Vince makes Time magazine this week. In the wake of the 700,000 strong People's Vote march, he sat down with Time's Billy Perrigo to discuss all things Brexit. The article starts at that incredible march where Vince had the line of the day: London has a reputation for bad weather, but on Oct. 20 at about midday, the sky was a perfect blue. That was good news for Vince Cable, the leader of the U.K.'s centrist Liberal Democrats party. Buoyed by the lack of rain, he and roughly 700,000 others marched on the Houses of Parliament to call for a ...
Look what I noticed the other day - and near the railway station too.
Tory Minister slammed for accusing police of exaggerating pressures Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesperson Ed Davey has today slammed Policing Minister Nick Hurd for accusing police chiefs of routinely exaggerating the pressures they face. Speaking in Parliament today, Ed Davey warned "Police chiefs say the pension deficit, if it's filled, could cost up to 10,000 police officers." He asked the Minister "Does he agree with them?" Responding to Ed Davey, the Minister said: "No I don't. I think the number is exaggerated, which is not unusual for the police." Following the exchange, Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesperson Ed Davey said: ...
It's quite the record that Arron Banks and other Brexit campaigners have accumulated, as this video shows.
Welcome to the latest in my occasional series highlighting interesting findings from academic research. Today, something slightly different – a podcast featuring Josh Townsley talking about what research says overall on the impact of political campaigning: In the seventh episode we talk to Joshua Townsley from the University of Kent about campaigning. There is lots of research about campaigning in politics, but what do we actually know about its effectiveness. We talk about how parties aim to mobilise their supporters and the impact of the internet and social media. Alas, parrots do not feature. For more on what the ...
Today Ben Foakes made his England test debut, becoming the side's third different wicketkeeper in consecutive tests. Jos Butler kept in the fourth test against India this summer and Jonny Bairstow in the fifth. In the Guardian Vic Marks reveals that "this has not happened since 1963 when AC Smith was followed by Keith Andrew and Jim Parks". Foakes rescued England with his batting and is 87 not out overnight, so we now have yet another natural number 7 batsman to accommodate. Half our current team should be batting there and three of them want to keep wicket. But if ...
Second paragraph of third chapter: In her cabin, Shallan read by the glow of a goblet of spheres, wearing her nightgown. Her cramped chamber lacked a true porthole and had just a thin slit of a window running across the top of the outside wall. The only sound she could hear was the water lapping against the hull. Tonight, the ship did not have a port in which to shelter. Second in the trilogy of Very Long Books by Brandon Sanderson, following on from The Way of Kings which I read earlier in the year. Our three viewpoint characters, after ...
[IMG: How and what to follow in the mid-term American elections] Results of the American mid-term election are expected to start coming in from midnight UK time. Various media outlets will be covering the results; The Guardian is doing a live blog; The Telegraph is doing... The post How and what to follow in the mid-term American elections appeared first on FeministMama.
Just to let residents know about four recent planning applications in our area – note applications for change of use on Bury Old Road – former British Legion to Kitchen showroom and 478 Bury Old Road from shop to coffee shop (on the front of Polefield). Please just let us know if you have any queries. Change of use of ground floor from retail (Class A1) to coffee shop (Class A3): Change of use of ... 478 Bury Old Road, Prestwich, Manchester, M25 1NL Ref. No: 63417 | Received: Mon 29 Oct 2018 | Validated: Mon 29 Oct 2018 | ...
Anti-Bullying Week will take place this year between the 12th and 16th November. This year's key theme is "Choose Respect". The theme has been chosen to highlight the fact that bullying is a behaviour choice and that a positive example can be set by choosing to respect each other. There are two awareness days taking place, starting Odd Socks Day on the 12th and ending with 'Stop Speak Support' cyberbullying day on the 15th. Anti-Bullying Week will take place this year between the 12th and 16th November. This year's key theme is "Choose Respect". The theme has been chosen to ...
No fewer than 588 men and boys from Bury and the surrounding district were killed during the first 17 months of the First World War. (Information from Bury Art Museum) This dreadful fact underlies an event at Bury Art Museum as part of its commemorations for the Centenary Armistice. Paul Cliff from Manchester School of Art has been working over the past 12 months to create "Small Acts of Unforgetting", a photographic exhibition which uses images from today to make a link to the events of yesterday, exploring ideas of self, identity and home. Thanks to records published by the ...
This Sunday, 11 November 2018, the parade for remembrance will leave from the back of the Longfield Suite at 10.40 to arrive approximately at 10.50 at the Cenotaph (junction of Rectory Lane and St Mary's Road). After the ceremony there will be a further brief ceremony where an oak tree will be planted in St Marys park. There had been concerns that the parade may not take place in Prestwich this year, as volunteers from the Royal British Legion were unable to organise the event as they have done for many years. Thank you to those who have come together ...
I missed Channel 4's "Brexit: What the Nation Really Thinks" last night. However, the headline was that by an eight percentage point margin, Britain would now prefer to remain in the EU. Jonathan Calder noted yesterday evening that a number of areas in the East Midlands would now vote to remain. My home city of [...] The post Derby would now vote to remain in the EU appeared first on ten pence piece.
