Author Archives: Miles King
2019…what a year.
This will be my last blog of 2019 as I intend to take a bit of a break from social media. But we’ll see how well that works out! I’m not going to go into any great depth about the … Continue reading
Happy 70th Birthday to the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act (and SSSIs)
While supporters of the Corbyn Project continue to search their souls for reasons why Labour now has the smallest number of MPs since before universal suffrage, I thought I would commemorate a small but significant anniversary – it’s 70 years … Continue reading
Election Blog 8: The aftermath
Remember waking up to the shock of the Referendum result in 2016? Today feels very different. Yes the Conservatives have won 363 (with 2 yet to declare), by taking seats off Labour in their traditional heartlands. They have a reasonable … Continue reading
Election Blog 6: zombie apocalypse
The week begins – a week where, it would not be too melodramatic to suggest, the future of the UK could head in such stupendously different directions depending on the outcome of the election on Thursday, that it would end … Continue reading
Election Blog 5: UKIP manifesto
I was planning to write the latest addition to my short and instantly forgettable election blog series, but then the first of the winter bugs came along and knocked me off my perch. I’m back on it again (sort of) … Continue reading
Election Blog 4: The Manifestos
Now that all of the party Manifestos (and the Brexit Party’s “contract with the people”) have been published, it’s possible to make some comparisons between them – what are they offering to the electorate, and particularly those who place the … Continue reading
Election Blog 2: Floods and Tree-planting
It has been a bit of a surprise to see the environment figure so prominently in the election campaign over the last week or so – usually it’s so far down the list of priorities, or perhaps more accurately the … Continue reading
Election Blogs 1: setting the scene
There’s an election coming! yes of course you know. But this could be the most interesting and bizarre election in decades. The old tribal boundaries between Left and Right are really breaking down, and it’s … Continue reading
