-
Join 1,732 other subscribers
Blog Stats
- 416,219 hits
-
Recent Comments
Jacklyn on TV Review: Panthera Britannia… Chris Jensen Romer on The Letters of M.R. James spectralpenman on The Letters of M.R. James Jasmine on In Memoriam: Robert Moore, UFO… angelo on In Memoriam: Robert Moore, UFO… Top Rated
Categories
- atheism (25)
- Debunking myths (84)
- Dreadful attempts at humour (30)
- Fiction (8)
- Fun forthcoming events (21)
- Games (49)
- History (37)
- History religion and society (4)
- Paranormal (132)
- Religion (53)
- Reviews and Past Events (89)
- Science (84)
- Social commentary desecrated (88)
- Student Life in Cheltenham (8)
- Uncategorized (15)
- Unclassifiable! (14)
- Uninteresting to others whitterings about my life (172)
Blogroll
- Cheltonia : curiosities of Cheltenham.
- Crafting Gentleness
- CRIGGO
- ersby
- Games from Folktales
- GSUK – my ghost forum
- Gurdur's Blog
- Meditative Dishwashing
- Oasis Stories – modern fiction and myth
- POLTERWOTSIT
- Public Parapsychology
- Richard Wiseman
- Roy Stenman's Paranormal Review
- Skeptiko Podcast
- The Amazing Meeting London
- The Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley
- The BS Historian
- The Dispersal of Darwin
- The Rather Friendly Sceptic
- The Tytalan Way
Friends
Top Posts
- CJ Events at Games Expo 2023, Birmingham NEC. June 2nd to 4th.
- Do try this at Home - the Mustard Seed Experiment
- Eostre never existed???: why Easter is NOT a Pagan Holiday
- Heroquest 2.0 - the first mini-review?
- A Gloucester Road Ghost
- In Memoriam: Robert Moore, UFOlogist - 1967 - 2023.
- The Letters of M.R. James
- Boardgame review: Final Girl - The Haunting of Creech Manor
- TV Review: Panthera Britannia - are there big cats in the British countryside?
- Wanna be a Ghosthunter? Charity event, Ghostfest Southwest, Friday 17th - Sunday 19th June 2011
-
Recent Posts
Meta
Tag Archives: Margaret Thatcher
CJ on Rural Transport Issues in the UK
A long time ago I got involved in a debate on a friends mailing list on rural transport issues, and for some reason felt moved to look it up and write properly on it. I then placed this on my … Continue reading
Posted in Social commentary desecrated
Tagged British Rail, Department of Transport, deregulation of bus industry, Developing an Integrated Transport Policy., Geoffrey Howe, gloucestershire county council, Gordon Brown, Margaret Thatcher, New Labour, Norman Fowler, public transport, Railways act 1993, railways in the UK, rural bus services, rural economy, rural life, rural transport issues, town and country planning act, transport acts, UK politics, `government policy on rural transport
3 Comments
"And sometimes he's so nameless" 
Acceptable in the Eighties?
Still I suppose it’s time to comment on the General Election, and talk politics. Please don’t change the channel — you all know that I am an old lefty who will vote Lib Dem because I live in Cheltenham, but for reasons to do with economic policy and supporting the public sector (I’m still likening our position in some ways to 1947, and see public sector spending as one potential way out: I’m sure the economists among you can tell me why this is a hopelessly naive assessment) I want to see Brown re=elected. Bet that really scares and outrages a lot of people? Hey we can differ. 🙂 Continue reading →