18 April 2019 Letter to the Editors Brexit from Watson Low 15 April 2019 Dear Sir I thought John Watson’s article in Issue 197 was a terrific analysis of Brexit. In general I agreed but was not keen on Corbyn being tarred with the same brush as May in terms of culpability. There are many… Continue reading Issue 198: 2019 04 18: Letter to the Editors
Article Category: Letters
Issue 198: 2019 04 18: Letter to the Editors
18 April 2019 Letter to the Editors Debenhams from Anthony Silver 11 April 2019 Dear Sir The scenario postulated in last week’s Lens on the Week may or may not reflect the reality; consider then another possibility. Is it likely that with the banking covenants probably in place, any offer for Debenhams would have… Continue reading Issue 198: 2019 04 18: Letter to the Editors
Issue 195: 2019 03 28: Letter to the Editors
28 March 2019 Letter to the Editors Bags for life. From Anne K Sutherland Dear Sirs, I read with interest the article in the Shaw Sheet on 21st March by Frank O’Nomics. The points he made reflect my own experience. My husband has a large number of ‘bags for life’ in his car. Unfortunately, almost… Continue reading Issue 195: 2019 03 28: Letter to the Editors
Issue 193: 2019 03 14: Letter to the Editors
14 March 2019 Letter to the Editors Anti semitism from Anthony Silver Dear Sir, In the ranking of social sins, the rise of the ‘isms’ (sexism, racism, ageism etc….) has been the most dramatic over the last decade. So when a political party is consistently accused of same, their goto solution should be not… Continue reading Issue 193: 2019 03 14: Letter to the Editors
Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Letter to the Editors
7 March 2019 Letter to the Editor True Diversity? From Anthony Silver Sir Lynda Goetz elegantly sums up the diversity vs meritocracy argument in the last 2 sentences of her article (“Discrimination”:Issue 191) it seems that ‘…. you can’t have one without [diluting] the other..’, and, therein lies the dilemma. As diversity is often… Continue reading Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Letter to the Editors
Issue 190: 2019 02 21: Letter to the Editors
21 February 2019 Letter to the Editors False Semitism? from Anthony Silver 20 February 2019 Dear Sir Today’s Times reported that Ian Austin MP criticised the Labour Party for readmitting Derek Hatton despite his tweet back in 2011 that “Jewish people with any sense of humanity need to start speaking out against the ruthless… Continue reading Issue 190: 2019 02 21: Letter to the Editors
Issue 189: 2019 02 14: Letter to the Editors
14 February 2019 Letter to the Editors Non-disclosure Agreements from Anthony Silver Dear Sir If Sir Philip Green wants to pinch my cheeks, wrap his arm around my waist and make mildly offensive statements about my weight/attire/ethnicity and then pay me thousands of times the amount I would be normally eligible for in an… Continue reading Issue 189: 2019 02 14: Letter to the Editors
Issue 185: 2019 01 17: Gilts and Bullion
17 January 2019 Gilts and Bullion A letter to the Editors Dear Sir As most bullion depositories offer the facility of lending out existing holdings to speculators in return for a fixed/interest charge payable to the bullion owner, Gold need no longer be a non yielding asset class. Frank’s observation about the relative good value… Continue reading Issue 185: 2019 01 17: Gilts and Bullion
Issue 185: 2019 01 17: Distorting History
17 January 2019 Movies Distorting History A letter to the editors. Dear Sirs Mr Tidmarsh in last week’s edition of the Shaw Sheet reviewed “The Favourite”, the heavily advertised and widely promoted film about Queen Anne and her relationships with two ladies of her court. Not greatly cheering, Mr Tidmarsh says, but beautifully made. But… Continue reading Issue 185: 2019 01 17: Distorting History
Issue 183: 2018 12 20: Letter to the Editors
20 December 2018 Letter to the Editors Corbyn’s timing from Mark Levesley Dear Sirs Nice to see Julian Annis get impassioned by Corbynista’s slightly skewed view. I do think though that Corbynista is of the opinion that Mr Blair etc were Red Tories anyway, so the intervention is not that much of a correction, i.e.… Continue reading Issue 183: 2018 12 20: Letter to the Editors
Issue 182: 2018 12 13: Letter to the Editors
13 December 2018 Letter to the Editors Labour and the Universities Dear Sir I foolishly read the first bit of Diary of a Corbynista and can’t let the author get away with “It is almost as if his government had not marketised education, making it a dog eat dog free for all rather than… Continue reading Issue 182: 2018 12 13: Letter to the Editors
Issue 181: 2018 12 06: Letter to the Editors
06 December 2018 Letter to the Editors Police Tactics Dear Sir I read with interest Jack Wippell’s column on police tactics, and for the most part it is hard to disagree with the objective points that he makes. The trouble when discussing the police is that from an individual viewpoint it is hard to be… Continue reading Issue 181: 2018 12 06: Letter to the Editors
Issue 174: 2018 10 18: Letter to the Editors
18 October 2018 Letter to the Editor Tfl as Normal from Mr Anthony Bradshaw Dear Sirs Perhaps J R Thomas has a following in the imposing offices of London Underground in St James (your article last week). Travelling on an usually chaotic system on Monday night, there came the long broadcast of services delayed… Continue reading Issue 174: 2018 10 18: Letter to the Editors
