Cover Page, 23 July 2020, Issue 243 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 243: 2020 07 23: Cover page
Issue: 243: Damned Lies
Issue 243: 2020 07 23: Huawei
23 July 2020 Huawei Losing the money tree. By John Watson America pleased: China upset. The U.K.’s decision to exclude Huawei from work on 5G Internet is ostensibly about security risks. No doubt security played an important part but that surely is only one part of the story. The immediate backdrop is the new assertiveness… Continue reading Issue 243: 2020 07 23: Huawei
Issue 243: 2020 07 23: Sibling Rivalry
23 July 2020 Sibling Rivalry By J R Thomas OK, she’s not his sibling but the daughter of his sibling; but even nieces can cause trouble and visit the contests of their elders upon generation and generation. And Mary Lea Trump is out to cause trouble for her Uncle Donald. But first, apologies to those… Continue reading Issue 243: 2020 07 23: Sibling Rivalry
Issue 243: 2020 07 23: Dividend Dive
23 July 2020 Dividend Dive Dynamics An opportunity – not a problem. by Frank O’Nomics Income uncertainty is a major by-product of the pandemic, and of particular concern for the private investors, pension funds and charities that rely on dividends. The global economic decline and the need to shore up company balance sheets have resulted… Continue reading Issue 243: 2020 07 23: Dividend Dive
Issue 243: 2020 07 23: Diary of a Corbynista
23 July 2020 Diary of a Corbynista It’s not about Russia by Don Urquhart 16 July People have complained that this diary is miserable. Well is it any wonder? Through some crafty shenanigans Julian Lewis was installed as Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee. So what? Well the assumption of the media is that… Continue reading Issue 243: 2020 07 23: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 243: 2020 07 23: Test Statistics
23 July 2020 Lies, Damned Lies and Coronavirus Testing Statistics by David Chilvers This week*, we look at the issue of statistics relating to COVID-19 tests. There are two types of test: A swab test, to assess whether a patient currently has COVID-19 A blood test, to assess whether someone has had COVID-19 in the… Continue reading Issue 243: 2020 07 23: Test Statistics
Issue 243: 2020 07 23: Oligarchs & Nurses
23 July 2020 View from the Cotswolds Of oligarchs and nurses: too hot to handle? By Paul Branch Two events in Westminster this week are particularly revealing and unexpectedly linked. Reds under the bed (allegedly, but we’ll never know) on the one hand, and on the other we witnessed another unfortunate governmental lapse in not… Continue reading Issue 243: 2020 07 23: Oligarchs & Nurses
Issue 243: 2020 07 23: What Do We Remember
23 July 2020 What do we remember of friends? And they of us? By Richard Pooley. Time for me to take a break from being rude about Johnson and his government. Time to write an article with no message. Just rumination and a couple of stories from another world – the past. Ever since entering… Continue reading Issue 243: 2020 07 23: What Do We Remember
Issue 243: 2020 07 23: Telling Tales
23 July 2020 Telling Tales Lockdown with Boccaccio. By Neil Tidmarsh Once upon a time, there was a king of the Lombards called Agiluf whose queen was very beautiful. She was so beautiful that one of the servants fell in love with her and tricked his way into her bed by impersonating the king in… Continue reading Issue 243: 2020 07 23: Telling Tales
Issue 243: 2020 07 23: Crossword
23 July 2020 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 243 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. 242 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 243: 2020 07 23: Cartoons
23 July 2020 Cartoons by AGGro … Continue reading Issue 243: 2020 07 23: Cartoons
