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Issue 215: 2019 09 19: Cover page

Cover Page, 19 September 2019, Issue 215 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 215: 2019 09 19: Cover page

Issue 215: 2019 09 19: Lens on the Week

19 September 2019 Lens on the Week UK BREXIT SOLUTION? A publicity trap sprung by the Luxembourg Prime Minister, Mr Bettel? A failure by Johnson to take on a hostile crowd? Look at it as you will, no one comes out of the aborted press conference in Luxembourg with much credit. But Brexit runs deep… Continue reading Issue 215: 2019 09 19: Lens on the Week

Issue 215: 2019 09 19: Feet Of Clay

L0035911 A clay-baked foot. Roman votive offering Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org A clay-baked foot. Roman votive offering Photograph 200 BC to AD 200 Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

19 September 2019 Feet of Clay A bad thing? By John Watson The blogger who at the end of the third test described the Ashes as a cricket tournament in which Australia played against Ben Stokes certainly had a point but he could have made it the other way round. He could have said that… Continue reading Issue 215: 2019 09 19: Feet Of Clay

Issue 215: 2019 09 19: Downs and Ups

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19 September 2019 Downs and Ups In the Paddock by J.R. Thomas If Mr Trump is not the Devil – and the Guardian, BBC, New York Times, and Washington Post all assure us he is – then he certainly has the devil’s luck. Fourteen months to election day and it’s all going pretty well, so… Continue reading Issue 215: 2019 09 19: Downs and Ups

Issue 215: 2019 09 19: It’s the environment,

19 September 2019 It’s the environment, stupid! United action needed. By Richard Pooley I am writing this in the late afternoon of Tuesday, 17 September in my house in the upper Dordogne valley, south-west France. The thermometer on the vine-shaded balcony reads 38.4°C, 14°C above the norm for this time of year. There is not… Continue reading Issue 215: 2019 09 19: It’s the environment,

Issue 215: 2019 09 19: Folly of Euro QE

Helicopter money

19 September 2019 The Folly Of Euro QE. Or a free lunch for bond traders by Frank O’Nomics It is one thing to use a sledgehammer to crush a nut but, once that nut is already dust, further bashing is a waste of effort. So it is with the ECB and its use of quantitative… Continue reading Issue 215: 2019 09 19: Folly of Euro QE

Issue 215: 2019 09 19: Children and Money

19 September 2019 Children and Money Starting young, staying young. By Lynda Goetz This month two different surveys revealed that our young people have some way to go before they can claim proper adult status (many may not want to, of course). A survey by the price comparison website Moneysupermarket brought to our attention that… Continue reading Issue 215: 2019 09 19: Children and Money

Issue 215: 2019 09 19: Diary of a Corbynista

19 September 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Johnson Planning People’s Vote? by Don Urquhart 12 September On the Andrew Neil show Kwasi Kwarteng volunteered the opinion that many people in the country suspected that the Scottish appeal court judges were biased remainers. I await my invitation onto next week’s show to insinuate that the London… Continue reading Issue 215: 2019 09 19: Diary of a Corbynista

Issue 215: 2019 09 19: Book Club Psychedelia

19 September 2019 Book Club Psychedelia High on literature. By Neil Tidmarsh Inmates of some of Her Majesty’s prisons are still being deprived of reading material sent to them from outside, five years after the high court overturned justice secretary Chris Grayling’s ban. Why? Mystery compounds scandal. This week, however, an explanation was forthcoming; we… Continue reading Issue 215: 2019 09 19: Book Club Psychedelia

Issue 215: 2019 09 19: Crossword

19 September 2019 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 215 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 214 Share this using…FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail

Issue 215: 2019 09 19: Cartoon

19 September 2019 Cartoon by AGGro Share this using…FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail

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