In this short piece I describe the "boomer boys" from Nigeria post WW2. A piece of social history that has been lost.

Allotments  have a variety of forms and uses. They are important today as they were in the past. The purpose of them and their function may have changed, but as fiscal pressures become greater they may become even more significant to people by reverting to their original purpose: To enable those not receiving enough renumeration from their labours to support themselves and their families.

Last night I watched an interview on Channel 4 about last year's anti-immigrant disturbances with a panel of three people, Dr Lisa...

After much work I have now published the full version of my book "Marsh Fen and Town South Lincolnshire and Beyond". It is a hard back book just under A4 size consisting of 450 pages, over 250,000 words and over 200 pictures and illustrations.

 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.

Farming is a keystone industry benefitting many as well as feeding us all.

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