There is not much cricket footage from my early years of following England on Youtube, but I have found this. England won the first test on their 1972-3 tour of India, but lost the second. This video shows them losing the third. The last two tests were drawn, giving India a 2-1 victory. England took four spinners on that tour. Norman Gifford and Pat Pocock are playing here, so Derek Underwood must have been injured. The fourth spinner in the party was Leicestershire's Jack Birkenshaw. We would love to have such an embarrassment of riches today, particularly when you recall ...
The Electoral Commission carried out an investigation into Leave.EU and fined the Campaign Group £70,000 for Breaking Electoral Law during the 2016 EU Referendum for seriously overspending it's £700,000 cap by over £77,000 and possibly considerably more. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-44080096 This was the MAXIMUM fine allowed for FOUR offences. The Companies House Return Accounts for Better for the Country Limited which provided services for Leave.EU included information that in 2016 to the tune of £12,392,298, with a further £611,184 in 2017 after the EU Referendum. Surely this expenditure by Leave EU for services - the value of IT provision, facilities, employees time ...
Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 530th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere ... Featuring the five most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (23-29 September, 2018), together with a hand-picked seven you might otherwise have missed. Don't forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging. As ever, let's start with the most popular post, and work our way down: 1. Three names now in the public running ...
A rather apposite analogy spotted by Liberal Democrat MP Tim Farron following this weekend's sport.
I don't know if its just a coincidence or a sign of the pressure for development across the country, but Bosworth is not the only historic British battlefield being encroached upon. Today's Observer reports on what is happening at Culloden: A development of 16 luxury houses by Kirkwood Homes has been approved despite pleas to the Scottish government by conservation groups to have the plans called in for further scrutiny. Several other planning applications are in varying degrees of progress. The developers maintain that the new buildings will be on the periphery of the ancient battlefield, and that the site ...
Sports. Sports. Sports. Oh how it brings joy and how it brings deep deep sorrow. It is the latter that it uppermost in my mind this Sunday as last night (or the early hours as it was here) Penn State once more found an agonising way to lose a game against a top tier opponent that in reality they should have won. The last four defeats have been by a combined eight points and in all four, the team led in the fourth quarter. It is quite simply heartbreaking. Yet sometimes perspective is needed. I know sports and perspective are ...
It's just a few short month since Jo Swinson lost her dad, Peter, to Blood Cancer. I met Peter many times while helping out with Jo's campaigns over the years. He was such a lovely, kind man who was clearly so proud of her. Both he and her Mum Annette put so much effort into supporting Jo and having their home taken over by all sorts of random Lib Dems over the years. They were always so friendly and welcoming to us. Jo ran the London Marathon and raised thousands of pounds for Bloodwise back in 2011. This just shows ...
Non-fiction: 5 (YTD 42) Byzantium, by Judith Herrin Who I Am, by Peter Townshend About Time vol 8: 2007, Series 3, by Tat Wood and Dorothy Ail Brewing Justice, by Daniel Jaffee Riga: Berlitz Pocket Guide, by Martins Zaprauskis Fiction (non-sf): 2 (YTD 24) The Lost Weekend, by Charles L. Jackson The Guermantes Way, by Marcel Proust Poetry 1 (YTD 4) Glory For Me, by MacKinlay Kantor sf (non-Who): 9 (YTD 97) Finn Family Moomintroll, by Tove Jansson Moominland Midwinter, by Tove Jansson Vurt, by Jeff Noon Moominsummer Madness, by Tove Jansson The Ginger Star, by Leigh Brackett Moominpappa at ...
Channel 5 have surpassed themselves in presenting Michael Palin's two-episode programme on his travels in North Korea. It is a surprise to find the great Python on Channel Five, but the show reminds one of his enormous skill at presenting charming and informed pictures of foreign places. Palin makes clear, up front, that he and his crew went where they were allowed and an "entourage" of five or six North Korean government officials accompanied them, supervising their filming and every word said on camera. Nonetheless Michael Palin manages to show a fascinating and colourful profile of the world's most secretive ...
It is widely acknowledged that Soho bohemia had its heyday in the 20-odd years following the Second World War. My old friend Dan Farson (charming when sober, poisonous when drunk) wrote a successful book called Soho in the Fifties that captured the revels of the age, and in the 1990s, at the request of the National Portrait Gallery, [...]
