28 September 2017 Kicking The Can Down The Street What are the two years for? By John Watson Two years more? Just what will it achieve? That is the question which Mrs May will be asked about her proposal in Florence that there should be a two-year transitional period after Brexit in which nothing much… Continue reading Issue 122:2017 09 28;Kicking the can down the street (John Watson)
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Issue 122:2017 09 28:Kurdish Independence(Neil Tidmarsh)
28 September 2017 Kurdish Independence Celebration and anxiety. By Neil Tidmarsh So the inhabitants of Iraq’s Kurdish Autonomous Region (KAR) have voted for independence from Baghdad. Who (outside the Middle East) wouldn’t give three cheers for this new country? Who wouldn’t wish the Kurds and their new state well? After all, it’s been over a… Continue reading Issue 122:2017 09 28:Kurdish Independence(Neil Tidmarsh)
Issue 122:2017 09 28:Hypothetically( J.R.Thomas)
28 September 2017 Hypothetically A suggestion to Mr Hammond. By J.R. Thomas We live in a world which our not so distant ancestors would have found very surprising. Not the invention of the motor car, or the mobile telephone, or women being allowed to work in offices alongside men, or even free education for all.… Continue reading Issue 122:2017 09 28:Hypothetically( J.R.Thomas)
Issue 122:2017 09 28:Cartoons (AGGro)
28 September 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 122:2017 09 28:Week in Brief Financial
28 September 2017 Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY COPPER TOPPED: Over the past few months those who followour summary commodities index at the end of this section will have noted the steady rise in the price of copper. Although this is in a reality a return to the trading band of 30 or so… Continue reading Issue 122:2017 09 28:Week in Brief Financial
Issue 122:2017 09 28:Anti-Semitism and “Hate-speak”: Labour’s toxic under-belly (R.D.Shackleton)
28 September 2017 Anti-Semitism And “Hate-Speak”: Labour’s Toxic Underbelly Extremists overshadow Corbyn’s conference triumph. By R.D. Shackleton If there were any doubts amongst the faithful gathered in Brighton that Jeremy Corbyn is indeed the most messianic leader since James Keir Hardie, this was put to rest at this week’s Labour conference. It’s no longer a… Continue reading Issue 122:2017 09 28:Anti-Semitism and “Hate-speak”: Labour’s toxic under-belly (R.D.Shackleton)
Issue 122:2017 09 28:Week in Brief International
28 September 2017 Week in Brief: International Europe FRANCE: Florian Phillipot, the deputy chairman of the National Front, resigned and left the party. Although socially tolerant, he believes in absolute national sovereignty and has clashed with leader Marine le Pen over his opposition to the EU and the euro. Jean-Luc Melenchon (leader of the far… Continue reading Issue 122:2017 09 28:Week in Brief International
Issue 122:201 09 28:Crisis? What Crisis? (Frank O’Nomics)
28 September 2017 Crisis? What crisis? Heavyweight commentators offer portents of gloom. By Frank O’Nomics Looking at the current stance of the key central banks it would seem fair to assume that the global economy is in reasonable shape. Fears of continued disinflation, or even deflation, seem to have faded with the Fed looking to… Continue reading Issue 122:201 09 28:Crisis? What Crisis? (Frank O’Nomics)
Issue 122:2017 09 28:Silly season of a Corbynista (Don Urquhart)
28 September 2017 Silly Season Diary of a Corbynista All roads lead to Brighton 6 September A document turns up in the Guardian offices. It claims to be a leaked Home Office immigration strategy. The nub of it is closing the doors to unskilled labour on the day we leave the European Union. It has… Continue reading Issue 122:2017 09 28:Silly season of a Corbynista (Don Urquhart)
Issue 121:2017 09 21:Cartoons (AGGro)
21 September 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 121: 2017 09 21:Crossing the floor (J.R.Thomas)
21 September 2017 Crossing the Floor A new Mr Trump? by J.R. Thomas The summer recess is over, fall is creeping down from New England to Virginia, and in Washington two remarkable events occurred last week that should keep the American political establishment chattering into the winter. President Trump, having done a deal with the… Continue reading Issue 121: 2017 09 21:Crossing the floor (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 121:2017 09 21:Boris rising
21 September 2017 Boris Rising Following what we said last week…. by J.R. Thomas Last week, in “High Office and How to Hold It” we said that Boris needed things to go his way if he had any chance of achieving the highest political office. One solution is to force events a bit and last… Continue reading Issue 121:2017 09 21:Boris rising
Issue 121:2017 09 21:I Spy (J.R.Thomas)
21 September 2017 I Spy New work from Herron and le Carré by J.R. Thomas If the middle years of the last century were the golden years of detective fiction, the last fifty were those of the spy thriller. As Britain’s presence on the international stage slowly shrinks, the reader searching for perplexity seems to… Continue reading Issue 121:2017 09 21:I Spy (J.R.Thomas)
