Tonight I bring cheer with, unusually, a great Doctor Who scene that isn't all death and disaster - counting down more of my Fifty with a dash of romance. And what better time for it? Today is exactly five months until Richard and I marry (and since I posted number 34, Britain's first same-sex weddings have been celebrated and we've received our first invite to another couple's. Hurrah!). Not only that, but yesterday's Towel Day commemorated Douglas Adams, while Saturday would have been the birthday of Graham Williams, the two principal writers of this glamorous and many-authored Tom Baker story... ...
"We're British people, with all their qualities and faults, with feelings and emotions, and not denationalised, impersonal polyglot cynics with the generous emotions of a fish, intimidated by fears that what we feel like saying will be 'bad propaganda'..." That was what the BBC European Service daily directive said in February 1942 when Singapore fell. It seems to me an appropriate thought for today, not just because of the Lib Dem results but because a party which forces Moslem schoolchildren to eat pork has won the support of a quarter of all French voters. But, as the directive said, we ...
ICM isn't the pollster the party uses for its constituency polls and two different sources have firmly denied that the polls leaked to The Guardian are ones commissioned by the party. So it's only polite to ask the obvious question... .@oakeshottm Have you commissioned any polls from ICM recently? Think you can guess why I ask [IMG: :)] — Mark Pack (@markpack) May 26, 2014 And of course an email to ICM: Given that results from four constituency polls conducted by ICM have entered the public domain, can you let me know when ICM will be publishing the full data ...
I don't criticise those who have signed the libdems4change petition. But who set up the website? Who sent two emails to my email acount? And who is this "supporter" who handily commissioned several opinion polls and then just happened to leak them to the press at exactly the right time? I have a good idea who these people are. But isn't it about time that they come out of the shadows and have the guts to take ownership for their obviously very organised campaign? [IMG: Post to Twitter] Tweet This Post
It was Christmas here in Creeting St Peter today, or at least, time for me to enjoy my gift. Yes, I know, Christmas was some time ago, but we're busy people, and we still haven't actually had the balloon ride that my parents generously gave Ros last August. And so, we set off this morning to Elveden Forest for a spa day. Now, I know what you're thinking. Yes, I do liken myself to a walrus, and that isn't perhaps the sort of thing that a walrus would like, but actually, I do rather enjoy being pampered, and I do ...
Last night I posted a song from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to cheer up all my Liberal Democrat readers. I fear, however, that our leaders have paid more attention to the scene that comes immediately before it. If you remember Professor Stanley Unwin, you may like to see his grave at Long Buckby.
I was tempted to sign the LibDem4Change petition calling on Nick Clegg to resign because the party machine's response to Thursday's debacle and to the group's letter was so inept. First we had the email, sent out under the name of poor Annette Brooke, telling us there was nothing to worry about - "All of these results tell the same story - in many of our strongest areas we are winning elections." If I had just been defeated or seen my candidate defeated in a former Liberal Democrat like Islington or Liverpool, that would have read to me like an ...
Mon 26th
21:17
UKIP didn't actually win very much, but we seem to have lost the will to take a stand against the xe...
Now that the elections are over it's time to reflect on where we were, what happens and what happens next. The following article comes from today's i paper, penned by Yasmin Alibhai Brown Rather than make my own comments I'd encourage you ro read the article and form your own conclusions - complete article with nothing taken out - honest. Ukip didn't actually win very much, but we seem to have lost the will to take a stand against the xenophobesGoodness me, what panic-cum-frenzy over a minor party. Tories, Labour, Lib Dems, commentators and voters need to get a grip, ...
Now that the huge pile of crises and stresses that was May has finished, I expect to be able to do some sort of post here every day for the forseeable future. I've got a California Dreaming post half-written, a Cerebus post for Mindless Ones planned out, and a politics post drafted in my head, [...]
A characteristically graceful response to defeat arrives from Bill Newton Dunn: Dear Jonathan Calder I'm sure you will have heard from the news that unfortunately we were not successful in our bid to retain an MEP in the East Midlands. Results from across the country have sadly not gone our way. Despite the best efforts of members across the region, we have not been able to overcome the national tide and the UKIP surge has cost us dear. We bucked the trend in 2009 but sadly we couldn't repeat that result this time. I wanted to say thank you for ...
