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Last night a Conservative MP said if we don’t care when Parliament is misled we are on a slippery slope that ends up in Putin’s Russia. He is right. But…
What are we all to make of the situation at Ash Parish Council? It seems bizarre. Why is the council chairman Nigel Manning so determined to keep his two absent…
The beleaguered position of the Ash Parish Council chairman, in defending his two absent councillors who now live in Wiltshire, is looking less and less credible. Since November The Dragon…
“Democracy dies in darkness.” This is the strapline of the Washington Post. Naturally, when we read such mottos we think of national governments and high-level politics but it applies equally…
News that we have the most polluted stretch of road in the country will come as no surprise to many residents tired of dealing with the chronic traffic congestion. One…
Counting has now commenced (Friday morning) as tensions rise amid fevered speculation by Surrey voters about who will be their county councillors for the next four years. County results are…
We must all share the blame for the weaknesses at GBC. We vote for the councillors who create the policies and make the high-level decisions. They appoint the senior council…
Social media is a multi-mixed blessing, a mind-blowing maze of misinformation, dubious sources, misleading speculation, sometimes wild, but masquerading as fact with tendrils of truth here and there. At worst,…
No one wants our children to go hungry. There are few things less emotive than the thought of an ill-nourished child, especially in an affluent borough such as Guildford. Most…
When something has gone wrong with a local service, be that potholes, rubbish not collected, planning permission granted or refused, we often blame “the council”. Many haven’t a clue whether…
See: The Dragon Says - The Strange Case of the Disappearing Councillors
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