Cover Page, 16 May 2019, Issue 202 Welcome to this week’s issue of Shaw Sheet. We hope you enjoy it. If you’ve missed any previous editions, they’re all available via the Back Issues option on the main menu above. Please do register for the weekly email if you haven’t already done so, and please recommend… Continue reading Issue 202: 2019 05 16: Cover page
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Issue 202: 2019 05 16: Lens on the Week
16 May 2019 Lens on the Week UK BREXIT: The Chairman of the 1922 committee, Sir Graham Brady, together with other leading Conservatives has written to Mrs May urging her not to buy a compromise with Labour by reneging on her promise to leave the customs union. Unless she decides to ignore them, and all… Continue reading Issue 202: 2019 05 16: Lens on the Week
Issue 202: 2019 05 16: Brexit Tipster
16 May 2019 Brexit Tipster Place your bets. By John Watson Oh well, you might as well enjoy Brexit if you can. Time for a trip to the bookies clasping the latest polls in your hand; but where should you put your money? Let’s think about it together. Firstly, where are the polls for the… Continue reading Issue 202: 2019 05 16: Brexit Tipster
Issue 202: 2019 05 16: New Enlightenment
16 May 2019 Afros, Diversity & Universities New Enlightenment. By Lynda Goetz Admittedly I was at university in the 70s, clearly a less ‘enlightened’ time than today (although we were, of course, far more enlightened than previous generations). Nevertheless, however woke we all are now, should university Vice-Chancellors really be spending time worrying about whether… Continue reading Issue 202: 2019 05 16: New Enlightenment
Issue 202: 2019 05 16: How Green, my Voter
16 May 2019 How Green Was My Voter Taking back the argument. By J R Thomas Readers of the Shaw Sheet are probably not frequent visitors to seaside funfairs, but perhaps are familiar with those little machines with snake heads outside arcades. Insert pound coin. Grab the mallet, bash the protruding head. Down it goes;… Continue reading Issue 202: 2019 05 16: How Green, my Voter
Issue 202: 2019 05 16: Nothing
16 May 2019 Nothing The power of zero. By Neil Tidmarsh Some staggering figures are coming out of India as the six weeks and seven phases of its general election (the world’s biggest ever election in the world’s biggest democracy) draw to a close. Nine hundred million registered voters; four million voting machines; one million… Continue reading Issue 202: 2019 05 16: Nothing
Issue 202: 2019 05 16: Abortion and Alabama
16 May 2019 Abortion and Alabama The march of piety. By John Watson So what have they got in common? Georgia, Mississippi, Kentucky, Ohio, Louisiana and now Alabama. Two things really. The first is that they are all American states in which the legislature is moving to restrict or abolish abortion. Not that any of… Continue reading Issue 202: 2019 05 16: Abortion and Alabama
Issue 202: 2019 05 16: Inequality Street
16 May 2019 Inequality Street Why 5 years? by Frank O’Nomics We live in an unequal society. Whichever measure you look at, whether of income, health, access to education or political representation, there are huge disparities. These disparities exist not just between the rich and the poor, but also between genders, across ethnicities, age, geography… Continue reading Issue 202: 2019 05 16: Inequality Street
Issue 202: 2019 05 16: Diary of a Corbynista
16 May 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Blunt speaking by Don Urquhart 9 May Tonight’s Question Time came from Northampton. There were 5 people on the panel but discourse was dominated by a violent dialogue of the deaf between Anna Soubry and Nigel Farage around the B word. Reality intervened near the end when an… Continue reading Issue 202: 2019 05 16: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 202: 2019 05 16: Pas Normal
16 May 2019 Ce n’est pas normal Changes to life in La France Profonde. By Richard Pooley “C’est encore l’hiver”, I said to Nicole at her fruit and vegetable stall in the village market last Thursday. She agreed, hunched against the cold rain blowing across her produce: “Ce n’est pas normal”. I was not in… Continue reading Issue 202: 2019 05 16: Pas Normal
Issue 202: 2019 05 16: Birds
16 May 2019 It looks as if the birds are on their own The cat menace Simon Baseley “Estimates of how many creatures are killed by cats each year vary significantly”. That statement appears on the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) website, immediately below the question: “Are cats causing bird decline?” To… Continue reading Issue 202: 2019 05 16: Birds
Issue 202: 2019 05 16: Van Gogh and Britain
16 May 2019 Van Gogh and Britain Tate Britain (27 March – 11 August 2019). By William Morton This Exhibition focuses on the time between 1873 and 1876 Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) spent in Britain and the influence it had on him and his own influence on British artists. In doing so, it brings out… Continue reading Issue 202: 2019 05 16: Van Gogh and Britain
Issue 202: 2019 05 16: Crossword
16 May 2019 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 202 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 201 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