Mon 26th
20:20
WATCH: Clegg - "the easiest thing in politics is just to walk away. I'm not going to do that"
A shattered-looking Nick Clegg has spoken today of the "gutting and heart breaking" European election results, but said he would not "walk away" from the leadership nor from the Coalition. You can read the full transcript of his interview with the BBC's Vicki Young below. VY: These are disastrous results. How can you turn this around? NC: It is gutting. It is heartbreaking frankly to see Liberal Democrat candidates, councillors and members of the European Parliament many of whom who are old colleagues and friends of mine lose their seats in this way. It's been a huge set back. But ...
This is a picture taken on a happier, sunnier day than today but I've put it in to cheer myself up! First, this is a huge "thank you" to all the lovely people in Fortune Green, West Hampstead and Cricklewood who gave us their support in the Elections last week and who have loyally supported the local "Spotlight" Lib Dems over so many years - you know who you are! Although I am encouraged and grateful for my re-election, I am devastated that so many of my council colleagues like Nancy Jirira and Keith Moffitt have not been as ...
First off let me just say I am still IN! Yes in my sporran are still Euros from a train trip I took the other weekend down to Dublin to the seen the finish of the Giro d'Italia's visit to Ireland. I'm also glad that for the first 10 years that I lived in Scotland I worked in a job that would not have existed here were it not for freedom of movement across Europe allowing us to operate a pan European, multi-language contact centre all under the one roof. I'm pleased that unlike five years ago we were able ...
Mon 26th
19:33
Macaulay Culkin storms off stage after fans interrupt his Pizza Underground kazoo solo
The Independent wins our Headline of the Day Award.
The LibDems in their current form are the product of schism. Not a few of the current membership are where they are because of the recombination of the SDP with the Liberal Party. Having come down in a more recent shower, it all looks to me like they have got on rather well together over the decades. As a student of politics beyond Libdemmery and beyond the UK, the subject of schisms is one that has interested me for a long time, indeed back to Luther and his 95 Theses. However if we look at the UK we can note ...
I will no doubt write a fuller blog post on the European Election results and what they mean for my party and I, the United Kingdom, and Europe more generally in due course. But for now, I just wanted to get a couple of important things off my chest: 1. No politician ever worth a single vote should ever be afraid to lose an election having stood up up for what he or she actually believes in! My party's campaign was not perfect and goodness knows my fellow Liberal Democrats and I have many questions to ask of ourselves over ...
The Liberal Democrats have achieved many good things in Government and stopped the Tories doing many bad things. As with every government, there have been mistakes and much that could have been done better, but with fewer than one in ten MPs the party has punched well above its weight and, as a result, many good Liberal Democrat policies are now being put into practise. And yet the party is being hammered in the polls and we've just seen a disastrous set of local and European elections with the Liberal Democrats down to just a single MEP. What's gone wrong, ...
Dear No to Secret Courts campaigner, You may already have seen the letter going round about Nick Clegg and the Leadership. I know many of us had huge concerns about his leadership over Secret Courts – and I sometimes wonder if we should have acted more decisively then. If you want to read and back the letter, there's a site for people to sign it online at http://www.libdems4change.org/ Best wishes, Martin Tod
Mon 26th
17:53
The party's reason for being is not to be part of the establishment, it's to change the establishmen...
Here's what I told the BBC this afternoon: My basic point was that during the European elections the party sounded too much like the party of the status quo ('let's stay in Europe and keep things as they are') rather than a reforming party that wants to change things for the better. That is particularly problematic when the overall public mood is one of looking for change. On which point: Post by Mark Pack.
[IMG: Nick Clegg listening York Some rights reserved by Liberal Democrats] Until Friday, I was a Lib Dem Councillor in the London Borough of Haringey, where I enjoyed a reputation as an effective local representative. As one constituent put it I have never been able to fathom why for example, people express their anger at the government in Westminster by voting out of office the guy in the next street who gets your drains unblocked or your broken windows fixed. And the same here is true of David. I hope that when election time comes around, people in the area ...
[IMG: Vince Cable speaking to media] Statement from Vince Cable who's away in China on Government business: These were exceptionally disappointing results for the party. Many hard working Liberal Democrats, who gave this fight everything they had and then lost their seats, are feeling frustrated and disheartened and we all understand that. Nick did a bold thing in standing up to the eurosceptic wave which has engulfed much of continental Europe. We are the only party to have taken that on and he personally deserves tremendous credit for that. There is no leadership issue. We have also undoubtedly taken a ...
