Cover Page, 31 October 2019, Issue 221 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 221: 2019 10 31: Cover page
Issue: 221: NeitherUpNorDown
Issue 221: 2019 10 31: Lens on the Week
31 October 2019 Lens on the Week UK ELECTION FEVER: Once the SNP and the Liberal Democrats had declared themselves in favour of an election and had suggested setting aside the requirement for a two thirds majority under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act with a new Bill, a December poll became inevitable and Labour accepted… Continue reading Issue 221: 2019 10 31: Lens on the Week
Issue 221: 2019 10 31: Making Manifest
31 October 2019 Making Manifest In the festival season. By John Watson So a December election it is. It is said that that may tell against the government because the electorate do not like to be disturbed in the run-up to Christmas. After all, there are precedents. Remember how Edward II consulted the barons in… Continue reading Issue 221: 2019 10 31: Making Manifest
Issue 221: 2019 10 31: Drive Carefully, Now
31 October 2019 Drive Carefully, Now It’s Complicated by J.R.Thomas It’s official. We are all stupid. Stooopid, as Mr Trump might say (though not of, or to, the voters). But in good old blighty, our betters have no hesitation in so saying to the voters, to the people, to their employers. It was basically the… Continue reading Issue 221: 2019 10 31: Drive Carefully, Now
Issue 221: 2019 10 31: Waffles and Pancakes
31 October 2019 Waffles and Pancakes Gender nonsense. By Lynda Goetz When I first read Claire Cohen’s article about Ernst & Young’s (EY) female executive seminar, I was disbelieving. What! In this day and age? Really? When I read aloud some extracts from the article, taken directly from the 55-page seminar notes, two female friends… Continue reading Issue 221: 2019 10 31: Waffles and Pancakes
Issue 221: 2019 10 31: Price of Retirement
31 October 2019 The Price of Retirement We are not saving enough. by Frank O’Nomics What, for you, would constitute an acceptable retirement? The ability to keep a roof over your head, clothe and feed yourself? Or does some scope to lounge on a sun-kissed beach and visit the theatre feature in your plans? The… Continue reading Issue 221: 2019 10 31: Price of Retirement
Issue 221: 2019 10 31: Diary of a Corbynista
31 October 2019 Diary of a Corbynista This time please… by Don Urquhart 24 October The black propaganda and bullying coming out of Number 10 and its endless repetition by the Billionaire Press, craven broadcasters like Kuenssberg and Peston and the wooden Tory members and apologists has much in common with authoritarian regimes. Tory MP… Continue reading Issue 221: 2019 10 31: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 221: 2019 10 31: A Halloween Demo
31 October 2019 Halloween Demonstrations Even the dead are protesting. By Neil Tidmarsh It’s halloween. A crescent moon – as bright and cold and sinister as a psychopath’s smile – looks down on a graveyard where a sharp wind chases yellow and black leaves around the tombstones like a werewolf scattering its prey. But the… Continue reading Issue 221: 2019 10 31: A Halloween Demo
Issue 221: 2019 10 31: Letter to the Editors
31 October 2019 Letter to the Editors Anti-semitism from Anthony Silver Dear Sir, In this week’s edition your in-house Corbynista has gone too far. In the past his gratuitous and offensive use of quotes from Julius Streicher and Hitler to justify some obtuse and asinine point in support of ‘Der Corbyn’ may have laid claim… Continue reading Issue 221: 2019 10 31: Letter to the Editors
Issue 221: 2019 10 31: Crossword
31 October 2019 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 221 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 220 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 221: 2019 10 31: Cartoons
31 October 2019 Cartoons by AGGro Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
