BY THE EDITOR Dear All, This is a big year for our magazine as we venture towards a physical version. In the meantime I have had my arm held in a Chinese Burn by younger members of the Country Squire Magazine team to do something about making our magazine’s Twitter presence more “sticky”. (I had not heard this use of the epithet before either – … Continue reading CSM Dog of the Week
BY EFFIE DEANS The Conservative manifesto promised that there would not be a second Scottish independence referendum. The Conservatives won a large majority. That should be the end of the matter. This being Scotland it isn’t. Independence is the bone, Nicola Sturgeon is the dog. Scottish nationalists will teach their toddlers that “No means No” or else raise spoilt brats. Young independence supporting women will go … Continue reading Nae
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine I trust that You are well and that You and Your families are enjoying a happy start to the decade. I am sure You started the year with new hopes and full of gusto. Perhaps Your plans are taking shape. Perhaps they are more of a struggle than You had hoped. Well-laid plans need a good blend of … Continue reading A Prayer for Guidance
BY ANASTASIA CHOO Taiwanese voters re-elected incumbent president Tsai Ing-Wen in a landslide election on Saturday 11th January which translates as a sharp rebuke to Beijing and its attempts to intimidate Taiwan into China’s fold. Tsai won over 8 million votes, or 57% of the vote share, leading her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to a crushing victory with a landslide in presidential and legislative elections. … Continue reading Taixit Holds Strong
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN I was chatting with a Venezuelan friend the other day on WhatsApp. He remarked how lucky I was to be in Britain – to be able to do anything I wanted, eat anything I wanted and say anything I wanted. At the time, given the fact that my friend had just chewed through a single arepa for lunch and I had just … Continue reading Species of Oppression
BY NICK PEARCE Fly Tipping is out of control. Cases are spiralling and the clean-up is getting ever more expensive. The stats do not lie: Since 2012, the number of incidents of white goods being abandoned in rural England has increased from 3,928 to 12,319. The incidents of illegal rubbish dumping in the countryside as a whole rose from 888 to 1,473 in the same … Continue reading Fly Tipping Solutions Do Exist
CSM EDITORIAL It would appear that Lord Dubs – at one time universally respected – has lost his sense of circumspection of late. Once a child refugee himself, the peer – an 87 year-old beneficiary of the Kindertransport – seems intent on forcing an endless succession of child refugees on Britain against the will of the public. This comes after Dubs’ outspoken support – an … Continue reading Dubs is Out of Touch
BY JAMIE FOSTER Senior Tories are demanding that Boris Johnson cut the powers of a historic investigations unit (HIU) as part of his deal to get power sharing back on at Stormont. The unit is tasked with investigating the deaths caused by the British Army during the troubles. There are real concerns that the unit will investigate all 302 deaths caused during the period. Tory … Continue reading Time to Neutralise the HIU
Ingredients: 1 oz grenadine 3 oz lemonade 1 oz vodka 1 oz blue curacao ice Instructions: Add grenadine to a glass then fill with ice. In a shaker, shake lemonade and vodka then gently pour the mixture over the back of a spoon into the glass creating the white layer of the drink. Cascade blue curacao over the back of a spoon to make the … Continue reading The Brexit Cocktail
