VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust I find You well and healthy. Today I’d like to focus on children. Children are a gift – an amazing blessing from God. Every single day we may find ourselves doing a lot for our kids, loving and caring for them, nurturing, teaching, training, helping, leading, equipping, encouraging, protecting, and so much more. We spend precious … Continue reading A Prayer for Our Children
BY FRANK HAVILAND If you’re the proud owner of a penis you’ll be no stranger to vilification. Male babies who stoically refuse to cry are quite rightly welcomed into the world by a good slap from the head nurse; a salutary life lesson for things to come. Ask anyone and they’ll tell you: men are useless. They can’t iron, can’t ask for directions, can’t cook, … Continue reading In Defence of Toxic Masculinity
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN I watched Tuesday night’s vote over a pint in The Lamb. I took along my Remainer friend Henry. We go back a long way and Henry appreciates my choice to be a Brexiteer as I understand his mistake. Henry is as fed up with the lack of strong leadership in the country as I am. The meaningful vote result was a shock … Continue reading Stand & Deliver
BY FRANK HAVILAND Successful TV shows rarely survive the ratings wars once the lead has quit. Having put in 20 years, and achieving viewing figures of 17.4 million in the process, you can hardly blame Nigel Farage for hanging up his mustard corduroys and deciding to live a little. The demise of Brexit without him has been shocking nonetheless. Trying to market it to a … Continue reading Double Standards of the Left
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN There are certain words and phrases that should stand out as obvious red flags. People who talk in a paranoid fashion about “they” all the time, or warn you to “not use Google and use DuckDuckGo instead”. Those who bring up the “fifth plane” whenever 9/11 is mentioned. Or those whose default position for government spending strategy is “the magic money tree” … Continue reading Just Don’t Get It
Ingredients: 60ml white rum 15ml lime juice 30ml cranberry syrup Wedge of lime and some sugar to rim glass Rosemary sprig and raspberries or cherries for garnish Method: Rim martini glass with wedge of lime and dip in sugar. Half fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Place rum, lime juice and cranberry syrup into cocktail shaker and shake vigorously. Strain into prepared martini glass. Garnish … Continue reading Mistletoe Cocktail
BY FRANK HAVILAND If the left had their way, civilisation would be an endless reality show to find the world’s most offended person: X Factor Whingers’ Edition perhaps. Winners could then simply be elected for a term as supreme leader, and employ their virtue to solve society’s ills. Indeed, any aliens unfortunate enough to make it to Earth could well be forgiven for believing that … Continue reading In Defence of Offence
Ingredients: 200g sea salt 300g light muscovado sugar 2kg piece skinless pork shoulder 100ml maple syrup 100g wholegrain mustard 2 tbsp English mustard powder Method: Mix the sea salt and 200g of the sugar in a large food bag, add the pork and coat it well. (If you don’t have a bag, rub over the pork in a dish and cover with cling film.) Leave … Continue reading Maple and Mustard Pulled Pork
CSM EDITORIAL As any Brit will know, a match is finished with a handshake and either a drink at the bar or a cup of tea. The winner congratulates the loser on a match hard fought. The loser congratulates the winner on their impressive performance. A few jokes are exchanged and perhaps an apology or two for any bad behaviour that might have occurred in … Continue reading The Walk of Shame
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine I trust that You have had a good week and that You are all well and happy this blustery Sunday in October. This week I’d like to focus on forgiveness. For, as I urge You to prayer, it is more difficult to pray when You have your sins nagging in your head. There is an explanation for this: … Continue reading A Prayer for Forgiveness
For British Egg Week (8-14 October 2018) Ingredients: 3 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil 1 large onion halved and thinly sliced 1 large red bell pepper seeded and thinly sliced 3 garlic cloves thinly sliced 1 tsp ground cumin 1 tsp sweet paprika ⅛ tsp cayenne, or to taste 400g tin whole plum tomatoes with juices, coarsely chopped ¾ tsp salt, more as needed ¼ tsp … Continue reading Shakshuka
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I wish You and Your families well. That You have a brilliant week ahead and find time to seek out some space conducive to peace and reflection. This week I would like to pray for our leaders. That they become circumspect and do what is best for us. That they look beyond short term gain and see well … Continue reading A Prayer for Our Leaders
BY SAM HOOPER Every now and then you read an article so astonishingly un-self aware, so counterproductive, so open to attack and ridicule on multiple fronts that it is difficult to know where to begin. The latest writer to evoke this strong reaction is Fareed Zakaria, CNN’s in-house intellectual and self-touted expert on international issues and foreign affairs. The headline of Zakaria’s latest asinine column … Continue reading Best Not Ask Bono
BY DAVID EYLES First it was going to be outside in the street. The lectern was set up. The press pack were alerted. But it was only going to be two journos from the Beeb, one television camera and no questions. It was certainly not going to be a press conference. Then there was a technical glitch – they couldn’t get the power to the … Continue reading A Landscape of Fear
BY MAHIMA SHARMA The Sun is bidding adieu, Gliding and hiding in the clouds of dew, Paving way for a crimson evening, Whispering a message for the Moon… “I pave the way for you my Friend, Go Rise & Shine O Moon! However dark may be the night, Go spread your light, Go shine bright!” The Moon wakes up with a yawn, Spreading Moon-dust … Continue reading Rise and Shine
BY ANDREW MOODY Whilst educated to a middle-class standard, by the time my 21st birthday arrived (spent alone inside a cell in a psychiatric ward) I was living off mental health benefits and completely written off work. I lived in temporary accommodation in Vauxhall in SW London at the tail end of a decade of hard drug abuse (purchased off primarily blacks or ex-convict whites) … Continue reading The Myth of White Privilege
BY TIM DAWSON “Win one for the Gipper!” supporters of the 40th President would shout, in reference to their hero’s early starring role as George Gipp in the Hollywood biopic of the eponymous college footballer. “Boris! Boris! Boris!” chanted the crowd, as the then Mayor of London celebrated the arrival of the Olympic Torch. They may have been born five decades apart, but the parallels … Continue reading Boris is the British Reagan
CSM EDITORIAL Yesterday’s outburst by Dominic Grieve on the radio was embarrassing – for him and the Conservative Party. That someone of such low rank should attack the recently-resigned foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, and in such a public way, was both petty and puerile. Grieve threatening to resign gives us all hope and puts wind in Johnson’s sails. Perhaps Grieve can be joined by Anna … Continue reading The King Wanted to Fish
BY ANDREW MOODY “Laurie Penny has over 140,000 followers on Twitter” the bio of her recent 3rd Wave Feminist Manifesto “Bitch Doctrine” proudly declares. I currently have 509 followers and lose (or gain) a couple every so often, remaining around the 500 mark. So, is this vastly larger Twitter audience indicative of Penny’s superior talent (considering I am but a mere self-published author and she … Continue reading Moody Thoughts
The crispness of the gin is paired perfectly with the floral notes of the lavender and sweetness and tartness of the raspberries. Ingredients: 4 raspberries Pinch of dried lavender buds 50ml gin 2 spoons honey 20ml fresh lemon 20ml fresh orange Dash egg white Dash soda Method: Using a cocktail shaker, start by adding the honey into the bottom. Next, add the gin and … Continue reading Raspberry & Lavender Gin Fizz
