Cover Page, 07 March 2019, Issue 192 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 192: 2019 03 07: Cover page
Issue: 192: Human Infestation
Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Lens on the Week
7 March 2019 Lens on the Week UK NOT SO FRANK: Mrs May’s comment on Monday that there is no direct link between the fall in police numbers for England and Wales by 20,000 since 2010 and the growth in violent crime such as stabbing was described as “delusional” by the Police Federation. Mrs May’s… Continue reading Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Lens on the Week
Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Too Far
07 March 2019 Too Far Where is that? By John Watson “Tufar?” Like “Tofu?” Something nice to eat? Well, not nice exactly but sufficiently nice for vegans, vegetarians and others of similar religious persuasions. No, don’t worry. We have not lost it completely. The Shaw Sheet is not about to inflict on you the type… Continue reading Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Too Far
Issue 192: 2019 03 07: The Purpose of University
07 March 2019 The Purpose of University. 3 D’s for a loan? By Lynda Goetz The recent front page ‘news’ in the Sunday Telegraph – that the Government may seek to block loans if students fail to get a minimum of 3 D’s at ‘A’ level – is actually hardly news. It was mooted at the… Continue reading Issue 192: 2019 03 07: The Purpose of University
Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Singing Malware
07 March 2019 Singing Malware Who’s hacking your brain? By Neil Tidmarsh I can’t sing. Never could. I used to dread music lessons at junior school (‘music’ was never anything more than singing). I was the kid whose groaning monotone would make the teacher’s sensitive and artistic soul flinch and shudder. School plays were always… Continue reading Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Singing Malware
Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Sapiens Sinking
07 March 2019 Sapiens Sinking Don’t worry, be happy. By J R Thomas Is life in the UK getting you down? It should. Never mind Brexit. There are lots of other things you should be worrying about. The weather is bizarre; hotter and colder and wetter and drier. Wild salmon are vanishing fast, though maybe… Continue reading Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Sapiens Sinking
Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Lazy Investing
07 March 2019 Lazy Investing Following the investment herd has risks. By Frank O’Nomics Many will have had that uncomfortable moment in the pub when someone lays claim to a “killing on the stock market”. Proud boasts of having bought ASOS shares at 9p (next stop £70) leave us too polite to point out that… Continue reading Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Lazy Investing
Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Diary of a Corbynista
7 March 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Institutionally Racist Parties By Don Urquhart 28 February On Politics Live Andrew Neil led a hatchet job on Labour Anti-Semitism. Tory MP Henry Smith was like a dog with two tails launching into: It is quite remarkable how a once great British Party…. Andrew Neil came back with:… Continue reading Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Letter to the Editors
7 March 2019 Letter to the Editor True Diversity? From Anthony Silver Sir Lynda Goetz elegantly sums up the diversity vs meritocracy argument in the last 2 sentences of her article (“Discrimination”:Issue 191) it seems that ‘…. you can’t have one without [diluting] the other..’, and, therein lies the dilemma. As diversity is often… Continue reading Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Letter to the Editors
Issue 192: 2019 03 07: Crossword
07 March 2019 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 192 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 191 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
