Opinion

Manny n. A diminutive name. Fester n. The condition of something that festers. Yes - it’s week 3 of the 2019 General Election and the main party manifestos have been...

Mr Fix-It. At Least that is what my wife calls me.  If anything is broken I will do my best to repair it rather than replace it.  Recently I was...

SATURDAY saw Woodley’s lights switched-on, Sunday was the annual Wokingham Winter Carnival. Both events were brilliant – and they moved with the times too. New faces can bring fresh ideas...

The Wokingham Paper has published a hostile advert and a set of negative questions to me which deserve a reply

Gruel is a thinner version of porridge and has historically been a staple of the Western diet, especially for peasants (according to Wikipedia). Thin gruel however has virtually no substance...

Age. What is it? We talk about Ice Age, Prehistoric Age, Middle Age, Old Age. University of 3rd Age, Retirement Age. Folk who read this column each week will probably...

This column was originally published in The Wokingham Paper of Thursday, November 14, the day nominations for the 2019 General Election closed … finally decided - that’s later today (Thursday,...

Many of us are well versed with the saying ‘change is constant’. We live in changing times and sometimes, the changes around us can be so rapid and unexpected that...

General Elections in December are a rare thing and the last one was called in 1923, shortly after the Conservative leader had resigned and a new one had been chosen....

Politically, we are living through strange times. We had an election in 2015, which was not supposed to be repeated until 2020. We then had a referendum in 2016. As...