Cover Page, 09 July 2020, Issue 241 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 241: 2020 07 09: Cover page
Issue: 241: Not Sorry
Issue 241: 2020 07 09: Clearing the Decks
09 July 2020 Clearing the Decks For the great push. By John Watson The offer of UK visas and ultimately British citizenship to some 40% of the population of Hong Kong ramps things up on a number of levels. Internationally it is a slap in the face for the Chinese authorities, reciprocating the breach of… Continue reading Issue 241: 2020 07 09: Clearing the Decks
Issue 241: 2020 07 09: Go, Go, Gove
9 July 2020 Go, Go, Gove by J.R.Thomas “If a wishy-washy Lib Dem Remainer is impressed by what a Tory Brexiteer is saying…”. That would be too rude a way to start a piece in the polite folds of the Shaw Sheet; yet, and yet, it is so true. One of my colleagues read Michael… Continue reading Issue 241: 2020 07 09: Go, Go, Gove
Issue 241: 2020 07 09: Why Is It So Hard
09 July 2020 “I’m Sorry” Why is it so hard to say? By Richard Pooley Two weeks ago a British friend, a retired lawyer, wondered whether people had “lost the inclination to apologise and the inclination to accept an apology.” I failed to ask what had triggered these thoughts, although he did later mention Dominic… Continue reading Issue 241: 2020 07 09: Why Is It So Hard
Issue 241: 2020 07 09: Cheap(ish) Shares
9 July 2020 Shares on the cheap(ish) Buying stocks that you didn’t know you needed. By Frank O’Nomics We’ve all done it. The offer of 70% off a pair of brick-coloured corduroy trousers is just too good to pass up – until you suffer ridicule on wearing them, and remember why you never owned any… Continue reading Issue 241: 2020 07 09: Cheap(ish) Shares
Issue 241: 2020 07 09: You Couldn’t Make It Up
09 July 2020 You Couldn’t Make It Up But some do. By Neil Tidmarsh Songshan airport in Taipei has offered a novel holiday experience in these frustrating days of grounded flights and restricted travel. Sixty lucky competition winners in Taiwan enjoyed a unique mini-vacation last week: they arrived at the airport, passed through check-in, security,… Continue reading Issue 241: 2020 07 09: You Couldn’t Make It Up
Issue 241: 2020 07 09: Learning Languages
09 July 2020 Learning Languages Qualifications, confidence, conversation & quality. By Lynda Goetz As some will be aware, there is an ongoing Ofqual (Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation) Consultation on proposed changes to the assessment of some GCSEs, AS and A level qualifications next summer. This, like all consultations, is open to any member… Continue reading Issue 241: 2020 07 09: Learning Languages
Issue 241: 2020 07 09: Death Statistics
9 July 2020 Lies, Damned Lies and Coronavirus Death Statistics by David Chilvers There have been many areas where the UK government’s handling of the Coronavirus pandemic could have been better. One of these is the data made available to try and understand how the crisis developed and to help in devising mitigating strategies. This… Continue reading Issue 241: 2020 07 09: Death Statistics
Issue 241: 2020 07 09: Diary of a Corbynista
9 July 2020 Diary of a Corbynista Chickens coming home by Don Urquhart 2 July From the start the furlough scheme was designed to protect the owners of businesses rather than the staff. It gave them the chance to plan for the post-lockdown world while minimising staff costs. Most board meetings in March would have… Continue reading Issue 241: 2020 07 09: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 241: 2020 07 09: Cotswolds’ View
9 July 2020 View from the Cotswolds Lockdown unlocked: As seen from behind the sofa By Paul Branch As a young squeamishly diffident child in the late 1950s, I was allowed to stay up late to watch the BBC’s scary black-and-white sci-fi series “Quatermass and the Pit”. After a couple of weeks of nightmares, that… Continue reading Issue 241: 2020 07 09: Cotswolds’ View
Issue 241: 2020 07 09: Local Democracy
9 July 2020 Local Democracy by Shawsheet This is our third Focus article highlighting this time Local Democracy (and this week’s Crossword is on the same theme). We asked people what they thought about it. John Nick “They do it in Paris!” And famously, on hearing these words Emma Bovary agreed to join her lover… Continue reading Issue 241: 2020 07 09: Local Democracy
Issue 241: 2020 07 09: Social Distancing
9 July 2020 Social Distancing in Cumbria Week 16 by Vic Leader This is going to be the last week of my log. The virus has not gone, the pandemic is not over but I think I’ve said all I have to say about the issues it raised in relation to us humans. Although not… Continue reading Issue 241: 2020 07 09: Social Distancing
Issue 241: 2020 07 09: Letter to the Editors
06 July 2020 Letter to the Editor Bobbies Off the Beat from Lynda Goetz Dear Sir I have read the letter from Natasha Broke in which she criticises my article “Bobbies on the beat” and other articles which appeared in Shaw Sheet and would like to make one or two comments to put the record… Continue reading Issue 241: 2020 07 09: Letter to the Editors
