Wessex Regionalists

This time last month (30 May), there was a gathering at Glastonbury Town Hall to discuss the town’s ‘ transition ’ to a post-oil world. It b...

Guest contribution by Colin Bex , Wessex Regionalists' London Bureau Staying near a village in Casoli, some eighty miles south-west of L...

Thomas Hardy, in 1912, wrote of Wessex as “a partly real, partly dream-country” that “has become more and more popular as a practical provi...

It’s been an interesting week for local democracy. Last Wednesday, Doncaster ’s elected mayor, Martin Winter, was seen doing his best to av...

We’ve been hearing quite a lot recently about Ponzi schemes, as the financial chickens come home to roost. A Ponzi scheme is an investment...

On Monday a letter appeared in the Bristol Evening Post advocating a radical overhaul of local government in Wessex, linking this with the ...

Think globally, act locally. The sentiment is sound but the first instruction requires a lot less effort than the second. A lot less effort,...