Cover Page, 25 July 2019, Issue 212 Welcome to this week’s issue of Shaw Sheet. We hope you enjoy our comments, features, reviews, crossword and cartoons. 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… Continue reading Issue 212: 2019 07 25: Cover page
Issue: 212: Boriad Book 4
Issue 212: 2019 07 25: Lens on the Week
25 July 2019 Lens on the Week UK MEDIA WRECK: The election of Jo Swinson as head of the Liberal Democrat party and of Boris Johnson as top Tory and Prime Minister, have changed the faces at the top of British politics. Mr Johnson’s victory has had the additional effect of paralysing the media. That… Continue reading Issue 212: 2019 07 25: Lens on the Week
Issue 212: 2019 07 25: Leaked!
25 July 2019 Leaked! Confidentiality and press freedom. By John Watson When you hear that both candidates for the leadership of the Conservative party agree on something, it is wise to look at it carefully. When the whole of the press supports them there is bound to be something wrong with it. That is why… Continue reading Issue 212: 2019 07 25: Leaked!
Issue 212: 2019 07 25: The Boriad – Book 4
25 July 2019 The Boriad – Books 1,2,3 and 4 Not, in fact, by Homer Book 1 Like great Achilles, Boris Johnson from his tent full armoured sprang. No more skulking in the shadows, now’s the time to upward man. His Patroclus, the Raab Extremis, in his borrowed armour strove; but died before… Continue reading Issue 212: 2019 07 25: The Boriad – Book 4
Issue 212: 2019 07 25: Whoops
25 July 2019 Whoops Trump trips by J.R. Thomas If President Trump is looking a bit rueful at the moment it is because for once he has slipped on his own banana skin. Usually Donald is skilled in landing the pavement slip trap in front of opponents; this time he hadn’t looked where he chucked… Continue reading Issue 212: 2019 07 25: Whoops
Issue 212: 2019 07 25: The Iran Crisis
25 July 2019 The Iran Crisis Military action is not the answer. By Neil Tidmarsh For much of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Barbary corsairs preyed on British shipping almost with impunity. Pirates from North Africa seized fishing and trading vessels in the Channel and in the Irish Sea and even raided coastal towns in… Continue reading Issue 212: 2019 07 25: The Iran Crisis
Issue 212: 2019 07 25: Education, Education…
July 25 2019 Education, Education, Education Energising the state system. By Lynda Goetz In 1997, Tony Blair famously spoke of the Labour Party’s Manifesto commitment to a focus on ‘Education, Education, Education’. In the years since then there has been much government meddling with the systems used to deliver education in this country, as well… Continue reading Issue 212: 2019 07 25: Education, Education…
Issue 212: 2019 07 25: Now you see it
25 July 2019 Now you see it… Sajiv Javid will not have £25bn up his sleeve. by Frank O’Nomics As jokes go it fell very flat. When the departing Labour government Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Liam Byrne, left a note in his desk saying: “I’m afraid there is no money”, few thought it funny. … Continue reading Issue 212: 2019 07 25: Now you see it
Issue 212: 2019 07 25: How to Negotiate
25 July 2019 How to Negotiate Brexit or not, our children need to learn. By Richard Pooley I don’t have a lot of respect for Dr Liam Fox, enthusiastic Brexiteer and the UK’s International Trade Secretary at the time of writing (the afternoon of Wednesday, 24 July… Boris is seeing the Queen about his new… Continue reading Issue 212: 2019 07 25: How to Negotiate
Issue 212: 2019 07 25: Beech Convicted
25 July 2019 Beech Convicted Proctor’s statement. By Robert Kilconner Harvey Proctor’s statement following the conviction of Carl Beech (the witness who sparked the false allegations of child abuse against a number of public figures including Edward Heath, Lord Bramall, Sir Maurice Oldfield, Leon Brittan and, of course, Mr Proctor himself) is truly heartrending. What… Continue reading Issue 212: 2019 07 25: Beech Convicted
Issue 212: 2019 07 25: Diary of a Corbynista
25 July 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Hardening Attitudes by Don Urquhart 18 July I live in the London Borough of Barnet. It has changed in recent years. There are roads you cannot go down after nightfall unless you want to buy or sell drugs. There are parks which you avoid unless you enjoy the… Continue reading Issue 212: 2019 07 25: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 212: 2019 07 25: Letter to the Editors
25 July 2019 Letter to the Editors Anti-semitism and Labour from Anthony Silver Dear Sir It was safe to predict that your pet Corbynista in his column this week would both lash out at the BBC for Panorama (attack being the best form of defence), and, continue to deny the problem of anti-semitism within… Continue reading Issue 212: 2019 07 25: Letter to the Editors
Issue 212: 2019 07 25: Crossword
25 July 2019 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 212 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 211 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
