Snow, Geoffrey Jones' film about the railways in the winter of 1963, still seems painfully relevant. But here is another short by the same director, again matching music and railway footage in a masterly way. There is more about Geoffrey Jones in his Guardian obituary from 2005.
[IMG: 428922_10151892275475500_209073574_n] Councillor Bowen and I are in the middle of working through the huge number of responses we have had to our annual Residents Survey. Its great to get such a huge feedback, though it does keep us busy for several weeks! One of the issues that some residents have raised is nuisance from motorbikes and mini motos being ridden antisocially, especially in the parks and green spaces across Acocks Green Ward. Its very annoying to residents and potentially very dangerous to the riders and anyone they come near. Its a problem that is high up on the agenda ...
Last year the extreme rural Conservatives who run the County Council cut 100% of the funding for the no 17 bus service, along with other bus services across the entire County. The number 17 provided a vital service which connected Fen Road, in East Chesterton, with Cambridge City Centre. As a gesture of goodwill Stagecoach agreed to continue to run the service for a year on a reduced frequency, to see if it could be made commercially viable. That trial period is about to end, and Andy Campbell, Stagecoach's local executive, is likely to call time on this service. Unfortunately ...
A campaign has been launched to encourage people who want to represent their community to stand in the County Council elections in May. All 69 seats of the Council are up for election on Thursday 2 May - and anyone wishing to stand must submit their nomination by Friday 5 April. Candidates must be aged 18 or over and be British or a citizen of a member country of the European Union or Commonwealth. They do not have to be a member of a political party. They must either be registered with their local council to vote, or have either ...
Fake designer clothing seized by Cambridgeshire Trading Standards officers has been donated to homeless people in the county. Thousands of pieces of clothing, fashion and music items worth around £10,000, seized in raids across Cambridgeshire, have been donated to Wintercomfort thanks to a link up between Trading Standards and the His Church Charity. The items, which had they been genuine would have been worth in the region of £50,000, were seized in raids on fraudulent traders operating in Cambridgeshire. The seized items will be given to the His Church Charity where the clothing will be re-branded with the charity's logo ...
I'm very grateful to my colleagues on the council's planning committee for voting this afternoon against an application to build two three bedroom homes at the junction of Western Road and Carboth Lane. The application would have seen the excavation of huge amounts of soil, the construction of a massive retaining wall and two houses being built up against the wall. The two concerns I expressed to the committee were: - that the construction of a retaining wall would threaten the safety of the main road into the town. I know that the council's highways department had concerns and were ...
Image Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Chocolate lovers across South Cambridgeshire are being reminded to think green and recycle extra plastic, cardboard and foil from eggs this Easter. Approximately 80 million chocolate eggs are sold in the UK at Easter which generates almost 5,000 tonnes of card, foil and plastic - all of which can be recycled by South Cambridgeshire residents in their blue bins. The additional waste generated at Easter is the equivalent to weight of around 600 double decker buses and Council waste bosses are urging residents to make sure none of this goes into black bins for landfill. There ...
A South Cambridgeshire partnership set up to help residents improve their homes by making them warmer and cheaper to run has been pipped at the post for a national energy award. The South Cambridgeshire District Council partnership beat off competition from across East Anglia to scoop the regional prize in November, but at an event at the House of Lords was told they had not won the top gong from fuel poverty charity National Energy Action and the Department of Energy and Climate Change. South Cambridgeshire District Council's Sustainable Energy Partnership was shortlisted as one of nine finalists after volunteers ...
This time tomorrow, the House of Lords will have voted on the Justice and Security Bill. These men and women have the future of fair and open justice in their hands. If they pass the Bill as it stands just now, it will not satisfy the Joint Committee on Human Rights. That is serious stuff. It is counter-intuitive for any Liberal Democrat to be going against what that Committee, not to mention Liberty, Amnesty and every other human rights organisation, says. How many red flags do we need? The amendments in the Lords will, if passed, ensure that secret courts ...
Welcome news from the Harborough Mail: A crunch decision today (Monday) has confirmed the future of Harborough's ambulance station. East Midlands Ambulance Service rubber-stamped proposals put before its board to restructure the way it operates. It means Harborough's station, at the St Luke's Hospital site in Leicester Road, will remain.The station had been due for the chop under the East Midlands Ambulance Service's 'Being the Best' programme. However, a strong campaign led by Phil Knowles and the other Liberal Democrat councillors - see this post on the Market Harborough Liberal Democrats site - persuaded the service to draw up the ...
