Examining the economic flaws and false assumptions of the Higher Education and Research Bill, Martin Wolf explains that universities are not supermarkets. If you love wildlife and enjoy country walks, you've got the makings of a badger patroller, says Lesley Docksey. Anoosh Chakelian reveals the secret anti-capitalist history of McDonald's. Amy Davies interviews Chuck Rapoport, the American photojournalist who recorded the aftermath of the Aberfan disaster. On Saturday, it will be four years to the day since the town walls behind St Laurence's church fell collapsed. Almost nothing has happened to get repairs underway." Andy Boddington reports worrying news from ...
Welcome to Broxtowe Enews, brought to you by the Liberal Democrats and edited by David Watts, on behalf of the Lib-Dems in Broxtowe. May I give a special welcome to the new readers that we have this week. There seems to be a lot going on at the moment so this is quite a long newsletter. 1. Bramcote Hills Park Café I'm starting this week with some really exciting news. I don't usually ask for money and this newsletter is of course completely free but I am hoping that this week people will donate towards a really good project. The fundraising ...
Leicester's New Walk Centre, formerly the home to the offices of the city council, was spectacularly demolished two years ago.For a while the ground lay pleasingly fallow, but redevelopment is now well underway. I took some photographs of the site today. The Leicester Mercury has details of what the new development will look like when it is finished.
Meols Ward Lib Dem Councillors John Dodd, Nigel Ashton and Jo Barton are holding their next advice centre in Churchtownn We will be at BoxTree Kitchen for Queenscourt café, Manor Road/Cambridge Road, roundabout, from 10:30 to 11.30am on Thursday 23rd February. We will be there to meet you and discuss any Council problems you may have. No appointment necessary. Just pop in. We alo hold a monthly advice centre in Crossens, at St John's School, Rufford Road, Crossens every month (except August) on the second Saturday of the month from 11:00 am to 12:00.
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Ludlow Town Council needs heritage champion to save town walls - they collapsed four years ago today
On Saturday, it will be four years to the day since the town walls behind St Laurence's church fell collapsed. Almost nothing has happened to get repairs underway. The town council has missed the 2017 funding cycle. There must now be doubt whether the council can get funding in place by 2018. It should appoint heritage champion to ensure that there are no further delays in getting the walls repaired. Otherwise, I fear it will be years before the repairs start. This is a miserable tale. The walls behind St Laurence's Church fell during a particularly bad winter. Water had ...
Problems often arise with a campaign – and today was one of those days when problems came in threes. 1. We ran out of delivery and residents and deliverers complained that we were doing some houses for the second and third time. 2. We ran out of canvassing that we had prepared and printed and ready and now have a data backlog 3. We ran out of bacon, cheese and tomoatoe to go with the oatcakes... yes really. Given we need to be ready for the rest of the day and tomorrow and the final weekend I can't talk for ...
Fermanagh and South Tyrone is the south-western corner of Northern Ireland. In 2016, Nationalists and Unionists divided the seats three each, with Nationalists a whisker ahead in votes, 48.4% to 47.9%. 2016 result DUP 15,403 (32.6%, +8.2%) 2 seats UUP 6,028 (12.8%, -6.5%) 1 seat TUV 1,164 (2.5%, -0.1%) Green 897 (1.9%) Alliance 539 (1.1%, -0.7%) NI Labour 285 (0.6%) Sinn Féin 18,847 (39.9%, -0.4%) 2 seats (-1) SDLP 4,014 (8.5%, -1.1%) 1 seat (+1) 2017 candidates @Arlene Foster (DUP) @[Lord] Maurice Morrow (DUP) @Rosemary Barton (UUP) Alex Elliott (TUV) Richard Dunn (Cons) Noreen Campbell (Alliance) Tanya Jones (Green) Donal ...
South Antrim unites Antrim town with the western fringes of Newtownabbey, running to the northen and northeastern shores of Lough Neagh. Unionists won four seats here in 2016 with 65.3% of the vote; Nationalists won one with 22.8%; and Alliance held theirs with 8.9%. 2016 result DUP 13,188 (37.5%, -0.8%) 3 seats UUP 7,792 (22.2%, +4.4%) 1 seat TUV 1318 (3.8%, +0.4%) UKIP 574 (1.6%) Conservatives 72 (0.2%) Alliance 3119 (8.9%, -5.6%) 1 seat Green 589 (1.7%) Independent 483 (1.4%) Sinn Féin 4,632 (13.2%, -1.3%) 1 seat SDLP 3,366 (9.6%, -1.0%) 2017 candidates @Pam Cameron (DUP) @Trevor Clarke (DUP) @Paul ...
