Replying to the Michael Meadowcroft article included in the last of these round ups, Paul Holmes says a good targeting strategy is essential for the Liberal Democrats. "Mainstream society has laid down with dogs and we have now got up with fleas." Matthew Collins says we have become comfortable with hate. Hadley Freeman asks why actors are suddenly lining up to condemn Woody Allen: "I get why people feel icky about Allen. Some of us were rolling our eyes at Manhattan, his film about a man's relationship with a schoolgirl, before the leading lights of #MeToo were born. But this ...
Congratulations to Vikki Slade who has been selected by party members to the Liberal Democrat prospective Parliamentary candidate (PPC) in Mid Dorset & North Poole. Thrilled to have been reselected as @LibDems Parliamentary Candidate for @mdnplibdems – #Fightback steps up NOW let's turn Dorset gold again – save me that seat in the green benches @LaylaMoran @joswinson I intend to win pic.twitter.com/q7uh0lVGjV — vikki slade #FBPE (@vikki4mdnp) February 3, 2018
Crossens Saturday, 10th February, St John's Primary School, Rufford Road, Crossens, from 11am to 12 noon. Churchtown Thursday, 22nd February, BoxTree Kitchen for Queenscourt cafe, Manor Road/Cambridge Road, roundabout, from 10:30am to 11:30am. We will be there to meet you and discuss any Council problems you may have. No appointment necessary. Just pop in.
You may recall that, just before Christmas, Leicestershire County Council announced that a single portion of sprouts consisted of six - no more, no less. The old boy was having none of it. Defying the Sprout Police One of the great occasions of the year here on the Bonkers Hall Estate is Christmas Eve. Dressed in a red suit, I visit the cottages of my tenants and hand over hampers of fine things to eat and drink: a goose from the Home Farm; pies and puddings from the kitchens at the Hall; a bottle of Meadowcroft's parsnip wine (which would ...
Each issue of Liberator carries a Radical Bulletin section, which gives the inside news on the Liberal Democrats. Radical Bulletin in the new issue of Liberator includes stories on:tensions between the PPC, the local party and the regional party in Lewesthe travails of Ethnic Minority Liberal Democrststhe regional party official who is a member of another group on an authority run by the Lib DemsThe conclusion is clear. If you want to know what is going on in the party you should subscribe to Liberator.
In 2017 I drove up to the Derwent Dams for the first time in several years. This afternoon as I was going through more boxes of slides that my father left, I came across these ones of the dams. They were taken during 1959, when a severe drought affected Central, Eastern and North-East England between February and November. The post Colour pictures of Derwent Dams in the drought of 1959 appeared first on ten pence piece.
Can writing perform? Is the archive merely bones - and what does it mean if it is? Or if it isn't?W.B Worthen argues that there is a relationship between the text as it is laid down onto a page, and the ways in which this affects how it is read or performed. I read a performance text, or a script, as prescriptive, rather than proscriptive: the mise en page suggests, rather than dictates the mise en scene. Text is shifting Image Source: archdaily.com Text is not a static, stable signifier; rather it is an active participant in the mutual destabilisation ...
A shamefaced Herts County Council has responded to Chris White's criticism of its failure to complete the installation of the 20 mph zone east of Holywell Hill. Chris said: "Controversial highways contractor Ringway encountered a detailed snag in relation to signing outside one particular house. But they failed to tell the County Council or indeed [...]
Gone With The Wind won the Academy Award for Outstanding Production of 1939; for once, I have actually seen two of the other Best Picture nominees, Ninotchka and of course The Wizard of Oz. It won another seven competitive Oscars and two honorary ones, a sweep that was not exceeded for decades. I have actually seen two other 1939 films, which makes this by far my best year up to now - back in the early 1980s the BBC showed the Basil Rathbone The Hound of the Baskervilles and the less memorable The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. IMDB has this ...
In the London Borough of Merton, Patrick Oheneba Adu was a member of the local Labour team in West Merton and even highly praised for his work by the Labour leader of the council in a letter to residents.
Appearing on This Week this week, Michael Portillo had this to say about Rees-Mogg as potential PM: "Because he is not in office he has the luxury of saying pretty much what he thinks, that he is clear cut and relatively charismatic and that he has ideas and that all of these things are what the public is crying out for." This is a perfect distillation of populism's charms – and its limitations. I think the reason we've seen a wave of populists on the left and the right ascend to previously thought impossible heights over the past few years ...
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During the 1960's female artists used body art, or embodied art, to contribute to feminist thought and theory, raising questions of the relationship between the body and the artist, and what does it mean for female artists to foreground the female body? Meat Joy - Carolee Schneeman Image Source: TheCultureTrip.com Carolee Schneeman's 'Meat Joy' is a Bacchanalian, assaultive work; a collage of images assembled from a dream of eroticism in a comingling of materials recalling flesh and fine art. I read this work as an attempt to foreground the female body, and as a critique of the place and power ...