Mon 26th
16:42
History made as the South West elects its first ever Green MEP at the expense of its longest-serving...
• Greens win their first ever MEP in the South West of England and Gibraltar • Sir Graham Watson loses seat after representing region for 20 years • 65% of voters in Gibraltar voted for the Liberal Democrats • Tories and UKIP miss out on third seat as Labour regain seat lost in 2009 • Conservative MEPs Ashley Fox and Julie Girling re-elected • UKIP MEP Earl of Dartmouth re-elected • Turnout
Notice from the county council NOTICE is given that the Hertfordshire County Council intend to make an Order under Section 14[1] of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, to prohibit all traffic from using that length of A1057 Hatfield Road, St Albans from its junction with the A1081 St Peters Street/ A4147 Catherine Street roundabout south eastwards to its junction with Upper Marlborough Road, a distance of approximately 210 metres, except for access. The purpose of the Order is to enable utility maintenance works to take place. The section of road will be closed between the hours of 9.30am and ...
There have actually been people suggesting that, because David Coburn was elected as a MEP for Ukip in Scotland, Ukip can't possibly be a homophobic party. If you can remember David Coburn is a gay London-based member of Ukip who was instrumental in their opposition to same-sex marriage. His fact-free attacks on it (suggesting it is some sort of unnecessary victory roll despite there being some very real need for marriage equality) have been looked at before on this blog. And, just as he struggled to think of one example of EU interference in Scottish business today (audio here: ...
[IMG: Nick-Clegg] Dear Nick, When I joined the party in 2006, one of the first things I did was to hit the streets of Dudley, my hometown, delivering Focus and canvassing voters. I've been an active, campaigning party member ever since. Another of the first things I did was to locate and read a copy of the Orange Book. And I liked it. I agreed with a lot of it, and "Orange Booker" has been a badge I have worn with slightly perverse pride ever since. I like what you're doing, Nick - and I like what you're saying. In ...
Another 'you could not make this up' story. How on earth did this get through without a fair and open competition for the job? The Liverpool Echo has the story and am I not right in saying that the Commissioner had previously said she was not going to appoint a Deputy?
The last 4 years have been pretty tough ones for the Lib Dems (and the years immediately preceding them and following Charles Kennedy's departure weren't exactly awesome times if you take out the two months of Cleggmania). We are not liked. Hated by the left, mocked by the centrists and, as ever, despised by the right. Nick Clegg acted as the lightening rod for appreciation during the 2010 general election and continued his lightening rod role into far less fun times when he experienced hanging in effigy and cruel (and daily) personal attacks. His ancestry, his choice of life partner ...
Do you know what's really interesting? The number of people who have woken up to the horrific results today and are shocked that UKIP did so well. I don't find it particularly shocking, I have to say. It's a very natural progression in something that has been happening for a very long time, and it's a progression that should scare LibDems to death. In 2009, I started knocking on doors in County Council elections here in Somerset. The two things we heard most were about MPs expenses and immigration. What did we do? We said, 'Oh, I understand your anger, ...
37: the number of MPs Sky News is projecting the Lib Dems will win at the next General Election With all the talk of disasters and wipe-outs it is easy to overlook the fact that despite the rise of UKIP and the purported rise of the Greens, these new parties will almost certainly remain dwarfed [...]
Juan Nuevo of Chipping Sodbury Lions Club, the organiser of the exhibition There's an interesting art exhibition this week in the shop next to Halifax Bank on West Walk. It's called "Art By Yate, 8 by 8" and local artists and photographers are presenting their views of the area in an 8 inch by 8 inch format. There's a wide range of ideas and techniques. Entry is free and all the work is available for sale, with the proceeds going to Lions Club charities. The exhibition is open all this week - it's well worth a visit.
There are two meetings at Blyth Town Council this week Tuesday 27th May, 6:30 pm, Events Committee Thursday 29th May, 6:30 pm, Annual Council and Full Council Both are at Ebor House
[IMG: Campaigning on the doorstep - Lynne Featherstone] I make no apologies for returning to my old hobby horse - the need for our Party to actively do more to actively win over the support of BAME communities. Not only is this the right thing to do for a Party that projects itself as the Party that champions diversity and equality it is also the politically expedient thing to do. According to research published by Operation Black Vote (OBV) the outcome of the election results in 168 parliamentary seats in the hands of Britain's black (Asian and African / Caribbean) ...
