14 March 2019 The Megarich? A Times investigation. By John Watson 28 billionaires out of 93. Almost one third of British billionaires live in tax havens (assuming you regard Switzerland as a tax haven and not somewhere you go to make cuckoo clocks and listen to cowbells). So at any rate says The Times in
14 March 2019 The Great Game of Cheat A Plan B for Brexit. By J R Thomas In the build up to the Battle of El Alamein in 1941, that gifted German general Erwin Rommel spent a great deal of time planning the battle and how he would win it against the British and Anzac
14 March 2019 The Blame Game The need to find fault. By Lynda Goetz As Theresa May’s unsatisfactory deal was resoundingly defeated in Parliament for the second time on Tuesday night, she herself looked distant and resigned. Elsewhere, however, the blame game had already started. ‘If it weren’t for those bloody Brexiteers sabotaging all her
14 March 2019 El Helicoide Hell in Caracas. By Neil Tidmarsh The massive and futuristic El Helicoide centre in Caracas was designed and built as a shopping mall – but it’s now the headquarters of Venezuela’s security service and intelligence agency SEBIN (the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service). What a perfect metaphor for the failure of
14 March 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Nothing has changed by Don Urquhart 7 March Naz Shah, the MP for Bradford West asked the Leader of the House to schedule a debate on Islamophobia. Instead Ms Leadsom advised her to seek the advice of Foreign Office ministers on the subject. And while she‘s about it
14 March 2019 Donald Trump’s big mistake Is the US economy fading? By Frank O’Nomics In politics timing is everything. Just when those who want a political change in the US were beginning to despair over a lack of credible opposition, signs emerge that the economic tide could be turning against the President. One should
07 March 2019 Too Far Where is that? By John Watson “Tufar?” Like “Tofu?” Something nice to eat? Well, not nice exactly but sufficiently nice for vegans, vegetarians and others of similar religious persuasions. No, don’t worry. We have not lost it completely. The Shaw Sheet is not about to inflict on you the type
07 March 2019 The Purpose of University. 3 D’s for a loan? By Lynda Goetz The recent front page ‘news’ in the Sunday Telegraph – that the Government may seek to block loans if students fail to get a minimum of 3 D’s at ‘A’ level – is actually hardly news. It was mooted at the
07 March 2019 Singing Malware Who’s hacking your brain? By Neil Tidmarsh I can’t sing. Never could. I used to dread music lessons at junior school (‘music’ was never anything more than singing). I was the kid whose groaning monotone would make the teacher’s sensitive and artistic soul flinch and shudder. School plays were always
07 March 2019 Sapiens Sinking Don’t worry, be happy. By J R Thomas Is life in the UK getting you down? It should. Never mind Brexit. There are lots of other things you should be worrying about. The weather is bizarre; hotter and colder and wetter and drier. Wild salmon are vanishing fast, though maybe
