Hello! Here comes the Saturday edition of More Than A Feilding, catching you up on the past week’s editions.
Days in the life
We returned last week from England to London. Two different worlds. A quarter of an hour before dropping off our car, we came to a complete stop on the M25. Just moments before, there had been six lanes of hurtling cars and lorries. Now, everything was at a standstill as far as the eye could see; no sign of any emergency vehicles, just the GPS display c…
Get your story straight, buddy
The relentless drone coming out of the Prime Minister and his deputy for a million days now has been that the last government was just hosing money all over the show and now at last the grownups are in charge and shutting that drunken sailor stuff down.
Fast track to environmental degradation
Been hoping we would see something like this from Sir Geoffrey Palmer. This is excellent. The present Bill goes further than the National Development Act 1979 in stripping away procedures designed to ensure that environmental issues are properly considered. The 1979 approach was not acceptable then and this present approach is worse.
Lords of the flies
Halfway up a historic tower in York, we are neither up nor down. At the top you will have views of a city steeped in antiquity, made and remade by Romans, Normans, Vikings, Tescos. Below, you will find a retired minister happy to tell you all about this most astonishing of cathedrals, and who will pick up your accent and want to quiz you about the fine…