Cover Page, 23 May 2019, Issue 203 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 203: 2019 05 23: Cover page
Issue: 203: Race to Nowhere
Issue 203: 2019 05 23: Lens on the Week
23 May 2019 Lens on the Week UK NUTS: “Here we come gathering nuts in May,” sing the children, and, if reports of the reaction of MPs to Mrs May’s new proposals are to be credited, that is a much more profitable activity than revamping the Withdrawal Agreement. Yet revamping it is what the Government… Continue reading Issue 203: 2019 05 23: Lens on the Week
Issue 203: 2019 05 23: Front Runners
23 May 2019 Front Runners Boris, Brexit Party and Lib Dems. By John Watson “Three fences from the end and it’s the favourite out in front by four lengths. It’s his race now. He’s well ahead of the pack. But wait…. who is this moving up on the inside rail? Three lengths, two lengths, he’s… Continue reading Issue 203: 2019 05 23: Front Runners
Issue 203: 2019 05 23: The Back Door
23 May 2019 Please Use Back Door Boris in next? By J R Thomas The funniest newspaper photograph of the week was that of Mrs Theresa May, Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, shuffling onto a platform in Bristol. Not a station platform, though the others on the… Continue reading Issue 203: 2019 05 23: The Back Door
Issue 203: 2019 05 23: Yobbo-Flavoured
23 May 2019 Yobbo-Flavoured ‘Ludic’ milkshakes. By Lynda Goetz “You’ve let yourselves down badly; you’ve behaved like animals!” No, not the words of someone recently addressing the crowds shouting down a Brexit Party or UKIP campaigner, but someone addressing the pro-hunt campaigners in Rhyl in 2001, one of whom threw an egg at John Prescott… Continue reading Issue 203: 2019 05 23: Yobbo-Flavoured
Issue 203: 2019 05 23: Mr Kurtz, he dead?
23 May 2019 “Mistah Kurtz, he dead”? Austria’s political ‘heart of darkness’. By Neil Tidmarsh So another coalition bites the dust. Last December, Belgium’s coalition government collapsed and its prime minister Charles Michel resigned – he’s continuing as head of a caretaker government until later this week (the EU parliamentary elections coincide with a general… Continue reading Issue 203: 2019 05 23: Mr Kurtz, he dead?
Issue 203: 2019 05 23: Notre Dame
23 May 2019 Notre Dame Back to the future? By Richard Pooley You learn a lot about a people’s culture when they are hit by a disaster, natural or man-made. In late 1994 I was staying with Swiss friends in Kobe, Japan. The couple and their two children had just moved there from Tokyo. As… Continue reading Issue 203: 2019 05 23: Notre Dame
Issue 203: 2019 05 23: Diary of a Corbyista
23 May 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Government in a moral vacuum by Don Urquhart 16 May When politicians of whatever stamp move into “That’s Why” mode you know they are reading from scripts written by those employed to justify evil, sometimes termed “spin doctors”. Here’s an example reported by Hannah Richardson: A spokesman for… Continue reading Issue 203: 2019 05 23: Diary of a Corbyista
Issue 203: 2019 05 23: Long Shot
23 May 2019 Long Shot A film by Jonathan Levine reviewed by Frank O’Nomics Star rating: **** Is there really any more mileage in the rom-com? Boy meets girl, they fall in love, issues or misunderstandings come between them, only for it all to be resolved in the final frame. Updating the settings, reversing the… Continue reading Issue 203: 2019 05 23: Long Shot
Issue 203: 2019 05 23: Crossword
23 May 2019 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 203 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 202 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 203: 2019 05 23: Cartoons
23 May 2019 Cartoons By AGGro … Continue reading Issue 203: 2019 05 23: Cartoons
