Cover Page, 06 June 2019, Issue 205 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
06 June 2019 Lens on the Week UK TRUMP VISIT: Mr Trump arrived for a state visit to the UK on Monday with his family. A state banquet was held in his honour. Neither Jeremy Corbyn nor Sir Vince Cable attended, although Mr Corbyn subsequently sought and was refused a meeting. Mr Trump has met
06 June 2019 Insulting Trump Labour in disgrace. By Robert Kilconner Lots of people do not care for Mr Trump or his politics and it is their right to protest on the streets against his visit. Protests of this sort often involve abuse, satire, mockery and lots of noise. In a free country all those
05 June 2019 Politics For The Birds Trump for PM by J.R. Thomas Last week a friend was kind enough to lend me a battered and curly article on one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century, Cedric Price. “Who?” you are probably saying, unless an architect yourself. Indeed, a good question. This
6 June 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Trump or Corbyn to run Britain? by Don Urquhart 30 May On last night’s programme Robert Peston decided to go on Labour anti-Semitism as one of the nation’s key issues. He probed Len McCluskey on this occasion. James Cleverly, Tory leadership candidate was on and was asked about
06 June 2019 The Tiananmen Playbook China, Sudan, Algeria. By Neil Tidmarsh Last Monday, of course, was the thirtieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. The authorities in China marked the day by ensuring that it would not be commemorated. Access to the square itself was denied to foreign journalists and to relatives of the
06 June 2019 Costs of University The Augar Report. By John Watson The report by the Post 18 Education and Funding Review Panel, chaired by Philip Augar, is more than 200 pages long and bases its recommendations on a very large amount of information about tertiary education in England. Some of that is hardly news.
06 June 2019 Hay Festival 2019 Something for everyone. By Lynda Goetz “Did I mishear you say that the anti-Vietnam war protesters were naïve?’ asked the grey-haired woman indignantly when questions from the audience were invited. We had been listening to Max Hastings, veteran war correspondent and historian, giving a talk about his latest book,
06 June 2019 Letter to the Editor Labour ‘s Paranoia from Anthony Silver Dear Sir, In his parody of the end of May’s resignation honours list your diarist Corbynista has a kvetch at Louise Ellman for ‘criticising the leadership of her party’ presumably in her role as President of the Jewish Labour Movement. In
