Huge thanks to Cllr Jonathan Wallace for Blaydon & volunteers for bringing lovely Coal, Perky and Whinney along for our final activity for MHAW18. We all felt the calming properties of petting animals as part of #WhickhamSixth 's #MentalHealthAwareness Raising#SixthFormFriday pic.twitter.com/DJHehArLFl — Whickham School (@WhickhamSchool) May 18, 2018 Last Friday I was invited to take
Kenneth Clarke and Tom Brake will be two of the panel at a meeting on Europe to be held at the South Holland Centre, Spalding, on Friday evening (7.00pm, 25 May). It is organised by the European Movement under the title "The Brexit Dialogue: Explaining the Facts, Exposing the Myths, Exploring the Options." The other speakers will be Amelia Womack, deputy leader of the Green Party, and James Torrance, one of the founders of the new party Renew. (Me neither.) It will be chaired by that excellent Liberal Democrat George Smid, who chairs the European Movement in the East Midlands. ...
Good news from the Shropshire Star - and an excuse to use one of my photographs of the area from the 1990s.
Embed from Getty Images This poster comes from the February 1974 general election, when Jeremy Thorpe was the Liberal Party's chief asset. For the second general election of that year, held in October, the Liberals fought under the less felicitous slogan "One More Heave".
Tue 22nd
18:13
The 'Give me your poor' message delivered by a Black American Clergy man to the White establishment
[IMG: The 'Give me your poor' message delivered by a Black American Clergy man to the White establishment] Ī There were a myriad of ways to view the stonkingly fantastic sermon given at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding service by Bishop Michael Curry, the Black American Primate of the Episcopalian church. One could have... The post The 'Give me your poor' message delivered by a Black American Clergy man to the White establishment appeared first on FeministMama @ambitiousmamas.
Baroness Pinnock, Baroness Thornhill, Wera Hobhouse and one token man at the event held by the LGA in the Commons to promote action for children's mental health. The coalition did not get everything right but one of the things that ... Continue reading →
Second paragraph of third chapter:A hug, of course, whoomph! Her mum grabbed hold of her and squeezed her tight. Jackie Tyler, five foot nothing, age not relevant, karaoke champion of the Spinning Wheel, life and soul of the party but a monumental lightning storm when angry, now sobbing and laughing and then, somehow, finding a reason to give Rose a punch on the arm.I'm doing another themed week of reviews here, and this time it is going to be the four new Doctor Who novelisations published last month. This started with some disappointment for me - I shifted things around ...
John Tyndall - the man who explained why the sky is blue - would be baffled by the idea of democratic discussion of the direction of research and innovation John Tyndall - the 19th-century Irish scientist (c. 1822-93), not the 20th-century neo-Nazi - was the man who measured the absorption of heat by gases in the atmosphere, underpinning our modern understanding of climate change, meteorology and weather, and explained why the sky is blue (among much else). He was also scientific adviser to the Board of Trade from 1867 to 1883, so he knew a bit about the policy world. ...
There has been a bit of discussion recently on a couple of Party websites about community politics and whether that idea contributed to recent success in the local elections. But is this defining community politics as the delivery of multiple leaflets with bar charts and slogans? The phrase "community politics" was coined in 1969 and it was adopted by the Liberal Party in 1970. In 1980, Bernard Greaves and I wrote the following: Community Politics is not a technique for winning local government elections. Community Politics is not a technique. It is an ideology, a system of ideas for social ...
The Liverpool Echo has the story on its web site – see link above Loyalty within the Labour Party to the Labour Party is everything so public dust-ups like this are reasonably rare. But when things do boil over then all bets are off as the factions go for each others throats so to speak. That Liverpool City Council is in crisis at both an executive officer and elected representative level is a given but who can sort things out and stop matters spiraling out of control altogether?
