Issue Number 83 | 4 February 2026 - West Country Voices

Issue Number 83 | 4 February 2026

People are not labels

Latest Articles

How a countryside study became a culture-war flashpoint

Emma Monk 12/02/2026

Six mile toxic plume highlighted by songs as Feb 12 deadline looms on Canford incinerator appeal

XR Wimborne 07/02/2026

Biscuits and gravy

Lori Covington 06/02/2026

People are not labels

Anthea Lawson 04/02/2026

The UK is no longer a world power – live with it

Laurence Bristow-Smith 01/02/2026

The Met hired rapists because vetting collapsed. Not because of diversity. A case study in how selective framing turns a policing scandal into a culture-war narrative.

Children of the algorithm: in support of a social media ban

I need to tell this tale again, with a little more urgency…

When democracies stand together

Do Farage and Badenoch want a police state?

A tragic commentary on the abysmal ‘care’ received by one of our writers, Ian Jacques, written by his GP widow

Editor-in-chief

What the world needs now is love, sweet love…and a new narrative. Letter to the editor

Editor-in-chief

Packing a punch?

Plastic Free Axminster –

The UK is no longer a world power – live with it

Laurence Bristow-Smith

Ferne Animal Sanctuary urgently needs hay!

Editor-in-chief

On English as a second language

The Great Hedge Comeback (And Molly’s Great Mistake)

So the moment has come…

Laurence Bristow-Smith

ICE

State violence

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