Notes on a Riot Averted
The recent period of civil unrest can hardly pass without comment by a political stakeholder such as the Wessex Regionalist Party, especially when some of the protests have occurred within…
Erasing the Enslaved
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.John F Kennedy No sooner had the jury reached a verdict on the charges of criminal damage to the statue of dead slaver Edward Colston than a petition was launched…
An Empty Space?
The second issue of Wessex Citizen, edited by Keith Southwell and Rick Heyse, is now online. Many thanks to all who contributed. Earlier this month we mentioned the current –…
Wessexit
Of all the reasons for remaining in the EU the most compelling arises from quietly contemplating the alternative. Being marooned on a small island run by Gove, Johnson and IDS…
A Tale of Two Cities
Bristol City Council is still weathering the storm it brought down upon itself for not marking St George’s Day this year, having argued that the city is ‘too multicultural’ for…
Gearing Up
Surveyoris the magazine for highways and transport professionals. This month’s issue is headlined ‘Return of the Regions’ and opens to reveal an editorial by Dominic Browne, and more besides. The…
Pass It On
Nowadays, the Conservatives have a tree as their emblem, symbolic of the countless trees to be felled thanks to them and their allies (Labour, FibDem, even Green) as the urbanisation…
The Progressive Patriot
Guest contribution by Nick Xylas, WR Council member The following is a review of The Progressive Patriot: A Search for Belonging, by Billy Bragg, published in 2006 by Bantam of…
Our Three Europes
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.”The quote is attributed to Buckminster Fuller. Another variation…