The Somerset Green Space Race
Councils were against it. Local people were against it, MPs were against it. Yet the Planning Inspectorate has approved a massive expansion of Bristol Airport from 10 million to 12…
Councils were against it. Local people were against it, MPs were against it. Yet the Planning Inspectorate has approved a massive expansion of Bristol Airport from 10 million to 12…
Global leaders are meeting in Glasgow, appropriately enough on Halloween, in order to discuss for the 26th time whether or not the planet will continue to be habitable. One would…
The Wessex Regionalists have submitted the following to the public consultation on adding "a number" of mobile diesel generators to the 200 or so already on site at Hinkley C,…
The city regions of Wessex and South Wales have recently come together to draw up plans for a Great Western Powerhouse stretching from Swindon in the east to Swansea in…
Colin Bex continues his efforts to highlight the connection between regionalism and resistance to climate change. Read his latest report here.
“We know and we have seen that conferences are events which bring together important people who are unable to act on their own, but who together are always able to…
Colin Bex was on the march against austerity held in central London on Saturday (left). His attire included 'that T-shirt' from the 2005 election campaign in Dorset South. (The question…
The Campaign to Protect Rural England is good at collecting statistics. It may be no more than a gnat on the side of the development elephant but at least it…
Last week, an environmental coalition – Butterfly Conservation, the League Against Cruel Sports, the Mammal Society, the Ramblers, the RSPB and the Wildlife Trusts – held a ‘Rally for Nature’…
What have we been saying? That the range of demands increasingly being placed on our countryside could soon exceed the supply of rural land. Now it’s been confirmed. Cambridge University’s…