The Golden Mead Revival
BY JOHN MILES Think of mead and images of loud and bearded, large, blonde Vikings drinking from horns and gnawing on chicken bones spring to mind. When you meet Bob Thornton, one of the exponents of the current mead revolution occurring across the land, your first thoughts are not so far off the mark (well, the bearded and massive bit). Bob’s the sort of a … Continue reading The Golden Mead Revival
Conspiring Unions Merit ETSA
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Whether it’s left-wingers hijacking the Junior Doctor’s strike, guerrilla train strikes or hard socialist agitants arranging bus strikes, strikes are costing You – the UK taxpayers – hundreds of millions of pounds every year. In 2014, the Federation of Small Businesses said the cost of a two-day London Underground strike to the British Economy was around £600m. The ongoing Southern Rail strikes … Continue reading Conspiring Unions Merit ETSA
Countryside Carrot Cake
Ingredients for Countryside Carrot Cake: 150g Butter 150g Light muscovado sugar 3 Large eggs ½ tsp Vanilla extract Zest of 1 orange, finely grated 200g Plain flour ¼ tsp Salt 3⁄4 tsp Baking powder 3⁄4 tsp Bicarbonate of soda ½ tsp Ground cinnamon 225g Carrot, grated 50g Ground almonds Instructions for making Countryside Carrot Cake: Preheat the oven to 170°C/fan oven 150°C/Gas Mark 3. Grease … Continue reading Countryside Carrot Cake
Insulting the Countryside
BY JIM BROWNE Since the inception of Country Squire Magazine, there have been the trolls and the sock-puppets, the weird comments and the spam – all those negatives that are part and parcel of a web existence. There was even a twenty-page letter from one oddball, with an obsession for one of our writers, who couldn’t quite work out whether they were offended like Mary Whitehouse … Continue reading Insulting the Countryside
A Fine yet Humble Chariot
BY MATTHEW CORRIGAN Yesterday, after far too long a wait, the fading embers of a long-forgotten love affair burst explosively back into flames. I’ve owned my Peugeot 205 GTI since the nineties. When, on that cold winter’s night back in 2007, I left it parked on the drive, I never meant for it to stay there. But stay there it did. For a variety of … Continue reading A Fine yet Humble Chariot
A Privatisation Even the Left Can Love
BY JON ALEXANDER I read a paper the other day that suggested the institution of marriage should be privatised. Now don’t roll your eyes, this is a good point. Currently, we rely on the church or state to allow us to marry, but why? Why if two people wish to complete their lives in this way do they need church or state permission? From the … Continue reading A Privatisation Even the Left Can Love
The Judgment – Time to Crow or Wait for Doves?
BY JAMIE FOSTER The Supreme Court has issued its judgment – 8-3 – in favour of MPs being given the opportunity to vote on triggering Art 50. While I have the greatest respect for our independent judiciary, and while I have yet to read the judgment, it fascinates me to imagine that it could in anyway put the genie back in the bottle. As many of … Continue reading The Judgment – Time to Crow or Wait for Doves?
Why Progressives Get Violent
BY SAM WHITE Before the US election, some on the political left predicted that Donald Trump supporters would be violent if they lost. This can now be seen as an act of psychological projection, as the opposite has actually happened. Immediately after the results came in there were violent demonstrations, including property damage and burned flags. Later, a young Trump supporter in Chicago was kidnapped, … Continue reading Why Progressives Get Violent
Protesting the British Way
BY MATTHEW CORRIGAN The village of High Lane lies roughly twelve miles to the south and east of Manchester. It sits, to use a tired cliché beloved of estate agents everywhere, at the point where city meets country. Here some 6000 residents make their home at the very edge of the Greater Manchester conurbation. Despite straddling the busy A6, High Lane enjoys an unusual situation … Continue reading Protesting the British Way
