26 January 2017 The Tax System A guide. By Chin Chin It is tax return time of year again and the nation disappears under a cloud of receipts and invoices as everyone participates in the general search for missing pieces of paper. There is also the excitement of trying to get the information into the… Continue reading Issue 89: 2017 01 26: The Tax System (Chin Chin)
Author: Neil Tidmarsh
Issue 88: 2017 01 19: January Blues (Lynda Goetz)
19 January 2017 January Blues A few suggestions by Lynda Goetz Today, Wednesday, has been a beautiful day down here in the West Country, cold, but not too cold, beautiful blue skies and sunshine all day until the early winter sunset cast a pink glow over the few scattered clouds – presaging, if the old… Continue reading Issue 88: 2017 01 19: January Blues (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 88: 2017 01 19: Quiz (answers)
19 January 2017 Do You Know? Answers! Yew Tree Manor. Trade Union Studies. Cabernet Sauvignon. Pasadena. Siegfried Sassoon (“The General”). If you enjoyed this quiz 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… Continue reading Issue 88: 2017 01 19: Quiz (answers)
Issue 87: 2012 01 12: Contents
12 January 2017: Issue 87 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment A Very Predictable Stance by John Watson Why the drop? All the Prime Minster’s Numbers by J R Thomas Will Mrs May wait for the boundary commission? A Diplomatic Dance by Neil Tidmarsh When the music stops. University Rankings and Free Speech by Lynda… Continue reading Issue 87: 2012 01 12: Contents
Issue 88: 2017 01 19: Quiz
19 January 2017 Do You Know? Quiz by Boffles Jeremy Corbyn was brought up in a house called ‘Yew Tree Guesthouse’ What was its previous name? Jeremy Corbyn started but did not finish a course at the North London Polytechnic. What was the subject? Which grape variety is most cultivated in the world? In which… Continue reading Issue 88: 2017 01 19: Quiz
Issue 88: 2017 01 19: Will Trump Explode? (John Watson)
19 January 2017 Will Trump Explode? And if so, will he take us with him? By John Watson “Yes, but it won’t really happen, will it? How do I know? Well, since the war, the West has been a pretty stable place from a political point of view. We have come of age, as it… Continue reading Issue 88: 2017 01 19: Will Trump Explode? (John Watson)
Issue 88: 2017 01 19: Week in Brief: UK
19 January 2017 Week in Brief: UK NHS: There are reports that 10 Downing Street has been critical, in private, about the head of NHS England who has been described as not enthusiastic and not sufficiently responsive to the problems within the NHS. He has rejected the criticism. Theresa May has insisted that GPs’ surgeries… Continue reading Issue 88: 2017 01 19: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 88: 2017 01 19: Just Among Friends (Chin Chin)
19 January 2017 Just Among Friends Favours must be returned. By Chin Chin MI6 is “briefing both ways”, deceiving both the Russians and Americans! “MI6 officers are never ex”! The Russian commentary on the British Secret Service following the revelation of the “dirty dossier” on Trump is worthy of John le Carré. So what is… Continue reading Issue 88: 2017 01 19: Just Among Friends (Chin Chin)
Issue 87: 2017 01 12: Bandits at 12 o’clock (Chin Chin)
12 January 2017 Bandits at 12 o’clock Killing mosquitoes. By Chin Chin “Buzz, Buzz, Buzz…” wrote the great ursine poet and philosopher W.T.Poo on finding himself surrounded by bees. Those of us who have had the pleasure of reading the story to a child (and what greater pleasure could there be) will recall that the… Continue reading Issue 87: 2017 01 12: Bandits at 12 o’clock (Chin Chin)
Issue 87: 2017 01 12: University Rankings and Free Speech (Lynda Goetz)
12 January 2017 University Rankings and Free Speech Universities and students past and present. by Lynda Goetz The old black and white photograph of 14 young men in bow ties was at first glance unremarkable – until you realised that this photo, taken on the occasion of Ken Clarke’s presidential debate at the Cambridge… Continue reading Issue 87: 2017 01 12: University Rankings and Free Speech (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 87: 2017 01 12: A Very Predictable Stance (John Watson)
12 January 2017 A Very Predictable Stance Why the drop? By John Watson Here we go again. Up, up, up, up,…… cranking its way to the crest of a slope and then wheeeeee…. back down to October levels; the pound continues its imitation of the big dipper in a fairground. Well, there’s nothing surprising in… Continue reading Issue 87: 2017 01 12: A Very Predictable Stance (John Watson)
Issue 87: 2017 01 12: Week in Brief: UK
12 January 2017 Week in Brief: UK DIPLOMATIC: The Ambassador to Brussels, Sir Ivan Rogers, has resigned in protest at what he has described as “muddled thinking” in Whitehall over the negotiating stance to be adopted by the UK in its discussions with the EU over the terms of disengagement. Retired civil servants have expressed… Continue reading Issue 87: 2017 01 12: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 86: 2017 01 05: Contents
05 January 2017: Issue 86 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment Declumping Immigrant Communities by John Watson The Casey report. All The President’s Numbers by J R Thomas Mrs Clinton’s majority. Look At That! by Neil Tidmarsh On the horizon, there, straight ahead… POETS Day by Lynda Goetz But only once a month for… Continue reading Issue 86: 2017 01 05: Contents