[IMG: smile ; )))] Don't you quit An inspirational poem When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit- Rest if you must, but don't you quit. Life is queer with its twists and turns, As every one of us sometimes learns, And many a fellow turns about When he might have won had he stuck it out. Don't give up though the pace seems ...
The council office has considered the planning application for the old Radway Petrol station on Oolite Road/Wellsway. We are hoping this comes to the planning committee for decision.
We are meeting with First on Friday 30th to talk about the problem buses are causing when they meet together in Bloomfield Drive.
We have asked the council to add sides. They don't know how windy Odd Down can be !
In the interests of transparency, a key Liberal Democrat value, it would be good if a representative of LibDems4Change could answer the following questions about their campaign: 1. Who registered for and paid for the domain name and website? The website was registered either late on Thursday evening/early Friday morning, but who set it up and who financed it? 2. Where did you get the email addresses from? Which email lists did you use and what are the Data Protection implications of this? In 2012, I signed up to the No to Secret Courts campaign. I expected to receive correspondence ...
[IMG: European Parliament] On any conventional measure of elections, UKIP is the big winner from Thursday's European Parliament elections. Votes up, seats up, the anti-EU cause on a roll right? Well not quite. Votes and seats up, yes – but during the UKIP surge of the last few months there's been another, quite contradictory surge. From being regularly behind in Europe referendum polling, the 'stay in' vote is now consistently ahead of the 'come out' vote. Just as UKIP has risen in popularity, its preferred choice in an EU referendum has fallen in popularity. For three months now, YouGov's referendum ...
Blog Categories: Political Comment Vote: -1 vote + Vote up! - Vote down! In the aftermath of these recent elections I hear many people blaming those of us who didn't vote for letting nasty people get elected. Burke's famous, but misattributed, quote about good people doing nothing and so on is being trotted out. How very dare you! Blaming people like me who refuse to participate in what we see as an act of aggression against our fellow human beings. For the record, I did traipse along to my desultory designated polling place, intending fully to do my usual of ...
Mon 26th
13:05Watch and laugh: Clarke and Dawe - Selling the Budget. Take 2. This time better. And with profession...
More comedy genius from Australia's Clarke and Dawe: You can also watch this on YouTube.
I like cake. I like biscuits too. I also like pies and flans and muffins and buns and tarts (especially tarts). I like them shop bought and home made. I like them hot from the oven and cold from the fridge. See, I'm a liberal, and a poly one at that, and I think we are best served by variety and diversity. Just because one is fond of cake does not mean it is reasonable or healthy to only ever eat cake, or to condemn others for liking pie or biscuits. There's room in a healthy diet for all manner ...
As we survey the wreckage of our European Parliamentary Party our thoughts must now turn to how we can take these seats back in 2019. No doubt, the electoral strategists in the party will be digesting these results and will come up with their plans but here are my first thoughts. Firstly I feel we have to look at our general approach to the EU debate - No, before anyone states otherwise - I am not advocating we turn into another Eurosceptic party, we are the party of in and as internationalists we should remain so. We do, however, seem ...
Mon 26th
12:50My article on Comment is Free: It's not just outdoor play that's gone - so has a whole genre of chil...
I have another article on Comment is Free this morning - I am told it almost made the printed edition of the Guardian: This shrinking of the child's world has had numbers put on it by the filmmaker David Bond. His mother, he calculates, roamed across 50 square miles at the age of 11, but as a boy in the 1970s he was confined to just one. Today, his son and daughter do not leave the garden unaccompanied. Books for children reflect this narrowing. Where adventure stories used to depict a landscape alive with youngsters finding buried treasure, thwarting robbers ...
Mon 26th
12:49
Disillusionment, Clegg's downfall, and a victory for apathy: 3 lessons from the European elections
The European election results are in. UKIP have achieved a historic victory whilst the Lib Dems have suffered heavy losses and only narrowly returned our one remaining MEP in the South East. I am disappointed, but not surprised. So what lessons can we take from this going forwards? 1. A victory for apathy UKIP are [...]
