Cover Page, 17 December 2020, Issue 260 Welcome to our latest edition. This week we consider the problems of a one-off wealth tax, the decline of public manners, a review of our reports on Covid-19 statistics, rising tension between townies and the countryside in France, the investment potential of Bitcoin, a Corbynista’s week, and more.… Continue reading Issue 260: 2020 12 17: Cover page
Issue: 260: Exit 4 Christmas
Issue 260: 2020 12 17: The Covid Numbers
17 December 2020 Lies, Damned Lies and Coronavirus What we have learned. By David Chilvers I have been writing these weekly columns since early July. The Shaw Sheet will not be published for either of the next two weeks, so I thought today I would summarise what we have learned about COVID-19 in the past… Continue reading Issue 260: 2020 12 17: The Covid Numbers
Issue 260: 2020 12 17: Tax Changes
17 December 2020 Tax Changes Roads to a better system. By John Watson Oink-splat; oink-splat; oink-splat? No, I have never really believed in the existence of flying pigs either but, for all that, they are less of a strain on the credulity than the statement at paragraph 4.1.2 of the final report of the Wealth… Continue reading Issue 260: 2020 12 17: Tax Changes
Issue 260: 2020 12 17: A Bitcoin Christmas?
17 December 2020 A Bitcoin Christmas? Still not convinced. By Frank O’Nomics It’s three years since I wrote in these columns about the folly of Bitcoin. At the time it was trading at around $14,000, yet within a year it languished closer to $4,000. Pretty clever – until we look at the price action this… Continue reading Issue 260: 2020 12 17: A Bitcoin Christmas?
Issue 260: 2020 12 17: Excuse Me, Please
17 December 2020 Excuse Me, Please Words from the wise. By J.R. Thomas We must not overlook at the closing of this year the passing of two truly great writers. First, John Le Carré, or David Cornwell as he was born and remained in private life. The prints are full of tributes to “a great… Continue reading Issue 260: 2020 12 17: Excuse Me, Please
Issue 260: 2020 12 17: The French Countryside
17 December 2020 “A way of life, not a museum” Town v Country in France. By Richard Pooley When my wife and I moved to France in 2013, we spent the first seven months in a rented house on the southern edge of Brive-la-Gaillarde, a town of some 50,000 people in the south-west. One of… Continue reading Issue 260: 2020 12 17: The French Countryside
Issue 260: 2020 12 17: Diary of a Corbynista
17 December 2020 Diary of a Corbynista Sunlit Uplands Beckon by Don Urquhart 10 December At PMQ’s Johnson told us what a grand future awaits us thanks to Brexit, deal or no deal. One of the wonders we are to anticipate is the establishment of free ports which, as far as I can ascertain, are… Continue reading Issue 260: 2020 12 17: Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 260: 2020 12 17: The Dressing-Up Box
17 December 2020 The Dressing-Up Box A Christmas story. By Neil Tidmarsh “I don’t want to go!” she shouted. “It’ll be boring! Boring!” “But, Jenny dear, it’s only open once a year!” her mother explained. “A special Christmas treat!” “Who wants to look at a big old house anyway? Boring! Old pictures and old furniture… Continue reading Issue 260: 2020 12 17: The Dressing-Up Box
Issue 260: 2020 12 17: Glad Tidings
17 December 2020 View from the Cotswolds Glad tidings: Brexit ahoy, Trump overboard! By Paul Branch The last ditch dash to Brussels came to nought, or so we thought. EU headquarters and 10 Downing Street seemed to agree on one thing though: the severe degree of pessimism in their statements following the cosy tete-a-tete between… Continue reading Issue 260: 2020 12 17: Glad Tidings
Issue 260: 2020 12 17: Crossword
17 December 2020 Crossword By Boffles Crossword No 260 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. 259 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Issue 260: 2020 12 17: Cartoons
17 December 2020 Cartoons By AGGro Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
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