A Prayer for Forgiveness
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well and enjoying the weekend. This week I would like You to be charitable and forgive, as well as to ask for forgiveness for where You have done wrong. Whether we are seeking forgiveness for our own sins or asking God to help us forgive others, prayer is the first place to start when seeking … Continue reading A Prayer for Forgiveness
Just Imagine
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Just imagine if We Brits had a broadcaster across TV, the Web and Radio that was free to access, funded by adverts, therefore reflecting the market, Our Nation. One that backed everything British rather than cocking a snook at it. A service that delivered factual news and illuminating documentaries that boosted British Democracy and, by shining an investigative light, held those in … Continue reading Just Imagine
Always Be The Fisherman
BY SEAN WALSH “Then Jesus said to Simon: don’t be afraid. From now on you will catch men. So, they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything, and followed Him” (Luke 5) I think this song is a beautiful recuperation of the Gospel message. He walked the shore of Galilee and invited Peter and Andrew into Mission. Not that they could refuse. And then … Continue reading Always Be The Fisherman
Divine Wind?
BY JAMES FAULKNER This is the first Tory government since Thatcher – but is it too late? The “KamiKwasi” budget is how an apoplectic media establishment is framing Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng’s so-called “fiscal event”. Prime Minister Liz Truss’s new finance minister aimed to shock and awe the markets – and he certainly did. Sterling tumbled to an all-time low against the almighty … Continue reading Divine Wind?
Hollow Fillers
BY JAMES BEMBRIDGE At 5 pm on Wednesday, March 15, 2017, Isobel Weber died much as she lived: dressed in high fashion, sipping champagne and surrounded by no one. Turn the clock back two years, and I’m sitting with her in the Kronenhalle restaurant, Zurich, struggling to make sense of what she’s saying. Her lips are moving, but they’ve just had about 5 vials of … Continue reading Hollow Fillers
At Last, Real Conservatism?
BY EFFIE DEANS Liz Truss is attempting to rescue both Britain and the Conservative Party by a supply side revolution involving massive tax cuts. Suddenly after years of Tory centrism and wet mush we have got Friedman and Hayek back as the philosophy behind Kwasi Kwarteng’s thinking. It is not so much quasi-Conservatism as the real thing. This ought to work. If you believe in … Continue reading At Last, Real Conservatism?
A Prayer for Tolerance
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well. This time of year can be hard for people to stay happy. As the holidays end and We face weeks of hard work before Christmas, as the weather changes for the worse, people tend to get stressed or depressed and get snappy, impatient or quick to judge. Tolerance, thinking before speaking, is … Continue reading A Prayer for Tolerance
Webster
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN The magnificence of this country is that one never knows what pot of joy or genius one might find down a country lane or hidden away in some random-looking terrace. I suppose that those less appreciative of laissez-faire society would argue the flip side; that British tolerance and enduring liberties facilitate the opposite too. To be fair, ammo dumps are seldom but … Continue reading Webster
Mother Russia Calls in Vain
BY EFFIE DEANS Everybody including me got everything wrong about the war in Ukraine. The Germans and the French thought it wasn’t going to happen right up until the moment that it did. The British and the Americans thought that the Ukrainians would be defeated within a week or so. The fear was that the Russians would then threaten Lithuania and Poland and that NATO … Continue reading Mother Russia Calls in Vain
Response to Roger Watson’s Article: Terrain Theory Terrorists
BY RACHEL NICOLL Roger Watson’s article ‘Terrain Theory Terrorists’ is disappointingly emotive, labelling terrain theory as nonsense and quoting Wikipedia’s opinion that terrain theory is an ‘obsolete variation’ of ‘germ theory denialism’. Just because one article in Wikipedia says something is a fact, does not make it so. Roger Watson also makes some very sweeping, but unsubstantiated, statements such as ‘But the….doctors who adhere to … Continue reading Response to Roger Watson’s Article: Terrain Theory Terrorists
Rural Vehicle Emissions Negligible
BY JIM WEBSTER Friday was a busy day, we sorted a lot of heifers out, moved them about, and had the vet check that those who’d been running with the bull were in calf. Then on Sunday morning I found two different groups had tested the limits of their current boundaries and found them significantly more permeable than I had previously thought. Certainly, the previous … Continue reading Rural Vehicle Emissions Negligible
A Prayer for King Charles III
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well during this time of mourning. This week will be different as all focus is on Our Monarchy and the funeral of Our Queen. Simply, I will leave you with a prayer for the new King. I wish You all well for the week ahead. God Bless You All. Lord God, the Ancient … Continue reading A Prayer for King Charles III
To Kindle or not to Kindle
BY ROGER WATSON Admittedly, this is somewhat of a late review. Kindle is now in its sixth generation with an array of devices, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. While my wife was an early adopter along with three of my daughters, I was not convinced. The original models had no backlight, and this was sold as an advantage as the backlighting on other … Continue reading To Kindle or not to Kindle
White Wednesday, Thirty Years On
BY ANDREW GIBSON Today, the 16th September, marks the thirtieth anniversary of the pound sterling’s suspension from the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM), an event that broke the credibility of the Major Government, emboldened the intellectual self-confidence of British Eurosceptics, and taught important lessons about the folly of large-scale state interventions in the economy. The episode also revealed John Major’s unattractive, low cunning. ERM membership was … Continue reading White Wednesday, Thirty Years On
Grasshoppers in the Fields
BY ALEX STORY Edmund Burke wrote in Reflections on the Revolution in France, published in 1790, a year after the storming of the Bastille: “Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those … Continue reading Grasshoppers in the Fields
Not All It Seems
BY SARAH GREENWOOD On Saturday night my friend rang me to tell me that he’d had to go and shoot a sheep. Nothing wrong with that you might think, except for how he felt about doing it. My friend is a pest controller, so no stranger to pointing a gun at a target and pulling the trigger. But killing a creature out in its own … Continue reading Not All It Seems
RSPB Might As Well Be Run By Foxes
BY BERT BURNETT How much wildlife have we lost through conservation charities like RSPB due to their management choices? RSPB have managed Abernethy estate for capercaillie for over 25 years and have succeeded in reducing the capercaillie population by 75% minimum. They also inherited with the purchase a healthy population of mountain hare and upland waders etc., the hares have all but gone and the … Continue reading RSPB Might As Well Be Run By Foxes
The Determined Drive to Ban Lead Shot
BY MARK CRUDGINTON Lead shot is the only viable projectile that can be used to humanely kill birds and animals in the UK. Other metals such as “steel “, copper, bismuth, zinc, tin etc can be used but not one of them can hold a candle to the efficiency and lethality of the lead projectile. However, lead is a divisive subject, mainly due to the … Continue reading The Determined Drive to Ban Lead Shot
Country Squire Print Edition
CSM EDITORIAL Finally, it’s here! You’ve been asking us for a while to produce this. We were delayed by Covid and then by a certain court case in getting a print copy out to you, Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine. Now we have agreed with our publishers to supply a quarterly publication – a 50-page glossy smorgasbord of content – which we are now … Continue reading Country Squire Print Edition
A Prayer for Our Queen
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine (UK & India), I trust that in the circumstances You are doing well. Of course, there is a sombre mood across the United Kingdom as the Second Elizabethan Age ends and We come to look at our own lives as before and after Queen Elizabeth II. Few events have been so collectively resonant. Going through grief is sometimes … Continue reading A Prayer for Our Queen