[IMG: Some rights reserved by Scootie] Well, if that doesn't get my hitcounter going mad with two second duration visits, I don't know what will.... I just watched last night's Countryfile in the bath via iPad and iPlayer. Well, I thought it was impressive anyway. One of their segments brought back memories. In about 1973 when I was 14 years old, one of the little after school clubs I joined paid a big dividend. Chess club was a bit staid. As was Geography club. Snore. But the Young Farmers' Club was definitely the place to be – being, as we ...
[IMG: Graeber Debt] One of the books I received for Christmas was David Graeber's Debt, the First 5,000 Years. Mr Graeber is an American anthropologist, now working at Goldsmiths in London, who has been active in the anti-capitalist Occupy movement, and describes himself as an anarchist. The book promises to give some intellectual heft to the anti-capitalist case, by examining the origins and history of debt and money, and how we need to rethink it. So far so good. But after the book promised so much at the beginning, I can hardly contain my disappointment with its limp ending. The ...
One of the best things about last week's budget went unheralded among Liberal Democrats, probably because it was not something for which the party could claim sole credit (although Liberal Democrat MP Greg Mulholland played a big part in achieving it). The Chancellor announced that the hated beer duty escalator would be scrapped, for good. Not only that, but the 3p rise in beer duty tax planned for this year was cancelled. Even better, beer duty was cut by 1p. CAMRA (the Campaign for Real Ale) explains the significance of this move: Beer duty will no longer rise automatically every ...
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Alastair Campbell had some advice for what Rupert Murdoch should use recent Sun recruit Louise Mensch for: "@chalongcircle: .Wouldnt be suprised if @louisemensch turned up on page 3 next"> great idea @rupertmurdoch sort it out — Alastair Campbell (@campbellclaret) March 25, 2013 What would Harriet have to say about this?
Adrian Ely reports from the World Forum on Science and Democracy, finding it somewhat critical of technology's role in our future Far from an anti-technology jamboree, the third World Forum on Science and Democracy illustrates the diversity of global debates around education, research and the scope for science, technology and innovation to help build what some like to talk of as "another world". When the dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Tunis says "Vive la démocratie! Vive la science!" they don't sound like empty words. Here, and across the whole country, one of the changes since the revolution was ...
On Saturday I asked why Michael Gove attracts such vitriol what with people calling him a big girl n all. I got much feedback via Twitter, Facebook, texts, well virtually everywhere but this blog so alas you can't read them but the responses mainly break down into two categories. The first are the policy based insults. People don't like his policies so apparently its ok to insult him and call him a big girl or give him a wedgie and use other insults that seven year olds are embarrassed to use. This approach can be summed up by one person ...
Regular readers will know that a bugbear of this blog is political jargon, the stock phrases and clichés that litter politicians' speeches. Bravo, then, to the Telegraph's Tom Chivers for spotting the worst thing about George Osborne's budget speech, a major flaw that eluded other journalists; the grim phrase "aspiration nation": It's hard to imagine a way you could abuse the English language more efficiently. It rhymes, for a start, which makes it sound (as a colleague put it) like the name of a bad instrumental jazz album. It is also simultaneously trying to sound clever ("Aspiration! It's like hope, ...
Mon 25th
15:26
Why the GOP would be sensible to pick Jeb Bush as their Presidential Candidate in 2016
Not because of his policies Not because of his character Not because of his skills But because the last time the Republicans won the US Presidency without the name 'Bush' or Nixon' on the ticket was..... 1928. Just saying. Update According to my friend Chris...
Miliband, Clegg, and Cameron have all delivered their 'big immigration speech', but given how connected the world is now it seems bizzarre that anyone still cares. Call me a member of the metropolitan elite, but one of the things I think about least of all in politics is immigration. Every day online I read, watch ...
We are now told that the works will commence on Wednesday: many – possibly even all – the defective slabs will be relayed, but without unsightly strips of blacktop appearing at random and damaging the street scene.
