Tue 4th
21:44

Ethics of Passion

Action, we have suggested, can only be called Spiritual when emotion gives it life, and reason purpose. It becomes spiritual in so far as its vital force is directed to the attainment of an intelligible end. All beauty, truth, honour and all that gives human life its dignity and its reward, appear but shadows when [...]

Posted by Mavarine on MY LIBERAL EXPRESSIONS

Connecting the Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire portions of the preserved Great Central will involve building a new bridge across the Midland main line at Loughborough. Less spectacularly, it will also involve repairing the bridge that used to take the Great Central across the Grand Union canal in the town. There is good news about this part of the project: We're delighted to announce that our Crossing the Canal appeal is now more than half way towards the goal of £475,000 for this phase of the project, with the total now standing at over £250,000. We are hopeful that work on the ...

Posted by Jonathan Calder on Liberal England

It's almost like the readers of my Lib Dem Newswire Facebook page have a sense of humour...

Posted by Mark Pack on Mark Pack

Having recently spent a couple of afternoons exploring the landscape around Gumley, I was pleased to come across these two tweets by Jošt Hobič. His map and animation show the Motte and the medieval remains beside the cricket ground. They also show there are more remains of the old village to explore. Intriguingly, Jošt suggests there may be a later castle or landscape mound close to the site of Gumley Hall. #FridayLiDAR and a video of village Gumley and its surroundings on a #lidar visualization. Plus they have a #motte #castle! All data provided by @EnvAgencyGeomat, for scheduled monuments data ...

Posted by Jonathan Calder on Liberal England

Second paragraph of third chapter: For a moment we are still concerned with structures, with the setting of the stage. I have always been interested in beginnings. We all scrutinise our childhoods, go about the interesting business of apportioning blame. I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates. I like to contemplate their unknowing inhabitants, busy with prosaic matters of hunger, thirst, tides, keeping the ship on course, quarrels and wet feet, their minds on anything but destiny. Those quaint figures of the Bayeux tapestry, far from quaint within their proper context, rough tough ...

Tue 4th
16:37

If I ruled the World!!

If you ask me why I carry on fighting after 51 years in politics and 36 as a councillor its for these muck-tubs. I want a good future for my children, grandchildren and for yours One of the problems with ... Continue reading →

Posted by richardkemp on But what does Richard Kemp think?

Arron Banks - The Businessman who made the biggest political donation in history and bankrolled the Leave EU Campaign. Recent investigative journalism has found out how he met secretly with Russian Officials including the Russian Ambassador eleven times in the run up to Brexit and after. Thanks to the Russian Ambassador Banks was offered preferential investments by Russian companies in Gold Mines and Diamond Mines. His business partner alleges in Court documents in South Africa that he sought Russian investors in a Diamond Bond. Banks denies taking Russian money or doing business with Russia but has struggled to account for ...

Posted on liberal-free-voice
Tue 4th
16:11

Waving (Short Story)

I've been writing short stories and submitting them to magazines for a while now. Every time I get to the point where I have two more short stories written than I have markets suitable for them where I don't have ... Continue reading →

Posted by Andrew Hickey on Sci-Ence! Justice Leak!

A new poll on Brexit is out today, commissioned as ever by the Remainers. This one tells us, like many polls on Brexit are telling us at the moment, that Labour Leavers are switching to Remain in significant numbers. Given some Tories are all over the media talking up the idea that Brexit equals some sort of libertarian utopia that may take half a century to feel the benefits from, this isn't all that surprising. Of course, what emerges from all of this that is particularly tiresome is the thought that Jeremy Corbyn is just waiting for public opinion to ...

Posted by Nick on nicktyrone.com

Paul Pester, CEO of TSB, has finally left the business after the bank's customers suffered another long weekend of failing processes and systems. That he resigned today "with immediate effect" isn't the most surprising aspect of the story, even after he grimly clung on for months after the initial failures in April. The BBC report that 26,000 TSB customers (out ... The post Pester goes – but that isn't the biggest surprise of the TSB debacle appeared first on ten pence piece.

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Tue 4th
11:00

My tweets

Mon, 12:56: The Practical Magic of Joan Aiken, the Greatest Children's Writer You've Likely Never Read https://t.co/YQpAAVXIOT... https://t.co/4NVMHkprtZ Mon, 13:59: RT @jayrayner1: Cheap halloumi people!! THIS IS THE TRUE BREXIT DIVIDEND. I mean, I know it's £1.49 from Aldi as it is but imagine the sunn... Mon, 16:05: Quatermass and the Mithraeum https://t.co/JcgNl8KLMn A nice connection. Mon, 18:12: Monday reading https://t.co/RprwZ0X7uA Mon, 18:54: RT @JohnFugelsang: Nobody mention this new trend to Shakespeare ok? https://t.co/Nlbw4bfTAh Mon, 18:56: RT @TomSpilsbury: Very sad news about the magnificent Jacqueline Pearce. She was wonderful, both on screen and off. I know several friends... Mon, 19:15: ...