What Liberal Democrat HQ does centrally when it comes to digital campaigning certainly matters. What the rest of us locally or unofficially, matters even more. That's because the vast majority of Liberal Democrat digital channels (websites, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.) are run by someone outside party HQ. For each one HQ-run channel there are hundreds, in some cases even thousands, of equivalents run by people in the party outside HQ. Local parties, councillors, Assembly members, keen supporters and more. What's more, although the headline audience figures for the HQ channels are high, all the data I've seen points towards the ...
This poll of polls of all major polls conducted since the General Election show that Labour has no breakthrough position. This was shown best in this May's local elections where Labour did okay in existing seats but badly in the ... Continue reading →
Rimrose Valley Country Park map. The BBC has the latest story regarding the protests against the proposed new road on its web site – see link below:- www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-45698331 Footpath and cycle path through the lovely Rimrose Valley County Park Separately I'm hearing, via informed railway sources, that the lack of progress with regard to improved rail freight facilities/rail connections to the Port of Liverpool may be putting Network Rail in the spotlight. It seems clear to me that the less containers that go by train to and from the Port then the more will have to go via road. Class ...
Today is the last day of blood cancer awareness month 2018. DKMS is a charity which maintains a register of potential blood stem cell donors to help fight blood cancer. While I was fortunate to be able to undergo what is known as a autologous stem cell transplant – one from my own cells – others require donor transplants to ... The post Transplant +18: Delete blood cancer appeared first on ten pence piece.
I know what they say, but I remember the 1960s and the picture we have of it now as a musical wonderland is only half the story. Simon Titley used to say that if you picked a Sixties chart at random Ken Dodd was generally at number 1. And what I remember from the era is the songs from the shows. Seemingly by law, every request programme played Harry Secombe singing If I Ruled the World and Stanley Holloway singing I'm Getting Married in the Morning. And if you went to a friend's house their parents would have, not Ogden's ...
"In his own words" is a collection which brings together forty-three of Tony Blair's speeches, articles and similar items stretching from 1982 to 2004.
Sat, 12:56: RT @PatricKielty: Dear @BorisJohnson, There is no better Brexit when it comes to the Good Friday Agreement and Northern Ireland. As you st... Sat, 15:10: RT @BalkanInsight: 🇲🇰 From then to now: Since Macedonia gained independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, it has been a long road to tomorrow's... Sat, 16:05: The Banality of Brett Kavanaugh https://t.co/EfNfEuF2vt The arrogance of entitlement. Sun, 08:32: Best of luck to all my friends in Macedonia today - hoping for a good result. Sun, 10:45: RT @notesuponnotes: In honour of the 100th anniversary of the premiere of Holst's Planets, I give you the ...
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This week, Jo Swinson has persuaded 10 major firms to share their parental leave policies as a key element in the fight against maternity discrimination. Jo, who introduced shared parental leave as a Business Minister, now wants companies to go further to encourage employees and attract more people to work for them: She wrote for the Independent about why this was so important: A new mother forced to resign after being bombarded with texts and emails telling her she "obviously can't work with two kids". Another one who returns to work to find herself reapplying for her job after a ...
DevonLive wins our Headline of the Day Award. The judges praised the insight the website gives into Heinz's production methods while questioning how long it is that "West Country" has been one word.
As the Tory conference gets underway the country faces an unprecedented political crisis: a no-deal Brexit that will devastate our economy, a Tory Party deeply divided as never before, a naked bid for leadership by a former Foreign Secretary which is driving even deeper rifts within the Government, and a toothless official opposition, who have put the national interest to one side in the hope of benefitting from the chaos. Boris Johnson's latest infrastructure project, a bridge linking Northern Ireland and Scotland is a pet project of the DUP, but has opened him up to derision once more and accusations ...
Now more than ever the Liberal Democrats need new imaginative radical policies. Big idea politics is back with a vengeance as both Labour and the Conservatives indulge in increasingly extreme visions for the country. If we as a party are to successfully challenge both Labour's socialism and Tory Brexit nationalism, then we need to engage in the 'battle of ideas' and develop our own clear alternative. Liberalism has a long radical heritage stretching back more than three centuries. Throughout the history of liberal political thought, liberals have consistently championed ways of spreading power, wealth, opportunity and ownership to individuals. In ...
From the mid 1960s, when a performance by Billy Smart's Circus was a big deal on television.
