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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
