Rural affairs Country diary Country diary 1968: should diarists 'meddle in politics'? Photograph: James Davies/AlamyMACHYNLLETH: Recently in this diary (see below) I deplored the threatened industrialisation of a part of Anglesey. A reader disagrees with me and also decries the trend he detects in all the Guardian’s country diarists to “meddle in politics.” He adds: “I am sure of one thing – I and thousands of others who read Country Diary do not go to it for politics.” So I hope my fellow-diarists will take heed. Anyone wanting to hear these problems discussed with reference to Wales should come to the Council for the Protection of Rural Wales weekend conference at Aberystwyth beginning on Friday, March 29. There will be several distinguished speakers who have reason to know what could be in store for all the British countryside.

Source: The Guardian February 19, 2018 06:00 UTC