Embed from Getty Images Cromer has been having its problems this weekend, so here is a 1930s railway poster that sells the town as "The Centre of Poppyland".
Nigel Atter, author of In the Shadow of Bois Hugo, on the incredible bravery of the 8th Lincolns. By early 1915 the Western Front had solidified into 400 miles of trenches from the North Sea to Switzerland. The French were committed to removing the German forces from their country. Lord Kitchener, Britain's Secretary of State for War, also wanted to assist the Russians allies by attacking in the west. Kitchener stated, "We must act with all our energy, and do our utmost to help ... even though, by so doing, we suffered very heavy casualties indeed." Thus the British Expeditionary ...
Labour's Gerard Woodhouse (the man with the unusual number of Twitter followers) might want to rethink his words.
Welcome to the Golden Dozen, returning from its Summer Break to bring you our 485th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere ... Featuring the five most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (13-19 August, 2017), together with a hand-picked seven you might otherwise have missed, with one or two from earlier in the Summer. Don't forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging. As ever, let's start with the ...
Kevin d'Arcy worked freelance for many of Fleet Street's best-known titles, as well as doing stints at the Economist and Tatler and radio programmes and interviews for the BBC and CBC. So he has been, if not exactly at the heart of events in Britain and the wider world, at least in one of the [...]
Current Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (a chapter a month) QI: The Book of the Dead, by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson A Life of Surprises, ed. Paul Cornell William Cecil, Ireland and the Tudor State, by Christopher Maginn Last books finished Decide Your Destiny: Judoon Monsoon, by Oli Smith The Moon Stallion, by Brian Hayles Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid Decide Your Destiny: Empire of the Wolf, by Neil Corry Aliénor: La Légende Noire, vol 2, by Arnaud Delalande and Simona Mogavino, art by Carlos Gomez Short Trips: Transmissions, ed. Richard Salter The Help, by Kathryn Stockett ...
It is critical to always be using social media to capture more email addresses - then you can reach your entire intended audience, and control the flow of communication to your supporters.
Yesterday the editor of the Guardian's "letters page" published an article explaining the characteristics of those readers' letters most likely to be published. Since it seems to me that I follow most of the rules (be short and to the point, relevant, accurate, avoiding abuse, and referring to the Guardian article to which you are responding) I can't think why more of mine aren't printed, but there you are. To illustrate what constitutes a "good " letter the editor reprints one from a Dr Simon Sweeney of York University in 2013. Here it is, using the Monty Python lead-in (see ...
Ian Fleming had been planning for a while to introduce Turing and Wheatley. While the two men were, in his opinion, unlikely to get along, they also both had inquisitive, fast-moving minds, of the kind that in Fleming's view was ... Continue reading →
Now that David Davis is re-opening the EU talks timetable again, Lib Dem Brexit spokesperson Tom Brake has this to say on the paucity of the Government's performance in the EU negotiations: David Davis promised us 'the row of the summer' over the Brexit timetable, only to capitulate weeks later to the EU's preferred timetable after a disastrous general election for his party which vastly undermined their negotiating position. To be now, a couple of months down the line, trying to reopen the issue reeks of desperation at an approaching economic storm and a cabinet who don't have a clue. ...
"One day I may hit you with Raymond Lefèvre or Horst Jankowski," I threatened some years ago. Horst must wait, but Lefèvre's Soul Coaxing is terrific and you should listen to it now. What I didn't know when I first mentioned it is that Soul Coaxing was an arrangement of the song Âme Câline - I think that translates as "The Loving Soul" - by Michel Polnareff. It dates from 1967, when he was something of a sensation in France. His Wikipedia page reveals that Polnareff has had a long career interspersed with periods of success and obscurity and is ...
I failed miserably when it came to getting Book Festival tickets this year. Starting a new job on the day the tickets came out meant that there were none left by the time I was able to look them up. Sadly that meant that I missed Vince Cable's session on his new book, Open Arms, which will be published on 7th September, so you'll have to rely on the accounts of others. Susan Mansfield in the Scotsman says he was a congenial Book Festival guest: "I'm proud of the book, and I wish I'd done it earlier," Cable said. His ...
Sat, 14:52: RT @GeorgeTakei: Who knew that "infrastructure week" meant going completely off the rails, paving the roads to hell, and burning all your b... Sat, 19:03: RT @ce_murphy: I've gotten caught in the rain again! My story is that @nwbrux has ruthlessly abandoned me in the storm. :) https://t.co/... Sat, 19:53: 2017 Hugo Voter's Packet Debrief https://t.co/p1kbrRCGLc Sat, 21:21: RT @johnnydobbo: How British is that headline? https://t.co/P0c5ZViqWI Sun, 10:45: The Worldcon 75 Newsletter Painopiste and lessons for the future https://t.co/tzTS4PYUPk How it was done. Sun, 10:49: RT @jonlis1: Astonishing this is top story on BBC News. Abolishing tariffs effectively ...
miss_s_b | The Blood is the Life for 19-08-2017 I posted The Blood is the Life for 19-08-2017 to my dreamwidth blog miss_s_b | Autism-friendly clothing (and clothing stores) I posted Autism-friendly clothing (and clothing stores) to my dreamwidth blog What Liberalism Means to Me In which Andrew, once more, takes the words out of my head and puts them on the page so that I don't have to The Pesky Superhero Job My favourite of the Pod Together fics so far is this Leverage/Supergirl crossover :) [IMG: comment count unavailable] comments
It was the start of December and the first semester of University was almost over. In that time, James, Amelia, Shaun, and Harris had grown close; they either did everything as a group or couples or triplets; they went to the pub, clubbing, shopping, exploring, studying or sitting in the library preparing for their exams and completing their coursework. James and Harris had become best friends and nothing had ever been mentioned about that night. Harris had kept the unspoken promise made between them that night that he would wait until James brought it up before talking about it. For ...
The Hop Garden in High Spen is a community run allotment in which residents can have a go at gardening and can pick the fruit and vegetables for themselves. I have visited it a number of times before and on Friday I made a return visit in response to a call by the organisers to help shift the abundance of windfall apples they have. In return I took up a stack of quail eggs and a load of rhubarb
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When I first got involved in politics the Tories used to claim that they stood for the rule of law. Now, through the machinations of Brexit, it is becoming much clearer that the only law they are interested in is the narrow, paternalistic, inward-looking law of a little Englander. This article in the Observer sums up the inconsistencies and selfishness of Tory thinking, which will leave the UK isolated economically, legally and politically. It is a shame that the so-called Labour opposition is acting to reinforce this sterile viewpoint instead of actively opposing it. The paper says that the former ...
I cycle around the Sefton East Parishes (Maghull, Lydiate, Aintree, Melling and Sefton & Lunt Villages) part of the Borough quite a lot and the other day I was stopped by a chap on Park Lane who said 'hey you are a local councillor aren't you? – can you get the pot holes in Millbank Lane filled in please?'. Oddly I had just been down there on my bike and had noticed some large pot-holes myself so I was only too happy to get in touch with Sefton Highways to ask them to oblige. Millbank Lane, I should add runs ...
The next Harris Academy Former Pupils' Association Lunch is on Monday 4th September at 12 noon for 12.30pm. It will be held in Invercarse Hotel on Perth Road and the cost per person, payable on arrival, will be £16.00. More information is available from the FPs' Treasurer Freida Soutar on 562788. You can read more about the Harris Academy Former Pupils' Association here.
