Chancellor's speech will have disappointed millions in need Lords defeat Government on Immigration Bill Chancellor's speech will have disappointed millions in need The Liberal Democrats have claimed the Chancellor's speech at the Conservative Party's virtual conference will have "disappointed millions who were hoping to hear how he plans to help them through this crisis." Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesperson Christine Jardine said: The Chancellor's speech will have disappointed millions who were hoping to hear how he plans to help them through this crisis. Instead of an extension to furlough, measures to help the millions excluded from help or a boost to ...
I have mentioned the historical novelist Vaughan Wilkins, whose career flourished for 20 years or more from the mid 1930s, a few times here. One post was about his first novel, And So - Victoria, which the censors of the day thought far too disrespectful of the royal family to be filmed. And I also went to a Nottinghamshire village to photograph his grave. A film was made of one of his later books - Dangerous Exile was an adaptation of the novel A King Reluctant. You can find Dangerous Exile on YouTube. Richard O'Sullivan, the hardest working British child ...
David Johnston, the Conservative MP for Wantage and Didcot, has written a valuable article on diversity and social mobility for the Unherd website. Here are some of his insights: When I ran social mobility charities, I would watch professional service firms and banks fall over themselves to hire black graduates if they were privately educated and from professional families. These young people were deemed to have the requisite social capital they claimed their "clients expect from us". If, however, you were the sort of black young person my organisations typically helped - poor and from a council estate - enthusiasm ...
Mon 5th
18:42
Temporary Overnight Road Closures - Shorncliffe Road & Audley Road, Folkestone - 22 & 23 Oct...
[IMG: Roadworks sign] Overnight closures of Shorncliffe Road and Audley Road, Folkestone are planned for the evenings of Thursday 22 and Friday 23 October 2020 from 7.00 pm through until approximately 2.00 am each night, with closures lifted as soon as works have been completed. Shorncliffe Road and Audley Road will be closed in the general vicinity of the junction where they meet each other, near Folkestone West Railway Station. The alternative route for through traffic for Shorncliffe Road is via B2063 Risborough Lane, B2170 Military Road, A259 Sandgate High Street, Sandgate Hill, Sandgate Road, Earls Avenue and B2064 Shorncliffe ...
Mon 5th
17:27
Blood Monster; Being An Account of the Life and Death of the Emperor Heliogabolus - 2 Gaiman shorts
Two brief Neil Gaiman comics which I picked up from the Humble Bundle some years ago. Second frame of third page of Blood Monster (art by Marlene O'Connor): This one's only five pages, a father tells his kids a gruesome bedtime story and their mother is not amused, especially not by the consequent nightmares. That's it. Second frame of third page of Being An Account of the Life and Death of the Emperor Heliogabolus: This is a bit more substantial (15 pages rather than 5!) and I think it's the only case I have seen of Neil Gaiman illustrating his ...
Sutton Council has been actively seeking the demolition of Victoria House and a suitable redevelopment of the site that will boost the North Cheam area for some time. Granted application not built out Permission had been granted in 2006 for refurbishment of the existing building including remodeling the commercial space and adding an additional floor. [...]
I am very proud to say that I was elected as a Liberal Democrat councillor in 2017 to serve the residents of Cyncoed and Lakeside at Cardiff County Council. Cardiff, capital city of Wales, is very cosmopolitan, a city that celebrates its diversity, but still fails to represent its population in the make-up of the council chamber and the workforce within the council. I had stood in local elections before in a different area and did notice the ballot papers that came in with crosses next to my ward colleague names and not mine and still this time same occurred ...
[IMG: Black Men Are Good: Black History Month Folkestone 2020 programme cover] "In a society where skin colour can be seen as a signifier of value, Black History Month provides an annual opportunity to acknowledge the achievements and contributions of Black people to the societies in which they live." Arike, 2019 Download the full "Black Men Are Good" programme. Published and promoted by Tim Prater, 98a Sandgate High Street, Folkestone, CT20 3BYPrinted (hosted) by Prater Raines Ltd, 98 Sandgate High Street, Folkestone CT20 3BY
It was encouraging to read this report from the Guardian. A survey has shown that COVID-19 has changed attitudes to home working for the long term. This is very good news. A healthy element of home working is good for the mental health of workers, saves on carbon emissions and reduces transport snafus. But I am glad that the Guardian report has put the emphasis on a blended approach. That is, a mixture of home and office working. The survey was done by the British Council for Offices. Their chief executive, Richard Kauntze remarked: The idea that people will return ...
The Yale historian Timothy Snyder explains how Donald Trump can govern without policy and while causing pain: "These are policies that are deliberately designed to administer pain, to add to the total amount of pain in American society. "If you hurt people you create a resource of pain, of anxiety and fear which you then direct against others. "If, in the long run, the way that you govern is by hurting people who don't mind being hurt because they think other people are hurting worse, what you will tend to do is take the vote away from people who expect ...
