11 September 2019 Brexit – The Answers Escaping the confusion. By John Watson People say that there is good in everything if you look for it hard enough and I suppose that the upside of our current political shenanigans is that they are an excellent distraction from the cricket. Still, the spider having swallowed the
12 September 2019 The Middle Way Or trouble ahead(?!) by J.R.Thomas There is a rather good story, said to be told by Julian Amery, about his driving down the Kings Road and narrowly missing a well-known figure standing marooned in the middle. Mr Amery had time to wind down his window and shout at Jeremy
12 September 2019 Brexit – Que se passe-t-il? Nous ne comprenons pas. By Richard Pooley It was the question I knew must come but was dreading: “Richard. Brexit. What’s going on? We don’t understand.” It came in the middle of dinner on a warm evening a few days ago. We were seven around a table
12 September 2019 Iran Pro-Rogue? By Neil Tidmarsh Two days ago Iran beat Hong Kong 2-0 in a qualifying match for the next soccer World Cup. The result must have been as gratifying for Beijing as it was for Tehran, crowning a week in which China offered Iran a $280 billion lifeline to save its
12 September 2019 Europe also needs a deal Do they realise? by Frank O’Nomics Picture the scene. Boris Johnson, from behind dark glasses and under a fedora, with his consigliere Cummings at his side, confronts Michel Barnier and says: “I’m gonna make you an offer you can’t refuse”. Sadly, the most likely response is: “No
12 September 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Peaky Blinders rule by Don Urquhart 5 September Jo Swinson went on Politics Live to talk up Luciana Berger’s latest career move and to reiterate that the LibDems would not support an interim government led by Jeremy Corbyn. She is probably very concerned at the strong possibility that
12 September 2019 Ex-Prisoners and Prisoners’ Children Homeless or ignored. By Lynda Goetz Two items on prisoners in the news this week illustrate the lack of joined-up thinking that so often characterises our public services. This can and does, in many cases, lead to further problems and even ultimately more demands on those services, both
05 September 2019 Keeping It Clear The Boris and Jo show. By John Watson Wow, perhaps the Shaw Sheet should not be allowed to go on holiday. At the time of our last issue, at the end of July, Boris had just been elected as the new Conservative leader on his “Brexit on 31 October,
5 September 2019 Facing Our Borisloo A reflection of 1819? by J.R. Thomas One disadvantage of a long August break is that the commemoration of events that really should be noted gets missed. So as our readers sweated on their yachts, or crunched sand in their Cornish pasties, or were stung by giant hornets in
05 September 2019 The Role of Speaker Power and partisanship. By Lynda Goetz ‘A week is a long time in politics’, Harold Wilson is reputed to have said. Well, it is now over a month since Shaw Sheet was online and a month appears to be an eternity in politics! At the moment an hour