Mary Bousted, the general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, will tell the ATL conference in Liverpool that the Conservative reforms are "undermining and harming our pupils' education,"the Guardian tells us. But that isn't news. It is what the teachers' unions have always said, whoever is in power. It be news if she had said anything different. Which suggests there are two thumping contradictions in the unions' thinking. The first is that they hold these two beliefs: All schools should be run by the democratically elected government.It is an outrage if that democratically elected government seeks to make ...
[IMG: An African Election] Do you think having our MPs voting in secret in Parliament would be good for democracy? Despite the diversity of my readers, I'm pretty confident you'd find the idea that having MPs vote in secret on legislation might be good for democracy as absurd. Unless that is, you are an older person with links to Italy* – where having MPs vote in secret used to be a key part of its post-Second World War democracy and the attempt to ensure fascism couldn't rise again. For post-war Italy, the danger at the front of people's minds was ...
Well - now we know what the future of policing looks like! We also know how much or little the Mayor has listened to the people of London.As we said previously, West Hampstead Police station will NOT be closed but will be used for "deployment."The new public "contact point" will be at our local SNT base179- 181 West End Lane but only open a couple of hours a week.(They say: Contact Points are open every Wed-Thur evening between 19.00 and 20.00 and every Saturday afternoon between 14.00 and 15.00)So catching sight of a police officer will be like spotting a ...
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Religious spin-doctor Christina Odone has today used what she calls "a huge hit", US TV mini-series The Bible, to attack the BBC, secularism and, basically, the whole 21st Century. Her propagandaggrandisement in today's Daily Telegraph, the journal of pre-Enlightenment fantasy, rests on the twin absurdities that 13 million US viewers is "a huge triumph" and tells us anything about British religion or TV viewing. Ms Odone's bigging-up of the so-called "History" Channel ignores three important facts. First, though she claims the BBC ignores religion, in fact the money of all licence-fee-payers by law has to pay for making religious programmes. ...
Caroline Pidgeon, London Assembly Lib Dem Group Leader has given us early notice of the London Mayor's decision to downgrade the Wallington Police Station Front Counter to a 'Contact Point', which will now only be open to the public for just three hours each week. Obviously the concerns raised by local residents at the 'Consultation event' ...
The Liberal Democrats are committed to building a stronger economy in a fairer society. We might be sick of hearing that phrase but it does sum up our party's values pretty well. Yet Nick Clegg's speech on Friday would damage the party's plans for a stronger economy in a fairer society. If Nick Clegg truly wants to enable everyone to get on in life, he should re-consider this new illiberal stance on immigration. Liberal Youth oppose Nick Clegg's 'security bonds' policy, which will stifle foreign entrepreneurship and investment in Britain. We should be encouraging people to start up businesses in ...
Nibley Lane is expected to be closed for cleaning between its junction with Badminton Road and its junction with Westerleigh Road from 9.30am until 2.30pm on Thursday 28th March 2013.
The House of Lords votes tomorrow on the Justice and Security Bill and various amendements have been tabled to try to and undo the most illiberal parts of the bill. Lib Dems against secret courts have helpfully provided a template letter that can be can download here and sent to Lib Dem (and Crossbench peers) - whose votes might just make the difference.
Here's today's hand-picked selection that caught my interest... Nick Clegg's illiberal hat-trick: now immigration joins 'secret courts' and media regulation on the pyre Another day, another polit leader flunks it on immigratn. Here's my piece for LibDemVoice on econ need for immigrants http://bit.ly/11BUuTP Immigration: if only politicians would lead, not follow - Telegraph Blogs A MustBeRead article for Nick Clegg (via @jameskirkup) >> Immigration: if only politicians would lead, not follow http://bit.ly/11BSlaF
The capital of the West Country, Bristol, has made the final shortlist for the European Green Capital award for the second year running and in its third attempt. In the final shortlist for the 2015 award, Bristol will face off against two European Capital cities: Brussels and Ljubljana, as well as Scotland's largest city Glasgow. Bristol, Brussels, Glasgow and Ljubljana shortlisted for European
A big company often needs to have certified tax accountants. This is to audit how much tax that should be paid. The certified accountants are important because they have a big responsibility to manage count the tax and the budget of company. Unfortunately, selecting the certiied and professional tax accountants may not be easy. Now, since the internet has been developed, you can simply go online and access frazer evangelista. This is a special site that provides certified and personal tax accountants either for a company or for individual. You do not need to pass a complicated bureaucracy to get ...
