Labour Isn’t Working For You
Until now, the most common complaint about Keir "Interesting" Starmer is that nobody knew what he stands for. It certainly wasn't the platform he ran on for election to the…
Wessex Political Thinkers: Alexander Thynn
I had long intended to write a post on the founder of our party as part of the Wessex Political Thinkers series. The sad news of his recent death makes…
Wessex Political Thinkers: Rolf Gardiner
Rolf Gardiner (1902-1971) was a friend and neighbour of George Pitt-Rivers, who I have written about previously. Like Pitt-Rivers, he is a problematic figure, due to his early support for…
Wessex Political Thinkers: George Pitt-Rivers
The Wessex Regionalists were not the first political party to revive the name of Wessex in the modern era. In the late 1920s, the anthropologist, World War I veteran and…
Wessex political thinkers: William Barnes
We recently received an email criticising this blog for focusing too much on "an undifferentiated English radical tradition" and on influences from America and Eastern Europe at the expense of…
Revisiting Kohr and Schumacher
A recent discussion on our Facebook page has given me an excuse to reread The Breakdown of Nations by Leopold Kohr and Small is Beautiful by EF Schumacher, after a…
South By Southwest
Guest contribution by Nick Xylas, WR Council member and prospective candidate for Bristol City Council, Eastville WardAs someone who has lived in both Wessex and the American South, I can’t…
Exceeding Expectations
We’ve always enjoyed watching Mebyon Kernow’s progress and learning from what they get right, or very occasionally wrong. Our association dates back to the 70s, when the founding generation of…
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…
A Wealth of Possibilities
Last week, BBC1 aired a programme called Millionaire Basement Wars. It described how, over the past decade, some 2,000 new basements have been excavated beneath high-value properties in central London,…
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