Holiday homes and second homes are a paradox for the rural dweller. On one hand tourism provides income and employment to the local...

If you build bird boxes you get birds. If you build affordable housing you get employees.....at least that's the hope. If you go back In...

This post is about the scourge in housing that blights Spalding – the multiple-occupancy house. One of the greatest gifts that a...

In the Thames Road Estate, Spalding is a two bedroom house that was bought by South Holland District Council. They have then spent a...

To most of us the pronoun in front of our name, Mr, Mrs or Miss tends not to matter. We tend to be unambiguous about our identity it...

It was the late Sir Richard Body's writings that first suggested to me the idea that an elected British government with an overall...

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...

As Russia has invaded Ukraine we have been ever more increased sanctions with calls for further sanctions against Russia. It should not...

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...

“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...

"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...

In the late nineteenth century in Europe, in the 1920’s in America and Europe, and throughout the post-war period in America, but...

“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...

In the first century AD the Greek scholar Arrian encountered and participated with Romans using dogs to hunt by sight and described one...

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...

In this essay I will explain my view on the ongoing “crisis” in Ukraine, how I believe European expansionism is a significant factor lead...

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...

“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...

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...

I remember my grandmother, Alice Parrish as a fierce old lady. In my childhood she lived with my grandfather in an Agricultural tied...