(Part 1, Part 2 — incidentally, Part 2 has a lot of excellent comments which I've not had a chance to reply to yet — I'm well enough to write or to reply to comments, but not really both. ) So, if the Sherlock Holmes stories aren't about Holmes himself, what are they actually about? [...]
A couple of years ago I posted a video of a diesel freight train on the Derwent Valley Railway from the late 1970s: When I was an undergraduate at York, the bus from the university into the city used to cross a bridge over an overgrown single-track railway. This was the Derwent Valley Light Railway, which in those days ran from Layerthorpe in the city for four miles out to Dunnington. When it opened in 1913 it had run almost to Selby: in 1981 it was to close altogether.The video here shows one of the line's short-lived steam workings for ...
Excellent programme on the death of Middle class on Radio 4 right now — Nick Cohen (@NickCohen4) February 3, 2015 David Boyle has blogged about the reaction to Clinging On: The Decline of the Middle Classes, his programme on BBC Radio 4 last night. You can listen to the programme online via the BBC iPlayer.
Wally Herbert, a former president of the Association of Directors of Social Services, has written a guest post for Cathy Fox's blog on the institutional and political background to the abuse of children in public care: We should be careful not to sully the good name of every employee in residential children's services during that period. Some community home staff worked with considerable skill and dedication. There were successes as well as failures. But good quality care was sometimes achieved at a heavy price in terms of stress to staff. In larger homes it was relatively easy for staff to ...
Earlier this evening, I attended the February meeting of Community Spirit Action Group - the community group for the "north" part of West End Ward, covering Pentland, Tullideph, Ancrum and the Cleghorn area. The meeting took place at the Mitchell Street Centre. We had a very useful discussion on a number of local issues and the group are considering having some of their future meetings at other locations across their part of the West End Ward - for example at the two sheltered housing lounges in Community Spirit's area - a really good idea to engage with more residents locally. ...
Like most political candidates, I watch Prime Minister's Questions most weeks. In my case it's on in the canteen at work, and gives me an opportunity to not only watch it myself, but to see it with the eyes of people who aren't political candidates. To say the least, from their point of view the entire thing stinks. Watch this weeks example, and see what I mean. The level of barracking and noise from both sides of the house, the way over 90% of the questions are planted repeats of party slogans, the near-total absence of actual answers to the ...
[IMG: 10 Labour councillors quit in Redcar] A follow-up to Labour dump both council leader and deputy leader in crisis over "paranoid and power-mad" members: 10 Labour councillors have quit the party in support of the 7 who were deselected. Their resignation means Labour now have 19 councillors in Redcar and Cleveland. There are 11 Liberal Democrats, six Conservatives, 11 members of an independent group and 13 independents... Today's protest is taking place outside the office of Anna Turley, Labour's candidate for Redcar... Ms Turley is attempting to replace Lib Dem Ian Swales as the area's MP in May.
Earlier today at the Mitchell Street Centre, I had the pleasure of chairing the annual 'debrief' meeting of West End Christmas Fortnight, looking back at the 2014 events and planning possible events for Christmas Fortnight 2015. We all felt that the 2014 events were a great success and had a good discussion about possible new initiatives for the 2015 events. We would welcome any ideas and views from residents - just e-mail me at christmas2015@frasermacpherson.org.uk. Our first full 2015 planning meeting will take place on Wednesday 10th June - more details to follow in due course!
Refurbishment work at Consett's library will see it closed for two weeks. The closure will be from 12.30pm on Saturday 7th March with the library reopening at 9.30am on Monday 23rd March. The work involves replacing the carpet in the main library area, the computer area and the upstairs junior library. New furniture will be fitted in the computer area and behind the library desk in addition to some replacement seating and display furniture. Lanchester library will be opening for a few extra hours each week while Consett is closed.
We already talk quite a lot about mental health on Liberal Democrat Voice, but tomorrow we want to have a specific focus on the issue as part of Time to Change's Time to Talk Day. They are asking all of us to take 5 minutes to have a conversation about mental health. We are looking for contributions from readers, whether it's sharing ideas or experiences to post on the site tomorrow. Please send them to voice@libdemvoice.org. Ideally, they should be somewhere between 300-500 words, but feel free to be creative. If you want to share a video, or a graphic, ...
