David Eyles is a Dorset livestock farmer. The Magna Carta has been cited several times in recent months, not least by David Davis in his resignation speech on the steps of the House of Commons. The media response to his speech and the resulting by-election was almost one of puzzlement and in many cases, dismissal. […]
David Eyles is a Dorset livestock farmer. At last, it seems there has been some common sense on the issue of carrying knives. It seems a judge shocked a jury in a case involving a youth and a stabbing, by pulling out his own knife and demonstrated that he was within the law to carry […]
This is the first part of a feature looking at food security by David Eyles, a Dorset livestock farmer. Food security can be defined as: “The ability of a nation to produce sufficient of its own food requirements such as to ensure the proper nutritional, economic, strategic, psychological and spiritual needs of its population. Where […]
David Eyles is a Dorset livestock farmer. The previous article was concerned principally with the finer detail of the Magna Carta; with the way in which it was a response to correct the individual abuses of feudal law by King John. But there are two clauses whose significance was nothing short of revolutionary. Clause 60 […]