Opinion

Two levels, two votes, two “results” - it’d be easy to mix them up. Nationally, the aftershocks from the Tory induced vote-quakes haven’t ended. Locally, they’ve only just begun. The...

I have started a consultation on my website www.johnredwood.com about how the local Highways Authority might cut congestion, improve traffic flows and road safety by making some changes to our...

The UK’s not for collapsing. We’re made of sterner stuff with, just maybe, one or two politicians capable of ‘satespersonlike’ behaviour. Occasionally. If ‘satespersonlike’ doesn’t look right, so think ‘statesmanlike’,...

Nick Kohl, who lives on the Wokingham border, hoped to sit quietly and read his copy of The Wokingham Paper during his recent cycle tour of Jersey. It was not...

EVERY so often an issue comes along that transcends normal rules. Thursday’s European Elections is one of them. It is a poll that, by rights, we shouldn’t be holding. Wokingham...

A totally oblivious response to losing office Former councillor Tim Holton’s letter in last week’s Wokingham Paper neatly sums up how arrogant and out of touch the ruling group on...

Studying the numbers for the 2019 Borough elections and, while the Conservatives may be down, they aren’t out if they’ve the capacity and energy to adapt. Despite an astounding campaign...

Casually scrolling through Facebook the other day, I came across a post from a middle-aged guy on my timeline criticising some of the recent climate change protesters. So far, so...

Yes – last Thursday the voters went to the polling stations to tell the parties ‘what’s what’ and ‘which way is up’ and this is the post-mortem on how well...

THURSDAY, May 2 was a momentous day for Wokingham. We hesitate to use the word seismic, but had we been electing all of its borough councillors in one fell swoop...