July 2024 website edition

My apologies to all who read the Clarion online for the late delivery. The fault is entirely mine because of a delay in process entirely of my making. If this was a school matter, I would be given 100 lines, but that would be far less interesting than news from our corner of this beautiful county, so I will not bother with anything more than expressing my regret. So the election is over and what an extraordinarily boring event the six weeks running up to July 4th proved to be. As a lifelong admirer of the news service of the BBC, I found their repetition the biggest disappointment, with reporters sent out countrywide to ask groups of people and individuals what they thought of the process and how would they vote? When you’ve had a week of the studio link introducing the same face from a seemingly endless list of small town English places with the same questions and the unfortunates being asked, most of whom neither know nor care, all coming up with virtually identical replies, it becomes tedious and finally enough to bore you stiff.
I do hope the next national election is a long way away. If I am still alive, please do not expect this publication to have anything to do with the likes of this year’s dross.

Jim Reynolds