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The One Bedroom House.
In the Thames Road Estate, Spalding is a two bedroom house that was bought by South Holland District Council. They have then spent a...
Jul 4, 20222 min read
General Strike?
It was the late Sir Richard Body's writings that first suggested to me the idea that an elected British government with an overall...
Jun 22, 20223 min read
The British Countryside - Managed by Man
I cannot help but feel as I wander through the British countryside that its nature is as God intended......managed by man. The last week...
Jun 5, 20222 min read
WELFARE AND CHARITY AND GOVERNMENT
It is somewhat a paradox that Rishi Sunak, the most generous chancellor to ramp up the support of the state has become vilified for his...
Apr 19, 20222 min read
POVERTY – COPING
“If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?” T.S.ELLIOT The ability to cope is a double-edged sword when it...
Apr 19, 20224 min read
POVERTY – DO NOT JUDGE
"At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than usually desirable that we should...
Apr 18, 20225 min read
CAUSES OF POVERTY
In the late nineteenth century in Europe, in the 1920’s in America and Europe, and throughout the post-war period in America, but...
Apr 17, 20226 min read
THERE WILL BE POOR ALWAYS
“The poor will always be with you”, is a much quoted phrase from Jesus that was popularised by the rebuke of Judas in John’s Gospel and...
Apr 16, 20223 min read
Coursing and Poaching – a problem old and new.
In the first century AD the Greek scholar Arrian encountered and participated with Romans using dogs to hunt by sight and described one...
Mar 5, 202210 min read
WHY TWEET? WHY BLOG? THE IMPORTANCE OF NOTES.
The purpose of this post is to explain why I tweet, why I blog and to answer criticism. First of all I will answer the largest criticism...
Feb 25, 20223 min read
The Ukraine – The European Union’s Great Game of Risk
In this essay I will explain my view on the ongoing “crisis” in Ukraine, how I believe European expansionism is a significant factor lead...
Feb 18, 202218 min read
PEOPLE FIT FOR HOMES, HOMES FIT FOR PEOPLE
SUMMARY I originally wrote this essay in 2018, which now seems an age away. I have amended some of the details in 2022 to make the...
Feb 11, 202212 min read
The Art of Political Lying
“With politicians it appears that the lie is as much part of speech as the noun and the verb.” Evan Esar Indeed, this has always been...
Feb 10, 20228 min read
MAD MAX - Beyond the Charging Point.
Have you ever noticed how day to day technology influences film and TV. The mobile phone is perhaps the best example. It is very hard to...
Feb 5, 20222 min read
From My Rechabite Grandmother to Fit Bits
I remember my grandmother, Alice Parrish as a fierce old lady. In my childhood she lived with my grandfather in an Agricultural tied...
Feb 3, 20224 min read
They Call Me Mr Tibbs - a lesson in bias.
As you look at some of the scenes in the recently deceased Sidney Poitier’s great film In The Heat of The Night you can see the...
Jan 29, 20223 min read
Fraud and the Vulnerable
“There is a sense the victims of fraud feel abandoned.” Victims Commissioner Dame Vera Baird. (BBC Radio 4 MoneyBox 22Jan 2022) The crime...
Jan 24, 20229 min read
Poverty of Journalism.
It was James Gordon Bennett, the editor of The New York Herald that said, “ Many a good newspaper story has been ruined by...
Jan 20, 20223 min read
To Plough the Headland and be Damned
Today I read a tweet from a farmer on the Lincolnshire Wolds showing his uncultivated field margin with the words, "Great over winter...
Jan 13, 20222 min read
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