Holme Valley | Going Postal

How They Rule Ya

8th July 2019 James Dalton 0

The only way to ‘Change Politics for Good’, is to acknowledge the magnitude of the problem and understand how easy it is to resolve. There are only two things you need – co-ordination and tens [more…]

Confronting The Climate Emergency, Part 2

25th June 2019 James Dalton 0

Tasked with heading the challenge of confronting the declared CLIMATE EMERGENCY, Councillors and politicians throughout the land and all over the world are sounding the alarm bells and preaching to the people: WE MUST ACT [more…]

Confronting The Climate Emergency, Part 1

18th June 2019 James Dalton 0

I write this on the eve of my first meeting of the Holme Valley Parish Council Climate Emergency Steering Group [HVPCCESG], a meeting I shall be attending as the newly elected Councillor for the Netherthong [more…]

Henry V’s Agincourt Campaign – Part One

17th June 2018 0

On a wet and dank evening of the 24th October 1415, a small English Army of some 812 Men-at-arms and 3,073 foot and mounted archers tried to find what shelter they could and waited for [more...]
The Death of Western Democracy

3rd October 2018 0

How western democrats used to sneer at one party dictatorships. For many decades western democracies exuded superiority with their multi party systems, constitutional monarchies, republican constitutions, bills of rights, free press, government by consent & [more...]
Crossword No. 3

17th February 2018 0

Answers with next week’s crossword. Solution to Crossword No. 2 Across 1 London 4 Shithole 10 Wight Isle 11 Piles 12 Syrians 13 Atomise 14 Aback 16 Rochdale 18 A good lay 20 Basra 21 [more...]
Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Six

11th February 2019 0

Introduction Sometime in mid-2017 I casually remarked to the chap shooting at the next bench to me that I had long been fascinated by the Westley Richards ‘Monkey Tail’ transitional rifle but had never actually [more...]
Postcard from America, US Hwy 27

26th November 2018 0

My childhood ambition was “To be an American”. Strange because my only American experience was listening to the Cuban Missile crisis on transistor radio and a bit of TV. A salmon returns to its river [more...]