How times change! This year's annual Charles Kennedy Memorial Lecture will be given by the former Labour director of communications Alastair Campbell. The lecture will take place, reports the BBC, the fifth Lochaber Ideas Week. With the advent of Jeremy Corbyn and the fading of memories of the controversy over the Iraq War, Campbell does not seem such an odd choice today. Liberal Democrats may also feel a degree of identification with another of the week's guest lecturers, Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards.
Yesterday I blogged about the way the dominance of Oxford and Cambridge was enforced. Between 1334 and 1827, their graduates had to swear an oath - the Oath of Stamford - not to teach anywhere else. By one of those odd coincidences, a Guardian article that morning had begun: Thanks to sour grapes and special pleading by scholars at the University of Oxford, in 1265 Northampton's university was dissolved by King Henry III.Sure enough there is a Wikipedia article on University of Northampton (13th century): The University of Northampton was founded in the reign of King Richard I (the 'Lion-heart') ...
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In Porthcurno, Cornwall, there's an old telegraph cable landing station. It's how Britain talked to the Empire.
August is traditionally the political silly season, where nothing of import happens and the media look for quirky stories to fill newspaper pages or broadcasting airtime. We have had a little bit of that this year, for example all the hype given to the rescue of a woman who somehow managed to "fall" off the [...]
Second paragraph of third chapter: This chapter locates Fair Trade as a manifestation of, and response to, shifting international trade and North/South relations. Fair Trade certification emerged and expanded most rapidly within the coffee sector, a tropical export arena defined by the history of colonialism. The historical polarization of the world along a North/South axis has profoundly shaped both conventional trade relations and alternative global visions like Fair Trade. Yet in the current era, Fair Trade markets and movements are being repositioned within the context of a new global architecture. As elaborated in this book, Fair Trade has grown to ...
Since I started publishing my father's photographs of bygone Spondon, I've been delighted by the interest that they've attracted. I was recently contacted by Kaff at Cherrytree Picture Framers in Spondon who asked if she could create display prints from four of them. Yesterday I saw the results of her efforts – and they're truly stunning. The blemishes which scarred ... The post Own a piece of bygone Spondon appeared first on ten pence piece.
If we don't engage with people who oppose immigration, others will I want to start this article by clarifying that I am pro-migration. That is, I want to see the UK become a country as open to people coming and going as possible – ideally, entirely open. I consider this to be the only Liberal position on immigration, and I need to believe that all of us are seeking to make this as much of a reality as is practical. We are all on the same side here. I'm also someone who has friends and family who are directly affected ...
Commenting on the Home Office apology to the Windrush generation, Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable said:"The Government are right to repeat the apology to those whose lives were wrongly ruined by deportations and detention. Even if one person from the Windrush generation had their life ruined by these measures then that is one too many."Many thousands more beyond the Windrush generation have been arbitrarily subjected to the so-called 'hostile environment' which has created a deep, and in some cases, irreparable damage. "Meanwhile, on the horizon we have the status of EU citizens at risk due to Brexit. Whilst I welcome ...
Supercool for Superdry A co-founder of Superdry has donated £1m to the campaign for the People's Vote. Julian Dunkerton said "we have a genuine chance to turn this around". He went on to say that: "I will be paying for one of the most detailed polling exercises ever undertaken by a campaign so that more and more people have the confidence to demand the democratic right for their voice to be heard." The people's Vote is being called for by members from all the political parties. They vote is being called for prior to us making a final decision to ...
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In addition to remembering my family members who died in the Great War, as this is a political blog I shall also be looking at the men who while still Members of Parliament signed up for the war and paid the ultimate sacrifice. The first in this series is The Hon. Oswald Cawley. He was the fourth and youngest son of Frederick Cawley who in January of 1918 had been elevated to the house of Lords as 1st Baron Cawley after serving as MP for Prestwich since 1895 and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancashire from 1916-18. His youngest son ...
We all know that the duopoly of Labour and Conservative parties is awful. We all know that this particular lot are awful. So again, the question arises: why are we, and other parties like the Greens, flat-lining in the polls? I have a theory about part of the cause and a suggestion for what to do about it. It is that lovely thing, the UK's dysfunctional electoral system. The system does not just attribute different values to different votes; it also distorts how people cast their votes. Voting for who you most want runs the risk of helping elect whom ...
Liberal Democrat Newswire #115 came out last week, taking a look amongst other things at the background to the new Liberal Democrat slogan.
Really good news today with a victory by the Lucy's Law campaign to end the horrors of puppy farming. The Mirror reports that the Government has announced that it will ban the sale of puppies by pet shops, online dealers and other third party sellers. They say that Environment Secretary, Michael Gove has heaped praise on the campaign which highlighted how these sellers rely on puppies supplied by callous commercial breeders who raise animals in horrendous conditions: "We will eliminate puppy farming," he declared in a speech at Number 10, Downing Street. "We will make sure third party sales of ...
News that Liverpool John Lennon Airport staff are to go on strike if their demand for a 3.6% pay rise is not met is on the BBC web site – See link below:- www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-45208696 Extract from the article 'Firefighters, bird control staff, engineers and drivers at Liverpool John Lennon Airport are to go on strike because of a pay dispute.'
I have just returned from a trip to the USA. Every time I visit I end up wondering why Europe cannot pull off what seems to have become standard business practice in the US – providing quick and efficient service that delights customers and improves productivity. The contrast is obvious in what should be the [...] The post What in earth is wrong with European management? appeared first on Radix.
I wanted to look at what other countries (mainly taken at random) thought about UK's Brexit. You should note that the comments made by other nationals are made from their point of view, and that should be respected, even though you may not agree with them. The French mainstream politicians have shown little interest for our Brexit. Many feel it's a good for the EU as the UK has never really wanted to integrate and Brussels will be a more comfortable place after we leave. There is little sympathy for the 300,000 plus French civilians living in London as they ...
Here's the details of the upcoming evening classes from HERA - together with information about enrolment night - click on the images below to enlarge and also more details are available here :
