Vit C Booster Smoothie
Ingredients: 1/2 orange peeled and de-segmented 2 carrots washed, peeled and chopped 1 cup water 1 apple cored and chopped 1 cup ice (optional) Method: Place all ingredients in a blender. Blend until smooth. Enjoy immediately! Continue reading Vit C Booster Smoothie
Rebound of the Nation State
BY EFFIE DEANS In recent weeks we have seen the power of the sovereign nation state deal with a crisis in a way that has not been seen since 1945. The British Government has been able to spend almost without limit to keep our people safe. It has taken other extraordinary measures to keep us in our homes and to keep essential services running. Other … Continue reading Rebound of the Nation State
Dispatches
BY ANDREW MOODY Michael Herr used his memoir and experiences as a war reporter to write the narration for Martin Sheen in Coppola’s masterpiece Apocalypse Now and co-wrote Kubrick’s most enduring film Full Metal Jacket with another Vietnam writer, Gustav Hasford, whose The Short Timers inspired the boot camp sequence. Herr said of Kubrick that had he not been a film director, he would have … Continue reading Dispatches
A Prayer for Front Line Staff
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are healthy and following the rules and regulations of the lock-down in an attempt to thwart the progress of Covid 19. We now live in a strange world where, frankly, a headline warning us of an alien invasion or an incoming meteorite would now be met with a shrug of the shoulders. I have … Continue reading A Prayer for Front Line Staff
Front Line Wisdom
BY NIGEL BEAN Have you heard of Michael Wittman? He was a much-vaunted German Tiger Tank ace of the Second World War. He was credited with ambushing and destroying 14 Cromwell tanks and 15 personnel carriers. Have you heard of the Tiger Tank grave yard at Hunts Gap or the mess left at Steam Roller farm in Tunisia where a pair of Churchills destroyed two … Continue reading Front Line Wisdom
Orthodoxy Sniffers
BY JAMES BEMBRIDGE In Britain, one has to go through the ridiculous charade of downplaying things which are obvious to many but spoken by few. If your assertion is yet to find its way into the digestive tract of the media, then to express it in the presence of so-called learned people will award you the label of a ‘reactionary’. It is this position that … Continue reading Orthodoxy Sniffers
Universal Basic Logic
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Watching opportunists using the Coronavirus crisis as a lever with which to implement Communism is simultaneously entertaining and dispiriting: Someone sent me this photo of the @c2c_Rail this morning from Southend to London, who are running a reduced service so everyone’s crammed on the train. This situation is utter madness, the government has to announce a universal basic income and call a … Continue reading Universal Basic Logic
View From the Farm
BY JIM WEBSTER I’ve been trying to get my head round what is happening with the beef and lamb trade at the moment. As far as I can make out ‘cock-up’ is more likely than conspiracy. With the sheep trade it’s obvious that the buyers just stopped buying yesterday. It wasn’t just that prices plummeted, they weren’t even interested in buying at low prices. Given … Continue reading View From the Farm
Defending Capitalism Against Ourselves
BY BEN IRVINE “Riverside indigenous peoples don’t conceive of their river as something which flows, but simply as a place. Flow is a concept exclusive to our capitalist preoccupation with systems, transportation and exchange”. I heard this statement uttered by a participant in a recent seminar, in which the main speaker had likewise regaled us with postmodern musings about life beside the water in South … Continue reading Defending Capitalism Against Ourselves
