The View from Cullingworth

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Golf is better than running or cycling, we need to encourage it not seize the golf courses
We should be promoting golf as a gentle sport that can be played by people from ten to ninety. We should thank the sport for aiding the mental and…
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Simon Cooke
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How the Chesham Effect is killing the Tory Party
If we are looking for a source of the Conservatives woes then the Chesham & Amersham by-election provides the case study, not because the Party lost a…
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Simon Cooke
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'libdemmery': Britain's Progressive Cult
For three decades ‘libdemmery’ has set the political and policy agenda in the UK, moderating the worst excesses of socialists and greens while indulging…
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Simon Cooke
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Reclaiming England's May Day - an anticipation
Let’s have back the festival Cromwell’s puritan work ethic tried to kill. Let’s celebrate life and growth, nature and land, good things, fine people and…
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Simon Cooke
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April 2025

Springtime in Yorkshire and time for talk of revolution in the polling booth
There will be no political earthquakes on Thursday, just a few disgruntled voters voicing their irritation and annoyance at the Westminster parties. And…
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How the political right lost its way (and why Frank Bruno is an Englishman)
The right is lost. It embraced the woke identity politics of the left as its new ideology. And people tell Frank Bruno he isn't English. Which, if you…
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The Myth of Britain makes our identity, we must make sure the story is passed on
It isn’t enough to celebrate the Britain of today, we need to celebrate 400 years of the United Kingdom and over a thousand years of England. And that…
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Liberty isn't the opposite of security, it's the basis for a safe, strong and successful country
The best security doesn't come from any sort of benign authoritarianism, from a sort of cuddly fascism, but from living in a world where we see out…
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March 2025

The pub is not the heart of the community. It is just where the beer is...
We need to save pubs, not for a myth of roaring fires and the welcoming light across a dark street, not for a lie about the heart of the community, but…
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The system works as designed but the system also doesn't work
It will be a long haul to recover from the error of 1988, which took twenty years to implement, but we need to start if we want a better and more…
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Bradford's urban environment needs more greenery, parks and pleasantness not another grand development
Bettering Bradford will need a dramatic improvement in the economic realities of the city but rather than push water uphill focus on greening urban…
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My London is suburban, and none the worse for that
There used to be three Londons. The London of work, the tourists’ London, and the London of life. I was brought up in the last of these.
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