This aerial photograph of Clun Castle was taken in 1947, which was the same year taht Malcolm Saville sent his young heroes there in The Secret of Grey Walls - an exciting story of sheep rustling: Ten minutes later the Lone Piners passed down Clun's main street towards Castle Hill. The twins, side by side, and in step, led the way with Mackie at their heels. Peter walked between the two boys wile Jenny danced around the party until David complained that she was making him giddy. They climbed the hill, trying to guess where the drawbridge would have been ...
Fri 29th
20:10
GUEST POST An ideological conflict is coming - time for Liberals to seize the initiative
The remains of the Berlin Wall © Shrevas Joshi Liberals must start setting the terms of political debate, argues Luke Jeffery. Throughout modern political history there have been ideologies competing to be the dominant world view: in the 1800s and early 1900s Liberalism competed with Conservatism and Socialism, and afterwards Liberalism was faced with challenges from Fascism and Communism. The first two ideologies were pushed back after the conclusion of the First World War, which suggested a new Liberal world order backed by the League of Nations would come into being. However, as we know, this is not what happened. ...
Lydiate Classic Car and Bike Show is on this Sunday at:- 288 Southport Road Lydiate L31 4EQ by the Scotch Piper Inn 1st July 2018 – 10am to 4pm NOW ROOM FOR over 300 CARS/BIKES – Cars, bikes, charity stalls, food, all proceeds going to NWCR (North West Cancer Research) Public Parking at the Scotch Piper Inn,
Fri 29th
17:53
The Fifth Doctor Box Set: Psychodrome by Jonathan Morris, Iterations of I by John Dorney
This is a set of two Big Finish plays released in 2014, featuring the full early Fifth Doctor line-up - Peter Davison, Sara Sutton, Janet Fielding and for the first time Matthew Waterhouse. The first story, Psychodrome by Jonathan Morris, is explicitly set immediately after Castrovalva, and features a complex narrative of the Tardis crew dealing with their own images of each other. The guest cast are put through their paces, each of them having to play three different roles - particularly Robert Whitelock, who does three different Doctor-substitutes as perceived by the others. As Peter Davison points out in ...
Elsevier - one of the largest and most notorious scholarly publishers - are monitoring Open Science in the EU on behalf of the European Commission. Jon Tennant argues that they cannot be trusted. Open Science is all about making science work better so that it can address the world's challenges. It has been at the top of the EU's agenda for some time. The European Commission has the ambitious target of achieving Open Access to all scientific publications by 2020. The development of the European Open Science Cloud and Open Science Policy Platform indicate that Open Science has entered the ...
My current Face profile pic contains the words "I am Repugnant". It was a word a DUP MLA used 6 years ago to describe all involved in Pride.He is a person I have meet in social and political contexts before and after he was aware of my sexuality. Last night Arlene Foster said that nobody is defined by their sexuality. During the break on the first debate on Marriage Equality in Stormont I was in the queue behind that MLA in the canteen. I greeted him, he turned around recognised me and then noticed the LGBT+ Lib Dem badge on ...
View Poll: World Cup, Second Round, Day One You should be able to vote using your Facebook or Twitter account, even if you aren't on Livejournal. Yesterday nobody called all four matches correctly. redfiona99 and I failed to foresee Poland's victory, but got the other three right, whereas coughingbear and hano hoped in vain for England not to lose against Belgium, but predicted the other three results. The state of play after the first round is as follows: ✔ N % nwhyte 27 48 56% johnny9fingers 20 42 48% vilakins 19 42 45% redfiona99 16 34 47% trepkos 16 34 ...
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It's 18 months since Jamie Reed resigned as the MP for Copeland, forcing a very unexpected by-election. I'd never intended standing for parliament. I was very content running my own business and being a local (lowest level - unpaid) Councillor, campaigning on a local issue I was passionate about (keeping our maternity services). Copeland was not a winnable seat (we had no Lib Dem councillors there and all the Lib Dems were in Stoke fighting Nuttall) but by-elections command a lot of party and media attention, so being the candidate gave me the chance to do many things I couldn't ...
In the minds of many, the rigorous classical liberalism personified by Friedrich von Hayek is in direct opposition to the notion of the welfare state. But is this necessarily true? Three fundamental pillars to Hayek's thought are: The price mechanism in the market economy is a decentralised information signalling system.The competitive market is a spontaneous order (not centrally planned) The competitive market is the economic order that supports personal liberty.Are these compatible with a welfare state? Contrary to what is often claimed, it can be argued that the state's welfare provision may not only be compatible with fair and competitive ...
