Cover Page, 16 April 2020, Issue 229 The Shaw Sheet is reopening this week. Although the format is much the same you will notice changes over the next few weeks. Some articles will stay up longer. Some will be posted during the week. In due course the layout will be revised. The most important change… Continue reading Issue 229: 2020 04 16: Cover page
Issue: 229: The Phoenix Arises
Issue 229: 2020 04 16: Demystifying R
16 April 2020 Demystifying R The reproduction number. By John Watson Banged up by the lockdown? Maybe it’s time to get hold of some A-level maths books and try to understand some of the terms being used by the commentators on the progress of Covid 19. Exponential increase? What exactly is that? It sounds big… Continue reading Issue 229: 2020 04 16: Demystifying R
Issue 229: 2020 04 16: Thrice Woe
16 April 2020 Woe, Woe and Thrice Woe Irrational Fears? by J.R.Thomas Our readers may well be fed up to the back teeth with recommendations as to what to read in this period of forced semi-leisure. But this column will risk two more; not romances or thrillers or even woke novels, not vast triple magnum… Continue reading Issue 229: 2020 04 16: Thrice Woe
Issue 229: 2020 04 16: After Covid
16 April 2020 After Covid An opportunity. By Robert Kilconner In a competition of foolish platitudes, the notorious “Brexit means Brexit” is gradually being overtaken by the assertion that “after Covid 19 things will not go back to where they were before”. Of course they won’t, and, of course, they should not. Attitudes and social… Continue reading Issue 229: 2020 04 16: After Covid
Issue 229: 2020 04 16: Will Covid 19
16 April 2020 Will Covid-19 change the French? By Richard Pooley A year and a day ago the roof of Notre Dame in Paris caught fire. “You learn a lot about a people’s culture when they are hit by a disaster, natural or man-made” was the opening sentence of my commentary Notre Dame on this… Continue reading Issue 229: 2020 04 16: Will Covid 19
Issue 229: 2020 04 16: Town and Country
16 April 2020 Town and Country Differences exacerbated. By Lynda Goetz This week, conservationist Dr Jane Goodall (the primatologist and chimpanzee expert) was reported as suggesting that the Duke of Sussex may give up hunting because of his wife’s views on the matter. Meghan is not and never will be a countrywoman. ‘Townies’ (and many… Continue reading Issue 229: 2020 04 16: Town and Country
Issue 229: 2020 04 16: Covid-19 Investment
16 April 2020 Covid-19 Investment Don’t trash your golf clubs by Frank O’Nomics Question 1: Has Rory McIlroy thrown his golf clubs in a skip? Question 2: Has Damien Hirst sold his paintbrushes? Question 3: Have you sold any of your investments or liquidated part of your pension fund? The answer to the first two… Continue reading Issue 229: 2020 04 16: Covid-19 Investment
Issue 229: 2020 04 16: How Many Plagues?
16 April 2020 How Many Plagues? The great multi-tasker. By Neil Tidmarsh Biblical? Well, it does seem to have hit us at exactly the same time of year that the Old Testament plagues hit Egypt. Passover began last week – the festival originated in the culmination of the Plagues of Egypt, the fourteenth day of… Continue reading Issue 229: 2020 04 16: How Many Plagues?
Issue 229: 2020 04 16: Diary of a Corbynista
16 April 2020 Diary of a Corbynista Post Corbyn Blues by Don Urquhart Shawsheet has been taking a break for 4 months. The Diary continued and here are some of the entries. 13 December A few years ago I spoke at a friend’s funeral. He had devised the order of service and it ended with… Continue reading Issue 229: 2020 04 16: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 229: 2020 04 16: Social Distancing
16 April 2020 Social Distancing Cumbria by Vic Leader Week 1 – 24/03/2020 One week ago I took the scientific advice and adopted Social Distancing. These are my observations from that first week. I cannot recall an earlier week in which I have spoken to more people. All by phone, Internet, etc, not face to face,… Continue reading Issue 229: 2020 04 16: Social Distancing
Issue 229: 2020 04 16: Easter
16 April 2020 Easter Service The Shaw Sheet For the benefit of those who were prevented from attending Easter Service by the Covid pandemic and would prefer a more formal setting than the Archbishop’s kitchen, we provide a link to the very beautiful pre-recorded service streamed from St Bartholomew the Great in Smithfield. Happy Easter.… Continue reading Issue 229: 2020 04 16: Easter