[IMG: thatchers rise] To me, the @ThatchersRise Twitter account — "tweeting the events leading up to the election of Margaret Thatcher as Conservative leader" — has been as compulsive and fascinating as the Serial podcast. Maybe more so: at least @ThatchersRise knows the story it's trying to tell and is in control of its material. And today was an important milestone: 4th February marks 40 years since Margaret Thatcher stunned her own party by defeating Edward Heath in the first round of the Conservative leadership election, 130 votes to 119. @ThatchersRise linked to a transcript of an interview between ITN's ...
I've taken to avoiding Prime Minister's Questions. However today, I had no choice. At the moment it feels like a particularly angry and vindictive goat has stuffed my sinuses full of bits of cardboard box and is now kicking me in the head. I couldn't even muster up the energy to get up from the sofa, where I was lying feeling sorry for myself, to find the remote control to switch it off. The impending election doesn't seem to have persuaded MPs to behave in a more grown-up fashion. I don't think anything will change until Speaker John Bercow actually ...
An interim mayor of Greater Manchester is to be appointed by the ten council leaders to head up the Greater Manchester Combined Authority for the next couple of years as more powers get passed down from Whitehall to Manchester. As no-one's ever appointed a mayor before, the ten leaders of the Greater Manchester Councils have been figuring out how to do it. An elected mayor is expected to follow in 2017, but the primary legislation needed for that to happen won't be passed in time to do it earlier. The position of Interim Mayor is open to any Greater Manchester ...
After months of infighting, Redcar Labour party's feud over the vastly unpopular selection of a parliamentary candidate from Kent, Anna Turley, finally came to a head today After mass de-selection of some of their most senior cabinet members, 10 Labour Party councillors publicly resigned from the Labour party today outside the office of Kent PPC Anna Turley. The de-selected councillors include council leader George Dunning, deputy leader Sheelagh Clarke and cabinet members Steve Goldswain, Mark Hannon and Norman Pickthall. Chairman of the Fire Authority Brian Briggs and former Mayor Vic Jeffries were also de-selected. Cabinet member Olwyn Peters, former Mayor ...
I did not know the remains at the former Tankerville lead mine in Shropshire were under threat, but this good news story from the BBC gives me an excuse for using my photograph of the site again.
Lord Ashcroft has been busy north of the border polling some Labour heartlands (along with two Lib Dem seats). And the headlines make grim reading for Labour and the Lib Dems with the SNP apparently on the rampage. But hidden among the detail is the fact that just one person in Motherwell and Wishaw told Ashcroft's pollsters they were certain to vote Lib Dem in May. We know from page three they are; male, 35-44, social class AB and voted Lib Dem in 2010. So who is this brave/foolhardy soul?
Council run care systems for the elderly and disabled adults is becoming 'unsustainable', social services chiefs have warned. A survey by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services of 144 social care departments in England found savings of more than quarter have had to be made since 2010. This simply highlights why we must have a [...]
The Express has an interesting article listing the MPs who have, it says, the best real life experience. Two Liberal Democrat MP appear on the list. They are: JOHN HEMMING, Lib Dem THE MP for Birmingham Yardley is the only current politician who can claim to have launched his own record company. The former drummer in a rock band started Birmingham based Music Mercia International in 2005. Mr Hemming's business interests away from Westminster have made him a multi-millionaire. The 54-year-old made most of his fortune through JHC, a company he founded in his 20s which provides IT systems to ...
One of the things about being a Mumbaikar, is that you take a dim view of Delhi. In Mumbai and Bengaluru, money is earned and invested, whereas in Delhi an inept government wastes it for you. Mumbai is cultured, stylish, Delhi bureaucratic and backward. And so, obviously, Mumbai is leading the way in terms of modern transport methods, right? Errr... wrong, actually. Whilst Delhi has five metro lines and an Airport Express route, Mumbai has one line, linking Ghatkopar, in the northern suburbs on the Central Railway, with Andheri, also in the distant suburbs on the Western Railway, before ending ...
The best of ALDC content from the last week, including: Green Campaign Pack LDHQ Canvass leaflet Bulk buy and Templates ALDC Members Offer on Iceni Mailing Old publications and mailings in File Library Ask ALDC 'Campaign Tools' FAQs Facebook Update ALDC Blog Standard Policy Responses As the general election approaches many organisations are trying to lobby/survey/ambush our [...]
