Cover Page, 28 November 2019, Issue 225 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 225: 2019 11 28: Cover page
Issue: 225: Manifesto Destiny
Issue 225: 2019 11 28: Lens on the Week
28 November 2019 Lens on the Week UK LABOUR’S GOODIE BAG: the Labour party has now published its manifesto which includes: a promise to renegotiate the Brexit agreement within three months and then hold a referendum under which the public can choose between the revised deal and remaining in the EU. The party has not… Continue reading Issue 225: 2019 11 28: Lens on the Week
Issue 225: 2019 11 28: Labour’s Manifesto
28 November 2019 Labour’s Manifesto A flawed document. By John Watson The Labour Party’s manifesto is 107 pages long and amounts to a list. The authors have apparently thought of everything which doesn’t work well in our society, mentioned it and said that they will deal with it. Sometimes it is a new institution. Sometimes… Continue reading Issue 225: 2019 11 28: Labour’s Manifesto
Issue 225: 2019 11 28: Bagging a Royal
28 November 2019 Bagging a Royal The hunt. by J R Thomas I had a text from my friend in Boondoggle, USA, last week. He wanted to know what it was that Prince Andrew had been convicted of, because as he put it: “the trial has not been reported over here”. Nor over here, my… Continue reading Issue 225: 2019 11 28: Bagging a Royal
Issue 225: 2019 11 28: UK Election 2019
28 November 2019 UK General Election 2019 From afar. By Richard Pooley As loyal readers may know, I now divide most of my time between the UK and France, a citizen of the world and therefore a citizen of nowhere, if Mrs Theresa May is to be believed. Please don’t say “who?”. Too cruel. Oh… Continue reading Issue 225: 2019 11 28: UK Election 2019
Issue 225: 2019 11 28: Hamsters and Dragons
28 November 2019 Hamsters and Dragons Where’s the money gone? By Neil Tidmarsh “Now you see it, now you don’t!” Like a sinister magician, the Credit Crunch waved its magic wand in 2008 and all the money in the world seemed to disappear in a puff of smoke. Everybody’s been looking for it for over… Continue reading Issue 225: 2019 11 28: Hamsters and Dragons
Issue 225: 2019 11 28: Toothless Central Banks
28 November 2019 Toothless Central Banks Fiscal policy returns. By Frank O’Nomics The Keynesian vs. Monetarist economic debate supposedly ended some years ago. At every recent economic downturn the main responsibility for carving a path back to prosperity lay with independent central banks and their control of interest rates and the money supply. If economic… Continue reading Issue 225: 2019 11 28: Toothless Central Banks
Issue 225: 2019 11 28: Diary of a Corbynista
28 November 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Scraping the bottom of the barrel by Don Urquhart 21 November Over the last few days The Jewish Chronicle has reported on anti-Semitism in the Conservative Party and among their Brexit Party bedfellows. Jon Lansmann The media have turned a blind eye to the Conservatives’ anti-Semitism problem for… Continue reading Issue 225: 2019 11 28: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 225: 2019 11 28: ‘Epidemics’ & ‘Crises’
28 November 2019 ‘Epidemics’ and ‘Crises’ A historical perspective. By Lynda Goetz Each era, not to mention each culture, has a different understanding of life, human behaviour and our relationship with the world around us. Currently, at least in this country, we are living in a time when, on the whole, most of the population… Continue reading Issue 225: 2019 11 28: ‘Epidemics’ & ‘Crises’
Issue 225: 2019 11 28: My Brilliant Friend
28 November 2019 My Brilliant Friend Part I and II – adapted by April De Angelis The National Theatre reviewed by Adam McCormack Star Rating **** Cramming the contents of four novels covering a period of 60 years into 2 plays is a tough ask. It is even tougher when those novels are one of… Continue reading Issue 225: 2019 11 28: My Brilliant Friend
Issue 225: 2019 11 28: Crossword
28 November 2019 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 225 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 224 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 225: 2019 11 28: Cartoons
28 November 2019 Cartoons by AGGro Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
