15 June 2017 Week in Brief: UK Fire HIGH RISE FIRE: Grenfell Tower, a 24 story residential block of flats in West Kensington, caught fire in the early hours of Wednesday. The block, which was built by the Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council in 1994 and refurbished last year, contained 120 flats. It was gutted… Continue reading Issue 109: 2017 06 15: Week in Brief: UK
Author: Neil Tidmarsh
Issue 107: 2017 06 01: Contents
01 June 2017: Issue 107 The week’s news – your chance to catch up: Comment Policies On Terrorism by John Watson A still, small voice of calm. Adding It All Up by J R Thomas What the opinion polls are telling us. In Praise Of Theft by Richard Pooley Why “cultural appropriation” is such a stupid and dangerous… Continue reading Issue 107: 2017 06 01: Contents
Issue 108: 2017 06 08: Following the oracle (John Watson)
08 June 2017 Following The Oracle Has Mrs May misjudged her position? By John Watson Data is all very well but for it to be useful you have to know what it means. A failure to interpret forecasts correctly ruined Croesus in 347 BC. Now it threatens Mrs May. Of course the two cases are… Continue reading Issue 108: 2017 06 08: Following the oracle (John Watson)
Issue 108: 2017 06 08: Week in Brief: UK
08 June 2017 Week In Brief: UK Terrorism LONDON ATTACKS: On Saturday night three terrorists murdered seven people and injured another 48 in an attack on London Bridge and Borough Market. It began when they drove their white rental van into pedestrians on the bridge. The van was abandoned just outside Southwark Cathedral, the men using… Continue reading Issue 108: 2017 06 08: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 108: 2017 06 08: Quiz (answers)
08 June 2017 Quiz – Answers By Boffles They destroyed the towns of Lidice and Lezaky and killed most of the inhabitants. The pension payable to the widow of a General – she got it. Rembrandt. The Sun – it will fly within 4 million miles of its surface. A lizardfish, often salted and… Continue reading Issue 108: 2017 06 08: Quiz (answers)
Issue 108: 2017 06 08: Quiz
08 June 2017 Quiz By Boffles Do you know? What was the Nazis’ response to the assassination in Prague by SOE agents in 1942 of Reinhard Heydrich, Gestapo chief, Deputy Protector of Bohemia and Moravia and a main architect of the Holocaust? What did Heydrich’s wife sue the West German Government for… Continue reading Issue 108: 2017 06 08: Quiz
Issue 108: 2017 06 08: Of The Yard? (Chin Chin)
08 June 2017 Of The Yard? A career in detection beckons. By Chin Chin Thank goodness. Even in this season of electoral flimflam, someone occasionally has a good idea. Not one of the political parties; of course not. In this case it is the police who propose to recruit new detectives direct rather than forcing… Continue reading Issue 108: 2017 06 08: Of The Yard? (Chin Chin)
Issue 107: 2017 06 01: A new global arms (and hands) race (Neil Tidmarsh)
01 June 2017 A New Global Arms (and Hands) Race World leaders get a grip. By Neil Tidmarsh There’s a new threat to world peace. The danger grows day by day. What began as covert international friction has already escalated into overt confrontation. How long before it explodes into devastating conflict at the very highest… Continue reading Issue 107: 2017 06 01: A new global arms (and hands) race (Neil Tidmarsh)
Issue 106: 2017 05 25: Contents
25 May 2017: Issue 106 The week’s news – your chance to catch up: Comment The Care Blunder by John Watson The need for Jekyll and Hyde. It’s Behind You by J R Thomas Politicians should watch their back. “I Don’t Understand Anything Anymore” by Richard Pooley Where do French voters now stand; to the Right or… Continue reading Issue 106: 2017 05 25: Contents
Issue 107: 2017 06 01: Breakfast on the menu (Lynda Goetz)
01 June 2017 Breakfast On The Menu Is breakfast really the answer? By Lynda Goetz The answer to what, you may well ask? A fair question. Firstly and most importantly, is it the answer to plugging a hole in the Conservative’s education budget? Secondly, is a free breakfast for all primary school children a reasonable… Continue reading Issue 107: 2017 06 01: Breakfast on the menu (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 107: 2017 06 01: Giacometti (William Morton)
01 June 2017 Giacometti at Tate Modern (10 May – 10 September). Reviewed by William Morton When one thinks of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), the image most likely to come to mind is one of his attenuated male or female statues. However, these were produced at quite a late stage in his career when he had… Continue reading Issue 107: 2017 06 01: Giacometti (William Morton)
Issue 107: 2017 06 01: General elections 2017 – Scottish version (Antoninus)
01 June 2017 General Election 2017 – Scottish Version A view from north of the border. By Antoninus It scarcely seems yesterday (it was 12 January – Ed.) that Antoninus wished his Shaw Sheet readers a ‘Happy Hogmanay’ and offered a forecast for Scottish politics for the year ahead, confidently assuming that the call to… Continue reading Issue 107: 2017 06 01: General elections 2017 – Scottish version (Antoninus)
Issue 107: 2017 06 01: Ripples on the surface of the pond (Chin Chin)
01 June 2017 Ripples On The Surface Of The Pond Reading your own death notice. By Chin Chin It is usual to say nice things about people once they are dead but this week’s reminiscences about Sir Roger Moore who played both The Saint and James Bond make it clear that he was quite an… Continue reading Issue 107: 2017 06 01: Ripples on the surface of the pond (Chin Chin)
