R.Thomas)
16 February 2017 Dropping the pilot Farewell to Richard Chartres by J.R.Thomas Matters are dealt with differently in the spiritual world. Differently from in the worlds of politics and business, certainly. Can you imagine a situation where Mr Obama, having reached the end of his term of office, and not being allowed under the… Continue reading Issue 92:2017 02 16:Dropping the pilot(J.R.Thomas)
Issue 91:2017 02 09:The ancients exiled (Neil Tidmarsh)
09 February 2017 The Ancients Exiled The West’s heart proposes to cut off its own blood supply by Neil Tidmarsh This week, the Chinese press referenced the Athenian historian Thucydides (460 BC – 395 BC) when reporting on Sino-US relations. The official mouthpiece of the Communist Party, The People’s Daily, warned that the two countries… Continue reading Issue 91:2017 02 09:The ancients exiled (Neil Tidmarsh)
Issue 91 :2017 02 09: A small cultural revolution (Richard Pooley)
09 February 2017 A small cultural revolution Can Macron revive France? by Richard Pooley Margot, the 22-year old daughter of our village potter came to get some advice from me the weekend before last. Recently graduated in Marketing and Communication, she is going to London at the end of this month. She has never… Continue reading Issue 91 :2017 02 09: A small cultural revolution (Richard Pooley)
Issue 90: 2017 02 02: Contents
02 February 2017: Issue 90 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment Leading Trumps by John Watson Britain’s interests from a post-imperial standpoint. Politics And The Post-Work World by Neil Tidmarsh Hamon says, but Fillon does (allegedly). Donald And Theresa’s Love-In by J R Thomas The way to implement. Do We Need Challenger Banks? by… Continue reading Issue 90: 2017 02 02: Contents
Issue 91: 2017 02 09: Everything must go (J.R.Thomas)
09 February 2017 Everything Must Go What should we keep? by J.R.Thomas Our film review this week (see “Lion”) deals with the problems of the poor, so let’s have some counterbalance by looking at the problems of the rich. One particular problem, that is. That no matter how much money you may have, you just… Continue reading Issue 91: 2017 02 09: Everything must go (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 91: 2102 02 09: Lion (J.R.Thomas)
09 February 2017 “LION” a film by Garth Davies reviewed by J.R.Thomas Fashions in film come and go, but it must be approaching the time for a current one to pass – films with opening credits reading: “Based on a true story”; can we (please) soon hope for the rather more comforting (for novelists, anyway):… Continue reading Issue 91: 2102 02 09: Lion (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 91: 2017 02 09: Week in Brief: UK
09 February 2017 Week in Brief: UK POLICE SURVEILLANCE: The Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which supervises police surveillance activities, has found that Cleveland Police broke the law when carrying out investigations under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. The force had monitored a police officer who was suing it over racism and also monitored the phones… Continue reading Issue 91: 2017 02 09: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 91: 2017 02 09: Clothes Pegs (Chin Chin)
09 February 2017 Clothes Pegs A nasal approach. By Chin Chin People are remembered for different things: Churchill for oratory and leadership; George Washington for honesty; Turner for colour; and I, I am afraid, may be remembered for clothes pegs. That isn’t because I have invented a new type of clothes peg and will shortly… Continue reading Issue 91: 2017 02 09: Clothes Pegs (Chin Chin)
Issue 91: 2017 02 09: The Post-Work World (John Watson)
09 February 2017 The Post-Work World A laboratory experiment in France. By John Watson Like expensive clothing, the world of political ideas has its fashions and in the circles of the intelligentsia it is hard to be fashionable, hip or generally sexy without making occasional references to the “post-work world”. The idea has become a… Continue reading Issue 91: 2017 02 09: The Post-Work World (John Watson)
