After a fifteen-month gap in which Nilsson released nothing at all, The Point! began a massive flurry of activity for Nilsson. Between March 1971, when The Point! was released, and July 1972, Nilsson released four albums — The Point!, Aerial ... Continue reading →
Darren Hughes on the lessons of this month's voter ID trials: "Aside from showing a worrying distrust for voters, the ID trials are riddled with flaws. They must not be a fait accompli for a national roll-out." "The fact that I have lost contact, irrevocably, with so many of the people with whom I grew up tells me we are not doing enough to ensure the future of care leavers. People who feel loved and cared for, who are full members of society, do not simply drop off the map." Daniel Lavelle sets out to trace the people he grew ...
Our next eFocus for the Whickham area was published tonight. It covers the local election results, the plans for the new buildings at Whickham School and the open day at the Whinnies Community Garden. You can view the newsletter on this link.
Vince had a question to the Prime Minister today. He was jeered at almost as soon as he stood up – a good sign that he is so relevant that people think they have to do that. What did he choose to ask her on this set piece occasion? The Prime Minister and the Labour Leader of the Opposition both agree that we should leave the single market and leave the European Union customs union, and that the public should not have a final say on the Brexit deal, so will the Prime Minister dispense with our tradition of party ...
We have been waiting for this for a while. Arriva Wales seemed to have given up on improving its service through Wales and the Welsh Marches. Now a new company, KeolisAmey, will take run the trains from October. It is an overdue change but we don't have any details of the new service yet. But I have a shopping list of improvements. This a true European contract. German Arriva is being replaced by French company Keolis in partnership with Spanish Amey. KeolisAmey, as the new partnership is called, is a joint venture partnership of international public transport operator Keolis, and ...
So why is water shortage predicted by 2050? Each person on average uses 137 litres per day, and with the current UK population, the water companies supply, daily, at least 1.2 billion litres of water. The water supply is managed by 27 different companies and by law, they must produce a Water Resource Management Plan that forecasts supply and demand and has a plan to describe how they will deliver water to the public for at least the next 25 years. Water companies across the UK collect, treat and pump water to users. The water companies need to curb water ...
Second paragraph of third chapter: She [Jackie Tyler] told herself that a lot, these days. This is the second of the four recently published Doctor Who novelisations, reviving the Target series; by the great chick-lit writer Jenny Colgan, it puts the Tenth Doctor's first TV appearance into book form. This is far from Colgan's first encounter with Who; she wrote an Eleventh Doctor novel, Dark Horizons; an Eleven/Clara ebook, Into the Nowhere; and then a Ten/Donna novel, In the Blood; as well as a Ten/Donna Big Finish audio, Time Reaver, and several other bits and bobs (collected together in a ...
Back in 1982, I stood for Manchester City Council for the new shiny SDP. We hoped for and expected big changes. Many of the Labour councillors had come over to the SDP, including Chris Muir, the Labour leader and director of Manchester City Football club. Chris stood on the same ticket as me in Burnage, [...] The post Time to break the mould all over again? appeared first on Radix.
Email isn't new. It has been around for only one year less than me but is still only patchily used by local parties even though more than four in five voters use email.
It was back in September 2001, the time of the devastating terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York, that Jo Moore, a young advisor to our then Labour government recommended to her boss that this was " a good time to bury bad news." She was eventually forced to resign. In due course I'm sure the same fate will fall on our Prime Minister Theresa May, though probably not just yet, since her rivals need her to stay in office so that she and not they take the blame for the Brexit shambles. Last weekend, then much ...
Supergirl is about to introduce its first ever transgender character On Deadpool 2 and the "Art" of Fridging This is a really excellent piece. Britain's wealth was built on black backs. Windrush is a scandal of forgetting Former Ipswich mayor Inga Lockington loses citizenship bid Today's The Home Office Are Bastards news: "Former Ipswich mayor Inga Lockington has had her application for British citizenship turned down by the Home Office - because officials will not accept that she is a UK resident!" - she's LITERALLY a sitting councillor. The immigration system is stupid. Grenfell Tower inquiry descends into chaos as ...
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A long read for a Wednesday lunchtime: Tim Farron on Vince, Vulcans, the centre ground and "identity...
A couple of years ago, Tim Farron's often powerful speeches excited and enthused Liberal Democrats and beyond as membership more than doubled in his two years as leader. Too often these days his remarks or his actions cause anger and anxiety. I know that when I see the word Farron on Twitter, I'm thinking "Oh no, what's he done now." Don't get me wrong, given the same choice I had in 2015, I'd vote for him again. However, in his quest to become leader and president before that, he went out of his way to build alliances with certain groupings ...
With Americas' announcement of tariffs on steel and aluminium, there are fears of a global trade war. If a trade war starts is WTO strong enough to intervene and stop it? Over the last decade, numerous stalled negotiations have beset WTO credibility. The Ministerial Conference in Kenya in 2015 for the first time failed to support the Doha mandate. An ineffectual WTO will hurt everyone, but the most significant impact will be felt by the poor. In 2010 the Millennium Development Goals achieved one of its objectives, and that was to cut extreme poverty by half. Achieving this objective was ...
Tue, 12:56: How the Nixon pardon tore the Ford administration apart https://t.co/oc91svTxTn It was the right thing to do. It ki... https://t.co/2NKR6V0uYP Tue, 16:05: RT @Rob0Sullivan: Yeah, in Ireland we don't have school shootings because we make it real hard to get doors. You've gotta fill out forms, b... Tue, 18:46: Doctor Who: Rose, by Russell T. Davis https://t.co/OKo9jM5T1r Tue, 20:48: The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy The class divide is already toxic, and is fast becoming unbridgeabl... https://t.co/fJT6eGkUj0 Wed, 10:45: Border poll recedes as polls show nationalist support for unity hinges on Brexit outcome https://t.co/zWjqMZOjfn Of... https://t.co/KTxgPxllRq ...
I have noticed that whenever a neutral observer or expert produces a verifiable bad news fact about the impact of Brexit the anti-Europeans jump in and try to claim bias or attribute political motives to the source. It is almost as if the Brexiteers themselves are models of sound commonsense, good judgement, integrity and have no record at all of manipulating or inventing data for their own political purposes. Sure enough, the moment the Governor of the Bank of England puts his head above the parapet to do his job and pass on economic news the Brexiteers are on their ...
northernfailapp.co.uk/ So much so that one disgruntled traveller has created the app – available via the link above – to record the failings of the north's biggest train operating company. You may wish to access the app if you travel on Northern's trains. With thanks to Alan for the lead to this posting
There is a lot of concern whether UK will be able to complete the Brexit process even though the Tories continue to push, somewhat aimlessly, for the March 2019 date to end our European Union (EU) membership. From the beginning, it was evident that the government was poorly prepared for the negotiations. There was some hope that a more pragmatic approach would prevail when they realised the enormity of the task and its impact on the economy. However, an ambitious yet weak Prime Minister who wants to stay in power at all cost with an ideology cabinet that she cannot ...
Well, that was somewhat unexpected. I had turned up at Monday night's Annual Parish Meeting and Annual Parish Council Meeting (not the same thing at all) with the sole expectation of a smoothly run meeting, the pleasure of some time with my fellow Parish councillors and a relatively early finish. Our Chair, Machala, is not one for lengthy meetings and chairs them with good humour and efficiency. The Parish Meeting went according to plan, with the reports from the Chair, the County and District Councillors, the Parochial Church Council and our Tree Warden - we've learnt not to expect a ...
