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Issue: 139: Deep Midwinter
Issue 139:2018 02 01: Lens on the week
01 February 2018 Lens on the week UK REFERENDUM: Perhaps it is a shortage of hard news which has driven the press to focus heavily on the “increased prospect of” a further referendum on EU membership being held when the terms of the Brexit deal emerge. You would think that we had all learnt our… Continue reading Issue 139:2018 02 01: Lens on the week
Issue 139:2018 02 01:French Health Care
01 February 2018 “You Value What You Pay For.” The NHS – what can the Brits learn from the French? By Richard Pooley “Nous prendrons notre retraite à la fin de l’année,” Dr Risso told my wife and me with evident glee in October. “Nous” because his wife was my wife’s doctor. Not that my… Continue reading Issue 139:2018 02 01:French Health Care
Issue 139:2018 02 01:Politics and Comedy
01 February 2018 Politics and Comedy Don’t mix. By Neil Tidmarsh Jimmy Morales was a famous comedian and comic actor before he was elected president of Guatemala two years ago. His campaign slogan was ‘neither corrupt nor a crook’, and he promised to fight corruption if he was victorious. So sardonic laughter echoed around his… Continue reading Issue 139:2018 02 01:Politics and Comedy
Issue 139:2018 02 01:The Tories’ Choice
01 February 2018 The Conservatives’ Choice Be radical! By John Watson Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize winner The Narrow Road to the Deep North not only gives a horrifying picture of the Burma railway, but also takes a very humane look at why those involved on all sides did what they did. In one particularly affecting… Continue reading Issue 139:2018 02 01:The Tories’ Choice
Issue 139:2018 02 01:Diary of a Corbynista
01 February 2018 Diary of a Corbynista Davos and other fantasies by Don Urquhart 25 January Last night I watched the Arsenal beat Chelsea. We’re going to Wembley we chanted. It was shorthand for saying we are in the Carabao Cup Final. The World Economic Forum is currently taking place in Davos, but we… Continue reading Issue 139:2018 02 01:Diary of a Corbynista
Issue 139:2018 02 01:Any colour you like
01 February 2018 Any Colour You Like Mr Musk’s bet by J.R. Thomas Well, any colour you like, so long as it’s black. So Henry Ford is rumoured to have said about his mass produced cars. Henry was a man of quotable sayings; another that might appeal is “I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. … Continue reading Issue 139:2018 02 01:Any colour you like
Issue 139: 2018 02 01: Time to be a dragon?
01 February 2018 Is it time to be a dragon? Venture Capital Trusts may be worth a look. by Frank O’Nomics Those of us who enjoy watching the BBC’s Dragon’s Den probably do so in part because we quite fancy having a wad of cash in front of us to spend on the next big… Continue reading Issue 139: 2018 02 01: Time to be a dragon?
Issue 139: 2018 02 01: ‘L’Enfer C’est…’
01 February 2018 L’Enfer C’est Les Autres The problem with ‘other people’. By Lynda Goetz For those who read my musings each week, my failure to produce anything in last week’s issue of Shaw Sheet may possibly have been a disappointment (we are all allowed to hope and dream, after all). Returning from a week… Continue reading Issue 139: 2018 02 01: ‘L’Enfer C’est…’
Issue 139: 2018 02 01: Chin Boosts Sterling
01 February 2018 Chin Boosts Sterling A financial god. By Chin Chin Aargh! Aargh! Aargh! Aargh! Aargh! The news is enough to make you feel sick. No, I don’t mean the prospect of even more bloodshed in the Middle East as Turkey turns on the Kurds. Nor am I referring it to those harbingers of… Continue reading Issue 139: 2018 02 01: Chin Boosts Sterling
Issue 139: 2018 02 01: Get Lewis
1 February 2018 Get Lewis The Scunthorpe set by J.R.Thomas The editor may well think that this column has an unnatural obsession with crime; but as crime is one of the most popular genres of fiction we will risk our readers’ moral fibre yet again; a serious risk this time, via a forgotten… Continue reading Issue 139: 2018 02 01: Get Lewis
Issue 139: 2018 02 01: John (by Anne Baker)
1 February 2108 John (a play by Anne Baker) The National Theatre reviewed by Adam McCormack Stars: **** Jenny and Elias have been going through a difficult patch in their relationship. In an effort to patch things up, they take a trip to the battlefield sites of Gettysburg in the week after Thanksgiving. Elias has… Continue reading Issue 139: 2018 02 01: John (by Anne Baker)
