Cover Page, 04 June 2020, Issue 236 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 [email protected] for… Continue reading Issue 236: 2020 06 04: Cover page
Issue: 236: Keeping a Dog
Issue 236: 2020 06 04: Good Old Uncle Sam
04 June 2020 Good Old Uncle Sam A breaking reed? By John Watson Sometimes it is the straws which you have to watch. There is a lot of alarming news coming from the US at the moment: riots across the land; social fragmentation on a scale not seen since the 1960s; a president who talks… Continue reading Issue 236: 2020 06 04: Good Old Uncle Sam
Issue 236: 2020 06 04: Double Trouble
4 June 2020 Double Trouble A Political Minefield by J.R. Thomas Bird hunters will know the feeling, stalking quail when suddenly a whole covey gets up and flies in different directions. That’s when careless use of a weapon can really do damage. And those very different vote hunters, Biden and Trump, have got quail flying… Continue reading Issue 236: 2020 06 04: Double Trouble
Issue 236: 2020 06 04: Women & Government
4 July 2020 Women, government, and how could they have got it so wrong? by Professor Lis Howell At the UK House of Commons Liaison Committee meeting on Wednesday May 27th, Boris Johnson appeared to laugh at questions from Caroline Nokes, Chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee, when she asked about the lack… Continue reading Issue 236: 2020 06 04: Women & Government
Issue 236: 2020 06 04: Get Closer
04 June 2020 Get Closer Don masks! By Richard Pooley Three friends disagreed with the message in my article last week: the UK needs to cut “social distancing” from two metres to one. Surely, they each argued, there’s less risk of infection the further apart we are from each other? Correct, I replied. Furthermore, there… Continue reading Issue 236: 2020 06 04: Get Closer
Issue 236: 2020 06 04: Life on Mars?
04 June 2020 Is There Life On Mars? Space race, arms race, race riots. By Neil Tidmarsh When did you last have a haircut? My last trip to the barber was on January 29. My hair hasn’t been this long since I was a teenager back in the mid 70’s. I’m not unhappy about it. … Continue reading Issue 236: 2020 06 04: Life on Mars?
Issue 236: 2020 06 04: Keeping Cummings
04 June 2020 Keeping Cummings Only common sense. By Robert Kilconner In a curious way the Cummings affair seems to have become a proxy, the level of public anger being sustained not just by the behaviour of Mr Cummings himself but rather by dismay at the disastrous results of the Government’s laid-back approach to the… Continue reading Issue 236: 2020 06 04: Keeping Cummings
Issue 236: 2020 06 04: Pension Potty
04 June 2020 Pension Potty Prospective Pensioner Poverty by Frank O’Nomics Pension pots are disappearing at an unprecedented rate. Over £35bn has been withdrawn from pensions since greater flexibility was announced in 2015, and now those pots are being further undermined by a fall in asset prices and a reduction in contributions. Reasons of fear… Continue reading Issue 236: 2020 06 04: Pension Potty
Issue 236: 2020 06 04: Diary of a Corbynista
04 June 2020 Diary of a Corbynista Skin Deep Democracy by Don Urquhart 28 May In Shawsheet 235 Philip Throp recommended several football books to see us through Lockdown. One of these, Pointless by Jeff Connor, follows the fortunes of the worst team in the Scottish League, East Stirlingshire. I was reminded of them tonight… Continue reading Issue 236: 2020 06 04: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 236: 2020 06 04: Get On With It
4 June 2020 View from the Cotswolds Get over it, get a grip and get on with it By Paul Branch Here in West Oxfordshire, this glorious spring heralding the still greater splendour of summer, it’s tempting to sit back in the garden, savour that last (but maybe just one more) glass of wine, think… Continue reading Issue 236: 2020 06 04: Get On With It
Issue 236: 2020 06 04: Social Distancing
04 June 2020 Social Distancing in Cumbria Week 11 by Vic Leader It has been simple so far. Week 1 of 12, then 2 etc, halfway, two thirds. This should have been the penultimate week. But it’s changed a bit. The easing has been extended, we are allowed to associate with more people, some children… Continue reading Issue 236: 2020 06 04: Social Distancing
Issue 236: 2020 06 04: The New Normal
04 June 2020 The New Normal Revisited by Shaw Sheet A further contribution to the New Normal commentaries Meghan Adair There has been a lot of talk about what the ‘new normal’ looks like in the post COVID-19 world, what does it mean for holidays and travel, family occasions such as weddings and how will… Continue reading Issue 236: 2020 06 04: The New Normal
Issue 236: 2020 06 04: Time to Say Goodbye
04 June 2020 Time to Say Goodbye Puppy love. By Lynda Goetz One of the most appealing photographs in my newspaper this week was of a record-breaking litter of fourteen Labrador puppies (mixed black and golden) rather amazingly lined up and posing beautifully. Three thoughts crossed my mind: firstly, how thrilled the breeder must be;… Continue reading Issue 236: 2020 06 04: Time to Say Goodbye
