World population is going up. How far will it go? Surely something should be done? In a free society can we compel people to have smaller families? This will seem to many a step too far to a totalitarian state akin to China’s now abandoned only one child family dictate. The fact is that the […]

Two tips to reduce the chance of being burgled: 1) Make access to the back of your property difficult. Buglers will sometimes gain access to the rear of a property where there are no other properties overlooking to then take their time to break into a property. 2) Use a timer to switch on lights […]

Local Conservatives on the County Council are proposing an inflation busting near 4% rise in council tax which they claim is for helping the most vulnerable by increasing expenditure on care. In the light of this rise in local council tax, it must be remembered that this comes after a 40% cut in central Government funding […]

I’m just writing to ask if anyone feels able to join me in supporting our local credit union now that they have established a physical presents in the city. For anyone who isn’t sure how a credit union differs from a high street bank I offer this brief explanation. A credit union can be thought […]

The media has obsessed this last month with Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party. Corbyn is varyingly painted as a public menace, or a saviour of britain. In this piece I want to clarifying what is really going on and how we, as greens, fit into the picture. What is Labour? The Labour Party exists […]

St Mary’s School is still on the market and in case you missed the sales particulars here they are, click the link below: St Marys School    

Why have I launched an advocacy group called Living Over The Shop? During the May 2015 General Election I attended about 20 different hustings and in quite a few the question came up “What would you do about all the building on Green Field sites?” My stock answer generally went down very well with the […]

Some will say that outsourcing is not really the same as privatising something. When we talk of privatisation we are talking about a process that is moving a service along a continuum. Privatisation does not happen all in one step, it can be a gradual process, it’s a direction of travel rather than an end point. Do […]

Friends Of The Earth verdict on the political parties running in this years’General Election: The Verdict  

The Green Party is growing, membership is going through the roof and the national opinion polls are quite often giving us around 10%. Just one problem the party is struggling to capitalise on this new popularity – some areas do not yet have a Green candidate selected and for smaller parties raising the £500 deposit […]