Bring on Team Brexit
BY JOHN ISMAEL The Tories’ internal confidence vote on Theresa May now seems inevitable. It’s obvious to everyone, apart from the Prime Minister perhaps, that her days are numbered. As Nadine Dorries pointed out yesterday afternoon, “the Prime Minister is in a bunker, she’s starring in her own episode of Downfall, and we all know how that story ends.” Frankly, most of the UK populus … Continue reading Bring on Team Brexit
Mistletoe Cocktail
Ingredients: 60ml white rum 15ml lime juice 30ml cranberry syrup Wedge of lime and some sugar to rim glass Rosemary sprig and raspberries or cherries for garnish Method: Rim martini glass with wedge of lime and dip in sugar. Half fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Place rum, lime juice and cranberry syrup into cocktail shaker and shake vigorously. Strain into prepared martini glass. Garnish … Continue reading Mistletoe Cocktail
Linguistic Good Taste
BY JIM WEBSTER The other day I took the car in to get an MOT and service. As I walked home two women passed me walking in the opposite direction. One said to the other, “he were having a fag behind the recycling bins.” Such is the joy of the English language that this probably means something entirely different depending on what part of the … Continue reading Linguistic Good Taste
Dracula
BY ANDREW MOODY Back in the early nineties my family got cable. There were two movie channels back then, and when Coppola’s flawed but in many ways brilliant adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula came on TV, I begged my Dad to let me watch it. I was allowed to watch violent films, just not sexual ones. Dracula is both, so as an eleven year old … Continue reading Dracula
The Worst Leaders We’ve Ever Had
CSM EDITORIAL It used to be that we’d laugh at America. Our cousins across the pond could snaffle Britain’s best scientists and engineers, they could come up with economic miracle after economic miracle – but they would always pick an idiot as President. When we Brits faced crises we’d come up with a Churchill or a Thatcher while the Americans stumbled from one fool to … Continue reading The Worst Leaders We’ve Ever Had
A Prayer for Peace
VICAR As anger over a Brexit betrayal grows in the UK – as others march in London in the name of Brexit when we did not ask them to march at all – and as the yellow vests rampage in Paris we can look closer to home these days as we pray for peace. Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine I trust that You are … Continue reading A Prayer for Peace
Render Unto Caesar, Primate
BY TIM DAWSON Who is Justin Welby to judge? Well, okay – he’s the Archbishop of Canterbury. But his recent partisan interventions – both in a speech at the Trade Union Conference in support of John McDonnell and then, yesterday, in an article for the Church Times condemning Brexit – have moved beyond what is appropriate for the principal leader of the Church of England. … Continue reading Render Unto Caesar, Primate
LACS Charity Status Under Review
BY NIGEL BEAN & PAUL READ What are the UK Charity Commission public benefit rules for a charity? From the Charity Commission’s website: The ‘benefit aspect’ To satisfy this aspect: a purpose must be beneficial – this must be in a way that is identifiable and capable of being proved by evidence where necessary and which is not based on personal views any detriment or … Continue reading LACS Charity Status Under Review
The Game is Up
BY ANDREW KELLY It is becoming ever clearer that parliament is operating on its own mandate and is likely dangerously adrift from the will of the majority of the UK population. If true, this situation only breeds more discontent and likely has dangerous consequences for decades to come. When Cameron allowed the second referendum, it was for two principal reasons: The first – that the … Continue reading The Game is Up
