Cover Page, 12 September 2019, Issue 214 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 214: 2019 09 12: Cover page
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Issue 214: 2019 09 12: Lens on the Week
12 September 2019 Lens on the Week UK THE IRISH QUESTION: Ever since the days of Strongbow, English politics have been complicated by Ireland and here we are again. Boris Johnson has been shuttling between Dublin and Belfast seeking a successful backstop arrangement in the light of the new reality. That is that the government… Continue reading Issue 214: 2019 09 12: Lens on the Week
Issue 214: 2019 09 12: Brexit – The Answers
11 September 2019 Brexit – The Answers Escaping the confusion. By John Watson People say that there is good in everything if you look for it hard enough and I suppose that the upside of our current political shenanigans is that they are an excellent distraction from the cricket. Still, the spider having swallowed the… Continue reading Issue 214: 2019 09 12: Brexit – The Answers
Issue 214: 2019 09 12: The Middle Way
12 September 2019 The Middle Way Or trouble ahead(?!) by J.R.Thomas There is a rather good story, said to be told by Julian Amery, about his driving down the Kings Road and narrowly missing a well-known figure standing marooned in the middle. Mr Amery had time to wind down his window and shout at Jeremy… Continue reading Issue 214: 2019 09 12: The Middle Way
Issue 214: 2019 09 12: Que se passe-t-il?
12 September 2019 Brexit – Que se passe-t-il? Nous ne comprenons pas. By Richard Pooley It was the question I knew must come but was dreading: “Richard. Brexit. What’s going on? We don’t understand.” It came in the middle of dinner on a warm evening a few days ago. We were seven around a table… Continue reading Issue 214: 2019 09 12: Que se passe-t-il?
Issue 214: 2019 09 12: Iran
12 September 2019 Iran Pro-Rogue? By Neil Tidmarsh Two days ago Iran beat Hong Kong 2-0 in a qualifying match for the next soccer World Cup. The result must have been as gratifying for Beijing as it was for Tehran, crowning a week in which China offered Iran a $280 billion lifeline to save its… Continue reading Issue 214: 2019 09 12: Iran
Issue 214: 2019 09 12: Europe needs a deal
12 September 2019 Europe also needs a deal Do they realise? by Frank O’Nomics Picture the scene. Boris Johnson, from behind dark glasses and under a fedora, with his consigliere Cummings at his side, confronts Michel Barnier and says: “I’m gonna make you an offer you can’t refuse”. Sadly, the most likely response is: “No… Continue reading Issue 214: 2019 09 12: Europe needs a deal
Issue 214: 2019 09 12: Diary of a Corbynista
12 September 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Peaky Blinders rule by Don Urquhart 5 September Jo Swinson went on Politics Live to talk up Luciana Berger’s latest career move and to reiterate that the LibDems would not support an interim government led by Jeremy Corbyn. She is probably very concerned at the strong possibility that… Continue reading Issue 214: 2019 09 12: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 214: 2019 09 12: Ex-Prisoners
12 September 2019 Ex-Prisoners and Prisoners’ Children Homeless or ignored. By Lynda Goetz Two items on prisoners in the news this week illustrate the lack of joined-up thinking that so often characterises our public services. This can and does, in many cases, lead to further problems and even ultimately more demands on those services, both… Continue reading Issue 214: 2019 09 12: Ex-Prisoners
Issue 214: 2019 09 12: Crossword
12 September 2019 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 214 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 213 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 214: 2019 09 12: Cartoons
12 September 2019 Cartoons by AGGro Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
