Issue Number 27 – 7 October 2021 | New articles added daily

Pigs sacrificed on the altar of Brexit

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For the party, not the country: Conservatives making money from signed copies of the budget

Anthea Simmons 28/10/2021

An open letter to Cornwall’s MPs – “where are the Brexit benefits?”

Editor-in-chief 27/10/2021

Looks like a U-bend partially unblocked with a U-turn. UPDATE

Clare Knight 26/10/2021

‘Social Feed’: a satirical commentary on the pig swill we are fed by MPs’ social media

Babe 26/10/2021

MP David Warburton’s vote on sewage breaks a pledge to the Friends of the River Frome: letter to the editor

Editor-in-chief 26/10/2021

Can we afford this government’s blasé attitude to dirty water?

Sadie Parker 25/10/2021

Firing and rehiring in Street. Why Johnson’s high-flown, high wage economy is for the birds

Helston residents rally to defend the hedgerows of Hospital Cross

Welcome to the Kingdom of Shambolica

Covid-19: 2 months since ‘Freedom Day’, but where are we now?

“The Daytime Robber”: upcycled surfboard designed by young Falmouth duo reaches the final of a prestigious global competition!

Chris Loder MP, the Cerne Giant and a tea towel…you couldn’t make it up!

Editor-in-chief

Universal discredit: letter to the editor

Editor-in-chief

Twenty reasons why there is an HGV driver shortage – part one: 1-10

Tomasz Oryński

The double whammy: Covid-19 and Brexit in Spain

Citizen journalism works! How West Country Bylines oiled the wheels for Somerset cyclists

West Dorset Conservative MP Chris Loder happy to see supply chains collapse…

Boris Johnson: say sorry and mean it; then DO something

Threading a greenway through Dartmoor. Can it really be that difficult?

Fact check: Poland needs 120,000 drivers, so surely they must have even bigger shortages than Britain!

Tomasz Oryński

Divest Devon – climate emergency protest. “We are the last to have a shot at this”

Freedom of movement defused our demographic time bomb, but Brexit armed and exploded it

Whatever you do, don’t mention the ‘B’ word! Letter to the editor

Editor-in-chief

Don’t let our outrage at the Afghanistan debacle evaporate! Letter to the editor

Editor-in-chief

The £20 UC cut: the final straw?

Valerie Huggins

Will Gove junk Jenrick’s planning ‘reforms’ or can we expect more of the same: builders and developers first, locals a very distant second?

The economics of the right, centre ground and left of politics: an explainer

Twenty reasons why there is an HGV driver shortage – part 2: reasons 11-20

Tomasz Oryński

The final hurricane : Inspiration4 comes at a great cost to the planet

BBC’s desperate efforts to airbrush out Brexit – here’s the damning evidence: UPDATED with BylineTV footage

Stop making it OUR fault if we’re scared, stalked, raped or murdered!

Sidmouth Science Festival 8-17 October

Le mot injuste…

Closing doors: Brexit and TEFL teaching in Spain

Outrage at Patel and the Home Office is easy: but here’s why we shouldn’t just react

Thought for the day: Labour, first past the post and a united front

Employers are in the driving seat, but they don’t train drivers

The media: the biggest obstacle to addressing transport emissions

The V-word

Obituary: Jonathan Cooper OBE – defender of human dignity and generosity of spirit personified

Sheryll Murray, Conservative MP for South East Cornwall: another Brexiter not big on moves to address lying in parliament

“Johnson really wants to destroy Great Britain” – letters to the editor

Editor-in-chief

Heaven is a boggy bit of Devon

Japan’s prime minister resigned over 17,000 Covid deaths. Deaths in the UK now stand at 135,000. Will Johnson resign? Letter to the editor

Editor-in-chief

“It’s only one petrol station…”

Tomasz Oryński

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