Angus Macpherson is Police & Crime Commissioner for Wiltshire Police. He recently told a business breakfast meeting that the police were now working as a region, taking in Gloucestershire, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall, but, he added, “We will not lose Wiltshire Police – neighbourhood members of the police, working and living in local communities. ItContinueContinue reading “Softly, Softly”
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Berlin Wall II
Aye or nae, Scotland’s debate over its future is laying bare the fundamental structure of the UK in ways that no academic study could have begun to contemplate. There’s nothing like demanding answers to questions that were always thought too fanciful to ask but have suddenly become part of an urgent reality. We know whatContinueContinue reading “Berlin Wall II”
Lesser Lands?: A Postscript
“Universal peace will be impossible, so long as the present centralised states exist. We must desire their destruction in order that, on the ruins of these forced unions organised from above by right of authority and conquest, there may arise free unions organised from below by the free federations of localities into provinces, of provincesContinueContinue reading “Lesser Lands?: A Postscript”
Lesser Lands?
Still, after all these years, we get comments to the effect that regionalists don’t understand the English love of the shires and therefore the instinctive resistance that is provoked by regionalism. It’s a straw man argument, based on what may have been said by the Labour Party about phasing out county councils. We have alwaysContinueContinue reading “Lesser Lands?”
Review of 2013
Every year when we submit our accounts to the Electoral Commission we are also required to provide a ‘Review of Political Activities’ covering the year just gone. The 2013 Review has recently been agreed and here is what it says:“The Eastleigh by-election in February provided an unplanned but welcome opportunity to raise the Party’s profile. ContinueContinue reading “Review of 2013”
Love the Land, Live the Life
It would make such a great slogan for our Wessex. It is in fact already taken, as the English-language slogan of the Normandy Tourist Board. There is such a thing, based not in one of the great cities – Caen or Rouen – but in a much smaller place, Evreux. It exists despite the factContinueContinue reading “Love the Land, Live the Life”
Housing Whom?
Oxford professor Danny Dorling is the rising star of radical sociology. Some of us heard him speak in Witney during the 2010 election campaign. He has his critics, but he has an impressive grasp of statistics and deploys them with devastating effect. A review of his latest book, All That Is Solid: The Great HousingContinueContinue reading “Housing Whom?”
Punishing The Toys
Windsor Castle is home to more than a few of the 1,200 items of ivory in the Royal Collection. The 1,200 items that Prince William would like to have destroyed as a gesture against poachers in Africa. Never mind that he’s not above (legally) shooting the odd bit of wildlife himself. The fact is thatContinueContinue reading “Punishing The Toys”
Anybody Listening?
The following extract from the current issue of Population Matters Magazine is written by its editor, Norman Pasley: “There is great concern in Fareham about plans for a new town called Welbourne to be built on farmland north of the M27 motorway. The debate is giving rise to many letters in the local paper, TheContinueContinue reading “Anybody Listening?”
Identity Censorship Rules!
The Kernow Branch of the Celtic League is to be thanked for posting on Facebook the following cautionary tale: “Heritage Kernow – a study in ‘English’ Heritage sabotageEuropean Objective One funding was awarded to Cornwall some years ago. Its Single Programming Document was supposedly legally binding and its Priority 5 identified Celtic affinities, heritage, languageContinueContinue reading “Identity Censorship Rules!”
Wessex Regionalists 