11 August 2016 Do you know MI5 from MI6? Your guide to the United Kingdom intelligence system by Tim Marshall Most Shaw Sheet readers will be taking away the Chilcot report to read on holiday. It is certainly long so to make it more digestible we have decided to sketch out the various organisations which… Continue reading Issue 66: 2016 08 11 :Do you know MI5 from MI6? (Tim Marshall)
Category: Features
Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Trieste (Chin Chin)
11 August 2016 Trieste A city of spies. By Chin Chin Churchill is often credited with saying that “the Balkans produce more history than they can consume locally” but the phrase was actually turned, or at least first turned, in relation to the people of Crete by the brilliant short story writer, Saki. Still,… Continue reading Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Trieste (Chin Chin)
Issue 65: 2016 08 04: Les Vacances de l’Été (Richard Pooley)
04 August 2016 Les Vacances de l’Été Not all on holiday at all. by Richard Pooley You could hear the contempt in the British man’s voice. I can’t recall who he was – a politician or a reporter – but he was speaking on the BBC last week about the likely reaction of the French… Continue reading Issue 65: 2016 08 04: Les Vacances de l’Été (Richard Pooley)
Issue 65: 2016 08 04: Is Women’s Ambition Different From Men’s? (Linda Goetz)
04 August 2016 Is Women’s Ambition Different From Men’s? Should this be a taboo subject? by Lynda Goetz Last week, Kevin Roberts, chairman of Saatchi and Saatchi (the global communications and advertising agency now based in New York and with 140 offices in 76 countries) and head coach at the parent company, Publicis Group, took… Continue reading Issue 65: 2016 08 04: Is Women’s Ambition Different From Men’s? (Linda Goetz)
Issue 65: 2016 08 04: Computers and Risk (John Watson)
04 August 2016 Computers and Risk Could what went wrong in banking go wrong elsewhere? by John Watson When Kevin Rodgers states that traders get better with age, he is wholly convincing. His book “Why Aren’t They Shouting?” (Random House Business Books 2016) takes you through his career as a banker specialising in foreign exchange… Continue reading Issue 65: 2016 08 04: Computers and Risk (John Watson)
Issue 65: 2016 08 04: Touring With Maps (Chin Chin)
04 August 2016 Touring With Maps The case for turning off SatNav. By Chin Chin To SatNav or not to SatNav? That is the question; at least it is the question which has to be answered at the start of a touring holiday, the striking of a balance in that contest between challenge and convenience… Continue reading Issue 65: 2016 08 04: Touring With Maps (Chin Chin)
Issue 64: 2016 07 28: Nicknames (Don Urquhart)
28 July 2016 Nicknames by Don Urquhart Shawsheet 63 included a Boris-inspired essay on insults. This appeared to conclude that many people long to be insulted by the great and good and, ideally, by a professional. I was reminded of my schooldays when it was mandatory to have nicknames and they were rarely complimentary. For… Continue reading Issue 64: 2016 07 28: Nicknames (Don Urquhart)
Issue64:2016 07 28:Electric Hero (J.R.Thomas)
28 July 2016 Electric Hero Is Musk the new Victorian? by J.R.Thomas The streets and squares of central London show that our Victorian forbears were pretty careful in their choice of heroes. Statues abound, many of great size and of majestic proportions, and most of military, naval, and scientific figures. A few politicians and royals,… Continue reading Issue64:2016 07 28:Electric Hero (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 64: 2016 07 28: Betty Botter’s Example (Chin Chin)
28 July 2016 Betty Botter’s Example A treatise on nutrition. By Chin Chin As readers of the 1899 Jingle Book will tell you, Carolyn Wells wrote: ‘Betty Botter bought a bit of butter; “But,” she said, “this butter’s bitter! If I put it in my batter It will make my batter bitter But a bit… Continue reading Issue 64: 2016 07 28: Betty Botter’s Example (Chin Chin)
Issue 63: 2016 07 21: The Case For Experts (Lynda Goetz)
21 July 2016 The Case for Experts Why we need to listen to those with knowledge by Lynda Goetz When so much is happening in both the UK and the wider world and events are moving so dizzyingly fast that the whole thing sometimes seems like a giant surrealistic blur, it can be hard to… Continue reading Issue 63: 2016 07 21: The Case For Experts (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 63:2016 07 21: Pedalling to Atlantis (J.R.Thomas)
21 July 2016 Pedalling to Atlantis The Dunwich Dynamo by J.R.Thomas Plato started it. Not pedalling; the legend of Atlantis. It was the fictional city-state which in its political theories dared attack Athens and, as punishment for its hubris, sank into the Atlantic. So compelling was this concept, of the arrogant city-state sinking below the… Continue reading Issue 63:2016 07 21: Pedalling to Atlantis (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 63: 2016 07 21: Sparkling Epithets (Chin Chin)
21 July 2016 Sparkling Epithets Boris will have to do better. by Chin Chin I just don’t understand it. There is George W Bush, one of America’s less convincing presidents, described by Boris as “a cross-eyed Texan warmonger”. There is Hillary Clinton, a woman who cannot even control her email account, awarded “blonde hair and… Continue reading Issue 63: 2016 07 21: Sparkling Epithets (Chin Chin)
Issue 62: 2016 07 14: Sack Postman Pat (Lynda Goetz)
14 July 2016 Sack Postman Pat The rural postman and modern life. by Lynda Goetz The character of Postman Pat, created for the children’s animated TV series in 1981, was for many years used by Royal Mail for their promotional and charity work. In the fictional village of Greendale, on the border between Cumbria and… Continue reading Issue 62: 2016 07 14: Sack Postman Pat (Lynda Goetz)
