It used to be that a town of any size would have at least one secondhand bookshop, but those days have long gone.So it was a pleasant surprise to come across A Reader's Dream in Melton Mowbray. The stock was more charity shop than antiquarian, but at these prices no one is going to complain.
It struck me as the year turned that this year's Doctor Who series, being the twelfth of New Who, occupies in a sense the same space as the first series of Old Who featuring Tom Baker, which is also the first series of Doctor Who that I remember really making an effort to watch as it was broadcast (I was seven). So, time to go back, and also revisit my own previous takes. I think I only caught the last episode of Robot first time around, in 1975, and was puzzled as to why the Doctor was not the grey-haired ...
Original cover artwork from "The Theory and Practice of Community Politics" Over on Medium.com, Councillor Nick Barlow has written a remarkably astute retrospective on the 1980 pamphlet "The Theory And Practice of Community Politics" written by Bernard Greaves and Gordon Lishman and published by the Association of Liberal Councillors (now the ALDC). Nick's narrative takes us from the ideologically based idea of Community Politics in the 1970s and how it morphed into the quite different concept of Customer Service Politics, which dominates our civic arena today: There were still activists, but the community newsletters had now generally given up their ...
Robert Parker, who died a couple of weeks ago, began as a saxophonist in New Orleans after the war. Later he was better known as a singer and this track dates from 1966.
Sat, 14:48: RT @nwbrux: Reflections on Brexit day https://t.co/0hx0JZj2lC Sat, 15:04: 2001: A Space Odyssey https://t.co/lO95NohQgp Sat, 20:26: Assorted thoughts on the realities of border polling and reunification https://t.co/dPdqN8L65f via @sluggerotoole "... https://t.co/IxESbGKDSM Sun, 10:45: Fascinating, if now a historical curiosity. https://t.co/6cPAz9ELZm
If we were to pay any notice to all the noise and divisive celebrations on the pro-Brexit side of the argument, we could only conclude that the UK has already left the European Union and that we are set on course for some sort of nirvana. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact we are in the very early days of a transition period, still a member of the single market, still enjoying all the advantages of being in the EU (apart from being at the table when key decisions on our future are made), and still benefitting ...
Is it now time to accept that referendums are no way to decide anything? Or is it time to say that they should only be used, if the result produces a clear majority, of say two thirds of the voters, or 50% of the entire electorate? The decision to use a referendum to decide major constitutional issues has always appeared, in the past, to be the sensible way to tackle those issues, as people vote at General Elections on a wide range of issues and it was thought that a referendum would give a clear answer on a single issue. ...
Sun 2nd
08:59
Liverpool Echo story says what many of us have been saying for years about air pollution
But how long do we have to keep saying it before the powers that be, nationally and locally, actually take useful and positive action to stop us all being poisoned?
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Sun 2nd
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Challenge ahead for MP Philip Dunne as he takes lead of Commons Environmental Audit Committee
Former minister and Ludlow MP since 2005, Philip Dunne has been elected chair of the environmental audit committee (EAC) by follow MPs. I congratulate him. His predecessor was Mary Creagh, Labour MP for Wakefield who lost her seat in November's general election. Under Creagh's leadership, EAC was forthright, challenging the government on many of its policies and bringing new issues to the its attention. Dunne himself says Creagh will be a hard act to follow. Select committees are essential to the working of parliament. They were introduced in 1979, the first year of Margaret Thatcher's prime ministerial reign, by the ...
I think that there are only two meetings at Blyth Town Council scheduled for Febrary. They are at Arms Evertyne House, starting at 6:30 pm Community Funding sub-committee Tuesday 4th February Community Development Committee Tuesday 18th February I understand that there are no meetings scheduled for March
