An open letter to the Free Electors of the USA
Dear Free Electors, On December 19th, you have a huge opportunity to demonstrate that the Electoral College set up by the Founding Fathers is not an irrelevance in this day… Continue Reading
Browsing Category: Politics
An open letter to Trump and Brexit voters
Dear fellow inhabitants of the world, 2016 has been a year where many expectations and assumptions have fallen by the wayside, for a whole variety of reasons. It has also… Continue Reading
I Reject
I reject that autumn starts on the first of September. I reject that organised religion is faith. I reject that faith engenders violence. I reject that one faith is greater… Continue Reading
Politics, mandates, and real life
It’s been a while. In real life, anyway. In politics, not so. We’re due to have a new Prime Minister on 13th July, some time in the evening, a Prime… Continue Reading
We Are The World
They say a week is a long time in politics. One minute is a long time in world economics. Within a minute of the result of the EU referendum… Continue Reading
The Johnson and the Michael Gove
with apologies to Lewis Carroll The sun was shining on the sea,Shining with all his might:He did his very best to makeThe billows smooth and bright–And this was odd, because… Continue Reading
#Remain
Ever since the referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU was announced, I have been asking myself whether or not the British public are well enough informed to actually… Continue Reading
On reflection
When I was a 19-year-old punk with red and (some say) green hair, my dad once said to me ‘Son, the only way to change the system is from inside.’… Continue Reading
Grove Farm Affordable Housing? It’s just an illusion.
Judging by a letter from John Pateman-Gee, Mid-Suffolk’s Senior Planning Officer, published today on both Stradbroke’s web sites, it appears that the Grove Farm Development proposal is being scaled down… Continue Reading
Due Process
You may (or you may not) have wondered why I haven’t blogged since the General Election on 7th May. There are many reasons for this. Not only was I disappointed… Continue Reading