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By Martin Giles No sooner had I stopped tapping the keyboard to express my fears for Guildford’s future than news arrived that I need not worry, the future is, in…
April 12, 2015 / 2 Comments / Read More
By Martin Giles The other day I introduced a stranger to Guildford. I showed her along an ancient pedestrian route from Buryfields, down Porridge Pot Alley, over the River Wey,…
April 9, 2015 / 20 Comments / Read More
By Martin Giles Arguments between political parties can leave many of us cold. Politicians can often seem more interested in point scoring (even if it is only them keeping score)…
April 7, 2015 / 16 Comments / Read More
A visitor from Canada offers his solution to Guildford’s traffic problem. By David Bentley In Canada, where I have lived after emigrating almost 50 years ago, I am the proud…
April 3, 2015 / 9 Comments / Read More
By Martin Giles With a general election looming it is understandable that the big issues are dominating the media. Should we: continue economic “austerity”, leave the EU, or discontinue Trident?…
March 30, 2015 / 12 Comments / Read More
Democracy is important to The Guildford Dragon NEWS. We support no political party although we do strongly believe that it is all our duty to get involved, to use our…
March 23, 2015 / 6 Comments / Read More
by Martin Giles It’s Thursday, May 7 – general election day. You go into the voting booth and your pencil hovers over the ballot paper. Even if you have not…
March 15, 2015 / 12 Comments / Read More
By Martin Giles We all know that a week is a long time in politics: it is also a long time on the news front. Turning on my radio on…
December 14, 2014 / 4 Comments / Read More
By Martin Giles Most of us in Guildford did not do anything to mark Remembrance Sunday yesterday (November 9). Despite increased attendance at all the ceremonies held throughout the borough,…
November 10, 2014 / No Comment / Read More
By Martin Giles So in Clacton, Essex, last week UKIP trounced the Conservatives. Does this have anything to do with us here in Guildford? I think it it is worth…
October 13, 2014 / 12 Comments / Read More
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