Cover Page, 27 June 2019, Issue 208 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 208: 2019 06 27: Cover page
Issue: 208: Hunting
Issue 208: 2019 06 27: Lens on the Week
27 June 2019 Lens on the Week UK BASHFUL BORIS: Now you see him, now you don’t. Just as a top rabbiter uses his ferret to flush his quarry out of their burrow into his net, so Jeremy Hunt needs to pull Boris into the limelight of open debate. Otherwise his carefully thought through strategies… Continue reading Issue 208: 2019 06 27: Lens on the Week
Issue 208: 2019 06 27: Legacy
27 June 2019 Legacy A dirty word. By John Watson There you are, standing by the curbside in the City of London, when you notice an elderly man standing a little way apart from you, not looking very well. Suddenly he pitches forward into the path of the oncoming traffic but you have good reactions… Continue reading Issue 208: 2019 06 27: Legacy
Issue 208: 2019 06 27: Facebook
27 June 2019 Facebook and Global Domination Why Libra? by Frank O’Nomics In the space of just 15 years, Facebook has gone from being the pipedream of an undergraduate to a global phenomenon with over 2.5 billion users across its various apps. News that the company is to launch its own crypto-currency, Libra, next year… Continue reading Issue 208: 2019 06 27: Facebook
Issue 208: 2019 06 27: Leaving a Legacy
27 June 2019 Leaving a Legacy Bits of stone. By Lynda Goetz I am not a naturally a pessimistic person, but there has not been a great deal of optimism around over the last few years. The legacy I am talking about is not Theresa May’s rather sad attempt to leave behind something other than… Continue reading Issue 208: 2019 06 27: Leaving a Legacy
Issue 208: 2019 06 27: Gone Missing
27 June 2019 Gone Missing Have you seen..? By Neil Tidmarsh Readers are urged to search their garages, garden sheds, outbuildings, spare rooms, cars, cupboards, uncovered wells, attics, basements, caves and mineshafts for the following items which were reported missing this week: (1) Istanbul. News from Turkey – a Mr Recip Erdogan of Ankara has… Continue reading Issue 208: 2019 06 27: Gone Missing
Issue 208: 2019 06 27: Order of Death
27 June 2019 Order of Death Clash of rules. By Robert Kilconner There was something pleasantly old-fashioned about the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty division of the High Court. It was a logical grouping, of course, bringing the various forms of shipwreck under the same panel of Judges, but alas this didn’t save it when the… Continue reading Issue 208: 2019 06 27: Order of Death
Issue 208: 2019 06 27: Diary of a Corbynista
27 June 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Phoney War by Don Urquhart 20 June Later today we will know the names of the two Conservative MP’s who will be contesting the leadership. For the next few weeks there will be hustings with party members for the two lovelies to display their charms. But first there… Continue reading Issue 208: 2019 06 27: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 208: 2019 06 27: J R Thomas
27 June 2019 J R Thomas is unwell and hopes to return to work shortly. The Shaw Sheet Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 208: 2019 06 27: Crossword
27 June 2019 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 208 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 207 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
