by David Wilson | Dec 23, 2025 | Art, Opinion |
We went last Friday to the Long Table for an event called Winter Songs. For those who don’t know the Long Table it is a Stroud-based social enterprise one of whose core aims is to celebrate the experience of eating together on a pay-as-you-can basis. Friday’s event...
by David Wilson | Mar 7, 2025 | All, Opinion, Politics |
I heard it suggested (on the Ezra Klein podcast) that Trump and the Maga Cult are likely to be defeated, not by a reinvigorated Democratic Party, nor through grass-roots opposition but in a ‘collision with reality’. I liked that and that’s why...
by David Wilson | Jan 29, 2025 | All, Climate, Opinion, Politics, Whimsy |
I just heard the announcement that the government is to give the go-ahead for the third runway at Heathrow. Apparently, this is meant to deliver that longed-for but elusive prize: economic growth. Now, I don’t necessarily have a problem with economic growth and,...
by David Wilson | Oct 7, 2024 | All, Opinion, Politics |
Imagine if, in 1948, Arabs and Jews had agreed to live together in the country of Palestine. Imagine the Arab population, free from the exploitation of Ottoman landlords, enjoying the rich fruit of the land. Imagine Jews, blasted by the holocaust, returning to...
by David Wilson | Jan 11, 2024 | All, Opinion, Politics |
My mother left school at 16 and worked for most of her life as a Post Office counter clerk – always in small sub-post offices – firstly in central Manchester and later in Reddish, on the outskirts of the city. She was immensely proud of the Post Office and...
by David Wilson | Oct 3, 2022 | All, Opinion, Politics |
As I write, the country is in a state of political and financial turmoil following on from the recent pronouncements of the Truss government – all undertaken in pursuit of economic growth. Except I don’t believe this for a moment. If they were serious about economic...