The Telegraph economics columnist Jeremy Warner has noticed the new Radix book, out this week, called Backlash: Saving globalisation from itself by Joe Zammit-Lucia and myself. In particular he noticed the quotation from John Maynard Keynes we put at the front. It is worth quoting again here: "I sympathize, therefore, with those who would minimize, rather than [...] The post Keynes on localisation, Radix on globalisation appeared first on Radix.
Grenfell Tower insulation 'never passed safety tests and should not have been used', investigation finds | The Independent Benefit sanctions found to be ineffective and damaging "The five-year exercise tracking hundreds of claimants concludes that the controversial policy of docking benefits as punishment for alleged failures to comply with jobcentre rules has been little short of disastrous." - this is my face of not-surprise Government drops scheme to stop people being wrongly stripped of their benefits because it is a 'burden' This article intentionally placed next to the previous one. Airline Pilot Captures the Dramatic Beauty of Weather Photography Some ...
In the 1880s, the European powers divided up Africa into their mutually recognised colonial spheres and the borders of most African states still reflect the lines drawn on the map then. In the 20th Century, two new big players became involved in Africa: the United States and the Soviet Union, sometimes facing each other off [...]
Mon, 12:56: This is simply not happening in any other country. But it became clear after Sandy Hook that school shootings are a... https://t.co/wiUvqziGQK Mon, 15:50: Monday reading https://t.co/6dpx0stUra Mon, 16:05: RT @dabeard: Stunning: More American kids have been killed in shootings at their schools this year than U.S. military personnel while on du... Mon, 20:48: RT @fdelond: No campaigners now say we can deal with the hard cases without repeal, we can decriminalise without repeal, and we can change... Tue, 06:19: RT @lowflyingrocks: 2018 KS, 7m-16m in diameter, just passed the Earth at 8km/s, missing by 789,000km. https://t.co/5sQNwPvDrU Tue, ...
Tue 22nd
10:24
When exactly will Brexiteers overcome the myth that Brexit is an existential threat to the EU?
William Hague has written an article in today's Telegraph entitled "As Itay has shown, the Euro is a far bigger threat to Europe than Brexit". To which my reply, even before reading the article, was "No shit, Will". At the heart of the intellectual case for Brexit was the idea that faced with Britain leaving it, the EU would start to disintegrate. What is fascinating to me is that even though the precise opposite thing has taken place – Brexit has given the remaining EU members something solid to rally around, strengthening the union, at least for the time being ...
Today is the anniversary of MV Empire Windrush arriving at Tilbury Docks. This is a personal story. It is also a story about how my liberal views came into being. Above all, is a story about Joe. He died long ago but he still lives in my life. I want to tell this story because the Windrush Generation was so important. To me at least. We are travelling back to 1962. I was seven and a sicky child. I was the weakest kid on the street. But when an ambulance drew up outside our council house, kids rushed to wonder ...
The Guardian reports on a study by the University of York that has concluded that benefit sanctions are ineffective at getting jobless people into work and are more likely to reduce those affected to poverty, ill-health or even survival crime. The paper says that the five-year exercise tracked hundreds of claimants and concluded that the controversial policy of docking benefits as punishment for alleged failures to comply with jobcentre rules has been little short of disastrous: "Benefit sanctions do little to enhance people's motivation to prepare for, seek or enter paid work. They routinely trigger profoundly negative personal, financial, health ...
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Ludlow Town Council is proposing to ban motorcycles from parking between the market and Ludlow Castle on Castle Square. What do you think? Please vote now...
Today [May 22nd], Liberal Democrat Energy and Climate Change spokesperson Lynne Featherstone hosts a talk with former President of the Geological Society Professor Peter Styles on the increased risk of earthquakes due to frackingProfessor Styles is expected to call for the implementation of buffer zones and stricter regulations, forcing fracking companies to assess dangers and faults. Commenting on Professor Styles' speech, Lynne Featherstone said:"Fracking is an unnecessary, invasive and dangerous distraction from the very urgent need to move away from carbon-based energy and towards sustainable energy sources. "There is a growing consensus that fracking is destructive to the environment and ...
