In the week since the election I have posted four excellent guest posts - the last four in the list below. If you would like to write a guest post yourself, please drop me an email first so we can discuss your idea. Here are the 10 most recent guests post on Liberal England: Social Liberal Forum conference promotes big ideas - Helen FlynnFor Liberalism to succeed we must embrace all of its creed - Patrick MaxwellForgotten Victorian folklore collectors: An undiscovered treasure trove - Francis YoungJoseph Merrick in the cigar factory - Joanne Vigor-MungovinWhy we need a GCSE in ...
Dear Jo, As many others have pointed out in the last few days a bit of masochism never comes amiss if one is a Liberal Democrat. Pain and sorrow come with the territory. When my 70-year old Mum cruelly lost her hard-worked council seat in 2014, courtesy of the Coalition, we got separated slightly from our colleagues after the count. We are not prone to emotion but, two dumpy ladies of 5ft nothing, we clung together as her result was announced and Labour activists surrounded us and screamed their glee. One of them trod on me in the hubbub. Later, ...
1 May 2004 was the day of the EU's big bang enlargement, with ten new countries joining to take the total membership from 15 to 25. There was a big celebration in the Cinquantenaire and we all went into Brussels for it (including visitors). A few days later, I travelled to Zagreb for a meeting with Norwegian diplomats, and then later in the month did a grand Caucasus tour of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, meeting all three presidents and both prime ministers (Georgia did not have a PM at the time), and changing planes in Prague on the way there ...
I am absolutely not feeling cheerful. I am gutted that my party has once again been drubbed at the ballot box, and the loss of Jo just 5 months into her leadership feels like a kick in the teeth. Watching her in this campaign I always felt that although it wasn't her moment just yet, her moment would undoubtedly come. Now I just despair at the senselessness of it. And Boris Johnson! There is a woman in an Iranian gaol because of his carelessness! What is it about this man and his continuous affairs and in-numerate children that the British ...
Back in 1935 Anglo-American historian, George Dangerfield, described in his book 'The Strange Death of Liberal England' how the Liberal Party of Gladstone, Asquith and Lloyd George, succumbed between 1906 and 1914 to the multiple assaults of Irish Home Rule, the reform of the House of Lords, Women's Suffrage and the militancy of the Trades Unions. I would, with hindsight, add to that the rise of the Labour Party, which, after being shielded under the liberal wing, eventually took flight and replaced its sponsor as the main rival to the Conservative Party. Well, I wonder whether, following this latest Labour ...
This is a very annorakky radio post. ABC local radio in Australia is superb. It is a vast network providing essential information to Australians all over their huge country. At the moment, they are providing an incredible service concerning the fires. I particularly like the way they showcase their hourly (top-of-the-hour) news. They have this ... Continue reading Strewth! How ABC Australia make their radio news sound very important!
Edition 47 of the Low Fell eFocus was published recently. Contents include: Christmas comes to Low Fell! Shop Local - Small Business Saturday takes place on 7th December Winter gritting: Important information New bus stop on Kells Lane Trees in Kells Lane Park to be pruned Outage as Labour Council spends almost £1 millon on gagging You can read eFocus on this link.
Just a few years after the Second World War two sisters in Rio de Janeiro rebel against the strict domestic regime of their humourless Portuguese baker father and his cowed wife. One, a talented pianist, dreams of going to study at the conservatoire in Vienna while the other takes the plunge and runs off to [...]
...That is probably not an entirely attractive proposition, but I find listening to Coles radio grimly fascinating. Coles supermarkets, along with Woolworths (yes, Woolies!) account for 80% of Australian supermarket activity. So, Coles are big! And when you push your trolley round a Coles, you hear their radio. Coles Radio. Cheery music interspersed with news ... Continue reading Listen to what Australian shoppers are listening to now!
The general election is now over and we can get back to concentrating on the battle for Gateshead Council. So, a group of us met up last night to do a load of envelope stuffing for a mailing to go out in various areas in central Gateshead. No post general election rest for us!
