The Raft Journal

 “I boarded a crowded train with a group of colleagues; we journeyed through the train looking for places; there wasn’t a place for all of ...

The stages to adjustment are, approximately: Shock, Anger, Denial, and eventually..... Adjustment It is not clear where we are as a socie...

The EU had a wonderful vision at its heart; peaceful co-existence.    The shorthand for this is 'multiculturalism'.   Everybody woul...

Let us look at the breakdown of the referendum calmly. Out of ten people, three said nothing at all.  Of the next six people, three wanted...

Back in 1975 the world looked like this: The USSR was, we were assured, a thriving economy.  But it was rapidly running out of basic thing...

To anybody with a scrap of common sense, it is obvious that a bus is a finite space which is smaller on the inside than the outside.   This ...

When Dr Matt Taylor gave the good news about the Rosetta mission, and with every right to be proud of his achievement in space exploration f...

The long process of reviewing the past century continues but Sunday is for  remembrance. Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside View from your office window Get paid to be in a beautiful part of the country.  All you have t...

Portal This doorway was one of the last which men passed through on their way down to the troop ships in Operation Overlord.   It...

David Cameron and other MPs think they can negotiate with European law.  It is a very old delusion caused by not being bothered to buy even ...

Now that marriage is a notarial contract of cohabitation recogized across the EU, it is time to look at the other out-moded and frankly offe...

pulsating with vigor and energy: the vibrant life of a large city. vigorous; energetic; vital: a vibrant personalit...

Politicians and civil servants have never forgotten the thrill of total war and the power it gave them to direct all the goods and services ...

At last.  He [Peter Hain] told The Independent : “Ukip is hoovering up the anti-politics vote. It goes beyond Europe and even beyond immi...

This vid would never get on TV now because of the references to cigareets and whisky, but it has a good lyric for UKIP councillor, David Sil...

William Hague Lee Jasper

The film about Nelson Mandela comes out and before the credits have rolled they announce his death. The drama about The Great Train Robber...

"I have come down" repeats Grandfather Smallweed , hooking the air towards him with all his ten fingers at once to  once, ...

....the chief executive of the British Association of Social Workers Bridget Robb says the report on social work in the UK offers an insig...

A load of stinking offal A foreign woman who was raped whilst in hospital is being told that she cannot take action because the rapist...

In May 2007 an ambulance was called to a young woman, Sarah Thomas, who was having trouble breathing. Miss Thomas was recovering from a brai...

We Will Remember Them Compromise.    Much has been written about the misunderstanding of the poppy. Locally, churches are holding...

I can't face wading through all this so let's concentrate on one feature: Recommendation:   There should be a provision of s...

The Story of  Heston's Marvelous Mince. After that 'magic bean' recipe with the cockerel's gonads, I'm not sure I want...

To Old Buckenham Airfield for a celebration of the life of  Our Ken - Wing Commander Kenneth Horatio Wallis MBE, DEng (hc), Ph.D (hc), CE...