There is a steady ratcheting up of tension as the US President tries to stop the erroneous sending of bombers to hit Moscow kicking off nuclear armageddon.
The two strongest emotions a human can feel are love and fear. Fear is potent that it can affect every aspect of our lives. We can spend each day in perpetual fear and not even realise it. Fear makes us do callous, uncaring actions that hurt those around us and all because we are scared for one reason or another. The greatest weapon against fear is hope and hope is born out of love. To have hope, you must have love. In recent years, I have discovered the power of love I have until recently been blind to and out ...
I look for it every morning and evening as I commute to Leicester and it's still there. The Class 27 at Knighton Junction. This morning I got talking to someone who knows more about it than I do Apparently it arrived at its current home on a low loader. And because it has not been passed to run on public railways, there it will sit until another low loader comes back to take it away. Which makes it an ever odder place to keep a heritage locomotive.
Rather improbably, it turns out that the current James Bond and the erstwhile guru of Red Toryism are stepbrothers. Reader's voice: You mean, "My name's Blond, Philip Blond"? Precisely. Thanks are due to @jamesinlimbo (protected account) on Twitter for putting me on to this. The facts are confirmed by a Daily Mail article from 2009:Mr Craig's parents split up when he was four; Mr Blond's parents' marriage ended when he was a teenager. His father married Mr Craig's mother 15 years ago.
A most welcome letter which I received today Dear Anthony, Today is the first ever National Windrush Day - 70 years since the arrival of HMS Empire Windrush. Onboard the former German cruise ship were around 500 settlers from various Caribbean islands, including Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago, who had been invited to help rebuild post-War Britain. They would go on to build their lives in Britain, contribute to our way of life and help make Britain prosperous. Many, including my family, filled labour shortages in the National Health Service, which was founded just a fortnight after the ship ...
Second paragraph of third chapter: As they progressed, Nicholas kept seeing faces he knew. A goldsmith. A shipmaster. A chorister from Trinity College. A man who sold fish-hooks. A man who made traps for devils. As with a person drowning, he appeared to be compulsorily reviewing his past, while all the time attending to Albany's disjointed discourse. So, it's taken me not quite seven years to read the House of Niccolò books by Dorothy Dunnett; thanks very much to
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The Council must use more than warm words to ensure that the UNESCO World Heritage Site is preserved for generations to come. Liverpool Lib Dems Culture Spokesperson, Cllr Carole Storey is demanding that the Council do more to preserve the ... Continue reading →
View Poll: World Cup, Day Ten You should be able to vote using your Facebook or Twitter account, even if you aren't on Livejournal. As for yesterday, although most of us expected France to beat Peru, only trepkos and redfiona99 also foresaw the Denmark/Australia draw, and only coughingbear also foresaw Croatia's stunning victory over Argentina. FiveThirtyEight now gives Argentina only a 33% chance of joining Croatia in qualifying from Group D, with Nigeria not far behind on 21%. A lot hangs on the Iceland/Nigeria match today.
When I was in Whickham on Wednesday, I took the opportunity to look at the flowerbeds we planted up recently. They are looking great! An excellent job by the volunteers of Planting Up Whickham. I was pleased to play my part. If you are in Whickham soon, take a look.
Airbus is one of our most important high tech businesses and is a great example of how international cooperation leads to prosperity back home. As a medium size nation, we do not have the resources or capacity to have a UK-only Airbus. If we want to be in the industry, we need to be working with others. And then along comes Brexit and the "will of the people" means cooperation and joint working
2018 marks the 23rd anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide- the worst atrocity on European soil since the Second World War. The atrocity committed in Srebrenica only a generation ago, occurred in a modern and multicultural society, that is similar to our own. When we look to the increase in reports of hate crime incidents since the EU Referendum and to examples of vile extremism such as the 'Punish A Muslim Day' letters, then we must conclude that we cannot afford the luxury of believing that something like the Srebrenica genocide could not here. This is why we are calling on ...
