Cover Page, 03 October 2019, Issue 217 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 217: 2019 10 03: Cover page
Issue: 217: This'll Hurt
Issue 217: 2019 10 03: Lens on the Week
03 October 2019 Lens on the Week UK A LETTER TO JEAN-CLAUDE: It is the stuff of drama. A horsemen dashing through wet and windy weather and delivering a message which changes the world. Unfortunately Boris Johnson’s letter to Jean-Claude Juncker is less exciting. It didn’t arrive by horseback (or presumably not) and it only… Continue reading Issue 217: 2019 10 03: Lens on the Week
Issue 217: 2019 10 03: 118 Bishops
03 October 2019 118 Bishops Can only be wrong. By John Watson Anselm perhaps, or Becket? Or the grey eminence himself, François Leclerc du Tremblay, the Capuchin friar who advised Richelieu and is immortalised as Father Joseph in The Three Musketeers? Yes, there are churchmen who have strayed fearlessly into the centre of politics, but… Continue reading Issue 217: 2019 10 03: 118 Bishops
Issue 217: 2019 10 03: Joe Country
3 October 2019 Joe Country Bye, bye, Biden? By J.R. Thomas Our title this week was pinched (and we hope he will not mind) from Mick Herron’s new spy thriller, the latest in his magnificent Slough House series. But “Joe Country” is just too apposite a title to miss. That country was though [redacted… Continue reading Issue 217: 2019 10 03: Joe Country
Issue 217: 2019 10 03: Yorkshire 2040
03 October 2019 Four Yorkshire men 2040 The Chancellor’s expensive promise. by Frank O’Nomics Picture the scene. At a table in a saloon bar of a Yorkshire pub in 2040, four men, down on their luck, reminisce about the good old days of the 2020’s. “Who’d a thought 20 years ago we would have been… Continue reading Issue 217: 2019 10 03: Yorkshire 2040
Issue 217: 2019 10 03: Diary of a Corbynista
3 October 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Johnson declares war by Don Urquhart 26 September In my Yorkshire B&B Colin could not be friendlier or more helpful – carried our heavy cases from the car to the room, made four of us a cup of tea each, gave us lots of good advice about local… Continue reading Issue 217: 2019 10 03: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 217: 2019 10 03: The Future
03 October 2019 The Future Where’s it gone? By Neil Tidmarsh Picture the scene – and this is real life, not the movies – a high-speed car chase along the night-bound highway through Fremont, California. The suspect hits 120mph as he attempts to escape, but the pursuing police officer is driving no ordinary patrol car. … Continue reading Issue 217: 2019 10 03: The Future
Issue 217: 2019 10 03: Blue Health
03 October 2019 Blue Health Not the Blues. By Lynda Goetz Many years ago whilst at university, I remember penning a poem I think I called ‘Not the Blues’. Why, I wondered, was a low mood or depression called ’the blues’? Shouldn’t it have been called ‘the greys’? Grey, after all, is the colour, certainly… Continue reading Issue 217: 2019 10 03: Blue Health
Issue 217: 2019 10 03: Letter to the Editors
03 October 2017 Letter to the Editors EBITDA from Anthony Silver Dear Sir In the ultimate para of his article on the late Thos. Cook, Frank O’Nomics made the important point that shareholders need be mindful of ‘…level of debt on the balance sheet, the cost of servicing that debt, and the extent to… Continue reading Issue 217: 2019 10 03: Letter to the Editors
Issue 217: 2019 10 03: Crossword
03 October 2019 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 217 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 216 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 217: 2019 10 03: Cartoons
03 October 2019 Cartoons by AGGro Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