Compare and contrast: Less than a month ago, on 20th January, Donald Trump took this very solemn oath: I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States That constitution enshrines the rights of a free press and democracy. Last night, 4 weeks after he took above oath of office, the President of the United States, the so-called leader of the free world, someone with more power than most others on this planet of ours, ...
The level of bile directed at Tony Blair over yesterday's intervention in the Brexit debate was extraordinary, not least as most of it came from the party that he used to lead and which, I believe, he is still a member of. It was extraordinary because Blair was speaking a basic truth, that the referendum did not specify what form Brexit should take, did not detail a path for the government to take and that the approach currently taken by the Tories does not actually have any mandate. Referendums are not the same as an election. They present non-binary choices ...
Something a little different for a Saturday morning. I browsed through my address book, looking for the most frequent first names and surnames of people who I know. There were around 3,000 first names and 6,000 surnames altogether (of 7,500 contacts). The list below has the top 55 first names and top 57 surnames (I was aiming for top 50, and this was the closest I could get that was reasonably neat). The first names cover 1700 of my contacts; the surnames only 500 - so surnames vary a lot more than first names; the top surname occurs 19 times, ...
The link above to an on-line property brochure for Maghull Square is interesting although it must predate HSBC closing obviously. If I had a £1 for every time someone has asked me where Home Bargains are moving to I really would be retiring on a good pension. This seems to be an issue that people really want an answer to. From this brochure it looks like one of the new units that is presently being built in the left hand corner of the Square. BUT persistent rumours say that this is no longer the case and that Home Bargains ...
[IMG: Scenes Frontispiece] The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily does not wait to be done by perfect men; and I should imagine that neither Luther nor John Bunyan, for example, would have satisfied the modern demand for an ideal hero, who believes nothing but what is true, feels nothing but what is exalted, and does nothing but what is graceful. George Eliot The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism — the belief that logic is ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR WEST END WARD FOR SATURDAY 18 AND SUNDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2017 Blackness Road (at Wilkie's Lane) - temporary traffic lights on Sunday 19 February for mobile platform operations. Nethergate (West Marketgait to South Tay Street) - closed on Sunday 19 February for water supply connection works. REPORT FOR WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2017 Perth Road (at Arnhall Drive) - temporary traffic lights for 3 weeks for gas main renewal. Blackness Road (at Glenagnes Road) - temporary traffic lights for 2 weeks for Scottish Water mains renewal. Shaftesbury Road (at Seymour ...
Arch-Brexiteer John Redwood has something to worry about on his patch. In a rare Friday by-election, Liberal Democrat Imogen Shepherd-Dubey gained the Emmbrook ward on Wokingham District Council with an eye-watering swing from the Conservatives! Congratulations Imogen Shepherd-Dubey for gaining Emmbrook Ward, Wokingham DC with 60% of the vote. Massive swing from Cons [IMG: 🙂] pic.twitter.com/5Mu9cPcQWT — ALDC (@ALDC) February 17, 2017 Emmbrook (Wokingham) result: LDEM: 59.7% (+22.3) CON: 33.3% (-4.5) UKIP: 3.9% (-11.7) LAB: 3.0% (-6.1) — Britain Elects (@britainelects) February 17, 2017 There was a massive fall in the UKIP vote despite them putting up a candidate from ...
Because my Councillor's Contribution to both a conservation area leaflet and to the Blue Plaques Consultation wasn't needed I have asked that my £1000 from the Councillors' Fund be given to Blyth Battery Volunteers. This group promotes the listed buildings at Blyth Battery as a tourist attraction, and as part of their events they hold a "Blyth Battery Goes to War" weekend. The poster advertising the event is below.
Tunisian Security Forces Rock the Vote Enfranchising the military - showed me how little I know about Tunisia. (tags: democracy democratization elections tunisia ) Being an itemised list of disagreements Revisiting Requires Hate. (tags: ) When They Came from Another World @JamesGleick reviews Arrival and Stories of Your Life. (tags: sf ) The Attorney Fighting Revenge Porn I wonder what redress exists in European law? (tags: internet sexandgenderandsexuality ) How a Grad Student Found Spyware That Could Control Anybody's iPhone from Anywhere in the World Oh shit. (tags: hacking internet )