Mon 25th
12:02
It may be a good thing that Mark Webber was robbed of Malaysia victory by his team-mate #F1
Like many, I watched the podium ceremony after yesterday's Malaysian Grand Prix with more than a little bit of grumpiness. Mark Webber, who had led from early in the race after passing his pole-sitting team-mate, looked, by the final pit stops on lap 43, to be heading for a well-deserved victory. His team had told him to look after his tyres, which meant that he had to slow up a bit and not push the car to its limits. After all, a car that blows up or ruins its tyres on the last lap is no good to man or ...
When Nick Clegg was first elected leader, he announced a new tax policy - to reduce the percentage paid from 20% to 16%. The policy was duly passed at the 2008 Conference. Another delegate mentioned to me that he would prefer to see the Income Tax threshold raised taking the lowest paid out of tax. 'Too late now' he said. I took this as a challenge and looked for a way of changing tax policy. I didn't have to wait long. Jo Swinson MP sent an email to Women Liberal Democrats asking for policy ideas for the Manifesto Day at ...
If you missed Thursday's edition of Question Time, do take a moment, if you can, to catch up on iPlayer. On the panel last week were Michael Gove (Con), Emily Thornberry (Lab), Natalie Bennett(Greens), Anthony Horowitz (writer extraordinaire) and Mark Littlewood [IMG: Question_time_logo] (IEA). Many will know that Mark Littlewood was founder of Liberal Vision so we were especially pleased to see him on the panel doing just a grand job – most particularly on the issue of press regulation. Though to be frank he served up aces for every question posed (budget/press regulation/education/Cyprus). Many on twitter report that it ...
There's a sense of excitement about snow. We listen avidly to any news report that might predict an imminent fall. The moment there is rumour of a local flake, we stare out of the window. The phone rings. "Is it settling where you are?" "Yes," you reply before tweeting: "#uksnow Ludlow 8/10 - a real ...
[IMG: Featured on Liberal Democrat Voice] You don't have to be a Sandgrounder to decode this question: John Pugh (Southport, Liberal Democrat) To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what his policy is on the alteration of local authority boundaries in order better to deliver the localism agenda. Brandon Lewis (Great Yarmouth, Conservative) The Government believes that it is preferable for local authorities not to be distracted by boundary changes, but to focus on combining and sharing operations across boundaries on both front line service delivery and back office. Where all councils concerned believe a boundary ...
Reaction to Nick Clegg's immigration speech shows just how much our party values the cultural and economic contribution migration makes to Britain. In fairness, Nick did say some positive things but the idea of bonds, thought to be for £1,000, on visitors from 'high risk' countries was inevitably going to write 'tough-on-migrants' headlines in the media. No one wants overseas visitors to disappear into the unofficial economy or exploited by unscrupulous criminals, but we have a whole apparatus to deal with that already. The Ethnic Minority Liberal Democrats welcome Nick's desire to double fines for employing illegal workers, but our ...
I realise this blog is becoming, in some ways, a kind of conversation with Jonathan Calder - which I hope will allow me to steal a little of his glory. But I am fascinated by his blog yesterday: his story about the two children of soldiers from the American Civil War still being paid pensions by the US government is one of those strange tales which reveal that human history is not quite as long as it seems. Apparently, the last Civil War widow only died in 2003. I was thinking about this, having just come across a letter to ...
The Romford Recorder wins with: House fire started by a squirrel disrupts funeral procession through Romford
Great British Bake Off star Sue Perkins' sitcom 'Heading Out' has received mixed reviews, but not only is it funny, it is an important step forward for lesbians on TV. Many of you will be familiar with the arguements about female gay characters on TV – while we see numerous male gay characters, from Will ...
Dr Alun Wyburn-Powell reminds us that today, as well as being my birthday, is the 31st anniversary of Roy Jenkins victory for the SDP in the Glasgow Hillhead by-election. Which gives me an excuse for redeploying a favourite anecdote, first borrowed from Mr Eugenides (whose blog is now invitation only). He wrote: One of my all-time favourite political anecdotes concerns the 1982 Hillhead by election, for which the newly formed SDP selected their leader, Roy Jenkins, who had not hitherto been renowned for his connections with the city. Strolling around the west end of Glasgow, the urbane Jenkins entered a ...
