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Our Headline of the Day Award goes to the Northampton Chronicle & Echo.
The sad case of Dubai's Princess Latifa threatens widespread repercussions which could impact on Dubai's economy and relations with the West. Dubai and the tri-emirate United Arab Emirates, of which Dubai is a key member, plays an outsized role in Middle East politics. It maintains close relations with the UK and US and took the lead recently in recognising Israel to block annexation of the West Bank. Its small but effective military has earned the UAE the sobriquet "Little Sparta." After a BBC Panorama highlighted the princess's plight, the UN demanded proof that Latifa was still alive. So far, the ...
Current Titus Alone, by Mervyn Peake Three Daves, by Nicki Elson Chasm City, by Alastair Reynolds Last books finished A Buzz in the Meadow, by Dave Goulson A.I. Revolution vol 1, by Yuu Asami Bold As Love, by Gwyneth Jones Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary Wolf Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold by Māori Writers, edited by Witi Ihimaera and Whiti Hereaka A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking, by T. Kingfisher Who Framed Roger Rabbit, by Martin Noble, based on the screenplay by Jeffrey Price & Peter Seaman Next books Goodbye To All That, by Robert Graves Science Fiction: The Great ...
Second paragraph of third chapter:The sense of belonging and responsibility experienced by the Department of Finance's new recruit on his arrival in the north block of Government Buildings on Merrion Street as a junior administrative officer on 1 June 1938 was to remain constant throughout his life. 'It warmed my heart as a new arrival to find that everyone was friendly and accessible, that an officers' mess atmosphere prevailed ... Reaching the administrative grade in Finance, you felt you were on the golden route, at the heart of things.' By reason of its controlling influence over other departments of state, ...
Current Titus Alone, by Mervyn Peake Three Daves, by Nicki Elson Chasm City, by Alastair Reynolds Last books finished A Buzz in the Meadow, by Dave Goulson A.I. Revolution vol 1, by Yuu Asami Bold As Love, by Gwyneth Jones Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary Wolf Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold by Māori Writers, edited by Witi Ihimaera and Whiti Hereaka A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking, by T. Kingfisher Who Framed Roger Rabbit, by Martin Noble, based on the screenplay by Jeffrey Price & Peter Seaman Next books Goodbye To All That, by Robert Graves Science Fiction: The Great ...
Parish councils are often largely ignored in the scheme of things. However, the recent antics of Handforth Parish Council have enabled many people to view what goes on in their name in the local council chamber. It has sadly shone a less than favourable light on the more unsavoury goings on in some parish council meetings, which, believe me, are not that untypical. From more than two decades of experience, I recognise three types of local council, the Proactive, the Reactive and the Inactive. The Proactive Council has members who can think outside the box, are prepared to exercise the ...
Rehavia was a garden suburb of West Jerusalem to which many German Jews migrated from 1933 onwards and immediately after the Second World War. Many of them were writers, academics, thinkers — intellectuals in a word. Not all were Zionists but many were, seeing the construction of a new country as going hand-in-hand with a [...]
The Social Liberal Forum's highly successful online programme continues on Monday 22nd February with Britain in a Post-Trump, Post-Brexit World. Our two guests are William Wallace and Professor Anand Menon. You can register for free by following this link to the SLF website Britain in a Post-Trump, post-Brexit World - Social Liberal Forum Professor Anand Menon is the Director of the UK in a Changing Europe and Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at Kings College, London. This will be a wide ranging discussion about the UK, its foreign policy and relations, the projection of its soft power. Is ...
Fri 19th
13:44
Democracy and civil liberties groups challenge government over political leafleting 'ban'
Big Brother Watch press releases a welcome follow-up to Unlock Democracy's concerns over the May elections: Rights and democracy groups have urged the government to clarify rules on political leafleting, ahead of the May elections. Six NGOs and the Local Government Association Independent Group have written to Chloe Smith, Minister for the Cabinet Office, urging her to "affirm that political leafleting is lawful." The intervention follows a letter issued by the Minister to the Parliamentary Parties Panel, claiming that the current lockdown restrictions "do not support door to door campaigning or leafleting by individual political party activists." The letter has ...
