When showing you the Saxon tower at Earls Barton I promised a post on its interior. The most interesting parts are Norman. There is the arch above the south door and some blind arches in the chancel. I also liked the rood screen, which was painted in the 1930s by the Northampton artist Henry Bird. Years ago, a family legend maintains, my mother and stepfather were cruising the River Nene and she had them all organised to visit Earls Barton and see the church. "Oh look" said my stepfather when they arrived, "they've got a Co-op" and was told off, ...
Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our xxxth 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 (25 -31 March, 2018), together with a hand-picked seven you might otherwise have missed. 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 most popular post, and work our way down: 1. Why, after the last week, I ...
There's a real surfeit of statistics for me this year, with not only the 2018 Hugo for Best Novel, but also the 1943 Retro Hugo for Best Novel, the 2018 Hugo for Best Related Work, and the 2018 World Science Fiction Society (WSFS) Award for Best Young Adult Book all providing grist to my mill. What mill is this? I take the ballot and compare the various finalists on Goodreads and LibraryThing, both to see how many users on each system claim to have copies of each book, and to see how much they like them. This analysis has been ...
He's done it! For those of you who haven't been following the story over the last few days, Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie has had a combined mid-life crisis/election substitute. He has run four and a half marathons in the last 3 days, 117 miles, around the Fife Coastal Path. He finished just over an hour ago. He ran 44 miles today. I can barely drive that distance. It's absolutely incredible. About 10 minutes ahead of him, I walked up the last part of the path – a not very steep, but long hill. I knew it was boing ...
An 80 minute film about a font may not at first sound like everyone's up of tea, but Gary Hustwit's documentary Helvetica is a great watch.
[IMG: Facebook Executive Slapped Down By Singapore Minister] Perhaps British politicians could learn from this encounter on how to make big corporations answerable to Parliament The post Facebook Executive Slapped Down By Singapore Minister appeared first on FeministMama @ambitiousmamas.
From the latest Cricket Badger email: Adopting an earnest and innocent facial expression, Broad said: "Look at the Ashes series we've just played. All those Test matches, and they've reverse-swung the ball sometimes in conditions you wouldn't expect it to. I don't understand why they've changed their method for this one game."
A suitable song for Easter Day. It comes from late-period Johnny Cash, when the great man sounded like an Old Testament prophet. Ain't No Grave was the tile track of a posthumous Cash album released in 2010. Which proves or disproves the burden of the song depending how you look at it.
"The town that wants its own Brexit" was of course a spoof story, but the people are real enough. For Dick Vos read Richard Vos, Liberal Democrat party organiser for Stratford- upon-Avon. Jack Prince, in case you didn't guess, is myself. We are members of Stratford4Europe, one of the more active and dynamic of the regional pro-European groups. What we were aiming to do was to inject a bit of humour into the Brexit debate, which has got somewhat bogged down in sterile circular arguments. Humour can cut through the ice where intellectual arguments fail. It can also be therapeutic. ...
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I have posted a number of times since 2008 about the way that restaurant staff are treated and in particular that if we tip them after a meal, they may not always receive all or any of the money. Just under two years ago, the government announced plans to end unfair tipping practices and ensure additional payments for service are voluntary to the consumer, and received by workers in full. However, as this Observer article says, some restaurants are still using a variety of methods to withhold tips from staff. These include: requiring waiters to pay a percentage of the ...
Sat, 12:56: Girls Not Brides welcomes historic drop in global number of child marriages but warns complacency is not an option... https://t.co/5VBbAbIv17 Sat, 14:50: RT @jolisby: There was a young arsehole called Jackson, Who threatened a libellous action, The response was direct, Like a Streisand effect... Sat, 15:54: RT @Dublin2019: We'll keep putting out reminders, but prices are going up on 3 April 2018, 00h01 Irish Standard Time (GMT+1). Act now to gu... Sat, 16:05: Harry Potter and the Battle For Gun Control https://t.co/5dCp8TAU2Y Comments not recommended. Sat, 18:41: March Books https://t.co/Ch5c3dAYnt Sat, 20:48: RT @OldRoberts953: At least two accidental ...
Lib Dem Voice can exclusively reveal that urgent investigations are now underway after we uncovered what appears to be a further serious misuse of data in the EU referendum. A mysterious private campaigning firm which calls itself Bainbridge Claptrap-Witterer is believed to have trawled the data of the now-defunct Lib Dem social network, Lib Dem Act. The site was wildly popular for a time around 2010 and is thought to have had a membership at one point running into double figures. The firm, which is based on an industrial estate just outside of Leicester but is thought to have adopted ...
When as many young people as this march in more than 800 cities across the USA surely the cultural changes needed to curb gun use in the USA will happen The problem with politicians commenting on politics in other countries ... Continue reading →
A campaigning group in Stratford-upon-Avon believes that Brexit does not go far enough. Or rather, come close enough. They want to implement Brexit locally, so that the townsfolk can enjoy the advantages in advance of the national negotiations, without being held back by delays or transition periods. Jack Prince and Dick Vos, leaders of the new movement, see no reason why the principles behind Brexit cannot be rolled out immediately to benefit everyone in the town. The group they have founded, dubbed STRIP (Stratford Independence for the People), has expanded from a founding nucleus of 6 to a present total ...
Yes I saw them pop up out of nowhere too in the past couple of weeks and also wondered about them. A cycle along the Cheshire Lines Path as far as United Utilities' Sewage Treatment Works (actually officially called – Hillhouse Waste Water Treatment Works) in Wood Lane, Great Altcar gave me the answer; they are both within the confines of the works so must have been erected to help power it. Clearly they were still to be commissioned when I went for a closer look on 30th March and took these photographs:-
I'm sorry. I did something stupid. I didn't read the paperwork properly before a Liberal Democrat meeting. I assumed that at least someone else would have. So for what follows blame me as much as anyone else. The agenda item was about a new prospective candidate compact. It sets out what the party expects of people going for selection in target seats and what the party in turn will provide in terms of support. A brief glance through showed lots of good thing. These include support for would-be candidates from under-represented groups so that they can compete on a level ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43526413 The BBC has the article on its web site – see link above Well can they beat the American gun culture that is so strong and more importantly so supported by the US political classes? We worry about our urban gun crime problems in cities like Liverpool (and Merseyside generally) where shootings are a weekly event but in comparison with the USA they are fortunately on a much smaller scale.
* Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings
