... that I may have a bit of a fight on my hands when I eventually return to my desk at work. Perhaps I shouldn't have left sugar mice in my drawer. Or maybe I'm hallucinating. I swear that's an owl on my chair ... Thank you to my excellent colleague, Jonathan, for giving me the best laugh I've had ... The post Ever so slightly concerned ... appeared first on ten pence piece.
As one of just five schools in the North East listed for this prize, St Mary's could be successful if they can just garner enough votes from the good people of Consett and its neighbourhoods. Just log on to http://ultimateschooltrip.jet2holidays.com/ and vote for St Mary's, and then get all your friends, relatives, acquaintances, to do the same so that a whole class of local children can enjoy a free trip to Katmandu Park in Majorca. The vote only runs till Friday. There's only one vote per person, but of course that means one for your sister, your brother, your Mum, ...
Rimrose Valley Country Park map. Join Rimrose Valley Friends, led by John Dempsey - from the Sefton Coast Landscape Partnership , for a Spring Stroll on Rimrose Valley on Sunday 18th March 2018 starting at 10.30am from the Beach Road Entrance – L21 2PP (If it's raining at the time of the event it may be cancelled. If so there will be someone at the meeting point to turn people away.) Full details are on the Rimrose Valley Friends web site – see link above
Second page of Part 3: This is a rather lovely production: Doctors Ten, Elevan and Twelve join up with each other and their companions, comics-only Gabby Gonzalez (Ten) and Alice Obiefune (Eleven) with Clara Oswald, in an adventure that starts in a Paris cafe in 1923 and then diverts to Marinus (not the first recent story for me involving the Voord), exploring several alternative futures for each of the three Doctors in the story (each future presenting a different fourth Doctor). We also get cameos from the War Doctor and Ninth Doctor. And rather gloriously the book also includes several ...
From the Belfast Telegraph, watch the Cleggster speak at a Conference in Bath about social mobility and Brexit: * Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings
Those amazing Lib Dem peers have been at it again – winning crucial changes to legislation. As the Financial Guidance and Claims Bill completes its stages in the Upper House, the Liberal Democrats have secured a significant victory following the government's acceptance of crucial Liberal Democrats amendments. Led by John Sharkey, we campaigned in the House of Lords to end cold-calling in relation to pensions, claims management and other financial services. The Government have now committed to a total ban on pensions cold-calling, as well as prohibitions on other forms of cold-calling if these are shown to be detrimental. The ...
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Vince talks to Voice Part 4: Liberal ideas for the modern world - open, liberal, green
Here's the final part of my chat with Vince Cable just after his keynote speech to Conference on Sunday. I wanted to know what he meant about having a party "fizzing with ideas" We've got these structures for policy making and they can be a bit clunky but they often produce some good creative stuff. Instead of this just being confined to the usual small minority of policy wonks we open it up to the wider membership and get much more feedback. The whole point of being more digital is that it's easier to engage people. I set out some ...
The work this week has looked at the idea of intimacy as a key component of Live Art. This was with specific reference to, what Dror Harari calls 'the intimate, one-to-one encounter between performer and viewer.'[1] Image Source: theconfidentteacher.com The rise in Intimate Performance, or One-To-One performance pieces has been noted by practitioners, reviewers, and academics, and the Live Art Development Agency in the UK recently published an attempt at a comprehensive study of the burgeoning work. What follows in this post is not so much a study of the work, per-se, nor a review, as I have never experienced ...
As a newly elected member of the Federal Conference Committee (FCC) I was keen to get involved. I left home at 10:00 am in the morning to get to Southport and my first FCC meeting at 2:30 pm. Unfortunately, due to the traffic, I didn't get to the conference until 3:00 pm and I got to the meeting half an hour late. A few heads were raised as I walked in - I think I made an impression!! A discussion was in progress on the amendments and emergency motions, I thought it was quite detailed and well thought through. A ...
Not content with being a sexist*, racist**, transphobic, brexit-enabling*** pig-ignorant**** dinosaur who has been repeatedly ruled innaccurate*****, apparently on this morning's Today programme Humpty bolstered his reputation for ableism, asking if Stephen Hawking got "cut slack" by his colleagues in the world of physics because of his disability. Because obviously physicists care more about SJW stuff than the actual work someone produces, and so were obviously publicising his work out of pity or something, not because he was one of the foremost scientists the world has ever known or anything like that... And obviously a segment about a man's death ...
Last week I wrote about my first seven days of the 'Make Do Play' challenge. Reflecting on the activities, I realised that I was looking forward to the emails arriving as they prompted me to try something different, and fun, each day. A little nudge of creativity sometimes pushed me out of my routine, and other times just helped me to find the creativity within my routine. Day Eight Singing I didn't take a video as, maybe strangely for someone who trained in performance (a long time ago!), I get a bit camera shy, even when I'm just filming myself ...
Last night at the British Library the Royal Society of Literature put on an evening On Memoir, moderated by Rupert Christiansen. It's a genre that held little appeal to me when I was young — devouring 20th century novels at a rate of several a week — and in my 40s and 50s history and [...]
Tue, 12:56: RT @AndrewDuffEU: This by Michael Emerson on the EU's Association Agreements deserves greater puff https://t.co/CxRNMwQqeY @CEPS_thinktank Tue, 15:59: RT @TimmermansEU: I followed closely the declaration made by PM May today on the attack with nerve gas in the UK. I want to express my stro... Tue, 16:05: RT @leonardocarella: "Europeans are stealing our immigrants" is the most Brexity complaint ever. https://t.co/ZN3r27KoyH Tue, 18:13: BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction https://t.co/qM3ygnUeKp Tue, 19:05: RT @JolyonMaugham: Read this. I defy you to resist outrage. https://t.co/40WQHm6m8V Tue, 20:48: The fiasco of former Socialist minister's bogus political party https://t.co/o9AG7Ek7ee and other fake parties ...
