What a week ahead! Panic guys. Family ties. Major lies. Scots rise. Get wise. Vote ayes. Union dies?If Scotland votes ‘No’ to independence, ‘devo-maybe’ will most likely vanish into mist. We’ll give you more power – if you vote for less power. Will we, really? Not a chance. You’ve had your little bit of fun,ContinueContinue reading “The Final Countdown”
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Vote No Evil
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Whose Hospitals?
“I don’t know how much any of you realise that with the Lansley act we pretty much gave away control of the NHS… we don’t really have day-to-day control.” Jane Ellison, Public Health Minister (June 2014)In Scotland and Wales, car parking charges at hospitals have been largely abolished. That’s one of the consequences of devolution.InContinueContinue reading “Whose Hospitals?”
The Eastern Question
“‘Fighting’ was one of the most honourable words in the vocabulary, ‘the real, highest, honestest business of every son of man’, as Thomas Hughes put it… Of course, the fight had to be for a good cause. But one of the effects of imperialism had been to imbue very large numbers of people with aContinueContinue reading “The Eastern Question”
False Flags & The Fallen
It takes a lot of planning to fit the First World War in between Sunday’s closing ceremony for the Stolenwealth Games and tonight’s televised independence debate between Alex Salmond and Alistair Darling. The juxtaposition may give cause for thought. Scotland’s choice seems to lie between two visions of Europe. On the one hand, it canContinueContinue reading “False Flags & The Fallen”
Defence: Deceit & Denial
We’ve discussed before the centuries-old military occupation of Wessex by the UK’s armed services, and how this distorts both our economy and our objectivity in making moral judgments about foreign intervention or the ability to ‘project influence’ abroad. There’s also an environmental cost. Enter Tidworth from the north at present and you’ll find it aContinueContinue reading “Defence: Deceit & Denial”
Democracy’s Debt
Malmesbury – the oldest borough in England – is one of many Wessex market towns on the front line in the struggle against London overspill. The Coalition, for whose parties all constituencies in Wiltshire mainly voted in 2010, is doing its best to make sure that Malmesbury loses. The National Planning Policy Framework – theContinueContinue reading “Democracy’s Debt”
Not Gingerbread Houses
What have we been saying? That the range of demands increasingly being placed on our countryside could soon exceed the supply of rural land. Now it’s been confirmed. Cambridge University’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership has published a report – The Best Use of UK Agricultural Land – quantifying the UK-wide shortfall at up to 6ContinueContinue reading “Not Gingerbread Houses”
Don’t Mention The Region!
A recent post on a left-leaning website makes an excellent case study, for all the wrong reasons. Dan Holden’s piece, ‘Westminster Must Address Regional Identities’, is the sort of thing that has been written many times before and doesn’t get any better, because centralist assumptions are never challenged. First up, the writer appears to sitContinueContinue reading “Don’t Mention The Region!”
The Summer of Discontent
David Cameron would like to think of Scotland’s referendum as a little local difficulty. Perhaps that’s why the mainstream media stay so quiet about the widespread discontent now simmering across Europe as our continent awakes to new possibilities. Catalans are ignoring Madrid’s refusal to allow them a vote on independence. Basques are thinking along theContinueContinue reading “The Summer of Discontent”
Wessex Regionalists 