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Richard Pooley
7 min read
English Local Government is Broke(n). Take Back Control!
The English and Welsh were offered the opportunity to vote on 2 May. Some English people could vote in three different elections. Few of...
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Denis Lyons
8 min read
NHS Inc. - Why not?
London, 13 May 2024 - The Prime Minister today announced the sale of Britain’s National Health Service to the American healthcare giant...
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Eric Boa
4 min read
Veronica, Vice-President: The Best Interviewee
Every morning, I wake to the probing questions of current affairs journalists on BBC Radio 4. The responses from those in the limelight...
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Dr. Mark Nicholson
6 min read
When the Saints come marching in….or why Napoleon should have become a botanist
Last November a colleague called to ask if I would take two visitors for a tour round my ecological restoration project in Kenya. Two...
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Stoker
5 min read
Hide those Power Lines .... or Destroy What We Love
Stoker’s desk overlooks what would be a typically English rural, sylvan view. It would be, were it not for the electricity and telephone...
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Lynda Goetz
7 min read
The “mania for transgenderism”. Is this Idiocracy what you really want?
Tidying my study is something of a mammoth job. Apart from my failure to file stuff as it comes in, there is the added problem of my...
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Eric Boa
6 min read
It’s called primary healthcare for a reason
Nobody makes films about dentists. So said a friend commenting on the dramatic potential of dental care. Marathon Man, a film starring...
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Richard Pooley
7 min read
Pity Poor Labour. They will win.
The blood was all over the back of my left hand. I was in the middle of delivering leaflets on behalf of the Liberal Democrats’...
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Stoker
6 min read
Tokyo, Texas
The editorial command* is that we must cheer our readers up this month. Crikey, as a much missed politician used to say: “Steady on...
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Michael Carberry
9 min read
A Fundamental Problem: the unholy alliance between fundamentalist religion and extremist politics.
What do Donald Trump’s runaway victories in the all the Republican Primary elections to date and the slaughter of over thirty thousand...
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