Here are some letters I’ve had printed in the Shropshire Star recently (italics are bits they edited out before printing) … English are not to blame for turbines For the last few weeks there have been a couple of letters a week complaining about the proposed new wind turbines to be erected in Wales “for [...]

SCOTTISH universities have received 5,000 fewer applications from students south of the Border wanting to take their degrees in Scotland amid claims that the recession and uncertainty over fees are causing undergraduates to stay closer to home.  That’s the Scotsman’s theory on why Scottish universities are seeing a drop in the number of English students [...]

The British government is graciously allowing the proles in England and Wales to vote for police commissioners. We want the vote on the EU Constitution/Lisbon Treaty that we were promised and we get a vote on changing the voting system from one undemocratic system to another, marginally less undemocratic system.  We want a vote on [...]

Kia Abdullah, a Guardian columnist, has apologised for making fun of the death of three teenagers in a coach crash in Thailand. The three boys – all educated at a state school – were taking a gap year and ended up in Thailand where they were involved in a bus crash that killed them instantly. [...]