Thu, 12:56: RT @misterbumface: The Holocaust was legal. Slavery was legal. Segregation was legal. The brave woman who cared for and hid my 6 year-old... Thu, 13:44: World Cup, Day Nine https://t.co/EctwVTKChd Thu, 13:55: RT @thammyevans: Go Macedonia. https://t.co/xTcE2xFZP5 Thu, 16:05: RT @ChrisGiles_: There is no Brexit dividend. The economy of Harrods is bigger than the fishing industry. Westminster's economy is as lar... Thu, 18:32: Mind Over Ship, by David Marusek https://t.co/7kaq2XJHpX Fri, 10:28: Just reflecting that @FloellaBenjamin is the only person to have appeared in a #DoctorWho spinoff while a sitting m... https://t.co/fhIeSdZsdL Fri, 10:37: RT @0tralala: @nwbrux Lord ...
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What will the USA be like when it's not the world superpower any longer? What will their "age of ref...
I'm developing an idiosyncratic theory on how Trump's presidency will be viewed twenty/thirty years hence: that it will oddly be looked upon as something that was good for the world, but a total disaster for America itself. Given this is the exact opposite of how his presidency is often discussed, by many of his detractors and all of his supporters, I should elaborate. I think Trump's legacy will be the end of Pax Americana. We'll never know if America's time as the world's foremost superpower could have been prolonged if Hilary had won – and it will be endlessly debated ...
The Social Liberal Forum exists and campaigns to create a society where everyone has access to the wealth, power and opportunity to enable us all to lead full and rewarding lives, unfettered by social hardship. We speak for and promote a vision for social justice. So we are thrilled to announce that Kate Pickett, co author of The Spirit Level and the newly published book, The Inner Level, will be speaking at the annual SLF Conference on 28th July this year. The Spirit Level, published in 2009, was a highly influential book, going on to sell 150,000 copies. It demonstrated ...
Thank you Melania. Thank you Ivanka. Thank you also Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary for Homeland Security. Thank you for engineering a reversal of the inhumane policy that tore 2,842 children away from their immigrant parents. No thanks for President Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly or shadowy prince of darkness Stephen Miller. They were responsible for the heartless decree that turned vulnerable children into pawns in the president's immigration battle. The separation decree was in the making for well over a year. John Kelly first publicly proposed it in May 2017. Stephen Miller took up ...
On Sunday, June 17, the Aquarius, a European ship chartered by the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) SOS Mediterranean and Doctors Without Borders, landed 630 illegal immigrants from Africa in the Spanish port of Valencia. They had been rescued a week earlier off the coast of Libya. Two ships belonging to the Italian state (one from the [...] The post Is Europe draining Africa of human resources appeared first on Radix.
[IMG: Dominic Grieve, the cause without the rebel] Dominic Grieve, in plain old British parlance, is the man who bottled it. His descent from being a different type of politician who was standing up for principles to plain old self-interested Tory MP was really quite... The post Dominic Grieve, the cause without the rebel appeared first on FeministMama @ambitiousmamas.
Having forked out £60 for a ticket to see George Benson at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall last night I must say it was a mixed experience for a number of reasons. Of course Benson was a great performer as I had expected him to be although oddly his must have been the first concert I have ever been to where no encore took place. It just seemed to end quite abruptly. And what about the Phil' itself? Well for some odd reason (I would love to know why) they kept turning very bright lights on the audience. It happened on a ...
There was quite a crop of by-elections last night. Three were of particular interest to the Liberal Democrats. You thought you'd seen big swings to us before but Abigail Medina produced a stunner in Whittlewood in South Northamptonshire: Whittlewood (South Northamptonshire) result: LDEM: 56.7% (+56.7) CON: 36.5% (-63.5) LAB: 6.8% (+6.8) LDem GAIN from Con. — Britain Elects (@britainelects) June 21, 2018 In two by-elections in Basildon and another in South Northamptonshire, we didn't have a candidate. Especially in the latter, where we won another seat in the Council area, could we not have found someone from the campaign team ...
The next West End community police surgeries take place next Monday - details below and all residents welcome :
A bizarre new policy introduced in Cardiff requires buskers to send 'audition tapes' to the council before getting a license under strict new rules. Wales online report that the rules, which are set to come into force from July 1, mean that buskers have to send a video clip of them performing to Cardiff council to be approved and apply for the license each month. Apparently, officers will be assessing the tapes to establish each busker's "sustainability and standard". The council has refused to give any further details as to the criteria they will use to judge whether a performer ...
