Cover Page, 28 February 2019, Issue 191 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… Continue reading Issue 191: 2019 02 28: Cover page
Issue: 191: Your Lookout
Issue 191: 2019 02 28: Lens on the Week
28 February 2018 Lens on the Week UK BREXIT CONFUSION: Chaos it certainly is, with Mrs May forced into offering a vote on Brexit postponement if there is no agreement of a deal by 12 March. But where exactly does that leave us? Assuming that Brussels accept it, it is only a delay. How does… Continue reading Issue 191: 2019 02 28: Lens on the Week
Issue 191: 2019 02 28: Having a Laugh
28 February 2019 Having A Laugh The Independent Group. By J R Thomas Many viewers must have thought they had accidentally tuned into Sex and the City. Three glamorous ladies walking through Westminster, hair blowing in the breeze, heels clacking on the granite, laughing and smiling and joking together. Was it indeed a new British… Continue reading Issue 191: 2019 02 28: Having a Laugh
Issue 191: 2019 02 28: The Nanny State
28 February 2019 The Nanny State A call for more. By John Watson Why is it no surprise? The papers are full of stories of people being persuaded to cash in their pensions by fraudsters who then do them out of the loot. The result: rich fraudsters, poor pensioners and – worse still in the… Continue reading Issue 191: 2019 02 28: The Nanny State
Issue 191: 2019 02 28: Discrimination
28 February 2019 Discrimination is Discrimination A landmark case. By Lynda Goetz In trying to ignore/blank out the total yawn-making, painful train crash that our Government and Parliamentarians seem to be making of Brexit, I noticed that discrimination seemed to be something of a theme (yet again) in recent news items. Firstly, surprisingly and almost… Continue reading Issue 191: 2019 02 28: Discrimination
Issue 191: 2019 02 28: Melomys Rubicola
28 February 2019 Melomys Rubicola The beginning of the end? By Neil Tidmarsh (Spoiler alert: if you haven’t yet read the story Gibb’s 2018 Christmas [Shaw Sheet issue 182, 20 December 2018], you might want to do so now before reading any further…) Science fiction is a tricky business. The reality inevitably catches up with the… Continue reading Issue 191: 2019 02 28: Melomys Rubicola
Issue 191: 2019 02 28: Political Penguins?
28 February 2019 Political Penguins? Chuka and friends. By Robert Kilconner “TINGE”, “TIG”, call it what you will, but the emergence of the Independent Group has enlivened the political scene and given those baffled and bored by Brexit something more tasty to speculate about. Why have they done it? Well, in some cases the answer… Continue reading Issue 191: 2019 02 28: Political Penguins?
Issue 191: 2019 02 28: Diary of a Corbynista
28 February 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Witch Hunt by Don Urquhart 21 February The Tories stand to benefit massively from the formation of The Independent Group (TINGE). Come a General Election TINGE will take many more votes from Labour than from the Tories. And there is another factor- Labour-inclined voters will look at their… Continue reading Issue 191: 2019 02 28: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 191: 2019 02 28: The Power of Seeing
28 February 2019 The Power of Seeing Ruskin at Temple Place. By William Morton John Ruskin (1819-1900) was an accomplished artist and draughtsman and this Exhibition includes some charming watercolours, and flower and architectural paintings and drawings, by him. However, he is famous not so much as an artist as for his enormous influence on… Continue reading Issue 191: 2019 02 28: The Power of Seeing
Issue 191: 2019 02 28: Crossword
28 February 2019 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 191 Click for this Week’s interactive online crossword Click for a printable version of this Week’s crossword Click for the solution to crossword, No 190 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
