Cover Page, 05 September 2019, Issue 213 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 213: 2019 09 05: Cover page
Issue: 213: Cummings&Goings
Issue 213: 2019 09 05: Lens on the Week
5 September 2019 Lens on the Week UK BREXIT: At 6.51 pm on Tuesday, Sir Oliver Letwin, MP for West Dorset moved a procedural motion to open the way for legislation preventing the UK from leaving the EU without an agreement on 31 October. It was carried by majority of 27, rebels including (in addition… Continue reading Issue 213: 2019 09 05: Lens on the Week
Issue 213: 2019 09 05: Keeping It Clear
05 September 2019 Keeping It Clear The Boris and Jo show. By John Watson Wow, perhaps the Shaw Sheet should not be allowed to go on holiday. At the time of our last issue, at the end of July, Boris had just been elected as the new Conservative leader on his “Brexit on 31 October,… Continue reading Issue 213: 2019 09 05: Keeping It Clear
Issue 213: 2019 09 05: Borisloo
5 September 2019 Facing Our Borisloo A reflection of 1819? by J.R. Thomas One disadvantage of a long August break is that the commemoration of events that really should be noted gets missed. So as our readers sweated on their yachts, or crunched sand in their Cornish pasties, or were stung by giant hornets in… Continue reading Issue 213: 2019 09 05: Borisloo
Issue 213: 2019 09 05: The Role of Speaker
05 September 2019 The Role of Speaker Power and partisanship. By Lynda Goetz ‘A week is a long time in politics’, Harold Wilson is reputed to have said. Well, it is now over a month since Shaw Sheet was online and a month appears to be an eternity in politics! At the moment an hour… Continue reading Issue 213: 2019 09 05: The Role of Speaker
Issue 213: 2019 09 05: Moon Rock
05 September 2019 Moon Rock Where’s it gone? By Neil Tidmarsh Fifty years ago, the US president sent samples of moon rock (gathered by the Apollo 11 astronauts) as diplomatic gifts to every country on earth, to indicate that NASA was undertaking its space mission on behalf of all mankind and not just the USA.… Continue reading Issue 213: 2019 09 05: Moon Rock
Issue 213: 2019 09 05: Foreign Aid
05 September 2019 Foreign Aid The sacred cow that needs to be culled. By Richard Pooley “The Brexit Party wants to cut foreign aid by half!” cried my Liberal Democrat Party colleague in high dudgeon. He was sitting in my car as three of us toured the Brecon Beacons on August 1st trying to get… Continue reading Issue 213: 2019 09 05: Foreign Aid
Issue 213: 2019 09 05: Diary of a Corbynista
5 September 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Before the Storm by Don Urquhart 25 July Here’s a Diary entry from January: We have just got round to seeing Brexit: The Uncivil War, which focuses on Dominic Cummings and his influence on the referendum outcome. I was not convinced that the key to his success was… Continue reading Issue 213: 2019 09 05: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 213: 2019 09 05: Uncertainty Costs
05 September 2019 Brexit – uncertainty costs 11% and counting by Frank O’Nomics The beauty of statistics is that they can be adapted to support any argument. The UK economy is slowing rapidly, but the extent to which this has been the result of Brexit uncertainty, as opposed to a general global malaise, has been… Continue reading Issue 213: 2019 09 05: Uncertainty Costs
Issue 213: 2019 09 05: Losing Sight
05 September 2019 Losing Sight A scary story. By Lynda Goetz All over the country this week there will be worried parents and teenagers. Oven chips and processed ham might come off the shopping list; Pringles might be left out of the shopping basket and some apples included in their place. Possibly. The widely reported… Continue reading Issue 213: 2019 09 05: Losing Sight
Issue 213: 2019 09 05: Tarantino in Hollywood
05 September 2019 Once Upon A Time In Hollywood Film by Quentin Tarantino reviewed by Adam McCormack Star rating **** Films often generate maximum impact by telling several stories and bringing them all together in a dramatic climax. With Quentin Tarantino’s latest homage to the golden days of 1960’s Hollywood this impact is generated in… Continue reading Issue 213: 2019 09 05: Tarantino in Hollywood
Issue 213: 2019 09 05: Cartoons
5 September 2019 Cartoons By AGGro Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 213: 2019 09 05: Letter to the Editors
5 September 2019 Letter to the Editors Knife Crime from Ann Isobel Dear Sirs I think that Corbynista was wrong to focus on ‘knife crimes’ in Shawsheet 212. ‘Gun crime’ was the moral panic of the early 2000s but labelling crimes as ‘gun’ crime hid the underlying social factors. Gang related crime figures tell you… Continue reading Issue 213: 2019 09 05: Letter to the Editors
