Crossens Saturday, 13th October, St John's Primary School, Rufford Road, Crossens, from 11am to 12 noon. Churchtown Thursday, 25th October, BoxTree Kitchen for Queenscourt cafe, Manor Road/Cambridge Road, roundabout, from 10:30am to 11:30am. We will be there to meet you and discuss any Council problems you may have. No appointment necessary. Just pop in.
John Reppion and Leah Moore discuss Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, their comic book adaptation of four of M.R. James's supernatural tales. If you like James's work, you will love A Podcast to the Curious.
St Pancras railway station opened 150 years ago today. To those of us who remember it in the 1970s - grimy, with few catering facilities and GPO vans tearing through its centre - its recent transformation is little short of miraculous. Most of all, the restoration of the station hotel. These days if I am in London for the day, I naturally think: "I can have something to eat at St Pancras on the way back." You wouldn't have formed that thought 40 years ago. The only people to have lost are those of us who use the place for ...
Current Ringworld, by Larry Niven Seychelles: The Saga of a Small Nation Navigating the Cross-Currents of a Big World, by Sir James Mancham Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson Sodom and Gomorrah, by Marcel Proust Last books finished Brewing Justice, by Daniel Jaffee Missing Adventures, ed. Rebecca Levene Putting Up Roots, by Charles Sheffield Riga: Berlitz Pocket Guide Next books The Sound of his Horn, by Sarban Larque on the Wing, by Nancy Springer The Vampire's Curse, by Mags Halliday
In her Pressing Matters books, Christine Burns writes eloquently about all the work that a small group of trans campaigners did to achieve a legislative landmark. The Gender Recognition Act took at least 10 years of work as well as a series of court cases. It also took its toll. Most of the Press for [...]
Yesterday, at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt compared the European Union to the "prison" of the Soviet Union and accused the EU of trying to prevent member states from leaving. That is the sort of intemperate language we came to expect from his predecessor, Boris Johnson, so it appears Hunt [...]
The loss of all those bank details from the vaults of Facebook is on result of having one company build up such a powerfully monopolistic domination. I feel particularly strongly about this because, thanks to Facebook's lax security, the hackers probably have all my details too, which is kind of irritating. It may also speed [...] The post Facebook and the coming demise of monopsony power appeared first on Radix.
Yesterday I caught a radio clip from Theresa May's TV interview with Andrew Marr. She claimed that Labour were "playing politics" with the Brexit issue whereas she was striving to achieve what is best for the country. As a forensic examination of the situation this leaves a lot to be desired. "Could do better," on a school report would be generous. My preferred definition of politics is "government by discussion" and it would be nice to think that our politicians were all calmly engaged in discussing what is best for the country. Even better if they extended their discourse towards ...
I've commented a few times recently on the gradually rising Liberal Democrat poll ratings. One way of looking at this is to ask when the party was last higher than its current ratings with each of the pollsters. The answer to that is: ComRes: May 2017 ICM: May 2017 Kantar TNS: May 2017 Opinium: April 2017 Survation: April 2017 YouGov: April 2017 Ipsos-MORI: December 2016 BMG: highest on record (!) – 18 polls this Parliament but only a few prior to that Delta Poll: highest on record but only 2 polls this Parliament There is still a very long way ...
Our annual campaigner awards, which were sponsored by Election Workshop and presented by Willie Rennie MSP, were revealed during our AGM at Autumn Conference in Brighton. The results were... BEST LOCAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN We were looking for local parties that have fought effective and strong 2018 local election campaigns. Runner-up: Southwark Following sobering 2017 results, it was decided that the local party needed to make changes to how it campaigned. Over the past decade or more much of Southwark has undergone significant changes in demographics, with an increasingly large number of young professionals that have few links to the area ...
A cycle along the Leeds Liverpool Canal through Melling and Aintree earlier today brought me face to face with two female paddlers near Wango Lane swing bridge in Aintree Village. Stopping for a chat they told me they were paddling from Liverpool to Hull to raise money for children's charities. Today they hope to get to Wigan. If I understood them correctly they were doing the challenge with the help of or for Heart Radio Station. I asked them for advice about how to get into and out of a canoe on a canal because it is not at all ...
