20 August 2015 Duty Free Sales- a nasty piece of bullying By John Watson Nature provides us with warning signs. A red sky in the morning is a sign of rough weather. A horse with its ears laid back is likely to kick. If the politicians agree on something it is probably wrong. It is… Continue reading Issue 16: 2015 08 20: Duty Free Sales
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Issue 16: 2015 08 20: UK News in Brief
20 August 2015 Week in Brief: UK NEWS LABOUR LEADERSHIP: Tony Blair has added his voice to those of Jack Straw, Alan Milburn and other big beasts campaigning to prevent Jeremy Corbyn becoming leader of the Labour Party. Mr Corbyn’s position has been reinforced as new voters are signed up, polls indicating that he is… Continue reading Issue 16: 2015 08 20: UK News in Brief
Issue 16: 2015 08 20: Now I’m a Union Man
20 August 2015 “Now I’m a Union Man” by J R Thomas So sang The Strawbs in 1973, at number two in the charts in February that year. Jeremy Corbyn must be singing the same song in the shower as he contemplates the extraordinary surge of success propelling him towards a clear first round win… Continue reading Issue 16: 2015 08 20: Now I’m a Union Man
Issue 16: 2015 08 20: Accumulations
20 August 2015 Accumulations By Chin Chin The verb to collect is declined as follows: “I am a collector. You are into retro. He buys junk.” When it comes to accumulating things, there are plenty of different perspectives and they begin with different views as to whether it is a nice thing to do at all.… Continue reading Issue 16: 2015 08 20: Accumulations
Issue 13: 2015 07 30: Week in Brief: UK NEWS
30 July 2015 Week in Brief: UK NEWS CHILD ABUSE: Cabinet Office papers have been discovered which show that the Head of MI5 wrote to the Cabinet Secretary in 1986 about an MP said to have ‘a penchant for small boys’. MI5’s concern was the security and political risks involved. The documents contain references to… Continue reading Issue 13: 2015 07 30: Week in Brief: UK NEWS
Issue 13: 2015 07 30: Labour in Vain
30 July 2015 Labour in Vain by J R Thomas In another article in this week’s Shaw Sheet, we look at the exciting world of opera in modern Britain. Followers of politics in the UK may be under the impression that they are watching a live opera, albeit without the singing (so far), as the… Continue reading Issue 13: 2015 07 30: Labour in Vain
Issue 13: 2015 07 30: Getting our desserts
30 July 2015 Getting our desserts by Chin Chin I don’t know how the directors of Booking.com spend their holidays, but they must be rather tedious if the approach taken by their website is anything to go by. A couple of years ago I decided to stay at Montreuil–sur-Mer for the first night of a… Continue reading Issue 13: 2015 07 30: Getting our desserts
Issue 13: 2015 07 30: The fat lady has gone
30 July 2015 The fat lady has gone by J R Thomas The opera, they say, ain’t over until the fat lady sings. But that was then, this is now. The fat lady, fans of Covent Garden may remember, is no longer acceptable on the Royal Opera House stage. As far back as 2004, Deborah… Continue reading Issue 13: 2015 07 30: The fat lady has gone
Issue 13: 2015 07 30: Communication the modern way
30 July 2015 Communication the modern way; how to really get in touch. by Lynda Goetz When I went out the other day, carrying my mobile (as usual), it sprang into life (as usual) as I left the village. It seemed that a number of people had been trying to get in touch. Where I… Continue reading Issue 13: 2015 07 30: Communication the modern way
Issue 12: 2015 07 23: Credit Reference Agencies
23 July 2015 Credit reference agencies – a modern necessity or a modern nightmare? by Lynda Goetz A friend of mine has been tearing his hair out for the last 10 days. The reason? An attempt to get a buy-to-let mortgage for a small property which he had originally decided to buy outright, but then concluded it… Continue reading Issue 12: 2015 07 23: Credit Reference Agencies
Issue 12: 2015 07 23: Whatever you do, don’t mention the Euro
23 July 2015 Whatever you do, don’t mention the Euro by Chin Chin There is a good way to get your own back on American Immigration officials. Not the bright charming ones, of course; who would want revenge on them? Rather the unhelpful MacDonalds stuffed porkers who make you wait in endless lines on the… Continue reading Issue 12: 2015 07 23: Whatever you do, don’t mention the Euro
Issue 12: 2015 07 23: Manners Maketh Man
23 July 2015 Manners Maketh Man by J R Thomas It’s getting to be a very dangerous world, the modern financial industry (even if not like the appalling days of 1970’s Germany where several bankers were kidnapped and killed by the Baader-Meinhoff gang, the self-proclaimed Red Army Faction who terrorised the West German government and… Continue reading Issue 12: 2015 07 23: Manners Maketh Man
Issue 12: 2015 07 23: More of the President’s People
23 July 2015 More of the President’s People by J R Thomas In the fast-moving world of presidential hopefuls it can be difficult to keep up. This week we will deal with the rest of the crowd jostling for the Republican nomination, having last week picked off the current front-runners, Messrs Bush and Rubio, two… Continue reading Issue 12: 2015 07 23: More of the President’s People
