I have a weakness for telephone exchanges that look like chapels. I have even found a chapel that used to be a telephone exchange. So it is high time I showed you this one in Market Harborough. (Little Bowden, actually.) Later. It has been suggested to me that it is a mere electricity substation, but I still like it.
The European Movement is organising a meeting in Leicester in support of a 'People's Vote'. Andrew Adonis will be the speaker and the meeting will take place at the Secular Hall on Thursday 4 October from 6pm. Book your place on eventbrite. The Secular Hall is part of the history of Leicester radicalism and, back in the 1970s, Leicester Chess Club met there. In those days the Market Harborough team included a vicar, and I suspect he was rather disconcerted by its busts of great atheists.
Having people understand what the Liberal Democrats stand for and why is a continuing challenge for the party. In the last couple of years, it has come with a new twist – because approaching two-thirds of the party's members have joined since 10pm on general election day 2015. So to help address part of that issue, I've spun up a free 14-part weekly email series about the roots of liberal, Liberal and Liberal Democrat beliefs. Each email is quite chunky, which is why they are spaced out weekly. Email* Enter Email Confirm Email Name* First Last What would you like ...
There is no sign of short time in the psychogeography industry. Iain Sinclair has a new book coming out: Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts: On Health and Architecture. It takes him far from his Hackney haunts, with visits to Mexico and to Jonathan Meades in Marseilles. Julian Mash says: This is a thought-provoking book in which Sinclair, as usual, raises more questions than he answers, forging links between people and places as he makes his inquiries. It is clear from his arguments that it is not a simple equation of well planned buildings leading to well balanced and ...
The Labour Party's new line on Brexit is designed to fool Remain supporters: look at the details to see what it really says.
In what must be one of the most bizarre actions by an office bound railway official, Network Rail has written to residents in Steventon on the outskirts of Ludlow telling them that it needs to undertake work on parish's railway bridge. So far, so good. But Ludford residents became suspicious when they read references to the High Street. A High Street in Steventon, a hamlet on the outskirts of Ludlow? Hardly. The postcode for our Steventon is right. The letter, signed by a Community Relations Executive, was written with authority. It came from Swindon, one of the great centres for ...
Current Missing Adventures, ed. Rebecca Levene Putting Up Roots, by Charles Sheffield Brewing Justice, by Daniel Jaffee Last books finished The Beast Master, by André Norton Glory For Me, by MacKinlay Kantor Lord of Thunder, by André Norton Who I Am, by Peter Townshend About Time vol 8: 2007, Series 3, by Tat Wood and Dorothy Ail Next books Ringworld, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson Seychelles: The Saga of a Small Nation Navigating the Cross-Currents of a Big World, by Sir James Mancham
Campaigners in Kingston upon Thames are rightly proud of receiving the ALDC award for the Best Local Election Campaign in 2018, especially given the high quality campaigns in many other areas including our neighbours in Richmond. We'd love to share our story with you and maybe offer some hope and inspiration. In May this year we increased the number of Lib Dem councillors on Kingston Council from 18 to 39, out of a total of 48. Of those, 26 were new Councillors, all of whom stood for the first time the majority (22) were female, with at least one woman ...
Every nation teaches history as a group of selective highlights, usually (but not always) to show the home nation in a respectable, or even an heroic, light. This is natural but rarely sufficient for an educated person to make an informed decision later on in life. For example: the exam syllabus I was taught in the 1970s covered history from the 1888 until 1945. It wasn't bad; at least we covered the German imperial ambitions (A Place in The Sun) and how that ambition led ultimately to the First World War and that, in turn, to World War Two. It ...
As the doomed 'Chequers' fantasy proposal bites the dust and the Labour Party moves towards a 'vote on the deal', mainstream public opinion is moving away from a hard Brexit and very slowly away from Brexit itself. But there is something missing. A gap. A chasm. A canyon. The rabid Brexiters have already started their defence against anyone suggesting Brexit might cancelled, as if we have already left and as if reversing the Article 50 process or nixing the 'transition' period would already be both cumbersome and painful. Their new Mendacity Mark 2 vehicle has its engine running even now. ...
I'm home. In the end they decided not to remove my Hickman line as my platelet count is still marginal. I'll be back for an outpatient appointment on Thursday. My bloods will be checked again, and the line removed assuming all is well. It's been a positive experience. Not something that I wanted to go through, nor would I wish ... The post Transplant +12: Home appeared first on ten pence piece.
