BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN The argument that people deserve the leaders they get is a seductive one. I heard it expressed in a Janners pub this week. It is simple, clean, and fits neatly into the moral framework we like to impose on the world. Bad people get bad leaders. Good people get good ones. But the world is hardly so tidy. It is messy, complicated, … Continue reading People Deserve the Leaders They Get?
BY JON ALEXANDER “We need more exclusives,” our go-getting Editor was demanding at a Country Squire dinner last summer. “Come on, people, let’s do something brilliant. Let’s publish something that no-one else is putting out. We only get one life. How about North Korea? Who’s up for it?” I admit that back then our Editor’s request was met with a long and stunned silence. “Have … Continue reading CSM Exclusive: North of the DMZ
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I wish You all a peaceful and bountiful Sunday and week ahead. Last month 72 years ago, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki – just three days after dropping one on the city of Hiroshima. It is estimated that over 150,000 people were killed over those three days. Fast forward to … Continue reading Prayer for Peace in Korea
US President Donald Trump is talking tough about wayward North Korea. But what can he do about the North Korean regime which drowns its population in propaganda and continues to crank up the pressure on South Korea, neighbouring countries and the US? If you were in the White House what would you do? Dove or Hawk? Continue reading What to Do About North Korea?