When you look up certain phrases on Twitter you can sure to find the odd surprise. Here is a Tweet that someone posted yesterday in relation to the conscience clause. My straight forward answer is no. And here is my reasoning why. Firstly the name is Petition of Concern (PoC). So ask yourself "is one community adversely affected by the legislation that is proposed?". The answer is yes, in that the "conscience clause" is a bill that is only being appended to the Sexual Orientation Regulations of the Equality Act and only allowing people with a religion objection to refuse, ...
ALDC has been working with the Green Liberal Democrats in order to develop content on green environmental issues you can campaign with in local government. Woodlands can be an emotive subject, as we saw within this parliament with the campaign to protect the nation's woodlands from being sold off to private organisations. In government the [...]
So I'm reading BBC Sport this morning and an article caught my eye about Kevin Pietersen joining TMS for the World Cup and I shook my head in despair. I have no particular issue with KP but it just goes to show that when it comes to broadcasting, stations often prefer to go with the 'name' instead of the person best suited to the job. When Sky Sports decided to bring in Andrew Strauss for England Test Matches, it was just more of the same. Strauss is a very poor pundit and has not developed at all in the years ...
Cometh the hour, cometh the person. In yesterday's House of Commons debate on DNA, it was a great opportunity for one of our small number of scientist MPs to bring forth their knowledge. As the Independent reports, our very own Julian Huppert obliged: Thank heavens for Julian Huppert, the brainy former research scientist and Liberal Democrat member for Cambridge, who pointed out that mitochondria were once free-living bacteria, which, in the dim and distant primordial era of life, had set up home in other free-living microbes - eventually evolving into people, including the assembled members. This is why the DNA ...
As the general election approaches many organisations are trying to lobby/survey/ambush our PPC's on a huge variety of issues. Particularly for those outside our target seats this can be distract from their active campaigning. To combat this and help, the party is providing policy support for our parliamentary candidates. The policy department is now sending [...]
Wading through some 1960s election coverage (yes, I should get out more) I was taken aback by a comment from the presenter Cliff Michelmore as he passed onto a colleague: "The girls are much prettier than last time." He was referring to the typists. The main role of women on these election programmes was to type out the results. Tappy tap tap they went in the background; but theirs was not to speak because it all had to be interpreted by important people - funnily enough all men. By the 1970s "girls" were actually allowed to say things! Sue Lawley ...
Notwithstanding Ed Ball's embarrassing gaffe of failing to name the businessman who has been advising Labour, the official opposition's problems with the business sector are starting to get serious for Ed. Miliband. The Times reports one of Gordon Brown's former Ministers has warned that the anti-business "mood music" from Labour risks deterring overseas investors from Britain. As the paper illustrates, the criticism is echoed by a long list of business people: Lord Jones of Birmingham, who served as trade minister under Mr Brown, said that he had not yet heard Ed Miliband utter "one word about why it's good to ...
ALDC is pleased to be able to offer our members £50 off a fully managed Royal Mail Election Communication (also known as the freepost) for the General Election – a saving that is more than the annual standard ALDC membership fee. The election freepost is offered to all parliamentary candidates at UK elections, so that [...]
Behold: I'm impressed by this trailer as I was by the last one. The villainous Scarlet Overkill seems like a well conceived contrast with Gru: treating her henchmen cruelly rather than warmly.Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Cinema, Despicable Me, Films, Minions, The Minions
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31113368 [IMG: _80756431_dawlishbefore_after] Being a railway enthusiast I found the article above on the BBC News Magazine's web site pages very interesting.
If you have problems with or questions about First's local bus services, you may be interested in this online event next Monday. It shows a certain perverse planning regarding the timing, as a lot of the potential participants will be on the bus on the way home. Still, if you're on a bus that has WiFi... ================ Online Meet the Manager session being held on Monday 9 February Following the success of its previous Online Meet the Manager sessions First West of England will be running another virtual event for customers on Monday (9 February) between 5 and 7pm. The ...
A special BBC Newsnight report says: Police forces in England and Wales have uploaded up to 18 million "mugshots" to a facial recognition database – despite a court ruling it could be unlawful. They include photos of people never charged, or others cleared of an offence, and were uploaded without Home Office approval, Newsnight has learned. Photos of "hundreds of thousands" of innocent people may be on the database, an independent commissioner said. Liberal Democrat MPs are complaining about the development: Liberal Democrat Cabinet Office minister, David Laws, has written to the Home Office saying he is "alarmed" by the ...
