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Grantham Journal column: The spectre of sci-fi hate

21 June 2015
Grantham Journal column: The spectre of sci-fi hate

Grantham Journal column: The spectre of sci-fi hate

21 June 2015

A former colleague and long-standing friend once told me he was immensely proud of the fact that he had never read a book of any kind since his schooldays.


Grantham Journal column: Weathering the storm

14 June 2015
Grantham Journal column: Weathering the storm

Grantham Journal column: Weathering the storm

14 June 2015

Have you noticed that Grantham’s weather seldom follows the same pattern as that shown by forecasters on television?


Grantham Journal column: Is hospitals hint true?

07 June 2015
Grantham Journal column: Is hospitals hint true?

Grantham Journal column: Is hospitals hint true?

07 June 2015

Some readers have told me I should stop moaning about the future, or lack of it, for Grantham Hospital and let sleeping dogs lie.


Grantham Journal column: Let’s abolish money

09 May 2015
Grantham Journal column: Let’s abolish money

Grantham Journal column: Let’s abolish money

09 May 2015

Ever since Margaret Thatcher inflicted her ‘short-term-looks-good; long-term-disastrous’ financial policies on an unsuspecting electorate in the 1980s, I’ve been concerned that one day money would outlive its usefulness.


Grantham Journal column: Pitfalls of immigration

03 May 2015
Grantham Journal column: Pitfalls of immigration

Grantham Journal column: Pitfalls of immigration

03 May 2015

One of the commonest misconceptions about our great country, fostered quite blatantly by successive governments, is that we have always been a nation of immigrants.


Grantham Journal column: Welcome to Britain’s promised land...

19 April 2015
Grantham Journal column: Welcome to Britain’s promised land...

Grantham Journal column: Welcome to Britain’s promised land...

19 April 2015

At Grantham King’s School, which incidentally couldn’t have been more a part of the establishment in the 1950s, we were taught to look forward to Utopia.


Grantham Journal column: Allotments are the key

08 March 2015
Grantham Journal column: Allotments are the key

Grantham Journal column: Allotments are the key

08 March 2015

For some time now I have been trying to think of an alternative to foodbanks, the Third World solution to this country’s austerity nightmare.


Grantham Journal column: Racism or free speech?

01 March 2015
Grantham Journal column: Racism or free speech?

Grantham Journal column: Racism or free speech?

01 March 2015

Racism in all its forms is, of course, one of the ugliest and most vile of human failings, but also I believe, by accident or design, too often misunderstood.


Grantham Journal column: Bly’s spirit should live on

07 February 2015
Grantham Journal column: Bly’s spirit should live on

Grantham Journal column: Bly’s spirit should live on

07 February 2015

What a fantastic wheeze Ken Wingad inspired with his recent Journal letter, about Charmaine Morgan and the Labour Group describing Margaret Thatcher as contentious!


Grantham Journal column: Unfair to sick people

25 January 2015
Grantham Journal column: Unfair to sick people

Grantham Journal column: Unfair to sick people

25 January 2015

I notice that another unwarranted attack has been made on the elderly and infirm by the Coalition Government and its NHS privatisation cronies.


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