As the UK stares down the barrel of Brexit, and after a Liberal Democrat conference which didn't inspire any anticipation of an impending poll surge, the Liberal Democrats need to present a truly radical offering. The state of UK politics is desperate. The Conservatives are incompetently led, and with eccentric right-wingers lying in wait to add their own special layers of incompetence when May eventually falls. The Labour party are likewise incompetently led, with no immediate prospect of that situation being resolved either. What should fill us all with foreboding is that these parties' internal democracies have evolved to a ...
Sun, 12:56: Massacre at Darkley - and the nature of certainty https://t.co/Avhu8ptGj6 A story about faith. Sun, 15:49: Asterix in Britain - the Rene Goscinny exhibition at London's Jewish Museum https://t.co/2pNsqOvb0R Sun, 16:05: Eight swallows don't make a summer, of course, but this is moderately encouraging for the LibDems (and not for anyo... https://t.co/PRaFQBpvNk Sun, 20:48: Britain is humiliating itself https://t.co/A5JOVmTPaE @ChrisGreyBrexit explains. Sun, 21:02: "...yes, with a particularly sensible, efficient and user-friendly road layout..." Mon, 10:45: RT @GuitarMoog: You had that. You lost it through a process including the foreign secretary telling them to whistle for it, MPs comparing ...
I've been a bit busy since I left Brighton. Two health conferences; a meeting with a Minister; full Council and picketing the Labour Conference have kept me fairly occupied! But the inevitable train journeys and waiting times have given me the time to reflect on what I saw and heard in Brighton. Firstly, I heard no-one who described themselves as a moderate. Good, because neither am I! The fact that we are neither loony left or loony right does not make us moderates. We are a Party with fundamental principles that would cause a much greater upheaval in our society ...
I visited the Tanfield Steam Railway yesterday where a Home Front event was being held. This was an ideal opportunity to mix my role as local councillor with my interest in social history. Lots of activities based on the Second World War took place. Watch out for me with an enormous weapon!
On Saturday I attended the race night being hosted by Lighting up Sunniside at the Travellers Rest. The group has been set up to raise funds for the village's Christmas tree. Over £500 was raised from the event.
Salzburg is Mozart's city. Long associated with the wonderful Salzburg Festival, it is quaint and wonderfully Austrian. It is one of the gateways to the Austrian alps. Last time I was there, I dined at a restaurant that has been serving food (as an inn, tavern, whatever) uninterrupted since the year 600. Viewed from the [...] The post The options left after Salzburg appeared first on Radix.
The media spin is that Labour have taken a major step towards another referendum on Brexit but the reality is that the party's position has not changed and remains as confused as ever. As the BBC reports, the composite motion that will be put before Labour conference delegates in fact asks them to vote on keeping "all options on the table" on Brexit, including possibly campaigning for a new referendum. The party's leadership still want a general election allowing Labour to take control of negotiations if it won and this motion accommodates that viewpoint. Furthermore, Shadow chancellor John McDonnell told ...
Got through the security gates and into Labour conference around 10:30 AM yesterday morning. Went looking for the room my 12:30 event was being held in. Wasn't immediately apparent, so I asked one of the ushers, "Excuse me, could you direct me to Concourse Room 4?" He shook his head and said "There is no such thing as Concourse Room 4, mate". I asked a few other ACC staff – they all seemed equally bewildered. I decided I had no choice but to talk to Conference Services – since they sold the room to me, they would have to know ...
At May's council elections in Sutton, I was proud to defeat the Tories' deputy leader, not least because he proudly backs Brexit. I'm a born-Londoner who's lived in four different boroughs, and I'm not sure how you can claim to have London's best interests at heart when you back a major event that will hit our city. Here's how Brexit is already hitting London. You may find these useful talking points when you're on the doorstep making the case for a People's Vote: 1. Risking our NHS: London is twice as reliant as the rest of the country on EU nationals ...
Look, Theresa, I really don't understand this. The European Union have told you that you can't have this. You keep telling them that it's what you want. When are you going to understand that, when you choose to leave, you get what they want you to have, especially when you have no status quo to revert to? One assumes that someone has tried to explain this to our Prime Minister, but given that she has rather painted herself into a corner, it probably wouldn't make any difference. In fairness though, even without her ludicrously self-harming red lines, her platform is ...
Dundee Area Badminton Association's junior badminton club is supporting Clubs Doors Open Week. Come along to Harris Academy on Wednesday of this week and try badminton! All abilities welcome - details below :
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