The UK Census data continues to trickle out and we now have lots of information broken down by ward. You can see the details on the MyStockport website here. So what do we know about Cheadle and Gatley ward? [IMG: loneparent] We're pretty average for numbers of young people, and have slightly more elderly people than across Stockport, Greater Manchester, the North West or the whole of England. Locally, though, Bramhall and Marple have even more elderly people than we do. Cheadle and Gatley has the second highest proportion of people from Asian or Asian British ethnic groups, at just ...
It's time again to nominate your favourite south Asian restaurant in the constituency for the 2013 Tiffin Cup Competition! Manchester is known as a place to get a top curry. ...
Perhaps the best outcome from the Chancellor's budget announcement that the UK Treasury is to underwrite billions of pounds worth of mortgages has been the muted reaction to it. In a budget which was distinctly underwhelming, the Chancellor must have hoped that his latest attempt to 'get the banks lending more' would be hailed in the same way that previous populist capitalist measures, such as the 'Right to Buy' scheme were. Most economic decisions are empirical, and there are valid points to make on either side of any argument. But the Chancellor's plan has nothing to recommend it. It will ...
With the Notice of Election published last Friday, and the launch of the Lib Dem manifesto over the weekend, the race for the County Council elections has well and truly started. I'm standing for re-election in Kenilworth Abbey, having served as county councillor for the last eight years. While I feel I've achieved a lot in that time, there's plenty more that I hope to do if re-elected. I plan to talk with as many electors as possible over the coming few weeks, to listen to their concerns and aspirations, and to help shape my priorities should I be privileged ...
The Local Government Boundary Commissioin for England is carrying out an electoral review of Shepway District Council area, having already decided it intends to reduce the number of Councillors from 47 to 30. The LGBCE is currently consulting on a pattern of wards in Shepway to match the reduction in the number of Councillors, and responses to this consultation must be submitted by 8 April. Any group or individual is welcomed to make a submission: the details of the consultation and how to respond can be found at https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/649/la=91 Published and promoted by Tim Prater, 98a Sandgate High Street, Folkestone, ...
My Lib Dem colleagues on the Council are calling for an special Council meeting to discuss a series of potential "land grabs" of green open space by the Council. While all these proposals can be looked at individually, a trend seems to be developing that sees green open space as up for grabs. The Council's constitution says that a special meeting can be called by a certain number of Councillors and then a date is set at the Lord Mayor's discretion (that's not a direct quote). What that means right now is we don't have the exact date. I've pasted ...
Arriving in December 1970 (on foolscap paper) the call for evidence from the Terrell Commission on relations between the Party and the Young Liberal Movement. It takes you back. A colleague of mine was moving office and found the letter behind a bookcase. I'm not sure who wrote the wikipedia entry on NLYL ( I shall refrain from guessing who wrote it, but I would note that in parts it gives undue prominence to a few obscure people) but the bit about the Terrell Commission if fairly accurate: The party leadership were very unhappy about the antics of their youth ...
Over at Lib Dem Voice yesterday, I put up a summary of Willie Rennie's speech in the Iraq debate in Holyrood last week. I thought I'd put the whole thing up, and his summation, here because they are worth reading in full. It was a good and generally thoughtful debate. What was particularly interesting is that Willie's remarks met with applause from the SNP benches who usually don't have much good to say about him. You can read the whole debate here. Anyway, here are Willie's speeches: When the sirens whined, we dived to the floor, struggling with our flak ...
The announcement that the Income Tax Personal Allowance will rise to £10,000, confirmed in the Budget, means the Liberal Democrats' top priority at the 2010 General Election has been delivered in full by the Coalition Government. It means: · A £700 tax cut for 24.5m working people across the UK since the Liberal Democrats came ...
David has been Accused of feminism Somewhat sweary, but HELL TO THE YES. (tags: ) Colin spoken the truth to by Frazer on Twitter (tags: ) [IMG: comment count unavailable] comments
Mon 25th
08:43
Julian Huppert MP writes...A credible alternative to prison has always been a Liberal Democrat prior...
