Opinion

A classic example of NIMBYism I understand Theresa May has written to Wokingham Borough Council (WBC) Planning, objecting to a plan for the demolition of three houses and replaced with...

Government ministers have had a bad week with numbers. In Health, Matt Hancock has cut the official Covid-19 death toll by 5,000 and blamed Public Health England for running the...

The lockdown has made so many activities impossible. So, we have had to find different ways to amuse ourselves during lockdown.  How do we choose what activities to do? We...

After lying on a beach for a week on the Greek island of Santorini, the train back to Wokingham was somewhat depressing. The rush to get through the airport so...

Thank you Dishy Rishi. You’ve saved my sanity. Finally, I can now pay someone else to feed my family. And do the dishes. All at a thoroughly reasonable price. When...

IT SHOULDN’T take an eight-year-old to set an example to us grown-ups. But there it is, Orson Lewis has made it his lockdown mission to pick up litter left behind...

Why can’t people wear face coverings? Facemasked on boarding, I took the X4 bus into Reading on Sunday, August 2. The requirement to wear a facemask on public transport has...

Open letter to the group leaders and transport spokespersons of Wokingham Borough Council In July the government published its case for a step change in investment in infrastructure to enable...

There are many things that can make a person feelAs if they were losing their sanity,Hallucinating, evenWatching a squirrel fly, for exampleOr finding a sledgehammer in Lidl’s random IsleFor some...

By Geoff Peck, Woosehill Church We mostly choose to do activities we enjoy. Many of these activities involve meeting with friends and relations. These activities were either impossible or very...