Another rose in my garden – Nostalgia, this time I haven't bought any clothes at all since going into isolation. Our (albeit temporary) change in shopping habits is having a huge impact on people in the garment trade, which these days are spread around the world, often in the countries least able to support the workers. So I was intrigued to read about Lost Stock, an initiative of Mallzee, an online shopping app developed by a company based in Edinburgh. They explain: During lockdown, we learned of the situation in Bangladesh as retailers were rejecting or cancelling the stock they'd ...
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LibLink: Layla Moran A once in a generation opportunity to make our country fairer and more liberal
With the announcement of the revised leadership election timetable starting in two weeks' time, there are three expected candidates. Ed Davey has yet to formally declare, but everyone expects him to be standing. Layla Moran and Wera Hobhouse have already announced that they are standing. LDV is, as always, neutral in these things and will report equally on all the candidates. Layla Moran has outlined her leadership pitch in an article for the Independent (£) which you can also read on her website. For me, the best leadership is calm, measured and purposeful. It is open, transparent and direct. Good ...
The Sting won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1973, and picked up another six - Best Director—(George Roy Hill), Best Writing, Original Screenplay (David S. Ward), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing and Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation. Robert Redford lost Best Actor to Jack Lemmon in Save the Tiger (which I admit I haven't heard of), and The Sting was also nominated for Best Cinematography and Best Sound, losing to The Exorcist and Cries and Whispers respectively. Worth noting that Julia Phillips weas the first woman to collect the Oscar for ...
The Government's response to the coronavirus crisis will quite rightly be judged by the historians and will focus on the human cost of the pandemic: confused messaging; delays to lockdown; the farcical distribution of PPE. All will be in the ... Continue reading →
I've not written on here very much recently — I've been spending most of my writing time working on the podcast, which requires about 5000 words of writing from me a week, plus a lot of research time. But now ... Continue reading →
Today's entertainment comes courtesy of Dillie Keane's hard-hitting, furious and funny song about Dominic Cummings. MPs should sing this in the corridors of Westminster next week as they are forced back unnecessarily putting themselves and Parliamentary staff at risk. Cummings has survived – for now. Protest doesn't work. Our weapons , feeble as they are, must be mockery and constant sniping – he doesn't have our welfare at heart. My song says it all. https://t.co/jJljhnwXKC — Dillie Keane – eco-blogger, gardener, songwriter (@DillieKeane) May 28, 2020 Or watch on You Tube here. * Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat ...
Two years ago, I was the victim of what I might best describe as a genteel ambush, and became Chair of our Parish Council. Let's be frank here, and note that we're not talking about an empire here - our annual precept is just over £5,000, and the population for which I am theoretically in charge of is comfortably under 300. But, regardless, it is a responsibility that I take seriously. The idea, I was informed, was that I would do two years and pass the role onto my Vice-Chair. And, I will admit, I was perfectly relaxed about that ...
Fri, 12:56: The Apollo Mission That Nearly Ended With a Mutiny in Space https://t.co/CHufacjiVz None of the Apollo 7 astronauts flew in space again... Fri, 13:32: Started Cycle with #cyclemeter at 13:32, on a new route, see https://t.co/Zb8jMgkmM2, Cyclemeter will speak your replies to me. Fri, 13:47: With my friend the Neanderthal. https://t.co/2Kh9BHvuLI Fri, 13:57: Finished Cycle with #cyclemeter, on a new route, time 24:27, distance 5.21 km, see https://t.co/Zb8jMgkmM2, average 12.78. Fri, 14:04: RT @tamaranth: @nwbrux you're the one on the ... right? Fri, 16:05: Discover the Home of Thrones Virtually https://t.co/Sbor325zqC Virtual tour of Game of Thrones locations ...
Thanks, Prime Minister. From Monday up to six of you can meet in your garden, but you must maintain a distance of 2 metres. Meanwhile more Primary school teachers are due in this Monday 1st June, expected to take groups of up to 15 for hours on end, usually indoors (although this may be minimised). This ratio is compared to what the National Education Union thinks is safe and manageable of 1 teacher to 5 students. The latter ratio is close to what Denmark has been using. Government's figures at the press conference on 28th May stated 564,000 people have ...
As a retired trade union officer an issue has been bouncing around in my head for a while now associated with the C19 return to work i.e. how do we ensure workplaces are as safe as they can be made? In a unionised workplace the answer is pretty obvious as the appropriately trained TU H&S reps will ensure the workplace is safe. Indeed, I often recall that in my working days the TU H&S reps were often trained to a higher level than managers who actually held the legal H&S responsibilities. But what happens in non-unionised workplaces? At one end ...
In order to allow for the re-opening of civic amenity centres at Riverside and Baldovie this coming Monday, there will be some traffic/roads arrangements put in place - the temporary traffic order is as follows : Dundee City Council proposes to make an Order under Section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 for the purpose of facilitating the re-opening of recycling centres. The Order is expected to be in force for one month from 1 June 2020. Its maximum duration in terms of the Act is eighteen months. The effect of the Order is to temporarily impose (1) ...
It has been a week and Dominic Cummings is still in post. The amount of political capital expended by the Prime Minister to keep his Svengali in post has been extraordinary. As the Guardian reports, the furore over Dominic Cummings' breach of lockdown rules has prompted tens of thousands of people to flood their MPs' inboxes in what some described as the biggest outpouring since Brexit: A Guardian analysis covering 117 MPs found they have received a total of 31,738 emails since a joint Guardian and Daily Mirror investigation a week ago divulged that Cummings had travelled to County Durham ...
