The Beauty of Living Twice
BY ANDREW MOODY “When I was at my lowest, I was so grateful that people came to see me in the hospital and that people prayed for me…People I barely knew and some I didn’t know at all prayed for my survival. I know for sure that these people kept me alive. I am bathed in gratitude. It is for that and for them that … Continue reading The Beauty of Living Twice
Left in Pieces
BY JON ALEXANDER The last few days have shown us that the country still doesn’t have an appetite for the Labour Party, Boris and his Conservatives are still popular and again we are going to be treated to another Labour civil war. You will read numerous analyses from across the political spectrum about the problems the Labour Party has and why it’s struggling, everything from … Continue reading Left in Pieces
A Prayer for the Faithless
Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well. As I sit here writing this weekly prayer, I see the cushions from our garden chairs flying at head height across the garden while tiles from a nearby barn are being prized off by a series of squalls and gusts. I thought We were in May? The weather is somewhat ‘biblical’ today. I … Continue reading A Prayer for the Faithless
Message for Keith
The Labour Party was formed to support the working classes, not the upper-middle-dinner-party-chattering classes of North London. The people aren’t terribly impressed with your work at the CPS, ignoring calls to charge Jimmy Savile, suppressing prosecutions of organised mass paedophilic rape gangs and representing various criminals in expensive cases against the British government and people over the years. We’re also not awfully impressed at your ‘taking … Continue reading Message for Keith
Lost in Translation
SUB EDITOR Why is it that when this magazine runs an article about the trans community there are always dozens of unpleasant and infantile communications in the days that follow? The magazine is used to receiving abuse from hunt saboteurs and members of the public who disagree with articles we publish. But why is the torrent of abuse from trans people by far the worst … Continue reading Lost in Translation
Publish Dog Thieves’ Faces
BY ALEXIA JAMES This is the fifth year that this magazine has backed the campaign to increase sentences for those engaged in the wicked act of dog theft. Previous requests can be found here, here, here and here. A prospective Police Commissioner discusses the subject here. Over four years ago I wrote: I want You, the Reader, to consider the effect on the dog. On … Continue reading Publish Dog Thieves’ Faces
Well Stirred Shit
BY JIM WEBSTER There are more ways of stirring up a slurry pit Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Parking a tractor with a slurry stirrer by the side of the pit suddenly seems so pedestrian. There again, at least with the tractor you’ve less chance of an early bath. The picture below is a still from a video available on Facebook but, … Continue reading Well Stirred Shit
How to Beat the SNP on Thursday
BY EFFIE DEANS I haven’t been writing much about the Scottish Parliament election lately. This is for a number of reasons. I am not very interested in election campaigning. I’m better at political argument. I have minimal interest in the peculiarities of the electoral system where we have one vote for the constituency and one vote for the list. It strikes me as overly complex … Continue reading How to Beat the SNP on Thursday
Hustings by Email in Scotland
BY IAN MITCHELL As a responsible democrat I thought, when this election was called, that I would write to the candidates to ask them a few questions before deciding how to vote. We had no hustings this time, even in Campbeltown, and our MSP has not visited the town for ages. So election time seems to be the only opportunity to enter into dialogue with … Continue reading Hustings by Email in Scotland
Scream
BY ANDREW MOODY “What’s your favourite scary movie?” For those who became sentient in the rock and roll nineties, not even the re-releases of A Clockwork Orange, and The Exorcist in 1999 could compete with horror masterpiece Scream (1996), and it’s extraordinary, enormous influence. One of my deepest regrets (along with knowing the ending of Hitchcock’s Psycho), is allowing my sister to tell me the … Continue reading Scream
A Prayer for Freedom
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that my weekly message and prayer find You well. I hope that You are enjoying this bank holiday weekend so far. I enjoyed hearing the comments yesterday from the students who attended the ‘trial night club’ in Liverpool. There was one student who declared the experiment ‘the greatest day of her life’. Her words reminding us … Continue reading A Prayer for Freedom
Huntsman Lee Peters Show Trial Fail
BY NIGEL BEAN & PAUL READ Attempts by the animal rights extremists and their supporters in both the Scottish Parliament and Police force to secure a hunting prosecution ahead of the Scottish elections – to be used for propaganda purposes – ended in dismal failure on Thursday 29th April. The Scottish Greens’ manifesto commitment is to ban pest controlling with packs of dogs, driven grouse … Continue reading Huntsman Lee Peters Show Trial Fail
When Does a Charity Become Uncharitable?
BY STEVE GRANT Let me begin by warning you I’m going to be uncharitable about a charity. It’s not really the done thing but this charity isn’t bothered at being uncharitable about others or at inviting others to behave the same way. And all under the supposedly watchful eyes of the Charity Commission. Anyone running a charity must make sure it complies with its governing … Continue reading When Does a Charity Become Uncharitable?
Side Swept Fringe
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN There was a boy at school. Without question he was a bully. Each house lunch he’d drown out the other boys in our house year group of thirteen. He’d try and belittle us. He was bigger than us. He had an elder brother a few years older who was a prefect. He’d sneak on us and make sure our fun was constrained. … Continue reading Side Swept Fringe
Descent to the Bottom
BY GARY MCGHEE The Trans Cult has been busily recruiting new members. They suffer from a particularly problematic malady called TSS. This is not to be confused with those other illnesses WSS, TDS, BDS1 and 2 and DDS, (see below) though the psychological disturbance involved has some similar characteristics in that it involves detachment from the real world, deep immersion into fantasy land and the … Continue reading Descent to the Bottom