Experimental Subjects
The local press today quote one of the Occupy Bristol folk as saying they abandoned their College Green camp after discovering they’d all been part of a sinister ‘social experiment’.…
Embracing All
A frequent objection to decentralisation is that small-scale jurisdictions are prone to takeover by well-organised, highly motivated bands of fanatics. History furnishes examples, from Savonarola in Florence to the Anabaptists…
Everyone’s Fault But
More ‘creative thinking’ from the banksters and their buddies...And note well the comment from one respondent here, especially towards the end. Draining the Labour Party of its strength remains THE…
Ill Repute
Eric Pickles was interviewed on Channel 4 today, defending the right of local councils to begin their meetings with Christian prayers. The Communities Secretary is often a half-hearted localist but…
Divide & Strengthen
Readers may recall that we drew attention to a long-standing attempt by the London regime to hamper the growth of Wessex consciousness. That is to say, the exclusion of regional…
Realising Some Virtual Potential
A Cornish blog at the weekend called attention to the fact that the debate on the UK’s constitutional future is now on the move once more. Scotland may go it…
Jam Tomorrow: New Labour and the New Jerusalem
The defeat of New Labour’s assembly plan for the north-east corner of Northumbria, in 2004’s referendum is often claimed as proof that regionalism is finished. Advocates of a triumphalist English…
Just Say No
Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale includes a scene of community punishment. Not punishment IN the community but punishment BY the community. The oppressed Handmaids are goaded into participating…