Wessex Regionalists

“The theory goes that, if there is trust in society, then its bureaucracies will be more straightforward and effective – the cost and time o...

Events in Paris this week have exposed Europe’s anxieties to the full.   Let’s consider some of the possible reactions. On the far Right...

Last year’s commemorations of the First World War were a good excuse to re-open old wounds and close our eyes to modern Europe.   Now consid...

“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory.   Destroy its books, its culture, its history.   Then have somebody write ne...

In the run-up to the festive season , all three main London parties set out their stalls on English devolution.   On the whole, they’re rath...

Last week, plans were announced for a Bucks / Oxon / Northants combined authority, a move that raises important questions of local and regi...

The Campaign to Protect Rural England is good at collecting statistics.   It may be no more than a gnat on the side of the development eleph...