The Liberal Democrat party is being pressured to take disciplinary action against a former MP who talked about "London Jews" funding Tim Farron's leadership election campaign.
If pop paints an accurate picture of youth culture, we have come a long way from "I Want to Hold Your Hand". Foundations was kept from the top of the singles chart by Rihanna and her silly Umbrella in 2007.
I spent today at the New Walk museum and art gallery in Leicester for a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Joe Orton's play Loot. The play had first gone on a provincial tour with an extraordinary cast - Kenneth Williams, Duncan Mcrae, Ian McShane, Geraldine McEwan - but had not pleased its audiences and been beset by constant rewrites in an attempt to put things right. Williams was a friend of Orton, but it is hard to see how he could ever have made a suitable Inspector Truscott. Loot was rescued by a new production in Manchester and two ...
I have lost track of how many times I have been told that the Wetherspoon pub chain is coming to Ludlow. When Woolworths closed, the gossips were certain that a Wetherspoon would open up any day. We got a Spar instead. When plans were touted to rebuild One Stop on Tower Street, the quidnuncs of... Continue reading Rumours of Ludlow Wetherspoon quashed as clothes and bears company moves into Legion →
We hope to see you at this FUN FAMILY EVENT on Saturday.
[IMG: arthur-koestler-3] Britain faces a challenging time in the next few years. We can meet these challenges if we are the best Britain we can be: open in our minds and hearts, tolerant and united. I am one of those who believes that history has much to teach us about ourselves and the present. Past and present are not the same. But by studying the mistakes of the past we have a greater to chance to do better in future. My 3 years as a history student have formed my mind as much as 13 years as a working lawyer ...
The Wells Fargo CEO was cornered by Elizabeth Warren during Capitol Hill hearings, but even when he was called ‘gutless’, he did not fight…
The Rt. Hon Boris Johnson Esq.Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth AffairsForeign and Commonwealth OfficeDowning Street WestLondon SW1A 2AL 25th September 2016 Dear Sir, It has been reported in the media that you intend to launch consultations on whether the Royal Yacht Britannia should be recommissioned for use as a floating embassy and, possibly, resume her role as a royal yacht. As a person who has often visited the yacht and can actually see her from my front window, I wish to register my objection to this scheme. First of all sir, I understand you have some reputation as ...
Second paragraph of third chapter, plus ensuing dialogue: It would be a gloomy secret night. After early nightfall the yellow lamps would light up, here and there, the squalid quarter of the brothels. He would follow a devious course up and down the streets, circling always nearer and nearer in a tremor of fear and joy, until his feet led him suddenly round a dark corner. The whores would be just coming out of their houses making ready for the night, yawning lazily after their sleep and settling the hairpins in their clusters of hair. He would pass by them ...
The Liverpool Echo has the story – see link above Let's hope the poor chap is OK
The Southport Visiter has the story on its web site – see link above Only days after my most recent blog posting about gun crime (18th September) on Merseyside and in particular in Sefton Borough – see link below – this happens in Lydiate! As an observer of public life across Merseyside I am becoming increasingly concerned about the number of shootings and gun crime incidents that seem to be taking place. It was not so long ago that Merseyside Police were giving the impression that they were getting on top of shootings/gun crime but it seems that ...
Tim Farron has been writing in the Independent about how the Liberal Democrats are the only party capable of providing decent opposition to the Conservatives following the re-election of Jeremy Corbyn: If one child was lifted out of poverty by Blair, that would be a progressive legacy. But what will Corbyn's legacy be? At this rate, to render Labour so unelectable that successive Tories will be able to play pass the parcel with the keys to Number 10. Perhaps the Corbynistas can afford such generosity to the Tories, but the people I grew up with in towns such as Preston ...
It's a wonder what Jeremy Corbyn can do for participation in politics as the cheeky Liverpool Lib Dem team and their recruitment stand outside the Labour conference have demonstrated: Our membership officer says we've hit our highest membership ever in Liverpool. Can't wait to pick up some more outside #Lab16 tomorrow. — Liverpool Lib Dems (@LiverLibDems) September 24, 2016
We've known for some time that the Lib Dem Press Office has a very good sense of humour. This week the Huffington Post outlined 17 times the Lib Dem Press Office were the most entertaining thing in British politics. While the party may have struggled to make itself heard above the rhetoric of Brexit and the absurdities of the Labour leadership contest, there has been one facet of the party that has been consistently nailing it. Their press office. You wouldn't think it but the team's Twitter maestro(s) have been throwing all kinds of shade and sass into the digital ...