So the past few days have been even more disappointing than my private life. I know you didn't think it was possible but returning one councillor in Southend whilst the UKIP took five seats in the Civic Centre coupled with only one MEP showed that the countries (and Southend's) appetite for Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats is not shall we say...on the rise. However this isn't the time to panic and nor is it the time to either change our leader or run away from the coalition. This is the time for us to not look at ourselves or ...
Rock bottom. That's how it feels to be a Lib Dem right now. The loss of all but one our Euro MPs, including class acts like Graham Watson, Sarah Ludford and Andrew Duff, – on top of a number of wipe-outs in the London locals – is a bitter pill indeed. Only our MPs now have to face the wrath of the post 2010 electorate. There is something else that I feel acutely, especially here in London. It's the end of an era. That era started for me with the Lib Dem fight against Lambeth Labour council. The party came ...
I had an email inviting me to sign an open letter calling on Nick Clegg to go. I didn't. In modern times only one Liberal leader has marched into Downing Street to take a place around the cabinet table. Only one leader has taken the front page of a Liberal or Lib Dem manifesto and placed it firmly on the agenda of government. It could be argued that Nick Clegg has actually done rather well,
The results are all but in (Scotland will formal declare later today) and the scores on the doors make depressing reading for the Lib Dems – here's the BBC's breakdown: [IMG: euro elections 2014] Here are 5 quick points: 1) A good night for Ukip Fair do's to Farage: he inverted the usual expectations management game by vowing Ukip would top the poll, and they did. Their share of the vote, 27.5%, means they become the first party since 1906 to beat both the Conservatives and Labour. They've gained at least 10 MEPs, and may add another in Scotland. The ...
I haven't had chance to write anything here for a good few weeks now – like many around the country all my spare time has been used on the European Elections campaign. I'm sure we're all feeling battered and bruised with the result, and I'm still mulling over my views on the way forward and [...]
Being a European country is a bit like living on a troubled housing estate. One where drugs, crime, ignorance and poverty blights the lives of its residents. Faced with these huge problems there are really only two ways you can go. One way of dealing with the situation would be to shut yourself in your flat. Double bolt the door. Draw the curtains. It's an understandable reaction, but it's one that condemns you to live in misery and fear. Mutual distrust builds between you and your neighbours. You're trapped within your four walls and you wait for the inevitable day ...
[IMG: nick-clegg-lib-dem-437987] Yesterday's EP election results were gutting. In fact, I haven't felt that badly about an election result since 2010, when in the face of poll results telling us we were going to get a hundred-plus seats and "Cleggmania", we ended up losing five. Even with all of the disappointing democratic results that have followed, including the AV referendum of which I was a part, this one feels the worst. Perhaps it's because I'm a passionate pro-European and us getting all but wiped out added to UKIP coming first feels terrifying. Before the European results had even been announced, ...
[IMG: Circuit Bending Orchestra: Lara Grant at Diana Eng's Fairytale F] With the seemingly endless news of global and domestic extremism - whether about the 250 girls kidnapped in Nigeria, the 500 Britons reportedly waging jihad in Syria, or the worrying allegations made against several Birmingham schools – it is rare that a report devoted to countering extremism should fill us with positivity. However, research released last week by Quilliam about the state of online extremism should encourage us all, not least because of the very clear recommendations that it makes to the public, private and third sector. We remain ...
I had, since the New Year, been suffering from a series of cysts in and around my eyes, and although my left eye had healed up, my right eye had become more and more ugly. Prescriptions of increasingly powerful antibiotics had done little to solve the problem, and it was eventually decided that I needed to be referred to the eye clinic at Ipswich Hospital, which might involve surgery. My situation wasn't life threatening, or even particularly inconvenient, but as weeks passed, I developed a red growth which protruded out from under my upper eyelid and increasingly into the line ...
So, I went to the Euro election count last night. So did a lot of other local political types. Our MP, Craig Whittaker, was there, along with our new councillor for Brighouse. Labour's PPC JoshFG - in fact loads of Labourites. Some Greens. Myself, and a small hardy band of masochistic Lib Dems. You know who wasn't there? Not a single Kipper. Not one. You know why? Because they treated the election count the same way they will treat the positions they have been elected to - with an utter breathtaking arrogance. One of the ones who has been elected ...
[IMG: image] The new LDV members' survey is now live. So if you are one of the 1,600+ registered members of the Liberal Democrat Voice forum — and any paid-up party member is welcome to join — then you now have the opportunity to make your views known. This is a brief survey, focused on the performance of the Lib Dems and party leader Nick Clegg at the most recent set of local and European elections. It should take no longer than 5-10 minutes minutes to fill in. All registered members of the Forum should have today been e-mailed with ...
