A Place in the Country
By Frederick Dixon: So lovely was this evening that I couldn’t bear to stay in, and a walk in the country beckoned. As I wandered along paths deep sunk amid blossoming hawthorn and cow parsley and amid every shade of green – and all this within fifteen miles of Charing Cross – I reflected for the ten thousandth time how near to a paradise most of England still is. That led me on, as it…
Our Homeland
By Frederick Dixon: “One of this country’s great unappreciated achievements is that through everything – industrial revolutions, millions of people living here – still today, you can go fifteen minutes outside any British town or city and be in glorious landscape. Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. This is an intensely beautiful country that has been extremely well looked after for centuries.” Perhaps it takes someone who isn’t…