This article is not directly relevant to Wessex, but it does tacitly support our vision of a Europe of the Regions. Whether the author realises it or not. https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/01/trump-is-alienating-europe-and-this-is-a-good-thing/
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St Ealdhelm’s Day 2018
This year marks 19 years since Wessex Society adopted St Aldhelm (spelled Ealdhelm in the West Saxon dialect of Old English) as the Patron Saint of Wessex and started to raise awareness of the saint and his day as the Day for Wessex. Since then St Ealdhelm’s day (25th May) has been officially recognised asContinueContinue reading “St Ealdhelm’s Day 2018”
Don’t let the bustards grind you down
About 13:45 on Sunday 8th April Derek Pickett, Jim and Emma Gunter, Mark Godwin and Peter and Marion Spencer met up with Lynne of the Great Bustard Group at Enford Village Hallf for a booked visit to the Great Bustard release site. The Great Bustard features on the Wiltshire County flag and on the WiltshireContinueContinue reading “Don’t let the bustards grind you down”
Another Europe is Possible
‘Believe in Britain’, they say. And why not ‘Believe in Europe’? Grassroots Out have taken to arguing that Brexit isn’t ‘anti-Europe’ at all, rather as if the SNP had presented independence as being pro-British. Confused? The underlying idea is that the EU is not just at present objectively anti-European – in its submissive attitude toContinueContinue reading “Another Europe is Possible”
An Empty Space?
The second issue of Wessex Citizen, edited by Keith Southwell and Rick Heyse, is now online. Many thanks to all who contributed. Earlier this month we mentioned the current – seventy-second – issue of MK’s equivalent, Cornish Nation, which this time gave us a brief mention. Joanie Willett, reporting back on the General Assembly ofContinueContinue reading “An Empty Space?”
Wider Still and Wider?
Leaflets for this year’s Royal Bath & West Show are starting to drop through letterboxes. Far be it from us to suggest that the show is run by a far Right clique but the leaflets areeasily confused with party literature for UKIP or the BNP, draped in more Union Jacks than you can shake aContinueContinue reading “Wider Still and Wider?”
Post-Truth Politics
Is an Eton education good value for money? From the public’s point of view, it seems not, given Boris Johnson’s underwhelming analysis of European history. He lit up the weekend with his dire warning that the EU is little better than a Fourth Reich. For others, it’s the EUSSR, but we’ve learnt to recognise thatContinueContinue reading “Post-Truth Politics”
Stacking Up
Libraries news tends to be bad news. Closures mainly, accompanied by the snarling of those who think that in the Internet age all books should be burned, as useless relics of a barbarous past. Little thought is given to the social role of libraries as places to meet and share, especially for the elderly andContinueContinue reading “Stacking Up”
Thou Shalt Not
Thursday last week saw a plethora of different elections across the UK and among these polls was a referendum in St Ives. Local folk voted by 83% to 17% in favour of a policy to ban the building of new second homes. Faced with a housing market described as ‘financial cleansing’ of the locals, that’sContinueContinue reading “Thou Shalt Not”
The Road to 2020
Nick Xylas polled 62 votes in Eastville on Thursday, a sound base from which to expand at Bristol’s next election in four years’ time. In 2020 we’ll have a General Election to fight as well, so planning needs to start straightaway. For Nick’s own reactions to the result, see the Eastville blog. It was clearContinueContinue reading “The Road to 2020”
Wessex Regionalists 