New research from a peer-reviewed academic journal: We analyse the causal impact of competition on managerial quality and hospital performance... We find that higher competition results in higher management quality, measured using a new survey tool, and improved hospital performance. Adding a rival hospital increases management quality by 0.4 standard deviations and increases survival rates from emergency heart attacks by 9.7%. I put competition in quotes in the headline because it is the word used in the research, but it's also a word that often summons up images of financial competition when what's more the case here it seems is ...
[IMG: total politics] That's how my latest 'Underdog' column in the paperless Total Politics magazine begins, as a way in to discuss the real worry for the Lib Dems right now: that we're seen as irrelevant. Here's an excerpt: Viewed with gold-tinted spectacles through a half-full glass, Lib Dems hope to retain up to 40 of their current 57 MPs in May. Such an expectations-confounding result would likely give Clegg the option of continuing as party leader — and, if there's another hung parliament, perhaps being able to sell a second coalition to a party which looks wearily dubious at ...
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Wed 4th
12:10
LibLink: Brian Paddick - Tackling terrorism without compromising the privacy of law-abiding citizens
Writing on the Liberal Democrat website, Lord Brian Paddick talks through the recent attempted jiggery-pokery in the House of Lords which could have seen the Snoopers Charter entering law by the back door, and celebrates the Liberal Democrats' success in defeating that attempt: Having spoken to the police officers who recovered the bodies of those murdered by terrorists on the London Underground on 7 July 2005, I know the devastating consequences of failing to disrupt terrorism. In the House of Lords this week, four peers from across the political divide proposed new data security measures be introduced as an amendment ...
Tudor Jones's The Revival of British Liberalism: from Grimond to Clegg is an excellent study of the development of the policies and philosophies of Liberal Party since Jo Grimond's election as its leader, through the Alliance years (including some astute analysis of the policies of the SDP) and into the Liberal Democrats. The book, published in 2011, ends just as Nick Clegg was elected party leader in 2007, but that does not make the book feel dated because the clarity of its analysis makes it easy to see the roots behind many of the more recent party debates. [IMG: Revival ...
[IMG: englandjigsaw] It's been almost five months since the Scottish referendum, and despite what seemed to be happening at the time, devolution within England has been slipping down the agenda ever since. Sure, we've had lots of talk about English Votes for English Laws, which with it's latest incarnation as A Fair United Kingdom appears to be an excuse for William Hague to troll the whole country through dodgy acronyms. Howeer, what concerns me more at the moment isn't further Westminster shenanigans, but the prospects for genuine devolution of power within England. What I fear we risk getting is yet ...
I must say, I feel like a Liberal today. I spent yesterday being criticised by a Conservative councillor for my book People Powered Prosperity, and last night being criticised by a Labour councillor for pandering to middle class educational angst in my Radio 4 programme Clinging On (now online). This pattern of argument isn't logical. Being criticised by right and left simultaneously doesn't make me correct, but it might constitute evidence in that direction. Personally I'd settle for Gillian Reynolds' verdict on the programme in the Telegraph this morning: "Rivettingly pertinent". In fact, she was talking not just about my ...
A year ago I submitted a Right to Contest the spare land at the Dulwich Hospital site. This right was created by Lib Dems in the coalition government. Please see the letter from the Rt Hon Francis Maude MP – Minister for the Cabinet Office – NMP625917 I'm delighted at last to report that as a direct result of my request the spare land has now been added to the Register of Surplus Public Land. This is a key pre requisite for any new use such as new schools. NHS property have held back 11,300m3 of the 28,300m2 for the ...
Well, I thought that was a good headline. So much better than "The actor who played Miss Trunchbull is to play Nick Clegg" or "Actor Bertie Carvel to play Nick Clegg", both of which would have been less misleading. All this comes back to "Nick Clegg: The Movie" (or more accurately "The Coalition"). We've discussed this before, but we now have the cast announced. So my dream of David Morrissey playing Nick Clegg, and other people's thoughts of David Tennant or Sean Bean being in the frame, have all come to nought. However, Bertie Carvell won an Olivier award for ...
[IMG: Spring 2015 Conference Submissions] I have been posting updates on my work as a member of Federal Conference Committee (FCC) on my FCC Facebook page, but based on feedback, some people would prefer to see this hosted somewhere other than Facebook, so I will start posting FCC-related content on this blog, and linking to it from Facebook. As you have hopefully seen, the provisional agenda for Spring 2015 conference has been published. FCC is now also submitting formal reports of it's meetings but they have yet to appear on the party-members-only committee page. As a result, the information on ...
