10 December 2015 War For Our Time by J R Thomas That of course was not what Neville Chamberlain said. He apparently did not even mean to say what he did say. As he stood outside Downing Street on his return from his visit to Hitler on 30th September 1938 to sign the Munich… Continue reading Issue 32: 2015 12 10: War For Our Time
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Issue 32: 2015 12 10: Bulging with political correctness
10 December 2015 Bulging With Political Correctness By Chin Chin When it comes to natural phenomena, it seems that plates are the main culprits. Lurking deep in the ground, huge tectonic ones move slowly from year to year, and when they crunch into each other, things happen. Maybe an edge is pushed up to form… Continue reading Issue 32: 2015 12 10: Bulging with political correctness
Issue 31: 2015 12 03: Buzzing Off
03 December 2015 Buzzing Off by J.R.Thomas There is another much smaller world which mirrors many of the political themes of these troubled times. In it we are at loggerheads, or flower heads maybe would be more accurate, with Europe. There is great concern about the incursion of a number of immigrants, aggressive immigrants,… Continue reading Issue 31: 2015 12 03: Buzzing Off
Issue 31: 2015 12 03: An Uncertain Endgame
03 December 2015 An Uncertain Endgame by John Watson It is right that British politics should be dominated by the question of whether to bomb ISIL in Syria and it is to the credit of Westminster that the division is not down party lines. Clearly the decision bothers MPs and it is good that some… Continue reading Issue 31: 2015 12 03: An Uncertain Endgame
Issue 31: 2015 12 03: Cultural Larceny
03 December 2015 Cultural Larceny By Chin Chin I have a horrible, horrible suspicion that I have indulged in colonial racism. No, not “cultural appropriation”, nothing as bad as that, thank God, but the slightly more venal sin of under-appreciating the Canadians. You see, apart from knowing that there is tundra there, and forest and… Continue reading Issue 31: 2015 12 03: Cultural Larceny
Issue 31: 2015 12 03: A Rising Star in the West
03 December 2015 A Rising Star in the West by J.R. Thomas An American reader of the Shaw Sheet has kindly drawn our attention to a quietly rising star in the Republican race for the presidential nomination. Ted Cruz is his name and one might be forgiven for overlooking him among the noisy boys… Continue reading Issue 31: 2015 12 03: A Rising Star in the West
Issue 31: 2015 12 03: Week in Brief: UK
03 December 2015 Week in Brief: UK AUTUMN STATEMENT: The Chancellor’s job was made much easier by a re-computation of tax take and debt servicing costs, which gave him an extra £28.5 billion over the next five years. That meant that he did not have to go ahead with the proposed elimination of tax credits for… Continue reading Issue 31: 2015 12 03: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 30: 2015 11 26: Stone Him!
26 November 2015 Stone Him! Those who express the wrong views must be punished by John Watson One commentator has written that the debate about dropping David Starkey from the Cambridge University fund-raising video is not about free speech. I’m not sure that is completely right but it is probably fair to say that free… Continue reading Issue 30: 2015 11 26: Stone Him!
Issue 30: 2015 11 26: Weather
26 November 2015 Weather By Chin Chin I have a nasty feeling that I am under surveillance. No, it’s not that GCHQ is reading my emails. Even in that temple to prying, it would be difficult to find anyone willing to undertake such an unrewarding and tedious chore. Imagine: “My goodness, Froplinson, he’s started inserting… Continue reading Issue 30: 2015 11 26: Weather
Issue 30: 2015 11 26: The Quality of Justice
26 November 2015 The Quality of Justice by J R Thomas On 28th June 1914 a terrorist event occurred which really did completely change the world. As every school pupil used to know, on that day, in Sarajevo, a group of Serbian Nationalists, coordinated by a resistance movement known rather thrillingly as the Black Hand… Continue reading Issue 30: 2015 11 26: The Quality of Justice
Issue 30: 2015 11 26: Week in Brief: UK
26 November 2015 Week in Brief: UK AUTUMN STATEMENT: In his autumn statement, the Chancellor claimed that the public finances had improved and that accordingly government expenditure would not need to be cut as much as previously envisaged. Inter alia, he announced: the abandonment of his plan to cut tax credits; an increase in the… Continue reading Issue 30: 2015 11 26: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 30: 2015 11 26: Bonkers Bankers
26 November 2015 Bonkers Bankers by M J Horast If bankers were a racial minority, a religious grouping or of unusual sexual determination, the Chartered Banker Institute (bankers, not understanding the proper use of the apostrophe, seem to have simply abandoned the expected ‘s) would be protesting in the strongest possible terms about the portrayal… Continue reading Issue 30: 2015 11 26: Bonkers Bankers
Issue 29: 2015 11 19: The Art of Procuring
19 November 2015 The Art of Procuring By John Watson Try covering up a roof with not quite enough felt. Stretch it to cover the right edge, and the left edge becomes uncovered. Pull that side up, and a split opens down the middle. However many compromises you make, you always need just a little… Continue reading Issue 29: 2015 11 19: The Art of Procuring