For decades British Governments have been locking up criminals for 12 months or less, to watch them reoffend straight after they leave prison. Worse than that, the policy is costly, and holds little public confidence. But when you look at how we treat women offenders, the situation is even worse. Almost half of women serving 12 months or less will reoffend within the next year. And of all women in prison, 6 in 10 are there for six months or less; the vast majority of whom have committed non-violent offences. The last Government's response was to increase the female prison ...
Liverpool's Liberal Democrats have requisitioned an extraordinary meeting of the council to try and get Liverpool's controlling Labour Group to think again about building on green sites such as Jericho lane, Sefton Park and Allerton Golf Course. Liberal Democrat Leader ... Continue reading →
And after a few years of link collection, we get to the first major milestone: Marches of Folly – Paul Krugman on how groupthink helped make the case for war in Iraq, and is doing the same for austerity. How We Learned to Set Aside Our Moral Qualms and Love the Bomb – Some frankly frightening research from the US on how willing people are to use nuclear weapons. 7 Reasons Why You Should Stop Bitching About People On Benefits – Perfectly explained. CHRONICLES OF MANSPLAINING: Professor Feminism and the Deleted Comments of Doom – It's somewhat amusing to see ...
What will become of the May 2015 UK Parliament if Scotland votes 'Yes' on Independence? Many questions, no answers. (tags: scotland ukpolitics ) Tales from the Coffeeshop:The terrible price of pride and stupidity Commentary from Cyprus. (tags: cyprus ) Top Ten Unionist Myths Debunked A ten-minute video, very well put together. (tags: scotland ) Nicholas Whyte, onafhankelijk diplomaat: 'België kampt met gebrek aan engagement' I got interviewed by one of the Brussels free papers recently. (tags: belgium my media )
Yesterday morning the Politics Show for the North-West had an article on the introduction of universal credits because this area will become a pilot area in April with the rest of the country taking up the benefit reforms in October. The introduction was based on George Osborne telling us that it is wrong that someone should be better off on benefits than they would be if they were working. This sounds reasonable for a few moments but then consider the role of benefits. Could it be that benefits are there to supply basic needs? If so could there be employment ...
Lib Dem Voice polled our members-only forum recently to discover what Lib Dem members think of various political issues, the Coalition, and the performance of key party figures. Some 650 party members have responded, and we're publishing the full results. (All comparisons are with our most recent survey conducted in December 2012.) 58% of member say party on "right course" Do you think, as a whole, the Liberal Democrats are on the right course or on the wrong track? 58% (-3%) – The right course 33% (n/c) – The wrong track 9% (+3%) – Don't know / No opinion It's ...
If you enjoyed the car-crash television of Eddie Mair's interview yesterday with the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, another treat is in store. Tonight (Monday) at 9pm, BBC2 will broadcast a documentary by Michael Cockerell, Boris Johnson: The Irresistible Rise. Boris's sister and father are amongst those spilling the beans. The idea that Boris would replace David Cameron as Tory leader and prime minister was always rather fanciful. After these two programmes, it is doubtful any bookie would even bother offering long odds. Later... An interesting analysis by Sunny Hundal, which predicts that Sunday's interview will open the floodgates.
Further to my recent article about the need for fairer funding for the West End, I raised the matter with the City Council's Chief Executive and he has responded positively as follows: "I can advise you that (officers) will be carrying out a review of the allocation of Fairer Scotland Fund allocations, and this will be brought to Committee for consideration. The points you raise about the West End and I sure equally shared by elected members in the Ferry ward will be taken on board as part of that review." This is a very welcome development.
Mary Lily Walker From the Curator of Museum Services at the University of Dundee : "Never more blessed": The lifelong friendship of Mary Lily Walker and D'Arcy ThompsonA free talk by Dr Suzanne Zeedyk & Pete Kinnear Tuesday 26 March at 6pm in the D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum, Carnelley Building, University of Dundee Mary Lily Walker was one of Dundee's most visionary social reformers. 2013 marks the centenary of her death, and this evening talk is one of a number of celebratory events scheduled across the year. As well as giving an overview of Walker's remarkable life, the talk will ...