As we reflect on the European election results (and I will post in more detail on these later in the week) and begin to wonder whether any of the 20 plus Ukip MEPs will actually turn up for work, it is worth noting that another phenomena continues right beneath our noses. That phenomena is the Ukip foot in mouth brigade. The Independent reports that a newly elected Ukip councillor has become the latest party member to face accusations of racism and homophobia, just days after Nigel Farage celebrated unprecedented gains in local elections in England: Dave Small, who has just ...
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The inevitable letter to the papers calling for Nick to go was bound to happen. It always does when things get tough – and they don't get tougher than the elections we have just been through. But that is why Nick must stay. He is brave and capable – and taking us into government has achieved remarkable progress. I won't rehearse all our achievements here – but even if you just take turning round the economy – which would not have happened without the Liberal Democrats – for that alone he should be applauded. Putting the country's interests before party ...
Today is the Victoria Day holiday so my usual Monday ward surgeries at the Mitchell Street Centre and at the West Park Centre do not take place. However, I can be contacted as follows: E-surgery - e-mail esurgery@frasermacpherson.org.ukPhone - Dundee 459378 at any time My Thursday surgery at Blackness Primary School will take place later this week as usual at 6.15pm prompt.
[IMG: Sarah_Brown_(politician)] Voting is currently underway for the National Diversity Awards 2014. These annual awards, whose headline sponsors are Microsoft and The Guardian, are a celebration of those in the UK who have shown an outstanding devotion to enhancing equality, diversity and inclusion. This year I nominated fellow Lib Dem Sarah Brown for the LGBT Positive Role Model Award. Sarah has just ended a term as a Cambridge City Councillor and headed up their leisure and community services as the councillor in charge. She was one of the only openly trans elected politicians in the UK and has been on ...
From the Curator of Museum Services, University of Dundee : Tomorrow, Tuesday 27th May at 6pm at the D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum, Carnelley Building, University of Dundee One of the highlights of the Zoology Museum's events programme, this annual event (now in its sixth year) features poetry and prose inspired by the museum and its founder, written and performed by Creative Writing students from the School of Humanities at the University of Dundee. The evening will be chaired by tutor Edward Small. Admission is free and there will be refreshments served after the event. Please enter by the front door ...
Ouch! The Lib Dems lost a lot of local council seats last Thursday. And last night we lost out West Midlands Euro MP Phil Bennion, who gained just 44% of the vote he won in 2009. I'm sorry to see Phil go, he has worked hard for his patch including for us here in Shropshire. [...]
National Parks are of unique importance to Welsh culture and to the rural Welsh economy. In the months ahead we need to have a full and frank debate about what reforms are necessary to improve their governance and also secure their future. I remain a strong and vocal supporter of the need to improve the democratic accountability of National Parks and have today once again urged the Minister for Culture and Sport to include aspects of democratic reform into his governance review. Regardless of where these reforms lead us, we must all work to ensure that National Parks continue to ...
OK, so it's the Euro elections, where the Liberal Democrats *usually* under perform. OK, so this does not mean that UKIP will form the next government, and OK, so the Tories, less so, and Labour, more so, face problems with the implications of the results too. Nevertheless there is no getting away from the fact that the 2014 European elections have been a thoroughgoing disaster for the UK Liberal Democrats. I feared, going in, that we would be down to three MEPs, in fact we only held one, and that by the skin of our teeth. So there is no ...
Now that the first Ergonomics module assignment is out of the way and I've made a reasonable start in planning how I'm going to tackle the second, my thoughts have turned to my main study task for this summer - that of working out what I want to do as a piece of empirical research for my dissertation. Time seems to be flying by and I only have until 6th October to submit my proposal. In between, normal working life will no doubt continue at its usual frenetic pace. So as a way of helping me focus, I thought I'd ...
A video for my fellow Liberal Democrats.
I've put out the second edition of An Incomprehensible Condition, my book on the Grant Morrison/various artists comic Seven Soldiers of Victory, in hardback, paperback, and PDF versions. Epub and Kindle will have to wait for tomorrow, as they require annoying formatting to be done. The "Note On The Second Edition" in the text reads: [...]
