30 June 2016: Issue 60 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment The Morning After by John Watson Reflections on the referendum. The Reaction In Europe by Neil Tidmarsh Not all hard-line. That old Churchillian feeling by J. R. Thomas Boris Johnson’s claim. High heels or bound feet? by Lynda Goetz Japanese women choosing the wrong… Continue reading Issue 60: 2016 06 30: Contents
Author: Neil Tidmarsh
Issue 61: 2016 07 07: Week in Brief: UK
07 July 2016 Week in Brief: UK Party Leadership Carousel CONSERVATIVES: In a busy week, Boris Johnson withdrew from the contest to become the next leader of the Conservative party (and thus prime minister), following the withdrawal of Michael Gove’s support for his candidature. Mr Gove then entered the contest himself, despite having said previously… Continue reading Issue 61: 2016 07 07: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 61: 2016 07 07: The Rules of the Game (John Watson)
07 July 2016 The Rules of the Game The tactics of the dispute within Labour and the Brexit negotiations. by John Watson It may be the great speeches which become recorded as history but, in truth, politics are often governed by mechanics. Take the struggle in the Labour Party as an example. Mr Corbyn has… Continue reading Issue 61: 2016 07 07: The Rules of the Game (John Watson)
Issue 61: 2016 07 07: Hats and Henley (Chin Chin)
07 July 2016 Hats and Henley A language of accessories. By Chin Chin It was as racing ended and the band struck up “God save the Queen” that I realised my error in not wearing a hat. It isn’t that men have to wear hats at Henley. The regatta has dress regulations, to be sure,… Continue reading Issue 61: 2016 07 07: Hats and Henley (Chin Chin)
Issue 61: 2016 07 07: Hampton Court Flower Show (Lynda Goetz)
07 July 2016 Hampton Court Flower Show Tapping into the zeitgeist. by Lynda Goetz Space and grass. Those were my first impressions of the Hampton Court Flower Show in 1994. After many wonderful but decidedly crowded visits to Chelsea, those two elements made a lasting impression. On Tuesday those two factors impressed me yet again… Continue reading Issue 61: 2016 07 07: Hampton Court Flower Show (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 59: 2016 06 23: Contents
23 June 2016: Issue 59 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment Nightmare On Pennsylvania Avenue by J.R.Thomas Sweaty nights for the Republicans. The Shaw Sheet Party by the Shaw Sheet team Where we are going. A Sportsman’s Sketches by Neil Tidmarsh With apologies to Ivan Turgenev. Referendum Run Up A Jolly Voting Day by John Watson Quiet, too… Continue reading Issue 59: 2016 06 23: Contents
Issue 60: 2016 06 30: DNA Or The Rabbit Skin Coat Test? (Chin Chin)
30 June 2016 DNA or The Rabbit Skin Coat Test? Harsh truths for the nobility. By Chin Chin Damn and blast it all. I was born just a little too early. A few years later and I’m sure it would have been a coronet; not a princely one, of course, but one of the rather… Continue reading Issue 60: 2016 06 30: DNA Or The Rabbit Skin Coat Test? (Chin Chin)
Issue 60: 2016 06 30: Week in Brief: UK
30 June 2016 Week in Brief : UK EU Referendum RESULTS: The votes recorded on Thursday’s referendum were as follows: Turnout Leave … Continue reading Issue 60: 2016 06 30: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 60: 2016 06 30: The Morning After (John Watson)
30 June 2016 The Morning After Reflections on the referendum. By John Watson A deep dark cloud of gloom has descended over the London Borough of Islington. Here in the citadel of Remain, in an area full of lawyers, bankers and doctors, the Referendum result has hit us like an exploding shell. How could 52%… Continue reading Issue 60: 2016 06 30: The Morning After (John Watson)
Issue 59: 2016 06 23: A Jolly Voting Day (John Watson)
23 June 2016 A Jolly Voting Day Quiet, too damned quiet! by John Watson In most parts of Britain, voting day is an oasis of peace. Before it, came the last stages of the campaign, the opposing factions shouting their wares like coster-mongers in a Victorian engraving. Afterwards will come the recriminations and the wrangling… Continue reading Issue 59: 2016 06 23: A Jolly Voting Day (John Watson)
Issue 59: 2016 06 23: Week in Brief: UK
23 June 2016 Week in Brief: UK Jo Cox ASSASSINATION OF JO COX: The murder of Jo Cox, the MP for Batley and Spen, outside her surgery in Birstall, near Leeds, has been met with revulsion and sadness on all sides of British politics. Parliament was recalled to pay tribute to Mrs Cox on Monday… Continue reading Issue 59: 2016 06 23: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 59: 2016 06 23: The Shaw Sheet Party
23 June 2016 The Shaw Sheet Party Where we are going. by the Shaw Sheet team Last Thursday evening, in an Islington garden, staff and readers of the Shaw Sheet met to celebrate its first year of publication. We were a little late, of course. The fact that we are now at issue 59 indicates… Continue reading Issue 59: 2016 06 23: The Shaw Sheet Party
Issue 59: 2016 06 23: Following The Map (Chin Chin)
23 June 2016 Following The Map Satnav would not have taken us to Naseby. By Chin Chin Harbingers of doom come in a number of forms and, generally speaking, depend on which god you happen to have offended. Upset the gods of ancient Rome and you can expect elderly soothsayers at every turn, droning on… Continue reading Issue 59: 2016 06 23: Following The Map (Chin Chin)
