Cover Page, 05 November 2020, Issue 254 Welcome to our latest edition. We hope you enjoy its articles and features. We’d like to introduce new writers, so if you’d be interested in contributing to the Shaw Sheet on either an occasional or regular basis, please contact the editors at johnW@shawsheet.com for the writers’ guidelines.
05 November 2020 Starmer’s War The purging of Labour. By John Watson American politics has given tweets a bad reputation as vectors for false news, but for evidence that they often contain complete nonsense you could do worse than look at John McDonnell’s reaction to the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party: “Keir
5 November 2020 Go South, Old Man By J R Thomas Donald did, but Joe didn’t. Those big traditional rallies in what we used to call the Deep South have been President Trump’s natural campaign forte this time, stirring up responsive and emotional crowds, the cheering, the whooping, the banner and flag waving, even a
05 November 2020 Does a French mayor have the solutions for dealing with Islamic terrorism? By Richard Pooley Lucy Williamson, the BBC’s Paris correspondent, included this quote from a French radio interview in an article she wrote shortly after the beheading of history teacher Samuel Paty by a Chechen Muslim on 16 October: “Last year,
5 November 2020 Lies, Damned Lies and Coronavirus A time for reflection by David Chilvers There are still many stories to uncover and tell about COVID-19 in the UK*. But this week, as we enter the second lockdown in England, I felt it would be useful to reflect on how the data on the disease
05 November 2020 Looted Art A lemon & light bulb moment. By Neil Tidmarsh Last month, a valuable work of art by the famous German avant-garde artist Joseph Beuys, belonging to the LWL Museum in Münster, was stolen from an exhibition in the Oberhausen theatre in Duisburg. It was no ordinary theft, however, and the
05 November 2020 Life and Death Defining human rights. By Lynda Goetz “The problem” said the retired GP, “is that doctors now seem to view every death as some sort of failure on their part.” He was actually talking about the world’s reaction to Covid-19, but this is almost certainly a more general problem. Of
5 November 2020 Diary of a Corbynista Before the US Storm by Don Urquhart 29 October The Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) published its report on anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. They started work 18 months ago and so were dealing with a moving target. It is damning about the Party’s complaint handling, training
5 November 2020 View from the Cotswolds Money money money: It can’t buy you love By Paul Branch And then there were four…. with the passing of Nobby Stiles, very few now remain of England’s winning team from the 1966 World Cup, a sad reflection on both the passage of time and our failure to
05 November 2020 Life in an Uncertain Environment Who looks after whom? by Vic Leader A 1946 Act of Parliament established ther NHS, which came into being in 1948. I, and many other “boomers”, were born between those two dates. The Act stated that it “shall be the duty of the Minister of Health to
