Forsooth! Is not My Liege above the law that is common to all England?
Hadrian Cook asks what our present monarch thinks his relationship with the civil authorities might be, and whether he is...
Read moreHadrian Cook teaches and writes on environmental subjects. He was on the academic staff of Wye and Imperial Colleges in the University of London and subsequently Kingston University. Now retired, he is a Trustee of the Harnham Water Meadows Trust, sits on the committee for the Society for Landscape studies and teaches landscape-based topics for the Workers’ Educational Association, Salisbury Civic Society and at Salisbury Museum. Hadrian is a member of the Labour Party, Church of England, is active with Salisbury for Europe, chairs the Cycling Opportunities Group for Salisbury and plays in a folk band.
Hadrian Cook asks what our present monarch thinks his relationship with the civil authorities might be, and whether he is...
Read moreHadrian Cook attacks the indifference of the government to air pollution and its cynical attitude of continuing to burn those...
Read moreThe current sewage crisis shows that neither the Environment Agency nor Ofwat are doing their job
Read moreHadrian wonders where reform of the EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill might be taking us? Is it heralding the...
Read moreHadrian asks if the ghost of Thatcherism is responsible for the death of our systems of state regulation?
Read moreHadrian is concerned that recent attempts to curtail the activities of Sir David Attenborough and Gary Lineker represent serious de...
Read moreHadrian welcomes the fact that the Ditchley Park ‘summit’ happened at all, but questions whether it actually produced anything.
Read moreHadrian Cook is concerned about the loss of the right to camp on Dartmoor and wonders if this is part...
Read moreThe writer finds himself bemused by ideas around ‘Re-Wilding’. What does it mean? How can we accommodate it within the...
Read moreOur economic and social system has created a market for fake news aimed at the marginalised, who need to be...
Read moreBrexit has happened and global politics has been stood on its head by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. What is...
Read moreRees-Mogg and the Conservative Party are far too close to Russia and the wealth of its oligarchs and regime, be...
Read moreNow that UK is no longer bound by the EU Water Framework Directive, Britain is in danger of becoming the...
Read moreIt is hard to be proud to be English at times. The Union Jack has been used by rightists of...
Read moreCOVID Restrictions are coming to an endbut we have emerged to a reality overshadowed by the reality of an EU-less...
Read moreAre enormous and expensive aircraft carriers the best way for Britain to ‘make friends and influence people’?
Read moreThe Government have been talking about a Global Britain since the result of the Referendum. But no one seems to...
Read moreIt's no secret that Johnson wants to shape the UK into a European Singapore. But what would that look like...
Read moreBased in Birmingham and forming part of the very epicentre of UK high-end engineering GKN Automotive has more than 500...
Read moreWe should now campaign that the reality of Brexit is an unacceptable idea, in order to make the idea of...
Read moreIn the face of a major public health epidemic resilience is part of the strategic response, and the same applies...
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