Bronterre News

Comment and analysis by journalist Patrick O'Brien in tribute to Chartist leader, radical agitator and campaigning journalist James Bronterre O'Brien (1804-1864). BELOW: Ynyslas, Ceredigion, unscathed (see under Environment for pieces on highly controversial plan to excavate this spectacular unspoilt beach and erect an uglifying cast-metal effigy of a tree). Oil painting, 2019, by Nicki Orton

A Free Press – still a refreshingly important asset

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11th Oct 2020

THE KITE ‘redevelopment’ was one of the worst things ever to happen to Cambridge, ranking equal to, or above, the destruction/vulgarisation of the once immensely characterful Petty Cury and the razing of nearly the whole of one side of an exquisitely eccentric King Street. The tangled web of old streets that formed the basis …

We know enough of the answers. All we need now is action

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5th Jul 2020

5 July 2020 LET’S CUT to the chase, courtesy of Nature magazine. As it points out, there’s strong evidence that the Covid-19 virus originated in bats. But how, it asks, did it get from bats to people? Researchers overwhelmingly think that it’s a wild virus, which probably passed to people through an intermediate species. …