The annual excursion of the Sunniside History Society (of which I am chairman) was held on Saturday and this time the destination was the Bowes Museum. In addition, we made a short visit to Barnard Castle. I had been to neither of these places previously. A good day was had by all.

Posted by jonathanwallace on Jonathan Wallace

With only a little over six months to go before Britain is due to leave the EU it is becoming increasingly obvious that Brexit will not only weaken the country severely (both economically and politically) but also may break up the United Kingdom. Recent opinion polls suggest that over half the population of Northern Ireland [...]

Posted by jonathanfryer on Jonathan Fryer

With the recent BBC article releasing the data which shows Chief Executive pay rose by 11% last year to around £4 million, the calls began once more to force these large companies to produce pay ratios. This reporting requirement would look something similar to the Gender Pay Gap reporting requirements, however, the sympathy I have for the Gender Pay Gap requirements would not extend to this. By introducing the requirement to report the ratio between executive pay and the lowest paid worker in the company, you are not solving any issues, and I'll explain why. Firstly, as we have seen ...

Posted by Tom Purvis on Liberal Democrat Voice

Commenting on reports that the Home Secretary is planning to extend stop and search powers, Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Spokesperson Ed Davey said:"We are only going to get a grip on the rise in violent crime by investing in more community police, not by changing laws when there are too few police in the first place. "Thinking new stop and search powers will help ignores the evidence, is frankly a derisory response to criminal threats from hi-tech drones and lasers and is a distraction from the real challenge of rebuilding community policing. "Only a long term financial commitment to community ...

Posted by LD Neath on Aberavon & Neath Liberal Democrats

Like many I have long been one who has defended the BBC but because of it's appalling coverage of the EU Referendum and subsequently it becoming little more than the Brexit Broadcasting Company I have lost all confidence in it. It's obsession with Nigel Farage has done it great harm so as a consequence those of us who voted Remain and who were once backers of the BBC have just about given up all hope of it ever returning to informative and independent reporting. And why do I say this now? Well the Radio Times 1st – 7th September edition ...

Posted by Cllr. Tony Robertson on Sefton Focus

The UK Government do not have a good experience with appeals processes. As reported here, the majority of people appealing against the decision to deny them disability benefit are now winning their cases. In the first three months of 2018, tribunals ruled in favour of claimants in 69% of cases where people had been turned down for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). Assessments for both have been branded 'a total failure' and 'not fit for purpose'. Now, a similar malaise has hit the Government's process for assessing applications by asylum seekers and other migrants to ...

Posted by Peter Black on Peter Black

This post first appeared on the Radx site... I watched the recent film Their Finest last weekend, with Bill Nighy and my favourite actress, Gemma Arterton, and very much enjoyed it. I am fascinated by the wartime media (and wrote about it in my book V for Victory). It is a romantic comedy set around a film set, as the writing team struggle to make sense of a new script about Dunkirk, within a whole range of new constraints imposed by one authority after another. My complaint was that as boy and girl finally kissed, he was killed by a ...

Posted by David Boyle on The Real Blog

I watched the recent film Their Finest last weekend, with Bill Nighy and my favourite actress, Gemma Arterton, and very much enjoyed it. I am fascinated by the wartime media (and wrote about it in my book V for Victory). It is a romantic comedy set around a film set, as the writing team struggle to make [...] The post Time to think a little bit more ambitious appeared first on Radix.

Posted by David Boyle on Radix

From Sheena Wellington : One of the Friends of Wighton's most important relationships is with Live Music Now and we are delighted to be welcoming two of their fine young musicians for the Lunchtime Recital on Wednesday 5th September. Graham Rorie, fiddle & mandolin, and Aidan Moodie, vocal and guitar, are two of the most promising young musicians to recently emerge from Orkney's rich heritage of traditional music. With a presence that's both familiar and forward-thinking, Graham and Aidan's playful arrangements are brought to life by a musical relationship almost a decade in the making. The pair perform traditional tunes ...

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[IMG: 37219844425_a85451dcf8_z] On Friday Vince Cable is due to give a set piece speech. Given that a week is a long time in politics the speech could, presumably, go through several revisions between now and then. But that hasn't stopped people speculating, and unnamed individuals briefing, that Uncle Vince is going to argue for constitutional changes to the Liberal Democrats. These could entail a scheme to allow a broader cohort of "supporters" to vote in party matters - presumably a scheme of the type that has worked so well for Labour - and opening up the role of party leader ...

Posted by admin on Alex's Archives