Here's Michael Gove in the Commons today: Michael Gove praises the new Brexit lorry parks, says they will create jobs. @RachelReevesMP gives a little sigh https://t.co/RKlcbr7ZeR pic.twitter.com/9lIk2nO11y — Joe Mayes (@Joe_Mayes) October 19, 2020 If customs formalities create jobs, why stop there? Let's make every county boundary a customs border. This time next year we'll be millionaires.
So since the 1920's there has been a rumour on my fathers side of the family that my grandfather had a Chinese father. Now I first found out about this about 10 years ago just after my grandad had passed away when my cousin bought my uncle a DNA test for his 60th birthday, as [...]
Liberal Democrats: PM must get a grip of coronavirus spread in the North Today, Liberal Democrats from across the North of England, including four council leaders, Liberal Democrat MP Tim Farron, and Liberal Democrat Leader in the Lords Dick Newby, have written to the Prime Minister stating that the North has been "overlooked by a London-centric government". The letter calls for a raft measures to be implemented urgently to help stop the spread of the virus across vast swathes of the country. Some of the measures include: Rapidly funding local authorities to enable a local scale-up of the failing test, ...
The Romans mined all this land for lead long, long before men came back, in the last century, to this haunted corner of Shropshire. These miners tore up the earth, built engine houeses, sank shafts and buried the golden gorse under piles of rubbish which may still be seen today. Those were hard days in a hard country and it must have been about that time that a few shepherds, some perhaps with the courage of despair, made their homes on the lower slopes of the Stiperstones. It is said that those who were able to establish a home here ...
One might think that everything written by and about the great Irish playwright Oscar Wilde had already been published, but one would be wrong. While researching his magisterial biography, Oscar, published two years ago, author Matthew Sturgis came across a number of hidden gems buried in libraries and obscure volumes of memoir. These he has [...]
Second para of third chapter: Nothing remained to assure us that the adventure had not been an illusion of a moment but the young lady, who just at that moment opened her eyes. I could not see, for her face was turned from me, but she raised her head, evidently looking about her, and I heard a very sweet voice ask complainingly, "Where is mamma?"I read this in advance of a discussion at Octocon the otehr weekend. It's a classic vampire story from 1872, 26 years before Le Fanu's fellow-countryman Bram Stoker wrote Dracula. It's a much shorter book; the ...
It would be beyond ordinary people, but if you had all the resources of the Chinese or Russian state at your disposal?
For those of you who live in urban conurbations, your concept of a Parish Council is possibly associated with the TV series "The Vicar of Dibley". Funny really, because the Vicar usually works with a Parochial Church Council, a very different animal indeed. But 30% of England's population is covered by Parish Councils which, for the most part, operate under the radar of political activists... I moved out of London more than a decade ago but hadn't been here for very long before a vacancy arose on the Parish Council and, well, you know how it is. A muttered thought ...
In April Peter Oborne and Richard Heller launched a podcast to help us endure what was then a world without cricket. They are up to episode 25, which talks to the human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith about his work as well as his love for cricket.
Our Vice President Isabelle Parasram invites you to join her for a free event "What does it mean to be black in Britain in 2020?" on Thursday 22nd October from 7pm-8.30pm. Christopher Jackson, Professor of Geology at Imperial College and soon to be the first black scientist to jointly present the 2020 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, will be speaking and answering your questions. He will be joined by Former CEO of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust and Co-Founder of The Centre for Inclusive Leadership, Paul Anderson-Walsh, as we ask about their experiences and insights during this Black History Month ...
Sun, 12:28: Twenty Years of Doctor Who: A Celebration, by Peter Haining There is a particularly nice piece by Barry Letts, and the pieces by Terrance Dicks and John Nathan-Turner are also above average. #nwbooks https://t.co/L3jbka1iF1 https://t.co/ZBomr1vGv0 https://t.co/FO7wrDPpVJ Sun, 12:56: RT @jonathancoe: When Captain Kirk understands the ramifications of Brexit better than most of the UK public ... https://t.co/RVmDZOSqEo Sun, 13:09: The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver The Price family move to the Belgian Congo as Baptist missionaries in mid-1959, against all advice; tragedy and disaster ensue. #nwbooks https://t.co/mUW5iKprfC https://t.co/spr94ngUxU https://t.co/wZv2ZhrvE5 Sun, 13:26: RT @bbcdoctorwho: "And the story goes on...forever" ...
The Mirror reports that some of the consultants involved with the Government's failing test and trace system are receiving £7,000 a day from public coffers: Last week, Sky News said it had seen documents revealing Boston Consulting Group (BCG) was paid about £10 million for around 40 consultants to provide four months' work between the end of April and late August. The broadcaster said the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) received a 10 to 15% discount from BCG, whose day rates for public sector work range from £2,400 to £7,360 for the most senior consultants. This is despite ...
I'm sure I must have heard about the sinking of this ship at the time it went down (40 years ago – September 1980) but it was a visit to Merseyside Maritime Museum's new 'Life on Board' exhibition which brought the tragedy into focus. I blogged about my September visit to 'Life on Board' and here's a link back to that posting:- I then came across this video on You Tube which I found very interesting and informative:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeRjGPI9S_8 Clearly the ship (originally named Liverpool Bridge) had very significant connections with the Port of Liverpool and its tragic loss ...
I wanted to let you know about my experience door knocking over the last couple of weeks. Over the last fortnight, I've spent two evenings a week knocking on doors in Portsmouth, where I'm the Lib Dem Leader of the Council. The feedback from voters here in Portsmouth has been brilliant, they were very pleased to see us. I've been out in small groups, each of us in masks, keeping 2 meters from anyone. If people weren't in, we posted leaflets through letterboxes to let them know we'd been. It was great to be back talking to residents, as we'd ...
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Job Watch Ludlow - No change in unemployment in Ludlow is good news as we deal with the second Covid...
This is a good as it gets these days. Unemployment, as measured by claimants on Jobseekers and on Universal Credit who are seeking work, in Ludlow remained static between August and September. Our town had 410 claimants for Jobseekers or work related Universal Credit. The unemployment rate in Ludlow North, which includes the town centre remains stubbornly high at 8%. This probably a result of reduced employment in our pubs, bars and hotels. This is the third of a monthly series on unemployment data. I don't intend to depress or scare people with the numbers but we do need to ...
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Whoniversaries 19 October: Paradise Towers #3, Remembrance of the Daleks #3, Vault of Secrets #2
19 October 1987: broadcast of third episode of Paradise Towers. Mel is rather implausibly rescued by Pex; the Caretaker is munched by Kroagnon; and the Doctor taken by the Cleaners. 19 October 1988: broadcast of third episode of Remembrance of the Daleks. The Hand of Omega is dug up and the rival Dalek factions start to slug it out in the school. 19 October 2010: broadcast of second episode of The Vault of Secrets (SJA). Androvax is imprisoned in the Vault, the aliens leave and Gita's memory is erased so that she is not troubled by blief in aliens.
I'm one of is one of 30 Lib Dem Cllrs, MPs and Peers from across the North of England who has signed a letter to the Prime Minister calling for localisation of health and economic powers to local and regional ... Continue reading →
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 19 OCTOBER 2020 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. Forthcoming Roadworks Riverside Drive (at Mayo Avenue) - off peak temporary traffic lights on Tuesday 27 October for maintenance work to DfT traffic sensors. Blackness Road (at Glenagnes Road) - temporary traffic ...
