EMD/WedHeads

'Wednesday Headway' columns (NB: for latest contents see <https://draytonmark.substack.com/p/wed-head-i>)

The 'Wed-Heads' are weekly online articles written by Mark Drayton and published on SubStack under the sub-headline '(Making) Wednesday Headway' (or occasionally some variation thereof).

The Author

Edward Marcus ('Mark') Drayton is a community councillor living in Morven Place, Plantation, Fort William, Inverness-shire.

The Columns

"By way of introduction, some time around the middle of March 2021 I made a commitment to write a weekly 'mini-column' until (at least) the FITCC** AGM in June, and to post them on <https://NextDoor.co.uk/>, a 'hyper-local' social networking site. They didn't stay 'mini-' for very long - about a fortnight in fact. At the end of July I decided to move everything onto <https://SubStack.com/>. Since I'd already created a <https://WordPress.com/> site - <https://DraytonMark.WordPress.com/> - I kept the same prefix, hence <https://DraytonMark.SubStack.com/>. -M"[1]

Contents (correct as of mid-December 2021)

March 2021 (17th, 24th, 31st)
      i. (this)
     ii. (original i & ii)
    iii. Local Place Plans (LPPs) I

April 2021 (7th, 14th, 21st, 28th)
     iv. LPPs II
      v. FWCAG's Ft Wm Locality Survey
     vi. Snook's Public Accountability Report
    vii. LPPs III

May 2021 (5th, 12th, 19th, 26th)
   viii. Dog Fouling
     ix. Election of MSPs
      x. Fouling II
     xi. Parking in the Planny

June 2021 (2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th)
    xii. Fouling III
   xiii. 2011's Christie Report
    xiv. HRC's Planny Survey
     xv. ScotGov/COSLA's Place Principle
    xvi. Governance Review

July 2021 (7th, 14th, 21st, 28th)
   xvii. 2015's Community Empowerment Act
  xviii. Part 3 of the Comm-Emp Act I
   xix. Part 3 of the Comm-Emp Act II
     xx. Part 3 of the Comm-Emp Act III

August 2021 (4th, 11th, 18th, 25th)
    xxi. The Scottish Enlightenment
   xxii. David Hume on 'Is' and 'Ought'
  xxiii. Scottish Independence
 xxiv-1. John Stuart Mill's 'On Liberty'

September 2021 (1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th)
 xxiv-2. J S Mill (cont)
  xxv-1. Nicholas Wade on COVID's origin
  xxv-2. N Wade (cont)
 xxvi-1. F A von Hayek on Liberalism
 xxvi-2. F A von Hayek on Conservatism

October 2021 (6th, 13th, 20th, 27th)
xxvii-1. John R Searle defends the "Enlightenment vision"
xxvii-2. J R Searle I (cont)
xxvii-3. John R Searle on language
xxvii-4. J R Searle II (cont)

November 2021 (3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th)
 xxviii. Ward 21 by-election on 2nd December
 xxix-1. My first 'election address'
 xxix-2. My second 'election address'
 xxix-3. My third 'election address'

December 2021 (1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th)
 xxix-4. My eve-of-poll 'election address'
  xxx-1. Marking the 80th anniversary of Pearl Harbour
  xxx-2. Working out who won an Alternative Vote election
 xxx-3. (stub column only)
 (n/a). (no column: publication suspended indefinitely)