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United States A stroke of the pen is not enough to end America's birth right citizenship laws. Donald Trump has so many more political and legal mountains to climb before his presidential decree can take effect. First there is the law. Already 24 Democratic states have launched lawsuits opposing Trump's sudden end to birth right citizenship. They are on firm ground. The Fourteenth Amendment of the US constitution says: "All persons born...in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." Trump claims that birth right citizenship has never challenged in the courts. That ...
With thanks to SJ Bogue and Dundee Memories, the wash-house and washing lines at the back of Annfield Row back in 1973.
The Observer reports that Keir Starmer is under growing pressure to forge closer economic links with Europe five years on from Brexit, as a major new poll shows voters clearly favour prioritising more trade with the EU over the US. The paper says that an MRP survey of almost 15,000 people by YouGov for the Best for Britain thinktank shows more people in every constituency in England, Scotland and Wales back closer arrangements with the EU rather than more transatlantic trade with Washington. They add that even in Nigel Farage's seat of Clacton, more people think the UK is better ...
The Rochdale Canal runs for 32 miles from Castlefield Basin in Manchester to the Calder and Hebble Navigation at Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire. Its return to navigation in 2002 was one of the triumphs of the canal restoration movement. That restoration, however, did not include the branch that ran into Rochdale town centre. This video looks at what remains of it today and the prospects for its restoration.
The Liver Birds stand watch proudly over a City which is renowned for its tolerance and sense of community and compassion. During the week I was asked to go on BBC Radio 4to talk about the way that Liverpool would need to come together after the big murder trial. Of course, there wasn't a big murder trial because at the last moment he pleaded guilty to the obvious fact that he'd killed three children, tried to murder many more. Never the less once again the attention of the media was focused on Liverpool because this is where the trial was ...
The success of the Liberal Democrat campaign at last year's generation has turned Freddie and Fiona into all-powerful figures, at least in their own estimation. But did they do any more than fetch the coffee? Saturday Do you know the Zoom? It's a way of having meetings without taking the train to Town and, best of all, you can mute any speaker you wish. I have a morning meeting on it with Freddie and Fiona, who are already making plans for Ed Davey's stunts in the next general election campaign. I suggest, a little acidly, that, given our party's new-found ...
Welcome to my summary of the latest national voting intention polls for the next general election, along with party leadership ratings. If you'd like to find out more about how polls work, how reliable they are and how to make sense of them, check out my book, Polling UnPacked: the History, Uses and Abuses of Political Opinion Polls, or sign up for my weekly email, The Week in Polls: General election voting intention polls PollsterConLabLDGrnRefLab leadFieldwork Opinium 21% (-2) 28% (-1) 11% (+1) 8% (-1) 27% (+3) 1% (over Ref.) 22-24/1 GB Techne 24% (-1) 25% (-1) 13% (+1) 7% ...
At the end of the first week of Trump 2.0 the world is left shell-shocked trying to find a way through an artillery barrage of presidential decrees. He promised the decrees. He promised action. He didn't lie. Not enough people believed him. In less than a week Trump has—among other things—announced that he is going to end the right of citizenship for those born in the United States; closed America's southern border and dispatched the army to help guard it. Because Trump clashed with Anthony Fauci—the man who coordinated America's response to covid—he has ordered that the websites for the ...
A superb photo of the Magdalen Green bandstand from Mila White Photography!
The Independent reports that senior Tories are keen for former prime minister Liz Truss to "take a holiday" and get out of the public gaze for "at least a year", after she became a popular fixture, among Donald Trump's Maga supporters and donors, on the inauguration party circuit in Washington DC last week. The paper says that on Monday night, just hours after Trump was sworn in as president, the former prime minister, who lasted just 49 days in Downing Street, stood up at one of the official balls celebrating the inauguration and gave an impromptu speech. They add that ...