Mon 5th
11:57
Over 100 East Midlands Councillors sign letter calling for halt to Unitary Council plans
Over 100 Liberal Democrat councillors from across the East Midlands have signed a letter to the Secretary of State for Local Government, Robert Jenrick MP, calling for a halt to controversial Government plans to abolish Borough and District Councils across the region and replace them with larger Unitary authorities. The letter, signed by 118 Councillors, was jointly authored by Lib Dem Hinckley and Bosworth Borough and Leicestershire County Councillor Michael Mullaney and Leader of Chesterfield Lib Dem Councillors Paul Holmes. Michael Mullaney said; Abolishing Borough and District Councils and creating huge unitary authorities would be disruptive at anytime. But to ...
Mon 5th
11:15Covid-19 Arrangements and Enforcement in Licenced Premises in Folkestone and Hythe District
[IMG: Beer / lager [Stella Artois]] I've been asked by a number of local residents and licencees what checking was being made of Covid-19 arrangements such as Track and Trace, distancing and 10pm closure in pubs, bars, clubs, restaurants locally. I received over the weekend the helpful update below on what the requirements being tested are, and what work is going on in those areas, and thought it would be useful to pass on! From the Folkestone and Hythe District Licencing Team The new Track and Trace work requires us to look at 3 main areas during Covid: QR codes ...
Sun, 12:56: AITA for telling my sister that she should have expected to be outshone by her best friend at her wedding? : AmItheAsshole https://t.co/KvlamVBUJv This is an extraordinary story which veers in a completely unexpected direction. Title does not reflect the punchline at all! Sun, 14:48: RT @FiveThirtyEight: Earlier this year, we asked the question: What happens if a president (or presidential nominee) can no longer run for... Sun, 15:54: Jeffty Is Five, Stardance, Gateway: published 1977, won Hugo/Nebula 1978 https://t.co/TtHb6baWmB Sun, 20:48: RT @Cardwell_PJ: Of course he is playing to the crowd, and blaming Brussels always works, even ...
Prime Minister full of bluster but offered little in the way of answers Responding to the Prime Minister's warning of a 'tough' Christmas and beyond on The Andrew Marr Show, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats Daisy Cooper said: The Prime Minister's admission will leave people rightly worried about their loved ones. Sadly, as has become all too common with this Prime Minister, there was a lot of bluster but little in the way of answers. It is now all the more important for the Government to take responsibility for its failures and deliver a comprehensive strategy to test, trace ...
It's coming on for five years now since I started what seemed like a vaguely heroic quest - for me at least - of trying to walk 10,000 steps every day. I started in midwinter, on the basis that, if I could do it then, I could probably keep it up. And, for seven weeks, I did just fine. On day 50, I contracted food poisoning in an all-inclusive resort in Cuba. I may be one of the very few people to have left an all-inclusive resort weighing rather less than I did when I went in... I lost three ...
Mon 5th
08:55How you could help improve party diversity and member engagement or represent the LIb Dems internati...
There are a few opportunities to get involved in the running of the party at a national level. Nominations close this Friday at noon, so act quickly. All of these roles require nomination by two members of the Federal Board and you can find them here. Federal People Development Committee The first is for a member of the Federal People Development Committee. From the ad on the Party website (which also tells you how to apply): The Federal People Development Committee brings together three key functions of the party: training, diversity engagement, and membership recruitment, retention and activation. Since the ...
Mon 5th
08:30Whoniversaries 5 October: Mind Robber #4, Paradise Towers #1, Remembrance of the Daleks #1
i) births and deaths 5 October 1916: birth of Ronald Leigh-Hunt, who played Commander Julian Radnor in The Seeds of Death (Second Doctor, 1969) and Commander Stevenson in Revenge of the Cybermen (Fourth Doctor, 1975). ii) broadcast anniversaries 5 October 1968: broadcast of fourth episode of The Mind Robber. This is the one with the glorious fight between Zoe and the Karkus. Then the Tardis crew meet the Master of the Land of fiction, and Jamie and Zoe are threatened with being squashed inside a giant book... 5 October 1987: broadcast of first episode of Paradise Towers. Mel is looking ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT Forthcoming Roadworks Blackness Road (at junction with Bellfield Street for a distance of 25m or thereby in an easterly direction) - closed from Monday 19 October for 3 days for BT work. Blackness Road (at Bellfield Street) - temporary traffic lights from Monday 19 October for 3 days for BT work. Riverside Drive (at Mayo Avenue) - off peak temporary traffic lights on Tuesday 27 October for maintenance work to DfT traffic sensors
The Times reports the sad death of one of the papers's most popular neighbours. Doorkins Magnificat, the splendidly named chief mouser at Southwark Cathedral, has died peacefully in the arms of the verger she had been living with since retiring from eccelesiastical duties last year. The Southwark Cathedral website takes up the story: In 2008 a stray cat started visiting the Cathedral between Christmas and New Year waiting at the South West Doors each morning for food. After being fed each morning for a few days, this cat decided (as cats do) that the Cathedral is where she wished to ...
