10 October 2019 Vets Love Pets But not their owners. By Lynda Goetz Reading my daughter’s copy of the Veterinary Times over the weekend I was left spluttering, if not speechless. The issue was a recent survey (vets, like everyone else, seem to have been conducting numbers of these recently) which ‘discovered’ that one fifth
10 October 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Xenophobia election looms by Don Urquhart 3 October Suddenly politics looks exciting. Lots of military imagery and clearly several wars going on – Britain against Europe, People versus Parliament, etc. Plenty of heroes and villains. Some people are both. I am reminded of the great Prisoner of War
10 October 2019 Corruption A manifesto must? By Neil Tidmarsh Here’s a question to ponder as a general election appears to be looming somewhere on the horizon: corruption – a vote winner or a vote loser? No question, you might say. It’s a vote loser. Simple. Look at Austria – the Freedom Party took a
10 October 2019 Rugby in Japan Direct from the stands. By Richard Pooley “Arrai rai bureau! Tonga, Tonga!” Have the Japanese fallen in love with rugby? And why you should come to Japan for the Olympics. I am in Japan. Shaw Sheet’s editors have given me leave to write about something other than France, Brexit
03 October 2019 118 Bishops Can only be wrong. By John Watson Anselm perhaps, or Becket? Or the grey eminence himself, François Leclerc du Tremblay, the Capuchin friar who advised Richelieu and is immortalised as Father Joseph in The Three Musketeers? Yes, there are churchmen who have strayed fearlessly into the centre of politics, but
3 October 2019 Joe Country Bye, bye, Biden? By J.R. Thomas Our title this week was pinched (and we hope he will not mind) from Mick Herron’s new spy thriller, the latest in his magnificent Slough House series. But “Joe Country” is just too apposite a title to miss. That country was though [redacted
03 October 2019 Four Yorkshire men 2040 The Chancellor’s expensive promise. by Frank O’Nomics Picture the scene. At a table in a saloon bar of a Yorkshire pub in 2040, four men, down on their luck, reminisce about the good old days of the 2020’s. “Who’d a thought 20 years ago we would have been
3 October 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Johnson declares war by Don Urquhart 26 September In my Yorkshire B&B Colin could not be friendlier or more helpful – carried our heavy cases from the car to the room, made four of us a cup of tea each, gave us lots of good advice about local
03 October 2019 The Future Where’s it gone? By Neil Tidmarsh Picture the scene – and this is real life, not the movies – a high-speed car chase along the night-bound highway through Fremont, California. The suspect hits 120mph as he attempts to escape, but the pursuing police officer is driving no ordinary patrol car.
03 October 2019 Blue Health Not the Blues. By Lynda Goetz Many years ago whilst at university, I remember penning a poem I think I called ‘Not the Blues’. Why, I wondered, was a low mood or depression called ’the blues’? Shouldn’t it have been called ‘the greys’? Grey, after all, is the colour, certainly
