History Made Here
G K Chesterton is often misquoted as saying that those who argue that 'you can’t put the clock back’ obviously know nothing about clocks. It’s near enough to what he…
Zombie Zones
Last Saturday, a ‘Northern Citizens’ Convention’ was held in the West Riding town of Huddersfield. Those attending shared a determination that the new politics now saturating Scotland should not stop…
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…
Onwards and Upwards
Defying expectations, David Cameron, far from being locked out of Downing Street, now has the full bunch of keys (with just 37% of the vote), at least until his slim…
The Long And Winding Road
The vilification of Nicola Sturgeon in the London press is delightful, not because it is at all pleasant but because here at last is a phenomenon that ‘they’ can do…
Only the Desperate
Today in 1320 the Scottish nobility issued the Declaration of Arbroath, with its ringing line about fighting not for glory, nor riches, nor honours, but for freedom – for that…
Review of 2014
Every year when we submit our accounts to the Electoral Commission we are also required to provide a ‘Review of Political Activities’ covering the year just gone.The 2014 Review has…
The Aye’ds of March
Et tu, Nicola? It’s onething to have Plaid Cymru singing the praises of an anti-Welsh Green Party but today we had the SNP join the chorus. Nicola Sturgeon has urged…
Scotland the Bold
How’s this for a map to follow? Not perfect, indeed, but certainly perfectible, as much for Wessex as for Scotland. We too have the ability to wake up and grasp…
Homes Ancient & Modern
Nearly a millennium ago today, regional England was trampled beneath Norman hooves and, as Chesterton’s poem puts it, “gored on the Norman gonfalon, the Golden Dragon died”. Yet history has…