The traditional nation state is not enough to ensure prosperity, security and freedom in a world of multi-national interests. The solution is not to grow larger nation states but to move beyond them to associations or confederations where there is a consensus on core values. Getting this right poses considerable constitutional challenges. The European Union has developed into an unintentional experiment in this process. There is, however lack of clarity on the principles and values guiding the process. The Prometheus Institut has proposed a Manifest for a confederate Europe. In this document it argues for a confederation of constitutionally liberal ...
At the Liberal Democrats Autumn conference I helped organise an ALDES (Association of Liberal Democrat Engineers and Scientists) discussion session on privacy and security titled "Your data, your choice" . The motivation for the session was that: Government, business and our personal lives are increasingly driven by our personal data. Credit card transactions, location data, and health records have the potential to improve products, provide insight for policy making, and detect security threats. But they also challenge our notions of privacy, intimacy and autonomy. How can results from privacy research be translated into policy? The session was chaired by Richard ...
Thu, 12:56: RT @garvanwalshe: This shows how deep the gulf is between British *remainer* opinion and the EU. Thread. 1/ https://t.co/aVdvoUKh5h Thu, 13:46: World Cup, Day Sixteen https://t.co/nCBfukLu1T Thu, 16:05: Why One Island Grows 80% of the World's Vanilla https://t.co/h77waIDePu Not a pretty answer. Thu, 18:38: Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch https://t.co/pzMMivKX65 Thu, 20:48: RT @MatthewOToole2: Just finished Nick Timothy's long essay in defence of Burkean conservatism and civic responsibility. He must be fuming... Thu, 21:07: Hooray! #ENGBEL Thu, 21:13: The only thing that remains constant is change. https://t.co/PwhF79s4wF Thu, 21:48: Belgium last beat England by scoring more goals in ...
One of the questions that has been voiced on Twitter recently in the debate about trans women has been the case of the Soham murderer, who in 2002 as Ian Huntley murdered two ten year old school girls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman and was jailed for 40 years. A number of tabloid newspapers have reported that Huntley is transitioning, and wishes to be called Lian. Incidentally, the prison service has said several times that Huntley is not planning transition. There are those who say that giving any trans prisoner with a violent past the rights to move to a ...
I had planned to watch last night's World Cup match with a friend I don't see all that often as he has moved out of London. We had planned to meet at a very large bar near London Bridge that has an outdoor screen. I had naively texted him to say I would get there early to "get us a seat". I arrived at London Bridge station to find the whole nearby area in a state of pandemonium. Hundreds and hundreds of young people walked about, in various stages of drunkenness, all looking for a pub to watch the match ...
Another day, yet more revelations about the Leave campaigns in the 2016 referendum campaign as the Irish News reports on claims that the Electoral Commission has "more than enough" to obtain court orders to compel answers from the DUP and Vote Leave campaign about possible links and allegations 'dark money' was channelled through them to influence the Brexit poll. They say that a BBC Spotlight programme claims to have traced the apparent source of controversial donations to a "phantom company" in the Ukraine with links to a convicted German fraudster: 'There has been controversy over a £435,000 donation from the ...
F-*-*-k Business". That was the response of Conservative British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson when told that one of Britain's biggest employers—Airbus—was planning to move out of the UK if his country left the EU Customs Union. The expletive was actually uttered privately, but the mercurial Boris has refused to deny it and in politics absence of denial is the same as claiming ownership. The shocking thing is not the foreign secretary's choice of words. His audience is used to the colourful language of this self-confessed admirer of Donald Trump. It is the sentiment behind it and the axis shifting policy ...
Many people are rightly alarmed and worried by the rise of nationalism across the planet, especially with the antics of President Trump who appears to be on the road into turning the world's military superpower into a fascist regime. Honestly, I'm not depressed. In my youth I took it upon myself to study Nazism. In the 1990s I discovered and challenged The National Alliance on the prototype of the Internet, the same organisation that influenced and inspired the murderer of Jo Cox MP. The madness of Brexit and the refusal of any fact-based evidence to be taken on board is ...
What is democracy, I wonder? Everyone bandies the word around. In the Brexit debate, some believe that anything but a hard Brexit would be undemocratic and a thwarting of the will of the people. Others believe that it would be undemocratic not to have a referendum on the terms of the deal as people did [...] The post Democracy must mean more than 'What I think, right or wrong!' appeared first on Radix.
Now that the school summer holidays are commencing, my usual weekly ward surgeries do not take place, but I can still be contacted on any local issues or concerns through my e-surgery - just e-mail esurgery@frasermacpherson.org.uk. I can also be contacted during office hours at my Dundee City Council office on 434985.
At the request of residents, over the coming days, I'll be featuring some old Dundee photographs, starting with an aerial view of Park Place & Park Lane towards the Law :
