More comedy genius from Australia's Clarke and Dawe as George Brandis, Attorney General, agrees to be interviewed but the Prime Minister doesn't.
From the aptly named Liarsville in Alaska comes this warning against rose-tinted views of how the newspaper industry used to be.
After visiting Tickencote church you naturally turn your attention to the village. It has a water mill on the Gwash - the Tickencote community website says it closed in the mid 1930s - a former school and cottages with names that make it sound the sort of place that the people who produce chocolate boxes go for their holidays. One of them, Flower Pot Cottage, was once the Flower Pot pub and frequented by the poet John Clare.
Headline of the Day has an Olympic theme. Congratulations to ITV News.
Second paragraph of third chapter: Other than this official scrutiny, Verity knew that she was likely to be the focus of a different kind of attention in her new role and, as a consequence, she was careful with her image, choosing well-cut expensive clothes to offset her well-cut, expensive hair, discreet jewellery and killer heels. She was adopting her version of what would later be termed 'power dressing', acquiring a style to belie her youth and counterpoint her natural authority. She was, she later said, 'a bit of a freak' and arrived when both her new bosses, Sydney Newman and ...
[IMG: 7 best] Many thanks to the 14,636 visitors who dropped by Lib Dem Voice this week. Here's our 7 most-read posts... Tim Farron on grammar schools (214 comments) by Mary Reid Invoking Article 50 could be a disaster for the UK (55 comments) by Paul Walter Sal Brinton on Jeremy Corbyn (43 comments) by The Voice Owen Smith fishing with his 'rich Tory friends' - when Twitter gets rather silly (11 comments) by Paul Walter What happened to sending £350million a week to the NHS? (21 comments) by Anna Pitcher Historic liberal surge in South Africa (15 comments) by ...
Friday saw the release of the new trailer for this year's Star Wars offering; Rogue One a Star Wars story and needless to say I am excited. The movie is set just before the events of Episode IV (A New Hope) and is about the theft of the Deathstar's plans and getting them to Princess Leia who of course is caught carrying them at the beginning of the first Star Wars movie when Vader aboard the ISD Devestatorengaged her. In the old Expanded Universe they were taken from the planet Raltiir whilst the Deathstar was constructed over the Penal prison ...
Last night I had my first experience of the Sarajevo Film Festival. Now in its 22nd year, the event, started in the pain and confusion of a prolonged siege, continues to go from strength to strength. The showing at the Summer Screen was of a documentary called Sonita. The titular protagonist is a teenage Afghan [...]
[IMG: referendum result] A note about the photo – it shows two Lib Dem activists, Naomi Smith and Paul Pettinger, on the right, after the Brexit result was announced. This photo has been published in media around the world; an iconic image of the shock experienced by Remain campaigners. Grieving is a natural process for dealing with loss. It can be painful. People often also deny reality, which lets us deal with it gradually. Ultimately grief is a healing process which enables people to process losses and move forward in a healthy way. We've had a lot to grieve. Between ...
[IMG: The Residence cover] If you get a chance over the Summer, have a read of Kate Andersen Brower's book detailing the history and lives of the people who look after the first families at the White House. Find out about their relationships with the various occupants of the biggest goldfish bowl on the planet. From the Roosevelts to the Obamas, find out about the details of domestic life and the varying relationships between staff and residents. It is a little biased towards the Republicans and if you know a lot about US politics, there are no new sensational revelations, ...
Scott Walker made the songs of Jacques Brel much better known in Britain. This, taken from Scott 2, was an attempt by Walker to write a Brel song himself. I think it is safe to say I like it more than Then Play Long does: The deliberately leaden procession of the verses, combined with words like "Snap! The waiters animate, luxuriate like planets whirling 'round the sun," suggest a predication of Gary Numan, but the transition into the choruses sounds a little forced and its hideous Light Programme backing singers and accordion are more in keeping with Benny Hill avec ...
I was invited by the organisers to bring some of our animals to the Family Funday at Chase Park in Whickham yesterday. While the movement of chickens, ducks and quails to a fair is straightforward, I had to get a special permit from DEFRA to take one of our goats - and it was a goat in particular that the organisers wanted me to bring. Pinkie, our milking goat made the short journey to Chase
I paid a visit to the Hop Garden, a community allotment in High Spen, on Friday. They were holding a pizza evening but it was also a chance to swap some of our surplus for some of the garden's spare soft fruit. I took along 15 boxes of quail eggs for the swap. I came away with gooseberries, redcurrants and rhubarb. Good evening had by all.
As it were not bad enough that the majority of those leading the campaign to leave the EU had washed their hands of the whole affair, walked away and left others to pick up the pieces, those who are left are squabbling amongst themselves. The Telegraph reports that there is a turf war raging between two of the departments of state tasked with negotiating the terms of the United Kingdom's exit from the EU and, more importantly putting in place alternative trade arrangements to stop our economy going down the pan. The paper reports that just weeks after the two ...
[IMG: gamesmakers] On 27th August, LDV will be 10 years old. In that time, we've brought you over 24,000 posts and published over 337,000 comments. Over the Summer holidays, we'll take you on a nostalgic meander through a decade of Liberal Democrat history, seen through the eyes of our editors and contributors. We hope you enjoy our choices. Continuing our Olympic themed weekend, four years ago, our Mary Reid spent two weeks as a Games Maker at the Paralympics. She wrote about her experiences and asked what the Liberal Democrats could learn from that. Certainly, there has been more of ...
A long list of recommendations should always have a careful reader diving for the details to see quite what is lurking in the list. So here's my dive into Eric Pickles's "review into electoral fraud" which comes complete with a long list of 50 recommendations, and a list moreover justifies my use of quote marks around the purported purpose of the Pickles review because some of the recommendations are either not really about fraud or not solely about fraud. The lack of detailed evidence behind the recommendations might also lead the sceptical to think that headline emphasis on tackling fraud ...
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Bexit – May is facing all kinds of difficulties – Makes you wonder if it will actually h...
This is an interesting read – see link above – and it shows how Prime Minister May has been put in a big hole with a spade to help her dig it deeper. In reality she has no way out of the hole of course and it may well finish her in the fullness of time. My thanks to Roy Connell for spotting this story.
[IMG: Sheila maintaining the flowers 08 16] Maghull has been looking good again this summer due to the work of the Maghull in Bloom (I don't include my own meagre efforts here) and Maghull Station volunteers. There are a lot of maintenance jobs to do not least the work of the 'dead headers' who each week take out of the baskets at the Square all the dead flower heads. It is a long task but the end result is more beautiful flowers being displayed. Maintenance of the baskets on the Town's boundary signs also needs to be done and Sheila ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR WEST END WARD WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 15 AUGUST 2016 Scottish Water Clatto East mains renewal - Perth Road (Hawkhill to Nethergate) - closed eastbound for 2 weeks. Scottish Water Clatto East City Road DMA (Mains Renewal) - Annfield Road and Annfield Street closed. Riverside Drive (Tesco service roundabout to rail bridge) - off-peak lane closures and temporary traffic lights on Thursday 18 August for sewer surveying. A90 Kingsway (at Swallow roundabout) - overnight (7.30pm - 6.30am) offside northbound lane closures on Wednesday 17 August for signage works. Guthrie Street (at Daniel ...
The Brexit Hangover Just Got Worse Brief but clear on the trade problems. (tags: ukpolitics eu ) Incompetent Liam Fox's dept. deletes press release after making big Brexit EU admission *facepalm* (tags: ukpolitics eu ) How an Outsider President Killed a Political Party: Zachary Taylor Lessons of 1848. (tags: history uspolitics )
