19 September 2019 Downs and Ups In the Paddock by J.R. Thomas If Mr Trump is not the Devil – and the Guardian, BBC, New York Times, and Washington Post all assure us he is – then he certainly has the devil’s luck. Fourteen months to election day and it’s all going pretty well, so… Continue reading Issue 215: 2019 09 19: Downs and Ups
Issue: 183: Chasing a Unicorn
Issue 183: 2018 12 20: Cover page
Cover Page, 20 December 2018, Issue 183 Welcome to our bumper Christmas issue. We’ve included seasonal short stories and an extended Christmas quiz as well as our usual comments and features; we hope they’ll keep you entertained as well as informed over the holiday. The team here at the Shaw Sheet will now be taking… Continue reading Issue 183: 2018 12 20: Cover page
Issue 183: 2018 12 20: Lens on The Week
20 December 2018 Lens on the Week UK BREXIT: So there we have it. The cabinet is dusting down its no deal plans and all parties are rejecting the idea that an exit without an agreement could be softened by practical measures. Does that mean that everyone is coming to the conclusion that the hardest… Continue reading Issue 183: 2018 12 20: Lens on The Week
Issue 183: 2018 12 20: Toss The Coin
20 December 2018 Toss The Coin Or put it to the vote. By John Watson In the 1978 Islington Council elections one of the wards was tied. Exactly the same number of votes had been cast for the Conservative and Labour candidates who were contesting the third seat and successive recounts revealed no discrepancy. What… Continue reading Issue 183: 2018 12 20: Toss The Coin
Issue 183: 2018 12 20: “And on Earth Peace”
20 December 2018 “And on earth peace” Sing, angels, sing! By Neil Tidmarsh This year’s Nativity play at a primary school in Gela, Sicily, was abandoned when a fight broke out between two women over the best seat in the front row from which to film the children. And they weren’t even the mothers but… Continue reading Issue 183: 2018 12 20: “And on Earth Peace”
Issue 183: 2018 12 20: Third Party
20 December 2018 The Party of the Third Part Exit for Vince? by J.R.Thomas One reputed test, applied by anxious doctors to patients whose minds seem to be straying, is to ask them who the Prime Minister is. Or, where that might perhaps offend, the Leader of the Opposition. Just as well it is not… Continue reading Issue 183: 2018 12 20: Third Party
Issue 183: 2018 12 20: Investment 2019
20 December 2018 Investment 2019 Not About Brexit by Frank O’Nomics There are bigger issues out there. Gather round, and settle down for a scary story of the ghost of Christmas future. As we look towards the New Year, the collective preoccupation with the various outcomes and consequences of Brexit – hard, soft or non-existent… Continue reading Issue 183: 2018 12 20: Investment 2019
Issue 183: 2018 12 20: Diary of a Corbynista
20 December 2018 Diary of a Corbynista Unicorns, trolls and fables by Don Urquhart 13 December The Corbynista Advent Calendar has a melancholy theme behind Window 13. While we continue to agonise over our European connections there is surely one area where we are all in it together and will continue to be for some… Continue reading Issue 183: 2018 12 20: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 183: 2018 12 20: What’s the Message?
20 December 2018 What’s The Message? By Richard Pooley Will you be going to church this Christmas? A carol service, Midnight Mass or a celebration on Christmas Day itself? I will be, even though I’m an atheist. I was baptised in a Hampshire church and used to trudge to and from the same church every… Continue reading Issue 183: 2018 12 20: What’s the Message?
Issue 183: 2018 12 20: Christmas Cards
20 December 2018 Christmas Cards What’s in a name? By Chin Chin In they come in their twos and threes, this year’s crop of Christmas cards. They look very nice too, once they have been arranged along our mantelpiece, a friendly reminder that the twenty-fifth is only just over a week away. They are not,… Continue reading Issue 183: 2018 12 20: Christmas Cards
Issue 183: 2018 12 20: Back For Christmas
20 December 2018 Back for Christmas Going down ‘That Way’. By Lynda Goetz Caroline and Jamie both loved skiing. In fact it was probably the only thing they had in common, apart from their small daughter, Caitlin. Caitlin was three and neither Caroline nor Jamie had really intended to start a family when she was… Continue reading Issue 183: 2018 12 20: Back For Christmas
Issue 183: 2018 12 20: Gibb’s 2018 Christmas
20 December 2018 Gibb’s 2018 Christmas What is on the menu? By Neil Tidmarsh Bester chewed carefully, frowning with concentration. Then he swallowed. “Witchetty grub?” he hazarded. “And… wait… weevil larvae?” Harrad simply laughed and shook his head. Gibb looked round the table. There were six of them sitting there – six humans – Gibb… Continue reading Issue 183: 2018 12 20: Gibb’s 2018 Christmas
Issue 183: 2018 12 20: Here be Demons
20 December 2018 Here be Demons (Nolite Violare – Hic sunt diaboli) By Tim Marshall The old church stood on a small hill, surrounded by a graveyard which was overgrown and almost unrecognisable as such. The hill was just outside the village and within easy walking distance of the pub: “The Beaumont Arms”. Geoffrey Beaumont and… Continue reading Issue 183: 2018 12 20: Here be Demons
