Opinion

What do you want to be when you grow up Mummy?” It always amuses me when my five-year-old voices such queries because, while all very sweet and innocent, they’re also...

THE trouble with planning in secret is that when the secrets come out, there is anger. And residents have every right to be angry over the plans for Grazeley, Twyford...

A view on Brexit Brexit. Love it or hate it, it’s clearly not going well. I have a theory about that. It’s because it’s not the right answer, heck, it’s...

Wokingham Labour welcomes any initiative that could possibly reduce the current level of overdevelopment. This new consultation, however, is an expensive pre-election gimmick which gives the illusion of action and...

When cyclone Idai swept through Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi earlier this month, it left a trail of devastation and flood waters stretching for miles. Even as I write, the final...

It’s been said that “democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time”. And as the parliament of owls...

It may well be the third Thursday of the month when this column was published in The Wokingham Paper, but it’s also the first Thursday since Wales won the Grand...

Last week, many of you may have viewed the scenes from the House of Commons and felt that our great institution was descending into confusion and disarray. However, let me...

This was a cynical and vindictive act As a resident of Shinfield who witnessed the wanton destruction of wildlife habitat on University of Reading (UoR) land off Cutbush Lane a...

IF YOU have ever been in debt to someone, you will know the dread of the post. No cheery letters from friends and relatives, no picture postcards from overseas and...