Author: Neil Tidmarsh

Issue 130: 2017 11 23: Keeping Our Balance (John Watson)

23 November 2017 Keeping Our Balance Sexual predators. By John Watson Mirrors are the harbingers of self-doubt.  To shave effectively in the morning you need to concentrate very carefully on the image which confronts you.  How easy it is to fall, by way perhaps of a short narcissistic reverie, into a critical examination of the… Continue reading Issue 130: 2017 11 23: Keeping Our Balance (John Watson)

Issue 130: 2017 11 23: Our Blue Planet (Lynda Goetz)

23 November 2017 Our Blue Planet Increasing awareness of plastic pollution. By Lynda Goetz Last year a friend of my daughter did a 260-mile trip around the Cornish coast on a SUP (stand-up paddleboard) to raise funds* for Surfers Against Sewage, a charity working to raise awareness, inter alia, of pollution to our oceans, including plastic… Continue reading Issue 130: 2017 11 23: Our Blue Planet (Lynda Goetz)

Issue 219: 2017 11 16: Pre-school brain-training (Lynda Goetz)

16 November 2017 Pre-School Brain-Training Brits need to look at other countries. By Lynda Goetz When it comes to education, we in Britain tend to think (as indeed we do in many other areas) that we are leading the rest of the world.  Sadly, when it actually comes down to it, there are many other… Continue reading Issue 219: 2017 11 16: Pre-school brain-training (Lynda Goetz)

Issue 129: 2017 11 16: The Tesco Advertisement (John Watson)

16 November 2017 The Tesco Advertisement What are immigrants invited to join? By John Watson It is all rather surprising.  When I heard that Tesco were being attacked on Twitter over the inclusion of Muslim families in their Christmas advertisement, I not unnaturally supposed that it was the work of Islamic fundamentalists.  Some North London… Continue reading Issue 129: 2017 11 16: The Tesco Advertisement (John Watson)

Issue 129: 2017 11 16: Sexing Up Paradise (Chin Chin)

16 November 2017 Sexing Up Paradise An exclusive exposé. By Chin Chin It’s a Brave New World and a cold one.  Demoted from weekly to occasional columnist by the editors of the Shaw Sheet, how on earth am I going to get my articles accepted?  Something spectacular is needed.  Rebranding, yes, that’s the thing.  I’ll… Continue reading Issue 129: 2017 11 16: Sexing Up Paradise (Chin Chin)

Issue 128: 2017 11 09: An Advance Too Many? (Chin Chin)

09 November 2017 An Advance Too Many? Chin Chin loses column. By Chin Chin Reduced to an occasional writer!  Well, I knew that there were changes afoot at the Shaw Sheet but this is ridiculous.  In I came, cheery as always, half an hour before the others so that I have a moment to tidy… Continue reading Issue 128: 2017 11 09: An Advance Too Many? (Chin Chin)

Issue 128: 2017 11 09: Tick The Box (John Watson)

09 November 2017 Tick The Box A system for the simple. By John Watson It is always illuminating to read the Shaw Sheet’s “Diary of a Corbynista” and last week’s column was no exception. One of the areas on which it cast light was the NHS tracker which tells you how your local hospital has… Continue reading Issue 128: 2017 11 09: Tick The Box (John Watson)

Issue 127: 2017 11 02: A Matter Of Time (Chin Chin)

02 November 2017 A Matter Of Time An extra hour in bed. By Chin Chin We all know, without perhaps being quite sure why, that time goes at different speeds in different frames of reference.  That is one of the more startling conclusions of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity.  Still, there is nothing in that… Continue reading Issue 127: 2017 11 02: A Matter Of Time (Chin Chin)

Issue 127: 2017 11 02: A Long Time In Politics (John Watson)

02 November 2017 A Long Time In Politics Keeping the real issues at the top. By John Watson A well-worn quotation it may be, but there is a good reason for that.  Prime Minister Harold MacMillan’s reply to the question of what he most feared, “Events, dear boy, events,” sums up the position of every… Continue reading Issue 127: 2017 11 02: A Long Time In Politics (John Watson)

Issue 127: 2017 11 02: Language and how to lose it (Lynda Goetz)

02 November 2017 Language And How To Lose It Evolution not devolution. By Lynda Goetz  Last week language featured in two articles in the Shaw Sheet.  Its importance to human cultures, ventures and civilisations cannot be over-estimated.  Some scientists have argued that language, as opposed simply to communication, is one of the features which distinguishes… Continue reading Issue 127: 2017 11 02: Language and how to lose it (Lynda Goetz)

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