Cover Page, 31 January 2019, Issue 187 Welcome to our new issue. We hope you enjoy our articles and the other features. If you do, we ask that you please forward them to, and recommend us to, any contacts of yours who would be interested. If you can persuade them to register for our weekly
31 January 2019 Lens on the Week UK BREXIT POKER: So yet again Ireland forms the lynch pin of British politics. The House of Commons rejects the backstop and asks the Government to fight for alternatives. The Government paradoxically votes to renegotiate an agreement which it itself proposed and approved. Odd enough to provide food
31 January 2019 Steady On The Gas Trump at the wheel. By J R Thomas President Trump, not unlike a well-known prince, is starting to find that steering is not so easy if others get in the way. In The Donald’s case, what is newly getting in his way is a House of Representatives controlled
31 January 2019 Realpolitik Principles and mechanisms. By John Watson Last week politics was a wave motion. My colleague Mr Thomas pointed to the way in which the British left and right successively dominate the political scene until in their turn they fall back exhausted and the other takes over. Now the right has run
31 January 2019 Respect and Traditions Don’t go there. By Lynda Goetz Universities are places of learning and research. For the professors and academics who make up the body of staff, their roles are both as researchers and teachers. As such, they are in a position to impart information to the students who have gone
31 January 2019 “Enjoy Saudi” The General Entertainment Authority By Neil Tidmarsh Good news for conjurers, wax dummies, fighting bulls, rap artists and pop singers this week; you’re all welcome in Saudi Arabia. Bad news for human rights activists this week, particularly if you’re female; you’re not welcome in Saudi Arabia (well, on reflection, that
31 January 2019 The Brexit Wine Hedge Win-win with Vin By Frank O’Nomics It’s enough to drive anyone to drink. The whole interminable Brexit charade has left us bullied, bothered and bewildered. Not only is the process never-ending, but also, the whole issue of how to prepare for the consequences of every outcome, is fraught
01 February 2019 Let’s Leave… And see what we think in twenty years’ time. By Richard Pooley My friend and Shaw Sheet colleague, Lynda Goetz, likes the solution to the Brexit conundrum proposed by Sir Anthony Seldon – leave the EU on March 29th, ideally with a variation of Mrs May’s deal, and have a
31 January 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Labour Brexit imminent by Don Urquhart 24 January Two of the 5 panellists on tonight’s Question Time were Tory no deal Brexiteers. Nevertheless James Dyson came in for some criticism and some panellists mentioned the plans of Airbus, P&O and others to relocate their operations to the EU.
31 January 2019 No Depressing Ds in January Time to be upbeat. By Lynda Goetz January in the UK is undoubtedly Dull and frequently Damp, but why do we seem to want also to make it Depressing? Why on earth would you choose this time of year to start a Diet or go Dry? Granted
