Lax planning laws that foster an attitude of money first, the environment a distant second, are having a devastating effect on Britain's urban and suburban tree cover. Emboldened by the National Planning Policy Framework's (NPPF) central tenet of a presumption in favour of all developments, especially those within a municipality without an adopted Local Plan,…
North Wales: An Uneasy Mix of Beauty and Britain’s Twenty First Century Problems
Poverty existing cheek by jowl alongside breathtaking vistas can be found throughout the world. Indeed, poverty is one of those terms that is as subjective as it is relative, depending where on earth one is referring. Many coastal areas the length and breadth of Britain are showing not just glimmers of underlying hardship, but abject…
Alpine Adventures, Soccer, Central Asian Autocracies & Secessionist Politics 