Sun, 17:47: September books https://t.co/KkdGC7uQCs Sun, 19:58: RT @JordanIva: JUST IN: PM Zaev called for VMRO DPMNE to support the name deal ratification in Parliament and respect the will of the major... Mon, 10:45: Scholz's Star Disturbed Oort Cloud Objects 70,000 Years Ago https://t.co/HkhEMxie4d Relatively old news, but i had... https://t.co/jSVLT1jcma Mon, 11:56: RT @NobelPrize: BREAKING NEWS The 2018 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo...
Sunniside Methodist Hall has been undergoing a revamp recently and more work is due over the coming months. I was invited to the hall on Friday to look over the improvements but also talk about possible uses by the local community. I had already had some discussions in the summer about possible uses of the hall and had raised this issue in our ward meeting with the Leader of the Council. This
We took delivery of half a tonne of A3 paper last week. The Gateshead Lib Dem land rover fleet (2 vehicles!) was put into action to transfer the paper from Cllr John McClurey's shop in Newcastle to the Lib Dem office in Consett. Excellent exercise as there were also 24 steps to climb to get to the office door! With all that paper, expect lots of Focuses over the next few months. The first was
Last week I had a meeting of Sunniside History Society executive to map out our plans for the year ahead. I went along with a number of ideas: creating a map of the area before man - in other words, what the natural landscape looked like before man arrived in the area thousands of years ago. setting up some walks in the area with supporting literature highlighting the historical assets of
When Vote Leave chose their slogan they broke the mould of British politics. It stood in stark contrast to the established formula of successful general election narratives. New. Better. Ambition. Difference. Forward. Fairness. Future. Vote Leave initially intended to go down the same route. Vote Leave, Get Change. But a last minute change from campaign director Dominic Cummings left the campaign as Vote Leave, Take Back Control. Cummings, fascinated by psychometric voter profiles, intended the slogan to act as a direct channel to voters with authoritarian tendencies. It worked. Campaigners hammered in the message at every opportunity and Leave won ...
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The introduction episode to my new podcast is now up here or on your usual podcast platforms. This one's just a seven-minute-long introduction to what I'll be doing with the series — normally they'll be around twenty-five minutes and have ... Continue reading →
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Good morning, and welcome to another week here at Liberal Democrat Voice. Something is happening out there, with Liberal Democrat polling numbers consistently edging up into double figures. Is it the start of the long march to credibility, or is it a reflection that, compared to Labour and the Conservatives, our stance on Brexit is beginning to cut through? Last week, Labour decided that, rather than take a view on Brexit, or on a People's Vote, they would offer several. Unfortunately, whilst Sir Kier Starmer was enthusiastically received for suggested that a new referendum would include the option of remaining ...
Coming from the Nottinghamshire coalfield and from the very same district (Kirkby-In-Ashfield) as Harold Larwood (who was born in nearby Nuncargate in 1904) it's probably no surprise that my sporting heroes are all cricketers; Notts cricketers unsurprisingly. Statue of Harold Larwood in my (and his) own home town of Kirkby-In-Ashfield. Before it was moved for redevelopment. Harold Larwood Derek Randall Richard Hadlee Garfield Sobers As a young man in the 1970's I was often found listening to Test Match Special on the radio in the middle of the night and of course back then cricket was ...
[IMG: Humour brought to you by courtesy of 'Brett Kavanaugh'] Matt Damon brilliantly parodied Brett Kavanaugh's senate hearing. Here's the real thing: The post Humour brought to you by courtesy of 'Brett Kavanaugh' appeared first on FeministMama @ambitiousmamas.
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 1 OCTOBER 2018 Riverside Drive (at Barnetts) - temporary traffic lights from Monday 1 October for 3 weeks for gas main installation. Riverside Approach closed southbound for final 2 weeks. Blackness Road/Glamis Road - 4 way traffic lights for 3 days from Wednesday 3 October for carriageway resurfacing. Greenfield Place (at Perth Road) - closed for one week for sewer repair. Forthcoming Roadworks Blackness Road (at Peddie Street) - temporary traffic lights on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 October for BT cabling works. Old ...
It can only be a matter of days since he was selected but already the Tory candidate for London Mayor is embroiled in controversy. The Independent reports that Shaun Bailey is at the centre of an Islamophobia row after he shared a tweet that meant thousands of his followers saw a message referring to Labour's Sadiq Khan as "mad mullah Khan of Londonistan". Apparently, Bailey retweeted a post last year which had shared a picture of Mr Khan and a racist caption which also branded Labour as "anti-British". The Tories are claiming that he is not to blame but it ...
