Cover Page, 17 October 2019, Issue 219 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 219: 2019 10 17: Cover page
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Issue 219: 2019 10 17: Lens on the Week
17 October 2019 Lens on the Week UK WILL THEY? WON’T THEY? All eyes and ears are focused, if you can focus ears, on the Brexit discussions but sadly for commentators they seem to be being carried out in a relatively leak-free room. We are left, then, seeing through a glass darkly, that is by… Continue reading Issue 219: 2019 10 17: Lens on the Week
Issue 219: 2019 10 17: The Brexit Plague
17 October 2019 The Brexit Plague OECD infected. By John Watson Let your bells toll! Bring out your dead! A new plague spreads across the world. This time, however, the victims do not come out in lumps. They just lose their minds and assume that a few vague statements of general principle are a substitute… Continue reading Issue 219: 2019 10 17: The Brexit Plague
Issue 219: 2019 10 17: Panic Please
17 October 2019 Panic Please Climate emergency? by J.R. Thomas That’s not the advice from my local council, which in the words of the much missed Willie Whitelaw, is going round stirring up apathy. They have declared a “Climate Emergency” panic and in this rural boondocks, the local populace is, well, totally dismissive. But our… Continue reading Issue 219: 2019 10 17: Panic Please
Issue 219: 2019 10 17: The Cock-Up Factor
17 October 2019 The Cock-Up Factor Dragons, spies and cosmonauts. By Neil Tidmarsh Half a million euros. In cash. Life savings, let’s say. What would you do with it? Put it in the bank? Invest it? Spend it? Or hide it away somewhere safe and close to hand, like the 49-year old garage owner from… Continue reading Issue 219: 2019 10 17: The Cock-Up Factor
Issue 219: 2019 10 17: Locum Doctors
17 October 2019 Locum Doctors They cost less than plumbers! By Lynda Goetz Last week my subject was the public and their attitude to vets. This week I turn to the public and doctors. Like most of the rest of the population, I am a user of the NHS, the existence of which we all… Continue reading Issue 219: 2019 10 17: Locum Doctors
Issue 219: 2019 10 17: Nagasaki
17 October 2019 Nagasaki Japan’s pariah city? By Richard Pooley It was a bizarre sight even for Japan. As I came through the ticket gates onto the small plaza at Nagasaki station ten days ago I was welcomed by the sight of a Dutch-flagged, 17th Century sailing ship on wheels being rotated at high speed… Continue reading Issue 219: 2019 10 17: Nagasaki
Issue 219: 2019 10 17: Economics for Good
17 October 2019 Economics for Good Going beyond the theory by Frank O’Nomics A fund manager acquaintance was fond of putting his broker contacts on the spot. “What is the collective noun for economists?” he would ask. Of course there is one, but no one knew it (I will give the answer later, I promise),… Continue reading Issue 219: 2019 10 17: Economics for Good
Issue 219: 2019 10 17: Diary of a Corbynista
17 October 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Fake Negotiations by Don Urquhart 10 October I was lucky enough to attend the UK premiere of Gavin Hood’s film Official Secrets, the true story of Iraq war whistleblower Kathy Gun. The first scene has Keira Knightley as Kathy watching Tony Blair on TV expounding his Weapons of… Continue reading Issue 219: 2019 10 17: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 219: 2019 10 17: Antony Gormley
17 October 2019 Antony Gormley At the RA. Reviewed by Lynda Goetz Certain friends highly recommended the Antony Gormley* exhibition, so when last in London I made use of my RA membership to drop in and have a look. I came away musing on ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’. As I came in from the ‘wrong’ side… Continue reading Issue 219: 2019 10 17: Antony Gormley
