BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Dear Trolls, What a day I had yesterday! The sort of day that reminds you life is rich, brimming with beauty, and meant to be savoured. It began early, just before dawn, when the sky donned a soft, velvet blue—the perfect prelude to the sun’s grand arrival. I stepped out onto the deck, coffee in hand, allowing the cool morning air to … Continue reading Postcard to My Trolls
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine I trust that You and Your families are well. As You sit in rainy Britain are You at all envious of others on beach holidays, as they look forward to another day of sunshine and relaxation on golden sands? Enviousness is the topic of this week’s prayer. The green-eyed monster that creates so much negativity in Our world. … Continue reading A Prayer for the Envious
BY THE EDITOR The recent exposé of armchair saboteur, troll, bully and Chris Packham supporter, Chris ‘Serenwyl’ Roberts (explanatory articles can be found here, here and here) prompted a flurry of new data from his victims. The new data confirmed a few things and taught us some new things about amateurish Chris Roberts: While all the data, new and old, has been passed to the … Continue reading A Grave Twist in the Chris ‘Serenwyl’ Roberts Exposé
BY THE EDITOR PART 2 of 3: Daddy, is that the Witch? Before reading this part, please catch up with the curious goings-on with the Roberts family in Part One here. At first, on seeing the photos of Erdmute ‘Eddie’ Roberts, I was convinced we had identified Serenwyl. This woman dressed as a witch, her surroundings were filthy, she worked as a pet sitter, she … Continue reading Serenwyl Unmasked Part II
BY THE EDITOR PART 1 of 3: Harassment on Steroids When Jamie Foster and I conceived of Country Squire Magazine, over a pint or two of Otter Ale in The Holt in Honiton in 2016, we agreed that our publication would avoid ad hominem pieces against members of the public. They were not the done thing. The magazine would be gentlemanly, living up to its … Continue reading Serenwyl Unmasked Part I
BY CSM STAFF WRITER This morning Cease & Desist warnings were sent to four trolls who have been continually harassing the Editor of Country Squire Magazine, Dominic Wightman. These trolls have also been harassing the two other defendants in the ongoing Chris Packham defamation proceedings. The Cease and Desist warnings are hereby published for public notice in the gallery below this article. The 4 trolls … Continue reading Packham-Tagging Trolls Face C&Ds
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN It was one of the odder calls I have received: A colleague telephoned, “Dom there’s a witch from Wales after you”. “I thought Ruth Tingay was based in Scotland?” I replied, confused. “No, this is another one. An actual black witch animal rights loon! You know, as in evil black. Black Witch of Salem! The Witches of Macbeth! She runs a business … Continue reading Toil & Trouble
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
BY JAMES MELVILLE “When facts change, I change my mind.”~ John Maynard Keynes Where is the bipartisanship, respectfulness, balance and empathy in our political discourse? We are moving apart rather than walking towards each other. Increasingly, it seems that on almost every political issue, binary choices of division are being made. This is increasing the levels of division and hatred. Instead, we need to find … Continue reading More Bipartisanship, Less Tribalism
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Hello, I am Truth. I have come here today to shatter a few lies for you. Sorry to interrupt your shouting. Isn’t it funny how liars love to shout. As if an increase in volume will drown me out or somehow metamorphose falsehood into truth. Please, Mr Lammy! Pipe down just for a minute, sir, so I can make myself heard… Margaret … Continue reading In the Name of Truth
CSM EDITORIAL This magazine is proud to publish the writings of Effie Deans. She writes clear and illuminating articles – often to highlight the nonsense going on up north over the border as Sturgeon’s mayoralty gets a tad too big for its wee booties. The downside to publishing Effie’s work is the kickback that the magazine receives from the so-called cybernats. These comprise the SNP … Continue reading England’s Cyber Nats
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Pray tell, why do you hate so? The sneering nastiness of the tw*ts on social media is something to behold. It is understandable how those handed a rough deal in life – they could be poor, sick, or born with an eye on the end of their nose – can become acrimonious. Yet the bulk of the social media nasties tend to … Continue reading Dearest Bitterati
CSM EDITORIAL The best thing about the first debate was the lack of Swinson. Hearing that squawking for an hour would have made the ad breaks desirable. The reality is the debate was too cut up and responses terminated too early by Julie Etchingham (not her fault) for the ITV debate to be deemed a success for either side. The format was ill-thought out and … Continue reading A Staccato First Debate
BY NIGEL BEAN & PAUL READ Recently the Countryside Alliance ran a survey to find out the extent of the abuse its members received online. They received 500 responses – 310 had received either death threats, photos of their children placed online alongside photos of their houses making the statement ‘we know where you live’. And the usual accusations of sadist, psychopath, bloodthirsty snob, child … Continue reading Countryside Alliance Attacked
BY JAMIE FOSTER Currently government proposals are being considered that would prevent online trolls who intimidate election candidates or campaigners from standing for public office. The length of a ban from standing for or holding public office will be part of a consultation. At present in extreme cases of intimidation there are jail sentences available for those who commit these offences. It feels like this … Continue reading Trolls Banned from Public Office?
BY MANDY BALDWIN What is it with Twitter? As a forum for public speech – which it purports to be – it’s inadequate, when you think about it. Anyone worth their salt gets suspended eventually and staff have been covertly filmed gleefully discussing their tactics for crushing dissent, or wrongthink, which, along with Hate Speech, must stand as a concept scary enough to have the … Continue reading The Silencing
Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well. This week the magazine has been subject to a concerted attack from two trolls who spend their lives trying to make the lives of the editorial team as friendless and miserable as theirs. Instead of rising to their bait, the Squires have remained calm and, instead, have submitted – in an act of … Continue reading A Prayer for Trolls
By ALEXIA JAMES Type the following individual search terms into Google: Nadine Dorries, @nadinedorriesmp, Dennis Rice, Dominic Wightman. You’ll notice certain websites and blogs crop up regularly. These results have 3 things in common – they are created by trolls, portray a very negative message & they have been heavily search engine optimized so negatives always trump any positive results linked to those keywords. Take the one … Continue reading SEO Terrorism
