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… Continue reading Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Too Far
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Issue 192: 2019 03 07: The Purpose of University
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… Continue reading Issue 192: 2019 03 07: The Purpose of University
Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Singing Malware
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… Continue reading Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Singing Malware
Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Sapiens Sinking
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… Continue reading Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Sapiens Sinking
Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Lazy Investing
07 March 2019 Lazy Investing Following the investment herd has risks. By Frank O’Nomics Many will have had that uncomfortable moment in the pub when someone lays claim to a “killing on the stock market”. Proud boasts of having bought ASOS shares at 9p (next stop £70) leave us too polite to point out that… Continue reading Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Lazy Investing
Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Diary of a Corbynista
7 March 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Institutionally Racist Parties By Don Urquhart 28 February On Politics Live Andrew Neil led a hatchet job on Labour Anti-Semitism. Tory MP Henry Smith was like a dog with two tails launching into: It is quite remarkable how a once great British Party…. Andrew Neil came back with:… Continue reading Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 191: 2019 02 28: Having a Laugh
28 February 2019 Having A Laugh The Independent Group. By J R Thomas Many viewers must have thought they had accidentally tuned into Sex and the City. Three glamorous ladies walking through Westminster, hair blowing in the breeze, heels clacking on the granite, laughing and smiling and joking together. Was it indeed a new British… Continue reading Issue 191: 2019 02 28: Having a Laugh
Issue 191: 2019 02 28: The Nanny State
28 February 2019 The Nanny State A call for more. By John Watson Why is it no surprise? The papers are full of stories of people being persuaded to cash in their pensions by fraudsters who then do them out of the loot. The result: rich fraudsters, poor pensioners and – worse still in the… Continue reading Issue 191: 2019 02 28: The Nanny State
Issue 191: 2019 02 28: Discrimination
28 February 2019 Discrimination is Discrimination A landmark case. By Lynda Goetz In trying to ignore/blank out the total yawn-making, painful train crash that our Government and Parliamentarians seem to be making of Brexit, I noticed that discrimination seemed to be something of a theme (yet again) in recent news items. Firstly, surprisingly and almost… Continue reading Issue 191: 2019 02 28: Discrimination
Issue 191: 2019 02 28: Melomys Rubicola
28 February 2019 Melomys Rubicola The beginning of the end? By Neil Tidmarsh (Spoiler alert: if you haven’t yet read the story Gibb’s 2018 Christmas [Shaw Sheet issue 182, 20 December 2018], you might want to do so now before reading any further…) Science fiction is a tricky business. The reality inevitably catches up with the… Continue reading Issue 191: 2019 02 28: Melomys Rubicola
Issue 191: 2019 02 28: Political Penguins?
28 February 2019 Political Penguins? Chuka and friends. By Robert Kilconner “TINGE”, “TIG”, call it what you will, but the emergence of the Independent Group has enlivened the political scene and given those baffled and bored by Brexit something more tasty to speculate about. Why have they done it? Well, in some cases the answer… Continue reading Issue 191: 2019 02 28: Political Penguins?
Issue 191: 2019 02 28: Diary of a Corbynista
28 February 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Witch Hunt by Don Urquhart 21 February The Tories stand to benefit massively from the formation of The Independent Group (TINGE). Come a General Election TINGE will take many more votes from Labour than from the Tories. And there is another factor- Labour-inclined voters will look at their… Continue reading Issue 191: 2019 02 28: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 190: 2019 02 21: Quixote in Cataluña
21 February 2019 Don Quixote in Cataluña The return of the Spanish archetype. By Neil Tidmarsh Just over a year ago, The Times chess correspondent Raymond Keene described the Catalan Opening as “a variation that is problematic for both sides. The advantages and disadvantages are so subtly nuanced that the slightest inaccuracy by White can… Continue reading Issue 190: 2019 02 21: Quixote in Cataluña