Developers are having a second stab at redeveloping the Wapley Court site, the former elderly persons home adjoining Rodford Way. The latest proposal is for 15 houses and 9 flats. Dodington Parish Council has commented that this is over-development, with the flats being the only three-storey buildings south of Rodford Way. They are very concerned about the traffic aspects, because the access to the site would be off Kelston Close, along with two schools, a pre-school and the playing fields. They have asked for a traffic survey to be carried out on this busy road during normal "school run" times, ...
Professor Paul Whiteley at the University of Essex has made a bold prediction regarding the outcome of the general election: he's said that Labour will be the biggest party in a hung parliament (so far, not that out of the norm), and that the Lib Dems will again hold the balance of power - this time with 48 seats to their name. This all came out in a Guardian article a few days ago. The headline was built around the idea that with this result, Labour and the Liberal Democrats would have 339 seats between them and could form a ...
Last Wednesday at Bury's Full Council I was happy to support a debate calling for votes to be given to 16 and 17 year olds. This has been a Liberal Democrat commitment for many decades and a commitment in recent manifestos. More recently other parties have have also joined the campaign. 16 and 17 year olds were given the vote in last year's Scottish Independence Referendum. For me the issue is a simple on. 16 and 17 year-olds are allowed to work, to get married, to consent to sexual activity and to pay tax. Crucially we allow 16 and 17 ...
This post is reserved for new and infrequent commenters. "Infrequent" is defined as having post less than five comments in the last month. A cursory scan of LDV's posts over the last week confirms that the general election campaign is firing on all cylinders, both on the ground and "in the air": We've seen campaign action days all over the country including in the snow. Keeping an eye on all the campaign photos coming up on Twitter, it really is very invigorating to see the smiling faces of local teams working away all over the country. Fundraising fillip – Raising ...
Happy hump day and happy birthday to Alice Cooper who is 67 years old today. His great song "Elected" (lyric: "I wanna be elected") is, and has been, a rousing and inspiring anthem for many Lib Dems! Our next post will be specially and exclusively for new and infrequent commenters. "Infrequent" is defined as having made less than five comments in the last month. That post will follow in ten minutes' time. * Paul Walter is a Liberal Democrat activist in Newbury and West Berkshire. He is Wednesday and photo editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Liberal Burblings. ...
EVEL: What are the 'veto' proposals put forward by the Tories - and how are they likely to work? (tags: ) In which I apologise for my laxity in Liberalism 101 posts: I will be doing some more, honest (tags: ) English votes for English laws: Hague has failed to unite the Tory party (tags: ) Why does the snoopers' charter keep coming back from the dead? (tags: ) Former science adviser goes public on British television (tags: ) Second Harper Lee Novel to Be Published in July (tags: ) Everything you know about British train fares is wrong (tags: ...
In a break in the bitterly cold weather of recent days I went back to St.Helen's Church in Sefton Village to have a look at the ancient church where, and please don't tell anyone, this old atheist was once a choir boy! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Helen%27s_Church,_Sefton It really is a beautiful building and I love to take photos it:- [IMG: rsz_sefton_church_1] [IMG: rsz_sefton_church_clock] [IMG: rsz_1sefton_church_2] The photos are amongst my Flickr shots at:- www.flickr.com/photos/86659476@N07/
When the Lib Dems were elected to government in 2010, one of their highest priorities was to tackle the school funding problem here in Cambridgeshire. It is simply unforgivable that local schools were receiving £600 per pupil per year less than the national average - the least of anywhere in the Country. It is a [...]
In advance of a report on the review of Dundee's HMO policy going before councillors on the City Council Licensing Committee tomorrow (the report can be read here), yesterday I met with the Director of Housing and the council's Principal Housing Officer of its Private Sector Services Unit to discuss issues around the report and its findings. Apart from a welcome proposal for site visits by Licensing Committee members before contentious applications are determined, the report envisages little change and I have made the point to the Director of Housing that, as the last public consultation on HMO policy was ...
Wed 4th
08:25
Labour dump both council leader and deputy leader in crisis over "paranoid and power-mad" members
Four senior Labour councillors have been deselected by the party in Redcar and Cleveland, including remarkably both the Leader and Deputy Leader of the council. As the local paper reports: Council Leader George Dunning, along with deputy Cllr Clarke, cabinet member Mark Hannon and former mayor Vic Jefferies were told at a meeting at the Claxton Hotel in Redcar on Sunday that they would not be allowed to stand for Labour in their wards in May's elections. It immediately raises questions about how the authority will run on a day-to-day basis – coming as it does after a further four ...
