Opinion

We really need jobs, jobs, jobs! Decent and secure employment is top of my wish list for Thanet. I know […]

Hark!  Is that the sound of pens  – and possibly knives – being sharpened across the Isle? Do I hear […]

A sense of normality has finally returned with the opening of pubs and restaurants. Their opening shows all too clearly […]

Five and a half months. That’s how long it will have been, all in all, that my son has been […]

SO TOMORROW  – coined by the actor Paul Clayton as Re-infection Day – the pubs can re-open. Hats off to […]

The decision on a development consent order for the Manston airport site is due, barring no more delays, on July […]

The decision on a development consent order for the Manston airport site is due, barring no more delays, on July […]

It’s great news that some of our lockdown conditions have now been lifted. This latest Government advice coincides with a […]

I had a momentary panic on Saturday, when the weather wasn’t behaving itself. I had wanted to take Bryan to […]

As we know, this virus was never going to be “a great leveller” on any front. Three months of Lockdown […]

It’s my birthday! I’m 75 – I’m officially OLD! If I was in a Dickens novel I’d be wearing a […]

Michelle Thomas grew up in London, went to school in Sandwich and moved to Ramsgate in 2015. She works in […]

I have a confession; I’m not a huge fan of the beach. There; I’ve said it, and I can’t take […]

Ah!  Summer! Sun, sand, and the water companies bleating about water shortages! But this year it is different; the coronavirus […]

Jane Wenham-Jones in week whatever of the dissolving ‘lockdown’ I was sorry to hear about Dame Vera – still singing […]

I try to always be very appreciative of my home, both literally – the four walls around me and the […]

Lockdown Diary Number 397  Jane Wenham-Jones loses track of how long it’s been now… I no longer know what day […]

It’s easy to forget how much subtle influence you can have over your children sometimes. I don’t mean in the […]

I’m helping the NHS with a “Covid 19 testing research study”. I’m a hero. Give ME a clap! Or maybe […]

Week 10 of Jane Wenham-Jones’ Lockdown Saturday Housework Day comes under threat when the Dyson stops working. “Broken!” cries my […]

Things never turn out the way you expect them to; who would have suspected that 2020 would have included school […]

Week 9 of Jane Wenham-Jones’ Lockdown Monday It is Bank Holiday, hereafter to be known as What-virus? Day. My son […]

On Sunday, May 10 around 30 million television viewers heard Prime Minister Boris Johnson announce a major change in the […]

I’m one of those people who gets up early and likes it – and yet I still wouldn’t describe myself […]

Week Eight of Jane’s Life in Lockdown Monday Hark! The Today programme has a news story that is non virus-related. […]

How did you spend Victory in Europe Day? No, I don’t mean that weird affair this month when I found […]

Questions. It’s said that a child asks around 280 questions every day, although I wonder how researchers have actually found […]

In week seven of her lockdown diaries, Jane struggles to stay alert… Saturday It is 8.30am and I have just […]