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...

My experience with Inheritance Tax and especially with Farm Inheritance Tax Relief is that it appears to be applied inconsistently and...

In this second post I will demonstrate how inheritance tax can affect a tenant farmer by referring to a real life example from my past...

In the Chancellor's Autumn budget of 2024 changes were made to Inheritance tax Relief that reduced this relief on the value of both...

Every so often I share some writing that did not make the cut of Marsh Fen and Town. In this case I look at land use, how agricultural...

Every so often I publish material that did not make the script of “Marsh Fen and Town”. The following is exactly 148 years ago and will...

The value of both rare breeds and those maintaining them is vastly underappreciated to the detriment of our food security.