Columnists

IT IS ironic that global factors contributed to the demise of travel firm Thomas Cook when, in many respects, it was a local company with a proud history dating back 178 years.

AT a meeting of our “Churches Together in Yarm” group, concern was expressed at the particularly unpleasant divisions and wounds that are opening up within our communities and, worse still, our families, as a result of the on-going debacle caused by Brexit.

IF someone had told me four years ago that I would, in September 2019, attend the Lib Dem conference as a Liberal Democrat MP I would have responded with an offer to lay a hefty bet on the matter.

LABOUR’S descent into acrimonious infighting at its annual conference is not only a dismaying spectacle for the party’s faithful supporters, but a worrying development for the country as a whole.

THE debate over how the RNLI should spend its donations – a storm in a teacup or the rumblings of something far more sinister brewing in British life?

TEAM YORKSHIRE has another chance to showcase God’s Own County to a global audience when cycling’s UCI World Championships gather pace after the first weekend.

Public figures, said the BBC’s director general this week, would breathe a sigh of relief at the departure of John Humphrys from the Today programme on Radio 4.

IT IS 18 months since Julian Sturdy, the Conservative MP for York Outer, first proposed the creation of a GCSE course in Agriculture.

THE UCI Road World Championships will attract millions of roadside spectators and hundreds of millions of television viewers across the globe, all ready to enjoy world class sport set against the stunning backdrop of God’s Own County.

FOR too long, policy progress across the North has been stalled because the main parties put tit-for-tat pointscoring before the wider public interest.

TWO weeks ago, I received a call from the Chief Whip as I was travelling home late on the busy London Underground, clearly not the right place to have a serious discussion.

THE contempt that Boris Johnson – and his fellow Brexiteers – hold for the Remain-supporting Sir John Major will have increased when the former PM added his name to this week’s Supreme Court proceedings over the legality of the current suspension of Parliament.

Weaning has begun and the first batch of lambs sorted and ready for market. Paul is pleased with how they’re looking, but then with the volume of grass we’ve had this summer, we’d expect them to have thrived.

Tom had been busy with his usual farming jobs, but as the day progressed, he had become increasingly worried about one of his cows. She was off her food and off her milk. By six o’clock she was looking really poorly, so he decided to call the vet.

WHEN The Yorkshire Post joined forces with other regional newspapers to launch the Power Up the North campaign back in June, one of the central aims was to urge politicians to deliver a fundamental shift in decision-making out of London and give devolved powers and self-determination to the people of this region.

AS the Brexit finishing line comes into view, the EU mask is beginning to slip to reveal the true unpleasant nature of the Euro fanatics.

ICELAND held a funeral for its first glacier lost to climate change at the end of August.

DAVID Cameron’s admission that it was hearing the views of ordinary people in Yorkshire during a visit to the county in the weeks before the EU referendum which made him realise for the first time that his “worst nightmare” of a Leave victory was eminently possible is telling for several reasons.

The island of Sardinia, second largest in the Mediterranean, is known not only for its bountiful seafood but also for sustaining one of the last remaining colonies of griffon vultures – one of the most threatened species on the planet.