10 August 2017 Cartoons by AGGro If you enjoyed these cartoons please share them using the buttons above. Please click here if you would like a weekly email on publication of the ShawSheet Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
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Issue 117:2017 08 10:Week in Brief International
10 August 2017 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe BELGIUM: A large number of eggs produced in Belgium and exported to France and the Netherlands have been found to be contaminated with fipronil, a toxic pesticide. FRANCE: President Macron faced stiff opposition to his proposal to make the resources and position traditionally but unofficially granted… Continue reading Issue 117:2017 08 10:Week in Brief International
Issue 116:2017 08 03:cartoons (AGGro)
3 August 2017 Cartoons by AGGro If you enjoyed these cartoons please share them using the buttons above. Please click here if you would like a weekly email on publication of the ShawSheet Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue116:2017 08 03:Dancing on Hot Coals (J.R.Thomas)
03 August 2017 Dancing on Hot Coals Turmoil in the White House. by J R Thomas Maybe it is not so much hot coals as polished sabres. Whatever President Donald Trump is executing his footwork over, his jigging is looking increasingly dangerous. Six months into his presidency things are looking increasingly chaotic, and not much… Continue reading Issue116:2017 08 03:Dancing on Hot Coals (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 116:2017 08 03:Week in Brief Financial
3 August 2017 Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY COY BROADCASTERS: As the BBC struggles with the fallout from revelations that it had been paying some of its male star broadcasters more than women doing the same or similar jobs, its terrestrial rival ITV has kept its head well down. It says it will not… Continue reading Issue 116:2017 08 03:Week in Brief Financial
Issue116:2017 08 03: When In A Hole – Keep Digging(JR Thomas)
03 August 2017 When In A Hole – Keep Digging HS2 will revive British tunnelling by J.R. Thomas Last week we looked at HS2 and what it may do, or may not do, for some of Britain’s regional cities. Preparation work has been under way for a couple of years with construction teams being assembled,… Continue reading Issue116:2017 08 03: When In A Hole – Keep Digging(JR Thomas)
Issue 116:2017 08 03:Normal culture for Norfolk(Frank O’Nomics)
3 August 2017 Normal culture for Norfolk Have arguments for staying in London been undermined? by Frank O’Nomics It was not my finest hour. I had been given the simple task of applying early for tickets to see the National Theatre’s major production for the summer, Angels in America, which stars academy award nominee Andrew… Continue reading Issue 116:2017 08 03:Normal culture for Norfolk(Frank O’Nomics)
issue 116:2017 08 03:Week in Brief International
03 August 2017 Week in Brief: International Europe FRANCE: Macron promised to remove migrants from the streets and to house them in cheap hotels instead. The deradicalisation centre opened under the previous government has been closed, and the deradicalisation program judged a failure. STX, the country’s biggest ship-building company, is to be nationalised to prevent… Continue reading issue 116:2017 08 03:Week in Brief International
Issue 116:2017 08 03:Venezuela’s Dinosaur(Neil Tidmarsh)
03 August 2017 Venezuela’s Dinosaur Extinction threatens. by Neil Tidmarsh Dinosaurs take a long time to die. The cataclysmic shock which destroyed their world may well have been short and sharp, but those survivors unwilling or unable to evolve into more sustainable life-forms no doubt suffered slow, lingering deaths. The world saw this six months… Continue reading Issue 116:2017 08 03:Venezuela’s Dinosaur(Neil Tidmarsh)
Issue 115:2017 07 27:The Beguiled (J R Thomas)
27 July 2017 The Beguiled A film by Sophia Coppola reviewed by J R Thomas A film by Sophia Coppola is always something to look forward to; the tingling anticipation of a thing of beauty to be sure, a gentle intelligent fusion of music and photography and well-directed acting; and a thoughtful, subtle pointing to… Continue reading Issue 115:2017 07 27:The Beguiled (J R Thomas)
Issue 115: 2017 07 27: Live long and prosper (Frank ONomics)
27 July 2017 Live long and prosper Countering the Catch-22 of the state pension By Frank O’Nomics Naomi Campbell may have cause to be a bit upset. As someone in the UK born just after 5th April 1970, she may just miss out on being able to claim a state pension when she is 67,… Continue reading Issue 115: 2017 07 27: Live long and prosper (Frank ONomics)
Issue 115:2017 07 27:Cartoons(AGGro)
27 July 2017 Cartoons by AGGro If you enjoyed thes cartoons please share them using the buttons above. Please click here if you would like a weekly email on publication of the ShawSheet Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 115:2017 07 27:Digging Deep(J R Thomas)
27 July 2017 Digging Deep What will HS 2 achieve? by J R Thomas Whatever the pressures on the finances of the country, whatever turmoil assails the senior management, however many rearguard actions the doughty protestors continue to fight, HS2 will soon begin serious construction works. HS2 is the rather anonymous and dull pseudonym of… Continue reading Issue 115:2017 07 27:Digging Deep(J R Thomas)
