21 May 2015 In a Pickle by R J Thomas Whatever has happened to Eric Pickles? He is, with the greatest respect, hardly a man you could miss. Large, jovial, and free spoken with a disarming northern bluntness, he has been the living embodiment that there is Tory life north of Retford – even if… Continue reading Issue3:2015 05 21:In a Pickle
Author: John Watson
Issue 3:2015 05 21:A robot amongst the sharks
21 May 2015 A robot amongst the sharks by Chin Chin If you’re looking forward to the time when a driverless car will sweep you towards your business meetings as you prepare the paperwork in the back, you may be due for something of a disappointment. Before long, you won’t be going to business meetings… Continue reading Issue 3:2015 05 21:A robot amongst the sharks
Issue 3: 2015 May 21; letter
21 May 2015 Letters The Human Rights Act Sirs, I was disappointed to see the otherwise excellent and balanced “Shaw Sheet” falling under the spell of the little Islanders with the suggestion that the Human Rights Act gives the European Court of Human Rights jurisdiction in the UK. The UK was one of the first… Continue reading Issue 3: 2015 May 21; letter
Issue 3:2015 05 21: UK news
21 May 2015 Week in Brief: UK NEWS PRINCE CHARLES: 27 letters between the Prince of Wales and Labour ministers were released under the Freedom of Information Act following legal action by the Guardian newspaper. The subjects covered include herbal medicine, the badger cull and the need for additional aircraft for the armed services involved… Continue reading Issue 3:2015 05 21: UK news
Issue3:2015 05 21: Business and the City
21 May 2015 Week in brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY . DEFLATION: For the first time for many years official government figures showed that the UK economy is in deflation, with the measuring basket of prices falling 0.1% in the last year (to end of April). This is caused by a range of factors, but… Continue reading Issue3:2015 05 21: Business and the City
Issue 3:2015 05 21: overseas news
21 May 2015 Week in Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS GREECE: Members of the Greek government called for the resignation of the governor of the central bank, Yannis Stournaras, for concealing from them the existence of an emergency holding account of 650 million euros (a reserve asset created by the IMF in 1969). Such funds are… Continue reading Issue 3:2015 05 21: overseas news
Issue2:2015 05 14; contents page
14 May 2015: Issue 2 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment Snubbing Putin: should the British Lion have accepted the invitation to the Russian Bear’s party after all? by Neil Tidmarsh An analysis of whether it was right to keep away from Red Square because of the Ukraine Aftermath by John Watson Some suggestions as… Continue reading Issue2:2015 05 14; contents page
Issue 2: 2015 05 14: Aftermath
14 May 2015 Aftermath by John Watson One of the sadder sights of Thursday night was that of the constitutional pundits leaving the offices of the various broadcasters and newspapers. The cold light of dawn, which revealed that the Conservatives would achieve an absolute majority, meant the end of what had looked like a nice… Continue reading Issue 2: 2015 05 14: Aftermath
Issue 2: 2015 05 14:Snubbing Putin; should the British Lion have accepted the invitation to the Russian Bear’s party after all?
14 May 2015 Snubbing Putin; should the British Lion have accepted the invitation to the Russian Bear’s party after all? by Neil Tidmarsh Last Saturday, the allies who defeated Nazi Germany in 1945 celebrated the seventieth anniversary of their victory. The celebrations were inevitably sober and tinged with sadness, given the high price of… Continue reading Issue 2: 2015 05 14:Snubbing Putin; should the British Lion have accepted the invitation to the Russian Bear’s party after all?
Issue 2: 2015 05 1414 :Male and email
14 May 2015 Male and email by Chin Chin The experts all seem to agree. Time spent looking at emails is reducing British productivity. It is bad for health and family life too, with the checking of inboxes whilst on holidays being labelled “sick” by Sir Cary Cooper, Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health at… Continue reading Issue 2: 2015 05 1414 :Male and email
Issue 2: 2015 05 14: BUSINESS AND THE CITY
14 may 2015 Week in brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY WATERFORD WEDGWOOD: Two of the oldest manufacturing companies in the British Isles, Waterford (fine crystal) and Wedgwood (fine china), brought together in a highly leveraged merger which ended in financial distress and administration in 2009, have been sold for US$437m. The vendor is the USA… Continue reading Issue 2: 2015 05 14: BUSINESS AND THE CITY
Issue 2: 2015 05 14: Polls Taxing
14 May 2015 Polls Taxing by J.R.Thomas As the spent ballot papers are fed through the shredders of town halls up and down the land, the reproaches begin. Some of the loudest come from the opinion pollsters – reproaching themselves. The practitioners of this mysterious and endlessly reweighted and rebalanced science have fallen into what… Continue reading Issue 2: 2015 05 14: Polls Taxing
Issue 2: 2015 05 14:Man and Superman, at the Lyttelton
Shaw Sheet Man and Superman, at the Lyttelton by J R Thomas T E Shaw (the pseudonym of Lawrence of Arabia) is not the only Shaw who inspires The Shaw Sheet. His contemporary and friend was his fellow Anglo-Irishman and exile in England, George Bernard Shaw. With felicitous timing the National Theatre is currently… Continue reading Issue 2: 2015 05 14:Man and Superman, at the Lyttelton