This is a person who was mourning the Jewish dead in Pittsburgh last week when 9 members young and old were killed. We must work together to ensure that anti-Semitism is not allowed to flourish in Liverpool Last night I ... Continue reading →
Last month Vince gave a lecture to the Institute of Commonwealth Studies on the subject of Brexit and how it would affect the Commonwealth. You know how you get Tory Brexiteers looking to the Commonwealth as a whole new opportunity for us? Well, the commonwealth leaders themselves would prefer we stayed in. Vince pointed out: The first thing that struck me as I started looking through some of the comments on BREXIT and the Commonwealth was the enormous contrast between the tone of the comments coming from the UK, and particularly from the advocates of BREXIT, and those coming from ...
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Government should be encouraging more Commonwealth soldiers to serve - without discrimination
Responding to the announcement that more Commonwealth soldiers will be able to join the Armed Forces without living in the UK first, Defence Spokesperson Menzies Campbell said: "Soldiers from around the Commonwealth have played a crucial role in our military history, particularly during the two world wars. We should celebrate their service and encourage more to follow their example. But the Government must ensure that those who serve our country aren't prevented from staying in the UK or bringing their families to join them - for example by prohibitive visa fees and other hostile policies."
Following a disastrous appearance at the Home Affairs Select Committee last week, Immigration Minister Caroline Nokes was brought before the House of Commons today, but was still unable to answer what immigration checks EU citizens will be subject to after Brexit, or how these will apply to those who are already here and are therefore entitled to "settled status". The Home Office is currently trialing the scheme for applying for settled status, but it isn't due to be fully open until March 2019. Nokes boasted that the Home Office has now granted settled status to 1,000 EU citizens, less than ...
Mon, 12:56: Driver, 54, who is going blind served eviction notice after DWP lose his sick note, suspend his benefits and deem h... https://t.co/S6YlrfA5P4 Mon, 16:05: Sylvia Plath's Last Letters https://t.co/8nZvU2sag3 A sad story. Mon, 16:08: At the Charlie Brown exhibition. https://t.co/UXKxvR7Ahy https://t.co/cosyLLb4gN Mon, 18:22: Monday reading https://t.co/cCebENkPrZ Mon, 20:48: Gary Hart's Presidential Bid and the Possible Setup That Ended It https://t.co/b2z4IuQauZ Lee Atwater said he did it. Mon, 23:41: RT @PES_PSE: We stand behind our common candidate @TimmermansEU after @MarosSefcovic has endorsed him. #TeamSpirit 🤝🌹🇪🇺 https://t.co/05TYb5... Mon, 23:56: RT @tconnellyRTE: A senior EU official tells @rtenews tonight there will ...
I always liked reading Marie Colvin's reports from war zones. She brought the stories of people whose lives were constrained or ruined by war to our breakfast tables. She made you understand the dilemmas and dangers people faced just to get through the day. Colvin died in Syria in 2012. Her friend, Lib Dem Peer Jane Bonham-Carter, reviewed a new biography of her written by Channel 4's Lindsey Hillsum in this week's Sunday Times. She was extraordinarily brave. The stories of Marie's courage are legion, but the one that stands out for me was East Timor. There, holed up in ...
Tue 6th
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Bold Lane, Aughton – It's still in very poor condition despite that seemingly contributing tow...
Melling residents will recall with great sadness the recent death of one of their Parish Councillors – Alison Doyle – in a cycling accident on Aughton's Bold Lane back in August. I raise the matter again as yesterday I cycled up Bold Lane due to my alternative and usual route via Sandy Lane being closed for roadworks. I virtually never cycle up Bold Lane because the surface of the road, north of the Sandy Lane junction, is very poor as I've mentioned in previous postings going back to February of this year. Sadly, if anything the surface has deteriorated even ...
It isn't just Labour who have an anti-Semitism problem it seems. According to this article in the Guardian, Jewish organisations have accused UKIP of embracing anti-Semitic conspiracy theories through the party's links to a far-right US website that regularly attacks George Soros and which has argued that the Pittsburgh synagogue attack could have been instigated by the US government. They add that the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Community Security Trust (CST) has called on UKIP to dissociate itself from Infowars after it brought in one of the website's editors as a member and used him to ...
One of the questions I am frequently asked is whether the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency is simply the US manifestation of a global populist trend or more a symptom of US specific issues. As is often the case, the answer is a yes to both. There is no doubt that similar to [...] The post Mid-term elections: the meaning of Trump appeared first on Radix.
Remaining in the EU has the support of a majority of those asked in a Channel 4 super-poll. Normally polls ask 1000 or so people what they think or who they would vote for. This one was more the size of your Exit Poll on election day. A survey conducted this week of 20,000 people across the whole of the UK and commissioned by Channel 4 asked: if there was a referendum tomorrow, should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave? Britain said: pic.twitter.com/J4kJWiYhyi — Channel 4 (@Channel4) November 5, 2018 The Survation poll had ...
