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Issue 233: 2020 05 14: Starmer v Johnson

09 May 2020 Starmer v Johnson The first round. By John Watson “Well, how did it go?” That is the question everyone asks when a new car has been given a road test and it is the question which members of the Labour Party will be asking about the first appearance of their new leader… Continue reading Issue 233: 2020 05 14: Starmer v Johnson

Issue 232: 2020 05 07: Cover page

Cover Page, 07 May 2020, Issue 232 Welcome to our latest edition. We hope you enjoy its articles, features and puzzles. The Shaw Sheet would like to introduce new writers either on an occasional or regular basis. So have you got some spare time at the moment? If so contact the editors at johnW@shawsheet.com for… Continue reading Issue 232: 2020 05 07: Cover page

Issue 232: 2020 05 07: Pestilence Two

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7 May 2020 Pestilence Two by J.R. Thomas Not the goddamned plague again, you groan. No, don’t worry, a little, but not much. But back to the future we must first go, to November 2020. Here is what we never expected; Joe Biden’s name on the ballot paper, the results starting to come in: “And… Continue reading Issue 232: 2020 05 07: Pestilence Two

Issue 232: 2020 05 07: Social Distancing

7 May 2020 Social Distancing in Cumbria Week 7 by Vic Leader 7 weeks, 49 days, the passage of an entire month, an unprecedented restriction in my lifetime. Yet, by focusing on who and what matters, this time has passed without seeming to go too slowly. I can think of many periods of my life,… Continue reading Issue 232: 2020 05 07: Social Distancing

Issue 232: 2020 05 07: Cartoons

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Issue 232: 2020 05 07: Crossword

07 May 2020 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 232 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. 231 Share this using…FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail

Issue 232: 2020 05 07: Leaving Lockdown

07 May 2020 Leaving the Lockdown Who decides? By Frank O’Nomics Everyone has a view about when the lockdown should end. This view varies enormously according to your definition of what constitutes a lockdown. Nevertheless, there are those that feel that any delay that saves more lives is worth enduring, and others who believe that… Continue reading Issue 232: 2020 05 07: Leaving Lockdown

Issue 232: 2020 05 07: Diary of a Corbynista

7 May 2020 Diary of a Corbynista World’s Best Covid-19 PR by Don Urquhart 30 April The Downing Street Press Briefing was graced by the A team of Johnson, Vallance and Witty. Johnson told us how well everything was going. Vallance took us through the slides, omitting the one that tells us how much we… Continue reading Issue 232: 2020 05 07: Diary of a Corbynista

Issue 232: 2020 05 07: Something in the Air

07 May 2020 Something In The Air But it’s not us. By Neil Tidmarsh Ok, so we’re not flying anywhere, not now or any time in the near future, what with lockdown and airlines mothballing their fleets on out-of-the-way airfields and fearing they’ll go bust long before our grounded economy takes off again. But that… Continue reading Issue 232: 2020 05 07: Something in the Air

Issue 232: 2020 05 07: Homeless

07 May 2020 Homeless Unwelcome and unsafe. By Lynda Goetz I have just finished reading The Salt Path, the inspirational, lyrical, Costa-shortlisted book by Raynor Winn, published in 2018. It is the account of Ray and her husband Moth’s walk from Minehead in Somerset to Poole in Dorset, along the South West Coast Path, after… Continue reading Issue 232: 2020 05 07: Homeless

Issue 232: 2020 05 07: Have We Taken Leave

07 May 2020 Have we taken leave of our senses? By Richard Pooley Like at least one other contributor to Shaw Sheet, I am experiencing the Covid-19 pandemic outside my own country. In my case I’m a Brit confiné in south-west France. So, since arriving here a few days before the French lock-down, I have… Continue reading Issue 232: 2020 05 07: Have We Taken Leave

Issue 232: 2020 05 07: Eat Your Weeds

07 May 2020 Eat Your Weeds Foraging for food. By Amelia Power Ever since my two-year stint in Australia I have been fascinated by foraging. Inspired by Aboriginal bush tucker and the abundance of edible plants, fruit, roots and fungi which I discovered whilst travelling the deserts and beaches in my trusty van, I found… Continue reading Issue 232: 2020 05 07: Eat Your Weeds

Issue 232: 2020 05 07: Eton’s Contribution

07 May 2020 Eton’s Contribution The £100 million experiment. By Robert Kilconner The announcement that Eton is in discussions with the Department of Education about spending £100 million on teaching disadvantaged sixth formers in East Anglia, the Midlands and the North may prove to be a significant milestone in the movement by private schools to… Continue reading Issue 232: 2020 05 07: Eton’s Contribution

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