Thursday 5 February 2015 is Time to Talk Day – asking the nation to take 5 minutes to have a conversation about mental health. Having a mental health problem is hard enough, but sometimes the isolation and stigma can make it even worse. But we can all help to break the silence. Talking about mental health doesn't need to be difficult and can make a big difference. That's why we're asking you to take just 5 minutes on the 5th to have a conversation about mental health.We will all know someone who has suffered from a mental health problem. There ...
You Thought London Mayoral Candidates Couldn't Get Worse – Alex Harrowell on how mayoral systems promote celebrity politics over policies, with the inevitable results. The Share-the-Scraps economy – Is the 'share economy' merely a euphemism to hide the monetization of every part of our lives? IEA Exhumes Flat Earth Idea – Zelo Street points out several (though by no means all) of the IEA's 'let's pave over the railways' proposal. Two spells that need to be broken – Very interesting piece by John Pugh MP for the Social Liberal Forum on the mistakes the party made in becoming part of ...
The final decision has now been made on the future of the Children's Centres in our local area. Previously it has been proposed to close the 'Toodle Hill' Children's Centre on Cuckoo Lane, and the Butterstile Children's Centre on School Grove). In an unusual 'u-turn' in policy, the Council has now changed its mind, and decided to keep open Butterstile in a reduced form, however Toodle Hill WILL close. What this means for the Prestwich area is that we will have one full Children's Centre, on Kings Road (at Sedgley Park Primary School). Butterstile will be a 'spoke' from Kings ...
With a hat-tip to Mark Pack, LDV alumnus. We were expecting Lord Ashcroft's Scottish polls today. But for some strange reason they slipped out at dead of night when I was well tucked up in bed. The SNP are ahead 43 to the Lib Dems on 26 in Gordon. The SNP are leading 50 to our 21 in Inverness NB&S. See, I wrote it quickly, so that it was quite painless... Move along there please, nothing to see here. (Whistles nervously) [IMG: image] [IMG: image] * Paul Walter is a Liberal Democrat activist in Newbury and West Berkshire. He is ...
A new planning application has been received in Holyrood Ward as below: Application Number: 58405 Registration Date: 30/01/2015 Location: Nutt Farm, Nutt Lane, Prestwich, Manchester, M25 2SJ Proposal: Demolition of two structures and erection of four new detached dwellings. I am aware that this application is something that many residents in the Village have strong views on, and I am keen to represent these views as best I can in the planning process. Please do not hesitate to get in touch and let me know your views on this application. The details will be on the Council's website here. Tim
A new planning application has been received in Holyrood Ward as below: Application Number: 58296 Registration Date: 08/01/2015 Location: 2 Brooklawn Drive, Prestwich, Manchester, M25 2GS Proposal: Two storey side extension; Single storey extension at rear; Decking and steps at rear (resubmission) Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you require further information or help with this. The details will be on the Council's website here. Tim
Stephen Fry seems to have caused quite a ruckus by saying, amongst other things, that God is an "evil, capricious, monstrous maniac". The Reverend Giles Fraser unsurprisingly takes issue with this. He rightly observes that the image of God as some kind of celestial dictator is not one that really fits the Christian story. It [...]
Wed 4th
00:38
Why are Labour & Tories working together to suppress the people's commission report on Calderdal...
EDIT: I'm told this morning that the council have realised they are close to breaking the law & are backtracking. So it'll be very interesting to see what they were trying to hide. Just heard that the Council is about to publish the people's commission report as we have been calling for it to do. — James Baker (@Jamesdbaker1) February 3, 2015 [IMG: The_Calderdale_Royal_Hospital_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1012757] Calderdale Local Politics can be a strange place, never moreso than when the Labour & Tory Parties start working hand in glove to cover something up. Months ago the Liberal Democrats pushed for a People's Commission ...
Love were doing badly. The Doors, a band that Arthur Lee had introduced to Elektra, both bands' record label, were getting massive promotion everywhere, with a giant billboard over the Sunset Strip, and hit singles as a result. Lee argued with Elektra that if they promoted Love the way they promoted the Doors, Love would [...]
