Dave – the editor Preamble During the latter part of the summer, some people could have been forgiven for thinking…
Can the roll out of vaccine passports in the UK be halted?
The generally accepted view among opponents of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is that this is a key part of the…
Pausing to reflect
We’re going to be taking our foot off the gas for the next few weeks with the blog posting on…
Keeping it local and under our control
This is an expanded and edited version of a combination of a number of posts that were originally published on…
Dealing with the new (ab)normal – a situation report
Dave – the editor Yet again, this is another attempt to try and assess where we are in these weird,…
Institutional rot
Dave – the editor With my Thurrock and Basildon Heckler hat on, I’ve become a frustrated and often angry observer…
“Never let a crisis go to waste”
Dave – the editor This was the post I put up a week ago on Monday, July 19th, the day…
‘Freedom Day’…what a joke that was…
Was anyone seriously expecting ‘Freedom Day’ to be anything other than an utter con? We certainly weren’t. Nor were the…
France rises up against the new fascism
Originally posted on winter oak:
“The people have woken up – at last!” declared local Gilet Jaune rebel Michelle as she…
Not the holistic look at the January floods in Thurrock that we were hoping for
Many residents in Thurrock will not forget the flooding the borough suffered back in January. These are the posts we…
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