Totnes has been in the news lately on two counts as recorded here by Lucy Brown recently. As it happens I am writing this in Rumour, a bistro on the south side of Totnes’ High Street. The Methodist Church, in … Continue reading
As ever, following a serious financial statement from George Osborne every pundit on the internet has decided to join in and critique his Autumn Statement. I refuse to join them – but I will provide links to some of the … Continue reading
Yesterday I stated that I believed that two of the basic foundation stones of a free nation are freedom of speech and a free press and I went on to explain why I cannot agree with the press being gagged … Continue reading
This, I fear, could well turn out to be a rant. In fact, I am certain that it will. This is all down to one of my passionate beliefs: two of the basic foundation stones of a free nation are … Continue reading
While the big items in the news are the Leveson Report and the by-election surprises (good for UKIP, bad for the Lib Dems), something else caught my eye yesterday. A homeless man in Totnes is to be given a street … Continue reading
As many of you know, we live on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon. Recently we have moved from just north of the moor back to where we used to live which is just south of it. Next along is … Continue reading
Anti-UKIP folk on Twitter have combated the Rotherham fostering debacle by leaping on comments made by UKIP’s candidate in another by-election (Croydon North) where he says that adoption by gay people is unhealthy: ”A caring loving home is a heterosexual or single … Continue reading
The Sacred Cow answering to the name of ‘prohibited drugs’ has an international flavour for all sorts of reasons. Probably as good a starting point as any is the 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and … Continue reading
This is a rather short post owing to my personal schedule (and mismanagement of it). However, amid the furore over the UKIP fostering debacle the question about whether the Conservative party should attempt some sort of electoral pact with UKIP has … Continue reading
The tussle over weekly/fortnightly bin collections is a classic battle between central and local government. You’ll remember the big fanfare of Eric Pickles pledging money to councils if they reinstated weekly collections because, he decreed, that was what the majority … Continue reading