27 July 2017 Wanderlust Just how sustaining is travel? by Amelia Power Young people today are infected with the travel bug. Itchy feet, wanderlust, whatever you want to call it, it’s a phenomenon rife in society. It seems as if no one can sit still for more than a few months at a time, myself… Continue reading Issue 115:2017 07 27:Wanderlust(Amelia Power)
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!ssue 115:2017 07 27:Week in Brief International
27 July 2017 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe FRANCE: The chief of the armed forces resigned after Macron gave him a dressing down for complaining about defence cuts. GREECE: A 6.7 magnitude earthquake in the Aegean (hitting the Greek island of Kos, and also Bodrum in Turkey) left 2 people dead and 500 injured.… Continue reading !ssue 115:2017 07 27:Week in Brief International
Issue 115:2017 07 27:Week in Brief Financial
27 July 2017 Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY BANKING THE CASH: As had been widely predicted, Metro Bank, one of the leading and certainly most visible of the so-called challenger banks – the regiment of small banks that sprang up after the big bank failures and retrenchments following the 2008 recession – has announced… Continue reading Issue 115:2017 07 27:Week in Brief Financial
Issue115:2017 07 27:Poland in Court(Neil Tidmarsh)
27 July 2017 Poland In Court The Law and Justice party attacks law and justice. by Neil Tidmarsh It was touch and go. The political establishment was determined to give itself power over its country’s judges. The independence of the judiciary – its separation from the executive – is of course the cornerstone of democratic… Continue reading Issue115:2017 07 27:Poland in Court(Neil Tidmarsh)
Issue 115:2017 07 27:End-of-Term Diary of a Corbynista(Don Urquhart)
27 July 2017 End-of-Term Diary of a Corbynista Now off to the marginals by Don Urquhart 12 July Simon Hart is a Tory MP who is organising a Westminster Hall debate about abuse of MP’s. He has tried to blame Momentum for this but there is also ample evidence of organised defamation of Corbyn… Continue reading Issue 115:2017 07 27:End-of-Term Diary of a Corbynista(Don Urquhart)
Issue 114:2017 07 20:Thank you for your patience(Adam McCormack)
20 July 2017 Thank you for your patience The Hackney Showroom reviewed by Adam McCormack Star rating: **** Have we become too blasé about nuclear waste? The seventies and eighties saw continual impassioned protests from students, but of late there has been a silence. The issues have not gone away – it will still… Continue reading Issue 114:2017 07 20:Thank you for your patience(Adam McCormack)
Issue 114:2016 07 20:Week in Brief Financial
20 July 2017 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY ITS BENEATH YOU: Alternative energy continues to emerge from all sides. The latest challenger to oil is geothermal energy – gathering heat from hot rocks deep below the earth’s crust by pumping water through them for conversion into steam to power turbines, or to use… Continue reading Issue 114:2016 07 20:Week in Brief Financial
Isse 104:2017 7 20:The Electric Sheep Fold (J.R.Thomas)
20 July 2017 The Electric Sheep Fold Do we need an electronic archive? by J.R. Thomas What is the similarity between the internet and a wild garden? Obvious; they are both wonderful to wander in, full of obscure corners in which it is too easy to get lost for hours on end. But also, without… Continue reading Isse 104:2017 7 20:The Electric Sheep Fold (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 114:2017 07 20:The Royal Mail Marshmallow (Frank O’Nomics)
20 July 2017 The Royal Mail Marshmallow The outcome of the Royal Mail pension dispute may set a key precedent. by Frank O’Nomics Nearly 50 years ago researchers in Stanford conducted a series of delayed gratification studies. Children were offered the choice between one marshmallow immediately, or 2 if they were prepared to wait for… Continue reading Issue 114:2017 07 20:The Royal Mail Marshmallow (Frank O’Nomics)
Issue 114: 2017 12 20: A Double-Edged Sword (Neil Tidmarsh)
20 July 2017 A Double-Edged Sword En garde with anti-corruption laws. By Neil Tidmarsh Last week, the central election commission of Russia barred the opposition activist Alexander Navalny from standing in next year’s presidential election because of his criminal record – he was convicted of fraud earlier this year. He and fellow opponents of President… Continue reading Issue 114: 2017 12 20: A Double-Edged Sword (Neil Tidmarsh)
Issue 114: 2017 07 20: Mosquitoes (Adam McCormack)
20 July 2017 Mosquitoes The National Theatre reviewed by Adam McCormack Star rating: *** Alice is a brilliant scientist. She is not as brilliant as her mother, who really should have won the Nobel Prize given to her father (according to her mother), but smart enough to be involved in the search for the Higgs… Continue reading Issue 114: 2017 07 20: Mosquitoes (Adam McCormack)
Issue 114:2017 7 20:Cartoons(AGGro)
20 July 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
Issue 114:2017 07 20:Week in Brief International
20 July 2017 Week in Brief: International Europe FRANCE: President Trump was the guest of President Macron at the military parade on Bastille Day in Paris. The parade had a US theme to commemorate the centenary of US intervention in World War I. President Macron acknowledged French responsibility for sending thousands of Jews to Nazi… Continue reading Issue 114:2017 07 20:Week in Brief International
