News from Warrington Liberal Democrats, winners of an excellent by-election victory in April: Grappenhall borough councillor Ryan Bate will stand in Warrington South and David Crowther in Warrington North. Cllr Ian Marks, chairman of Warrington's Liberal Democrats, said: "The next General Election is not due for a few years but with the crazy state of politics in this country it may be sooner rather than later. "The Conservative Government is in complete disarray and Labour is bitterly divided between their different factions. "Having our candidates in place gives us a focus for both our national and local campaigning." [Warrington Guardian] ...
I did not make this discovery through urban wandering but by reading Pevsner. He says Kettering's St Michael and All Angels dates from 1907 and "has distinct charm". He is right. In today's sunshine and with a garden planted around it, this corrugated-iron church - to be found not far from Harry Potter House - had more appeal than many conventional urban churches of the period.
"The fact that the Windrush generation is not our outgroup du jour means that they are available to be treated as a human interest story of the type that sells newspapers and enables (some of) us to feel good about ourselves, without (probably) actually changing anything." Rob Parsons tells it like it is. Tim Holyoake says our political discourse is being poisoned by childish name calling. "One reason the film's ending seemed so odd to its first critics is that - in what is ostensibly a mystery-story - it denies the mystery-story's need for punishment and retribution. Instead its ending ...
It wasn't the finest day in Shropshire Council's history. Last Thursday, Conservative councillors, supported by many of the Labour group, give the chief executive an increase in pay from £103,000 to £150,000 a year (46%). The directors that report to the chief executive will get a pay increase from £101,000 to as much £130,000 (up to 29% increase). The rest of the staff will get an average of 6% increase, as part of a national pay award and to bring Shropshire pay rates in line with national rates for council employees. [More...] Many of us could not stomach voting for ...
Third paragraph of fourth chapter:Of course, Nagin was only reinventing the well-treaded fire-and-brimstone wheel in suggesting that our God is a testy and vengeful one. Just a year before he made his political gaffe, other reflective people from all corners of the globe borrowed from the same barrel of explanation and offered commentary on the "real" reason for the Indonesian tsunami that killed nearly a quarter of a million people in Southeast Asia in 2004. (Never mind the sudden shifting of tectonic plates on the Indian Ocean floor.) All similarly saw that catastrophe, too, as a sort of enormous, Vegas-style, ...
miss_s_b | Why do LGBT+LDs get so annoyed when people say the Lib Dems "acheived equal marriage" - a reminder Because certain of our MPs have been using the EM term again Chile's bishops offer to resign en masse over sex-abuse cover-up Well this is terrifying While out for a jog, she discovered a baby buried alive. Twenty years later, they reunite This had me in absolute floods of tears. Royal Wedding CANCELLED after Meghan Markle deported by accident This works as a joke because it falls into the uncanny valley labelled "that can't be true... CAN it?" which AFAIC ...
Laugh at me all you like, but I'm loving this Royal Wedding stuff. There are some truly awful things going on in the world at the moment, but for one day, I'm going to smile, bask in the sunshine and watch two very happy people get married. Actually, I'm probably going to blub my way through it. The coverage had barely started this morning and I was filling up. I'm slightly disturbed by the fact that someone I remember very clearly being born is now in his mid thirties, but I'll cope with that. And, yes, a monarchy isn't ideal, ...
Fri, 12:56: RT @guyverhofstadt: This illustrates why the Slovak police investigation into the death of Jan Kuciak enjoys so little trust & why a direct... Fri, 14:56: RT @LMMyles: Sad to hear the news of Graham Strong's death. The best audio recordings of lost #DoctorWho episodes are thanks to this fellow... Fri, 16:05: Malachi O'Doherty: Theresa May is right about one thing ... whether or not there is to be a united Ireland will be... https://t.co/uJA1ik41mw Fri, 18:22: The Stone Sky, by N.K. Jemisin https://t.co/DyT02XPIpb Fri, 20:36: RT @AnnekeWills: How sad. A lovely man, without whom many of my stories ...
It was only last week that the New Statesman published an article by George Eaton asserting that Tory MPs and the Daily Mail have no right to complain about the House of Lords. Mr. Eaton started by stating the obvious: 'The House of Lords is a national embarrassment. Britain's unelected second chamber - the largest in the world after China's National People's Congress - is stuffed with party placemen, dodgy donors and failed politicians. The 26 Church of England bishops make the UK the only state other than Iran to reserve seats for clerics in its legislature.' He points out ...
After two years as the National Liberal Club's first woman Chairman, I am proud to be stepping down just as the Club has agreed to experiment with relaxing the strict dress code it has had since 1979. During my time, we have taken many leaps forward as a home for liberalism: a 15% growth in membership, driven by large-scale Lib Dem recruitment; an array of transparency measures and governance reforms; and a swathe of exciting and stimulating events drawing on the liberal tradition from the world over. But I'm aware that we haven't always lived up to our liberal mantra ...
Things continue to progress with regard to the move of the Frank Hornby Heritage Centre displays within Maghull's Meadows Leisure Centre and it won't be long before you visit them whenever the library is open. Here are the latest photos:- More news about a re-opening date for the Frank Hornby Heritage Centre when I have it. The Frank Hornby Trust is a Maghull based voluntary organisation which seeks to celebrate the life and works of Maghull's most famous resident – Toy Maker Frank Hornby – Known the world over for Meccano, Dinky Toys and Hornby Railways
Labour in Sefton Borough are keeping their heads down as their great party leader nationally seemingly argues more forcibly each day for a Brexit agenda that will inevitably lead to job losses, no extra NHS funding, the poor being made poorer and a crisis economy. Yet maybe, just maybe they can see that Comrade Corbyn is leading them down a very sorry path because in full public view, if you look closely, Labour-run Maghull Town Council is still flying the EU flag on Maghull Town Hall! A small act of defiance maybe and one that they would not like their ...
Lib Dem Councillors John Dodd, Daniel Lewis, and Nigel Ashton are holding their next advice centre in Churchtown. We will be at BoxTree Kitchen for Queenscourt café, Manor Road/Cambridge Road, roundabout, from 10:30 to 11.30am on Thursday 24th May. We also 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. We will be there to meet you and discuss any Council problems you may have. No appointment necessary. Just pop in.
