Recently PM Sir Kier Starmer has used the phrase “Island of Strangers” in a speech about migration. Here I explore the potential origins of the phrase most possibly from a children’s story.

So in both Northumbria and Lincolnshire I see a reduction of income, hours and working opportunity for people as a direct result of government policy. Added to this is decreased job security and increased uncertainty combined with rising cost of living. Effectively all this is combining to increase hardship and poverty of working people.

Here I consider the stresses of 24 hour news; relate a tale of how an old farmer was affected by a bad news story; and consider that the solution to avoiding such stress may be the humble newspaper.

I fear that that there is currently a total lack of understanding of the economy relating to farming and current government policy will...

Here I explain my envy of Grayson Perry and John Caudwell.

Please vote -  whatever the election whether for an MP, a mayor, a councillor or a commissioner it is so important. The simple fact is...

I cannot swim. I do not trust anyone to teach me to swim. My experience of learning to swim at school (amazingly many schools had...

Here I look at the fatal price freedom and democracy is paying due to repeated and successive cuts in all areas of our justice system.

Here I give accounts from 16 constituents of their view of the Reform MP Richard Tice.

This post looks at the downfall of Boston as a thriving town centre and asks whether the ultimate solution is to embrace largeness as a city

On 5th March 1946 Churchill delivered what became known as his Iron Curtain speech that perhaps holds a lesson for today.

Protesting farmers just don't get it. They need to look at the winners.

Possibly one the the greatest advocates of conservation in 20th Century Lincolnshire.

It is very easy for us to rant and rave about refugees and people who shouldn't be here. Indeed, I totally get that it is wrong that...

As we enter 2025 this is the key question that the world is waiting for, especially in the Ukraine. The one thing we can rely upon with...

Recent events have reminded me of the words of Prime Minister Gladstone to struggling farmers in the 1880's. I will explain this further

In my last post on Inheritance tax I consider the losers and the loss of social structures and care that family businesses provide....

Here I explain the reality of inheritance tax .   In 2007 I was outside my son’s school when I bumped into a local farmer – at least I...

Most farmers consider the statement a lie. Whether it is or not is to be proven. Here I examine a take on inheritance tax that may be a...

“Only the richest estates will pay – not small, family farms.” This is the repeated phrase parroted by the Chancellor and other Labour...