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Wessex folk have been robbed of our European citizenship.  By a gang of liars and cheats.  Who convinced just enough voters that the EU is inherently evil, the ‘EUSSR’, ‘the Fourth Reich’, and that a leaky boat in shark-infested waters is preferable to a refit of its sturdy cabins.  For eurosceptics though, Brexit is never ‘done’.  Their aim nowContinueContinue reading “Redirected Fail”

 ‘“The high tide!” King Alfred cried.“The high tide and the turn!”’  These lines, from G.K. Chesterton’s 1911 poem ‘The Ballad of the White Horse’, describe the decisive moment in the Wessex triumph over the Danes at Ethandune.  Today marks a turning point in much the same way as the balance of forces tipping in a war.  It may not seem it atContinueContinue reading “Peak Gammon”