LibDem Blogs - Archived!

By Peter The Indy are pursuing a trail that leads to the Home Office: "Within days, the Home Office had added to the "chase" theory by disclosing that the immigration stamps in Mr de Menezes's passport were not officially authorised. Someone, it appeared, had illegally put a disused residency stamp in his passport. "This gave the impression that the Brazilian might have run from the police because he was an illegal immigrant. This was also untrue. The Home Office has since made it clear they are not claiming that the young man knew he was in the country illegally. He ...

Listened to the coverage from the cenotaph. Nice touch that Lord Romsey was able to lay a wreath but I thought Tony might have thought it worth coming back for - just how long has he been on holiday for? Having said that I heard no mention of opposition politicians of any party - where they invited? If not this seems to be something of a scandal - If the reality was that all of the party leaders

Was really sorry to hear the news of her death - many people have expressed the same from all parts of the political spectrum. It is one of my regrets that I did not know her in her earlier political career. What I did observe was a very warm and funny woman with a strong streak of humanity. Call it the common touch, call her a people's politician - call it what you will but the bottom line is

Here are some photos showing the new library and community centre - the Hook Project - as it has been developing. You can find more information with detailed plans and drawings about the Hook Project on the Council's website. August 2005 - from Elm Road. You can see the CAB building on the right July 2005 - from Hook Road June 2005 - from Elm Road April 2005 - from Elm Road March 2005 - from Hook Road January 2005 - from Hook Road

The Island, a new film about a futuristic society where the rich produce their own clones to save themselves, mixes a fascinating plot, superb set design, a clunky script and pisspoor directing by Michael Bay (Pearl Harbour, Armageddon). First, the plot - Ewan McGregor plays Lincoln Six Echo, a man who thinks he one of only a handful of survivors of Earth's "contamination", but he is in fact just

The term gallerycrashing is a clumsy neologism I have coined to refer to the act of placing an unsolicited artwork in a private or public exhibition. Specialised circuits were constructed for the sole purpose of gallerycrashing and a family of objects called ‘Spacehoggers’ were gradually developed for proliferation around galleries. The Spacehogger takes the form [...]

I don't think I even need to criticise this - it does it all for itself. If you look at Dennis Paul's (yes... again... he just can't seem to stop providing me with blogging material) website, you'll notice the main page will have a picture of what appears to be quite a scary piece of vermin. However, there's also a picture of a rat. If you click on this rat, it takes you to The Sewer, and I must admit that I've never thought of a more appropriate metaphor for Dennis Paul's opinions. Inside this "sewer" is "Guildford's ...

I know that it is the silly season but this just takes the biscuit. Either Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg want Government organisations to use the Welsh language or they do not. They cannot have it both ways. Nor can they pull up the drawbridge and pretend that this will make Wales immune to terrorist attacks, it will not.

than mackerel, not 20 minutes out of the sea hot from the barbecue, I have yet to eat it. Maybe the setting had something to do with it: the deck of Silvery Light a 121 year old herring drifter in the Irish Sea at the end of a sunny day sailing in gentle winds. The kids aboard wanted to fish: fine, we said, but you catch it and if you keep it you have to gut it, cook it and eat it. Soon we