Wed 14th
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Rocks Green homes get approved amid controversy over affordable housing and stalling on a 20mph spee...
A little after 6pm yesterday, the South Planning Committee approved plans for 200 homes east and south of the Nelson at Rocks Green on the outskirts of Ludlow (17/05189/FUL). The proposal gave full planning permission to the first phase of 72 homes of which eleven (15%) will be affordable. The committee also approved an outline scheme for the second phase of housing. During debate, additional affordable housing in the first phase was agreed, along with a review of bus services to the site. Officers would not agree to the entire development being a 20mph zone but promised to review the ...
miss_s_b | Report Back From Federal ConferenceICYMI, this is my report back and plea for feedback from conference. Why the government's mandatory voter ID plans are a terrible ideaI know a fair few people who have an instinctive attraction to this idea, so it's worth reading this. Tomb Raider game writer wants to do an older, grizzled Lara CroftI'd love to see this BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Professor Stephen Hawking: Black HolesIn memory of the man. GNU Stephen Hawking. 'Ricky Gervais: Humanity' Netflix Review"But Jennie, why are you linking to a review of a Pricky Gervais show, ...
The first events of the Southport Conference last Friday afternoon were three policy consultation sessions. These sessions are the intermediate stage of the policy development process. The first is the establishment of a policy working group which looks at the key issues and takes evidence and then produces a consultation paper to be discussed at Conference and which is also accessible online for members to comment on. The three papers discussed at Spring will be finalised in light of the consultation and then put to Conference for a final decision. I went to the session on Immigration. I should have ...
Okay, I understand why, for many reasons, Phil Hammond didn't want to give another doom and gloom statement from the Treasury about the economic conditions of today's Great Britain. One, he's starting to get typecast; two, he wants to seem medium-Brexity for the short term at least, so he had to inject some oomph into proceedings. However, given how uncertain everything is, including whether there will be a transition period or not, the current Tory messaging strategy strikes me as highly risky. It goes like this: austerity has worked. The deficit reduction project began in 2010 means we can now ...
This is the latest update from Connecting South Gloucestershire, a government supported programme bringing faster broadband across South Gloucestershire where it is not economically viable for commercial companies to provide it: Work is progressing well and over the last month we've delivered fibre in Almondsbury, Chipping Sodbury, Downend, Thornbury, Totteroak and Wickwar. Once fibre has been laid, residents should contact their chosen Internet Service Provider (ISP) directly to see what broadband speeds and packages are available to them. Important: Not all premises within these areas will get fibre as part of this phase of work and broadband speeds will not ...
So in today's news the Daily Express front page cries out "AT LAST! TAX CUTS ON WAY!" We have had chunky tax cuts every year since 2010. It started thanks to the Lib Dems (arguably thanks to one Liberal parliamentary candidate, who from what I recall didn't even take first or second place in her seat) and after five years of being grudgingly allowed by the Tories as part of the left-right coalition deal it had proved so popular that Cameron and May carried on with it in their starring roles as Prime Minister With A Plan To Properly Sink ...
Back in the 70s, Margaret Thatcher was dubbed Thatcher the Milk Snatcher as she introduced cuts to free school milk. Nearly 50 years on, it's another Tory Government, in cahoots with the DUP, who are trying to restrict free school meals, which were introduced due to Lib Dem pressure during the coalition years. Watch Layla Moran speak in favour of extending free school meals, not cutting them back and urging the government not to close the childcare vouchers scheme: Today I spoke out against Tory-DUP plans to change the eligibility criteria for free school meals in England, meaning 100,000s could ...
I was very disappointed this morning to see otherwise very sensible politicians calling for England to boycott this year's World Cup in retaliation to the near-fatal attack on former Russian spy, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury. Amongst those jumping on the bandwagon are former Lib Dem Leader and Blackburn Rovers fan, Tim Farron, and Aberavon Labour MP, Stephen Kinnock. Of all the possible sanctions that could be imposed against Russia, this one is the most problematic - even if we do put to one side the concern whether England would be there long enough to make a ...
A recent report by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change is worth a read. It analyses in some detail the published research on the political swing towards what some (including this report) still insist on calling 'populist' parties. A couple of things are worth discussing about this report. The first is the continued use of the [...] The post Why the centre left doesn't understand populism appeared first on Radix.
From the City Council : THE ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 : SECTION 14(1) THE DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL AS TRAFFIC AUTHORITY being satisfied that traffic on the road should be prohibited by reason of carriageway works being carried out HEREBY PROHIBIT the driving of any vehicle in Nethergate (from its junction with West Marketgait to its junction with South Tay Street), Dundee. This notice comes into effect on Saturday 17th March 2018 for 5 days. Pedestrian thoroughfare will be maintained. Access to business premises will be maintained Alternative routes for vehicles are available via West Marketgait/Hawkhill/Perth Road/Nethergate and reverse For ...
As you know, I managed to grab 10 minutes with Vince, his wife Rachel and some delicious sandwiches just after his speech on Sunday. You can also read Parts 1, and 2 I asked him what he wanted to have accomplished by the time we gather in Brighton for Conference in September. Well I think there are some very specific areas where good work has been initiated – learning accounts, medical technologies, taxation. that will be some meaty stuff to talk about. But Brexit is going to be the big thing.... We will have a greater understanding by September of ...
