9 November 2017 A Lens on the Week UK SEX SCANDAL: Just six MPs and one official! The list of Labour activists subject to sexual allegations is much shorter than the list of Tories. Goodness knows why. Perhaps they haven’t got to the bottom of it all yet or perhaps Labour members are too busy… Continue reading Issue 128:2017 11 09:A lens on the week
Author: John Watson
Issue 128: 2017 11 09 Answers to Quiz (Boffles)
09 November 2017 Answers to Quiz by Boffles Do you know? Answers 1. He had to live in exile for twelve years because of his involvement with the socialist uprising in Dresden in May 1849 2. ‘Don’t cry for me, for I go where music is born’ 3. A yankee is effectively 11 bets based… Continue reading Issue 128: 2017 11 09 Answers to Quiz (Boffles)
Issue 128:2017 11 09:Quiz(Boffles)
09 September 2017 Quiz by Boffles Do you know? 1. Why was Wagner unable to live in Germany between 1849 and 1862? 2. What were allegedly Bach’s last words? 3. What is a yankee bet? 4. What event in Stalin’s personal life in 1932 is sometimes said to explain his subsequent behaviour? 5. What new… Continue reading Issue 128:2017 11 09:Quiz(Boffles)
Issue 128:2017 11 09:Lenin’s Remains Remain (Neil Tidmarsh)
09 November 2017 Lenin’s Remains Remain It’s not easy to bury the spirit of 1917. By Neil Tidmarsh Last week the government of Madagascar urged its citizens to stop dancing with corpses. The health ministry believes that the annual festival of Famadihana (“the turning of the bones”, in which the remains of dead relatives are… Continue reading Issue 128:2017 11 09:Lenin’s Remains Remain (Neil Tidmarsh)
Issue 128: 2017 11 09:Sleazebusting Diary of a Corbynista(Don Urquhart)
Sleazebusting Diary of a Corbynista The recess cannot come soon enough by Don Urquhart 1 November 2017 Sexual harassment interests most people. The Harvey Weinstein affair seems to have opened Pandora’s Box. That powerful people in organisations intimidate and exploit employees is hardly news. There is a bandwagon and I suspect that some people are… Continue reading Issue 128: 2017 11 09:Sleazebusting Diary of a Corbynista(Don Urquhart)
Issue 128: 2017 11 09: Letter (T Marshall)
09 November 2017 Letter from Mr Timothy Marshall Dear Sirs Jimmy Savile was a pervert and a predatory paedophile. There was no investigation and no attempt was made to stop him by the BBC, the media or the police. When his activities were eventually revealed, the BBC tried to compensate for past failures and libelled… Continue reading Issue 128: 2017 11 09: Letter (T Marshall)
Issue 128:2017 11 09:May in Six Minutes (J.R.Thomas)
09 November 2017 Six Minutes in May Are we back with Neville Chamberlain? by J.R. Thomas Nicolas Shakespeare’s new book Six Minutes in May relates in great detail the momentous days of early 1940 when the failed attempt to defend Norway against the Nazi invasion ended with Winston Churchill becoming premier in place of Neville… Continue reading Issue 128:2017 11 09:May in Six Minutes (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 128:2017 11 09:The Retreat (Adam McCormack)
09 November 2017 The Retreat by Sam Bain The Park Theatre reviewed by Adam McCormack. Stars: *** Have you ever really wanted to get away from it all; to cleanse yourself of all emotional baggage? Luke (Samuel Anderson) is attempting to do just this by entering a three-month Buddhist retreat in a remote part of… Continue reading Issue 128:2017 11 09:The Retreat (Adam McCormack)
Issue 128:2017 11 09:The beginning of the end (Frank O’Nomics)
9 November 2017 The beginning of the end Politics is impinging on central bank independence. by Frank O’Nomics “So Mr Powell, you have had no formal training as an economist and have had less than 5 years experience working within a central bank. Well, that all seems in order – how would you like the… Continue reading Issue 128:2017 11 09:The beginning of the end (Frank O’Nomics)
Issue 127:2017 11 02:Creating A New State(Neil Tidmarsh)
02 November 2017 Creating A New State The most dangerous and reckless of all political endeavours. By Neil Tidmarsh So Carles Puigdemont – having declared a new independent state of Catalonia last week – has now fled to Belgium, and Catalonia is under direct rule from Madrid. And Masoud Barzani – having declared a new… Continue reading Issue 127:2017 11 02:Creating A New State(Neil Tidmarsh)
Issue 127:2017 11 02: A lens on the week
02 November 2017 A lens on the week UK SEX AND THE COMMONS: Political leaders are falling over each other to call for new standards in the Commons and for an end to sexual harassment. May, Corbyn, Harman, Leadsom and even the Speaker himself, line up to condemn predatory practices – and of course they… Continue reading Issue 127:2017 11 02: A lens on the week
Issue 127:2017 11 02:Cartoons (AGGro)
2 November 2017 Cartoons by AGGro If you enjoyed this article please share it 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 127:2017 11 02:Greed and the City(J.R.Thomas)
2 November 2011 Greed and the City A crisis in popularity. by J.R. Thomas The leaders of Britain’s major banks are proudly standing together and speaking with one voice. What is it this time, the weary person in the street may say (they would be on the Clapham omnibus but six have just gone past… Continue reading Issue 127:2017 11 02:Greed and the City(J.R.Thomas)
