Cover Page, 10 March 2022, Issue 315 Welcome to our latest edition. This week we consider the history of Ukraine, celebrate its president and check the Vatican’s stance; closer to home we inspect the Church’s dilemma, the development of Covid in the UK and public service reforms; the Shawsheet’s role in informing you is laid… Continue reading Issue 315: 2022 03 10: Cover page
Issue: 315: A Long Spoon
The Putin Conundrum
10 March 2022 The Putin Conundrum By Paul Branch What to do about Putin, short of just giving him everything he’s currently asking for? Other solutions appear obvious but probably wouldn’t work very well. Where’s a UN peacekeeping force when you need one? And why doesn’t someone invite Russia to join NATO? More plausible but… Continue reading The Putin Conundrum
Hats off, Ladies and Gentlemen
10 March 2022 Zelensky Hats off, Ladies and Gentlemen By John Watson When the Ukraine is again a free and peaceful country, assuming that it one day achieves that status, people will build a statue to President Zelensky on a prime site somewhere in the middle of Kiev. It will show him at a heroic… Continue reading Hats off, Ladies and Gentlemen
Zombie Nation No More?
10 March 2022 Zombie Nation No More? Russia’s home front. By Neil Tidmarsh An article in The Times last Saturday announced a new food movement – ‘invasivorism’ – eating invasive plants and animals. A conservation biologist in the USA has set up a new resource called ‘Eat the Invaders’; a teacher and cookbook author in… Continue reading Zombie Nation No More?
Public Service Reforms
10 March 2022 Diary of a Corbynista Public Service Reforms by Don Urquhart Under the tenure of Jeremy Hunt the Health Service went into reorganisation mode. Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) would administer budgets. Local people would be consulted about how it would all work. So in 2013 I went to a meeting and was… Continue reading Public Service Reforms
The Empty House
10 March 2022 The Empty House by J.R. Thomas It is well known in English polite circles, and no doubt in Scottish and Welsh ones too, that on no account should conversation at dinner venture onto the subjects of politics, sex, and religion. (Exclusions are allowed for conversation and in particular, jokes, that manage to… Continue reading The Empty House
The Point of Us
10 March 2022 The Point of Us Perhaps. By Lynda Goetz For the last few weeks we have seen a real return to ‘old-fashioned’ journalism, to a world of war correspondents, reports from the front line and expert commentary from those with inside or specialist knowledge. The public are looking for immediate updates, the latest… Continue reading The Point of Us
All Quiet on the Covid front
10 March 2022 Lies, Damned Lies and Coronavirus All quiet on the COVID front by David Chilvers Over the last two weeks, since my last article, the war in Ukraine has understandably become the focus of the media. The events unfolding there are indeed tragic and the free press has undertaken an amazing task, at… Continue reading All Quiet on the Covid front
Sucking the Oxygen
10 March 2022 Sucking the Oxygen And facing the aftermath. By Robert Kilconner The theory that by sucking up all available oxygen a fire can stifle those near to it probably belongs to science fiction. Yes, there are plenty of ways in which a fire can kill you but the creation of a vacuum is… Continue reading Sucking the Oxygen
Cartoons
10 March 2022 Cartoons By AGGro Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
Crossword
10 March 2022 Crossword Number 315 By Boffles Click for this Week’s interactive online crossword Click for a printable version of this Week’s crossword Click for solution to crossword 314 Share this using… Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Whatsapp