More comedy genius from Australia's Clarke and Dawe in which possibly the most powerful person in the Australian government is interviewed.
A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction - Fantastic Stories A crash course in the history of black sci-fi from mid c19th to present, feat @nkjemisin & @TananariveDue among many Mclauchlan's Hierarchy of Political Needs: andrewducker Why the Tories are trouncing Labour: Returning Brexit - it doesn't work as advertised - YouTube RT @Scientists4EU: Dear @MinistryBrexit, we wish to invoke our EU consumer rights & return your product - it doesn't work as advertised Here's who colleges should have come speak instead of Brock Turner RT @thinkprogress: Here's who colleges should have come speak instead of Brock ...
For those who still question the portrayal of Boris Johnson as a national embarrassment in his role as Foreign Secretary, this article on the Reuters' website should put doubts to rest. They report that Germany and France have brushed aside comments from Johnson suggesting there is no link between the EU's principle of free movement and access to its single market, saying they could send Johnson a copy of the Lisbon Treaty and even travel to London to explain it to him in English. Apparently, Boris told Sky News television on Thursday that the EU's position that there was an ...
Over 300 people joined the Liberal Democrats yesterday in the wake of Jeremy Corbyn's re-election, That brings the total of new members to over 1000 this week. It's been a good week for the party, which has 3 more councillors in seats gained from both Labour and the Tories. Tim Farron welcomed the new members to the Lib Dems: I am delighted to welcome so many new members to the party and look forward to working with them to provide the real opposition to this Conservative Brexit Government. We are the voice for those who oppose the politics of fear, ...
I arrived in Liverpool late yesterday afternoon. I wasn't exactly sure what to expect, but what I found was definitely not it. Instead of open civil war, a strange placidity has set in, like one imagines a city after a nuclear bomb attack. The remnants of a once great society are all that's left, and everyone is past the anger stage of grief. If a split in the PLP is announced today, it sure will come from nowhere. Amongst the Corbynistas there isn't even smugness on display – they've won so handily now there is no need. The party is ...
It's always interesting to talk to Liberal Democrat colleagues from Cheltenham who have chalked up a very impressive electoral record. Continuing to run the council all the way through multiple elections in the years of Coalition is a rare record, and in the 2013 county elections they scored the even rarer result of an increase in Lib Dem vote share across the district on 2009. (The only increase in the country, in fact, if you exclude the one other case where the vote share went up by dint of standing candidates.) It's not a perfect record, as the sad loss ...
Welcome to everyone who has joined the Liberal Democrats over the past few days – over 1000 since our Conference finished and hundreds more yesterday in the wake of Jeremy Corbyn's re-election. It's great to have you on board. We have so much to do to stand up to the most appalling Government I have ever known so it. This is basically a repeat of a post that I did last year when many joined the party in the wake of the election result in the hope that it might be useful to tell you a little bit about how ...
From Blether Tay-Gither : Our September Blether will be on Tuesday 27th September - at 7pm in Madigan's Food Emporium and Bookshop, Castle Street. The theme this month is PULLING THE WOOL OVER YOUR EYES. Hope to see some of you there - all welcome!
The Liverpool Echo has the Prescot story on its web site – see link above And in Maghull another sad vandalism story being played out on Liverpool Road South, adjacent to KGV Park, Meadows Leisure Centre and Maghull Town Hall:- [IMG: WP_20160922_19_14_59_Pro] Both these examples show how mindless destruction can blight a community; in Prescot a beautiful piece of street artwork in Maghull the all too familiar smashing up of a bus shelter. I wonder how many bus shelters across Merseyside are smashed up every week? We probably do not want to know the answer as it would be ...
Where will the out-of-control Chinese space station land? Oops. (tags: space ) Were There Irish Slaves in Early America? No. (tags: history ireland usa )
