01 December 2016 Week In Brief: UK Government BREXIT NEGOTIATIONS: Guy Verhofstadt, the chief EU negotiator on Brexit, has suggested that, following the UK’s secession from the EU, individual Britons should be able to pay an annual fee in return for personal EU membership, an idea unlikely to appeal to “leave” MPs. According to reports in… Continue reading Issue 82: 2016 12 01: Week in Brief: UK
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Issue 71: 2016 09 15:Wool and Sand(J.R.Thomas)
15 September 2016 Wool and Sand Has the National Trust lost its way? by J.R.Thomas More trouble in Arcadia. Dear old Nanny is getting herself into more fights, fights that respectable elderly ladies really should avoid. But the trouble is, Nanny has shortened her skirts, slapped on the make-up, and is spoiling for some action.… Continue reading Issue 71: 2016 09 15:Wool and Sand(J.R.Thomas)
Issue 9: 2015 07 02: Fading Icons: Digging the National Parks
02 July 2015 Fading Icons: Digging the National Parks by J R Thomas Big ideas often take a remarkably long time to come to fruition in British politics. In the USA of the 1860’s, even before the West was finally won, the American federal government began to take public ownership of great swathes of the… Continue reading Issue 9: 2015 07 02: Fading Icons: Digging the National Parks
