16 June 2016: Issue 58 Invitation Regular readers of the Shaw Sheet have been invited to meet the writers for drinks at 6.30 on Thursday 16 June at 6,Thornhill Road,London N1 1HW. If you have not received an invitation but would like to come please email [email protected] Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment The… Continue reading Issue 58: 2016 06 16: Contents
Author: Neil Tidmarsh
Issue 57: 2016 06 09: Contents
09 June 2016: Issue 57 Invitation Regular readers of the Shaw Sheet have been invited to meet the writers for drinks at 6.30 on Thursday 16 June at 6,Thornhill Road,London N1 1HW. If you have not received an invitation but would like to come please email [email protected] Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment No… Continue reading Issue 57: 2016 06 09: Contents
Issue 58: 2016 06 16: Week in Brief: UK
16 June 2016 Week in Brief: UK EU Referendum POLLS: With a week to go before the vote, the polls now show a substantial lead for the Leave campaign with YouGov, published on Tuesday, putting support for Leave at 46% and support for Remain at 39%. 11% were undecided and 4% did not expect to… Continue reading Issue 58: 2016 06 16: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 58: 2016 06 16: How to survive being a millennial parent (Serena Sinclair)
16 June 2016 How To Survive… Millenials A guide for both sides of the generation gap. by Serena Sinclair For those who are unsure of what exactly a millennial is, then in a nutshell, they are the generation born at the end of the last millennium, roughly those aged between 15 and 35. They share… Continue reading Issue 58: 2016 06 16: How to survive being a millennial parent (Serena Sinclair)
Issue 58: 2016 06 16: The Time Is Out Of Joint (John Watson)
16 June 2016 The Time Is Out Of Joint The need for reform goes far beyond the EU. By John Watson In or Out, Remain or Leave, next Thursday will be a day of decision and whichever way the vote goes the watchword of the winners will be “Reform”. What that means will depend on… Continue reading Issue 58: 2016 06 16: The Time Is Out Of Joint (John Watson)
Issue 58: 2016 06 16: Robots As Friends (Chin Chin)
16 June 2016 Robots As Friends Does my robot love me? By Chin Chin Professor Noel Sharkey of Sheffield University is, you will be sorry to hear, worried. No, it isn’t the refugee crisis or even whether to vote Leave or Remain which concerns him, though for all I know the professor is worried about… Continue reading Issue 58: 2016 06 16: Robots As Friends (Chin Chin)
Issue 57: 2016 06 09: Week in Brief: UK
09 June 2016 Week in Brief: UK EU Referendum WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION: Robert Azevedo, the director-general of the WTO, has warned that, in the event of Brexit, it will take up to ten years to sort out Britain’s new trading relations with the rest of the world. POPULATION FEAR: Boris Johnson has claimed on the… Continue reading Issue 57: 2016 06 09: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 56: 2016 06 02: Contents
02 June 2016: Issue 56 Week in Brief UK International Financial Comment The Rise and Rise of Mr Khan by John Watson Are we looking at a future prime minister? President Sall Strikes Again by Neil Tidmarsh Good news from sub-Saharan Africa. Mrs Clinton’s Diary by J.R.Thomas Could it still go wrong? What Is Your Inflation Rate? by Frank… Continue reading Issue 56: 2016 06 02: Contents
Issue 57: 2016 06 09: The Gift of Tongues (Chin Chin)
09 June 2016 The Gift of Tongues Foreign travel for the English. By Chin Chin The polls may be inconclusive, but there is one certainty. Once the referendum is over, we will all need a holiday; and this year, of all years, it should be a holiday abroad. Either Remain will have won, in which… Continue reading Issue 57: 2016 06 09: The Gift of Tongues (Chin Chin)
Issue 57: 2016 06 09: No to the eruv (John Watson)
09 July 2016 No to the Eruv Camden should not be allowed to sow religious division. By John Watson Perhaps it is because my family converted to Christianity some generations ago but, although I am a Jewish, I had not previously heard of an “eruv” and had to turn to Wikipedia in my efforts to… Continue reading Issue 57: 2016 06 09: No to the eruv (John Watson)
Issue 57: 2016 06 09: Paris in Springtime (Lynda Goetz)
09 June 2016 Paris in Springtime This isn’t the Paris I remember! by Lynda Goetz Grey, wet and cold. It wasn’t supposed to be like this! Not that it was a romantic weekend or anything, but a weekend in Paris at the beginning of June should, I felt, have been a little less dismal. Some… Continue reading Issue 57: 2016 06 09: Paris in Springtime (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 57: 2016 06 09: Remain! (John Watson)
09 June 2016 Remain! The muddle after Brexit. By John Watson Personally I enjoy a little lowbrow family comedy and the excellent series “My Family”, starring Robert Lindsay and Zoe Wanamaker, is always good for a laugh. A lot of the jokes, of course, are old ones and a recent episode centred on the contrast… Continue reading Issue 57: 2016 06 09: Remain! (John Watson)
Issue 56: 2016 06 02: Week in Brief: UK
02 June 2016 Week in Brief: UK EU Referendum IFS ON BREXIT: The Institute of Fiscal Studies has warned that Brexit would force ministers to extend austerity for a further two years to achieve a budget surplus. Lower GDP growth would hit government finance by between £20bn and £40bn by 2020, they said. IMF ON… Continue reading Issue 56: 2016 06 02: Week in Brief: UK
