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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