The results are in. To say that I am disappointed is an understatement. I am sure many of you are feeling the same way. To fight off the doldrums of despair, I've been looking at positive ways forward. To that end I am championing the 'change one thing' ideas campaign. What is it? Change one thing is simple. Challenge yourself and other members and supporters to think of one campaign which, if successful, would make a big positive difference to people's lives. We're not just talking big things here either (though there is no harm in aiming high!). It could ...
Tue, 12:56: Alliance's success is no fluke - we have changed Northern Irish politics for good https://t.co/BcQo3INPGI @StephenFarryMP speaks. Tue, 16:05: omg https://t.co/iRGS3dq3XX How I made @ECthetwit cry. Lovely piece. (Written in April, but i only just found it.) Tue, 17:11: Faeries, Aliens, and Leviathans: Science and Fantasy in Ian McDonald's King of Morning, Queen of Day... https://t.co/8DcrAAEKoL Tue, 18:54: Tuesday reading https://t.co/CFalMZuCvd Tue, 20:48: 2020 Global Tech Trends: Views from APCO's Technology Team https://t.co/FBwUhfHMGn What will change next year? My... https://t.co/yJiIBMJkyt Tue, 21:26: My top tweets are: https://t.co/gcTrIETfKJ [31 RTs] https://t.co/VSFoVuYkHB [35 RTs] https://t.co/SL83OS0i8Y [60 RT... https://t.co/XOZa2ZVIf9 Wed, 08:30: ...
In March 2017, I wrote a thought piece for this journal called "Brexit, it's time to stop looking for someone to blame and take action". I took my own advice (more on this later on) but it made me think it was important to write a similar article today simply changing a couple of words in the title. When that exit poll dropped on Thursday night I was distraught. Unlike in June 2016, I had feared this result would happen as soon as the Farage/Johnson pact came out and given the way the campaign had gone, but seeing it actually ...
Michael Portillo with Frank Hornby Trust Chairman Les French as seen on TV. You may have heard of Sefton's Borough of Culture year in 2020 but did you know that you can influence the things that are celebrated locally? Well you can via the MYSefton website – see link below:- As a Trustee of the Maghull based Frank Hornby Trust I'd like folk to back the Hornby choice – see link below where you can vote:- mysefton.co.uk/2019/11/24/sefton-stories/ With thanks to Frank Sharp for the lead to this posting
Normal bin collection dates will be affected by Chistmas and New Year over the coming weeks. You can check when your waste and recycling bins are due to be collected on this link.
This video (below) is a rare full length recording of Dee Time from 1968. It was broadcast by BBC4 in 2004. Dee Time was introduced by Simon Dee, a former pirate radio deejay, who became phenomenally successful on television for a short period before putting the "crash" in "crash and burn". On this show, you ... Continue reading Dee Time from 1968 with rare footage of The Equals
I know many of you are still hurting from what happened last Thursday; still trying to absorb its meaning. I think I've discovered what for me at least was the most positive thing about the general election result: it brings us back to representative democracy again, finally ditching the ill-conceived flirtation with direct democracy we have been living with for the past three and a half years. This may be little comfort when the party that has just won an election is one you dislike or even despise, but hear me out. One of the things that has infected UK ...
It took a three-year legal battle for the Washington Post to force the US government to release the 'Afghanistan papers', a set of lessons-learned reports on the war so far. The Afghanistan Papers not only reveal systematic lying by the US and UK governments to the general public about the aims and progress of the war, they reveal gratuitous mass killing of civilians in the policy fog. As if that wasn't enough to cast opprobrium on the military effort and the capability of the forces involved, the Afghanistan Papers reveal extraordinary confusion amongst senior military personnel, and a war without ...
This Friday - 20th December - you can take a tour of the night sky in the observatory's planetarium room and learn about constellations, galaxies and the latest space news and much more. Please note that Winter Planetarium Shows are suitable for children aged 5 and over. £1 Adults, 50p Children with shows at 6pm, 7pm and 8pm. Booking essential on 435967.
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