Kamran Hussain, Yorkshire and Humber Liberal Democrats Regional Chair, received an award for services to law at last week's British Muslim Awards. The British Muslim Awards aim to recognise achievements from the British Muslim community from all sectors including business, charity, sport, arts and culture. Kamran Hussain is a senior partner at Whiterose Blackmans Solicitors LLP, based in Leeds. Kamran qualified in 2005 as a solicitor and set up the practice with partners in 2008. The practice is well known for a number of areas of law including criminal defence, and last year received Lexcel accreditation for excellence in practice ...
Fri, 12:56: Thread. https://t.co/iNXgpzBnvx Fri, 16:05: One family's story shows Poland's ambiguous wartime past https://t.co/kB7231xR2C Reflection on the Holocaust. Fri, 18:25: Five Escape Brexit Island, by Bruno Vincent https://t.co/c8LQO5TXm9 Fri, 20:19: RT @jonlis1: The fudge is almost finished and the chickens are coming home to roost - not soaked in chlorine, but reality. My piece on an... Fri, 20:48: Spain's non-paper on Kosovo's EU integration https://t.co/QrglTXnraf And what is that going to achieve? Sat, 10:45: Retro Hugos for 1942 https://t.co/nv9zkQRaaF Recs for CS Lewis, Lord Dunsany and Austen Tappan Wright.
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There were a few sore heads in Edinburgh on Thursday morning. Mine was ok, possibly due to the fact that my friend dragged me away at sensible o'clock and made me walk the half hour back to the station. The occasion was gathering of everyone who was anybody in the Scottish Lib Dems to say farewell to our incredible Head of Campaigns, Adam Stachura, who is off to pastures new after getting the Scottish party back to winning form. He took over the role just after the 2011 election. It had been a disaster and the party was in shock ...
When seven UKIP AMs were elected to the Welsh Assembly in 2016 we were promised that they were going to shake up the establishment. As expected the only shaking-up was committed within their own ranks, with a rancorous leadership contest, the departure of their Welsh leader to become an independent and then out of the Assembly altogether, and the refusal to accept his successor into their ranks. As a result they are now a group of five, but hardly a harmonious or effective group. This is no better illustrated than with the Michelle Brown affair. The North Wales UKIP AM ...
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I do love it when I get to school my one time Economics teacher Sammy Wilson especially when it is about economics. When I read that Sammy Wilson (my teacher for the final term of 1986-7) said Loyalists were applying for Irish passports due to Brexit scare stories I had to laugh. Sammy should know all about cost benefit analysis especially when it comes to "opportunity cost". In economics this is the value of the next-highest-valued alternative use of that resource. In this case it the cost of time on travelling on holiday. Everyone born on the island of Ireland ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-42902864 The BBC has the article on its web site – see link above The fact that in this day and age the state encourages citizens to educate children in the religious atmosphere of the parents choosing is utterly bizarre to me. Religion is a personal thing not something to be passed down from one generation to the next. That we end up with children being indoctrinated is bad enough but in a free society surely we don't want up and coming generations to have closed minds do we? Surely it is wrong to try to force young minds to ...
In what has become a little bit of a mini-series, after having explained the pro-European hashtags #FBPE and #WATON, this week it is time to explain what #ABTV is about. This hashtag stands for Anti-Brexit Tactical Voting. It was started on January 12, 2018 by AC Grayling: Anti-Brexit Tactical Voting #ABTV retweet widely RT — A C Grayling #FBPE #ABTV#WATON (@acgrayling) January 12, 2018 One of the issues it runs into is quite who counts as an anti-Brexit candidate deserving of such tactical voting support. Even Liberal Democrat Parliamentary candidate ranks in 2017 included at least one out and out ...
February's bumper set of by-elections started with a bang for us last night with a quite frankly ridiculous swing in Sunderland, as well as a tie for second place in Cornwall. It gives me great pleasure to inform you all that as of last night we are up 32.7% on previous corresponding elections. A huge thank you to last night's brilliant team of volunteers who make calls for these campaigns. ALDC's grants are available to help in vital by-elections and are funded through vital fighting fund donations. If you can help us fight in even more wards, please donate here. ...
- A free talk - on Wednesday 7th March 2018 at 6.30pm - Baxter Suite, Tower Building at the University of Dundee. The University of Dundee and the city itself has a proud history of women who surpassed the expectations of their peers. This talk is a partnership between Discovery Walk and the University of Dundee Archives. Kelly Marr, the project originator of Discovery Walk, will discuss the works and legacies of the three women who have a plaque in Slessor Gardens, Mary Lily Walker, Professor Margaret Fairlie, and Mary Ann Baxter. Caroline Brown, University Archivist, will explore the position ...
Over on Mindless Ones, I've written the second in my series of blog posts about Crisis on Infinite Earths. To go along with it, for Patreon backers only, there's an essay on Armageddon 2001. And, to promote my Sarah Turner ... Continue reading →
