I am worried. You may have seen Chris Packham’s opening address to the National Emergency Briefing open_in_new. It was a moving and impassioned plea to follow the science. He said he was scared, and in my ...
It is appalling what is happening in Gaza and the interview with Professor Nick Maynard on the BBC’s Today Programme on Friday Jul 18 was just too much, which is why I am writing this, futile ...
The people of South Hams are facing many serious problems that need urgent action. We need a Council that recognises the urgency and has thoughtful, effective and ambitious plans to address ...
We do not need any more unaffordable houses. We especially don’t need them in the South Hams. We most certainly don’t need the entirely made up figure of 300,000 per year nationally that Mr ...
The Many scientists describe what is happening to the climate as 'scary' as evidence mounts that the climate is changing at an alarming pace and we can either be frozen in awe at the spectacle, ...
Devon Highways is a law unto itself and it needs to change. It is spending vast sums of public money with very little consultation, accountability or scrutiny. There is something seriously wrong ...
After the refusal of the planning application in Dec 2024, SHDC is currently in negotiations with TQ+Acorn about a much better proposal for the site. Hopefully what will emerge will be a viable ...
Since the war we have had 31 years of Labour government and 47 years (or 60% of the 78 years) of Tory government. More recently, we have had 12 long years of increasingly right wing nastiness ...
The Lib Dems have developed a range of so-called Green Policies which have received a great deal of support from a variety of independent organisations. For instance:
Local Councils are being given increasing autonomy by central government and while this may be a good thing in principle it can only bring real benefit if a council conducts its affairs in an ...
Remain campaigners, when laying out the likely consequences of Brexit, have often been accused of creating a false sense of calamity and fear; Project Fear. This despite the fact that most ...
The zero-grazing approach to dairy farming has some inescapable and serious problems that fall broadly into three categories: Economic, Environmental and Animal Welfare. These are just some of ...
The simple lesson of history is that markets are inherently unstable and only work where they are controlled by regulation. But it is alarming how the myth of the market continues to inform ...
The referendum was an outrageous abuse of the democratic process and if it is allowed to stand then democracy in the UK is at risk. We are, to use a nautical phrase, ‘standing into ...
Christianity was introduced into this country by Roman soldiers and merchants. In 209, St Alban became the first British martyr. Some hundred years later in 306, Constantine was proclaimed ...
In 1828 Thomas Fowler patented the first convective heating system. This was the precursor to the modern central heating system. In 1840 he invented a calculating machine, built in wood, that was ...
