by ed | Aug 31, 2021 | Analysis: behind the news
Skating through my social media pages this week, I came across a contributor slating today’s super rich for not emulating their public-spirited Victorian antecedents. Instead of frittering their fortunes on yachts and Caribbean islands, the writer suggested, they...
by ed | Jul 28, 2021 | Analysis: behind the news
by Beverley Paton, Chair of the ‘Green and Biodiversity’ Working Group and Deputy Chair of the Canterbury Society There are initiatives in the city that are making Canterbury a greener and more enjoyable place to live. Through partnership between volunteers, the...
by ed | Jun 14, 2021 | Analysis: behind the news
About time too. On Thursday 27 May Canterbury City Council announced an ambitious – and expensive – plan to transform the city into a world-class tourist destination. In April, I lamented the shabby and half-hearted manner in which we present our very special city,...
by ed | Jun 13, 2021 | Analysis: behind the news
What do the local election results in Canterbury mean? With a 17 per cent shift to Labour in the county votes in the city centre, they buck the main trend in England — of seven per cent gains by the Conservatives. Local Conservatives would prefer to see them as a...
by ed | Jun 11, 2021 | Analysis: behind the news
At last there is a glimmer of light at the end of the COVID tunnel. The NHS—after a year of heroic effort to combat the pandemic –now will be looking to what has to be done to meet the needs of the future. Here, in East Kent, there is no question that there has...
