TONY JOHNSON: Two Certainties
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Thus wrote Benjamin Franklin, noted political ...
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TONY JOHNSON: Famous for 15 minutes
The last part of January’s “extraordinary” (unscheduled) council meeting covered proposals for changing the scheme for council tax rebates. The ...
TONY JOHNSON: Views of the news in 2018
Columnist Tony Johnson looks back at what happened in Wokingham borough during 2018, as seen through The Wokingham Paper's coverage ...
TONY JOHNSON: The November Syndrome
For some reason the November Borough Council meeting has the oddest content of the year. Whether it’s the prospect of ...
The Tony Johnson column: We’re engaged
We're engaged ... But it’s not true love. Last week saw another of WBC’s community engagement meetings for the Shinfield SDL ...
TONY JOHNSON: Wokingham elections 2018 – your votes counted
The 2018 Borough Election campaigns came to an end on Thursday, May 3 – as over 40,000 of us went ...
Tony Johnson: The broken drum
If last week’s commentary on housing showed anything, in describing the practice of ‘planning by appeal’ along with the misleading ...
Tony Johnson: A house, a house! My borough for a house!
Last week’s Wokingham Paper reported about losing those two planning appeals marks a setback for Wokingham Borough Council (WBC). In ...
EDITORIAL: You’ve heard the cases, now choose
IT HAS been the most fascinating of election campaigns and not necessarily for the right reasons. From the moment local ...
COMMENTARY: Electus Interruptus
Two weeks ago, if you believe that Britain’s a two party state, one of the main contenders for the post ...
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