Fri 19th
12:30
The staggering losses suffered by the Council tax payers of Sefton related to The Strand
One of the many concerns we have about this irresponsible gamble is the amount of secrecy that surround the project. This is not the only issue where it is difficult for elected Councillors to get their hands on the information they need to do their job. I will post more fully about the staggering costs of this ill fated project. John Pugh has made a short video about the long sad sage of The Strand and the millions it has cost the citizens of the borough.
Fri 19th
11:44Brexitland: The long-term factors shaping our politics, and what they mean for the future
One of the most popular episodes last year was with Rob Ford, discussing Brexitland, which takes a look and the long-term social and demographic changes driving British politics. So I'm delighted to welcome to the show for a follow-up his co-author, Professor Maria Sobolewska,
Apart from Alaska all the states of the US except Texas have agreements with the other sates that, if one of them runs short of electricity it can "borrow" from one of the two the "Interconnections" (common power grids. ) Texas, run by Republicans, has stayed out of the collective support system in order to retain its independence (sovereignty?) and avoid external regulation. Sounds familiar? Now that their electricity supply has failed becasue of unexpectedly cold weather, which has frozen up the wind-farms and made it difficult to pump the natural gas which keeps the generators going, there is no ...
Thu, 12:08: RT @GregMichaelson1: @nwbrux @amendlocke AI controlled world for gerbils: https://t.co/RUEVYXsJgB Thu, 13:49: RT @CelticAnarchy: "don't speak ill of the dead" means like don't stomp around someone's funeral because they owed you $50, not "don't ment... Thu, 13:54: RT @BusinessinWales: Iceland have sacked its director Keith Hann after he referred to the Welsh language "gibberish" | https://t.co/CrmZ0cD... Thu, 14:14: Violating the Gore Vidal principle: Was just invited to an Arabic-language TV show this evening to talk about NATO in Iraq and the EU's Middle East policy. They even offered a small fee. Tempting, but I declined. I know too ...
Fri 19th
10:56
Proposed Electoral Integrity Bill will discriminate against those most marginalised in society
Voters will be obliged to show photo ID at polling stations from 2023 under legislation set to be included in the Queen's Speech which is currently expected after the local elections in May according to media reports. Despite electoral fraud and corruption being rare, ministers are determined to make it more difficult for people to vote. At the same time, it is reported that ministers plan to lift the 15 year limit on UK expats voting. This is going the wrong way. We should be using resources to promote inclusion among those who rarely votes and on extending the franchise ...
The Guardian reports that the government has been accused of dragging its heels on promised reforms to zero-hours contracts and the gig economy as legislation to protect workers faces serious delays: New legislation intended to bolster protections for Britain's most vulnerable workers will not be ready until the end of the year at the earliest, raising fresh questions about the government's promise to protect workers' rights after Brexit. Whitehall's newly departed employment tsar, Matthew Taylor, said there was a "deafening silence" from ministers on the landmark employment reforms, in areas such as zero-hour contracts and the gig economy, which were ...
i) births and deaths 19 February 2020: death of Norman Hartley, who played Ulf in the story we now call The Time Meddler (First Doctor, 1965) and Sergeant Peters in The Invasion (Second Doctor, 1968) broadcast anniversaries 19 February 1966: broadcast of "Priest of Death", third episode of the story we now call The Massacre. Admiral de Coligny is shot and wounded; the Abbot (or is it the Doctor???) is killed. (No surviving pictures that I could find quickly.) 19 February 1972: broadcast of fourth episode of The Curse of Peladon. The Ice Warriors kill Arcturus who was behind it ...
Fri 19th
09:34
Was the coalition government a good idea or a bad idea? For the Lib Dems? For the Tories? For the co...
I got to thinking about the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government this week. It is, in a sense, one of the more maligned governments of my lifetime. Labour people and indeed those on the left more generally paint it as an austerity creating beast; most Tory folk think of it as an unfortunate period that they had to endure before a full throated Conservative regime could take over. Even those remaining in the Lib Dems want to crap all over it, now thinking they can get the "progressive" vote back if only they apologise for taking part in this awful government ...
Rimrose Valley Country Park. Place North West has the article on its website – see link below:- But of course there's the paralel issue of government under pressure over its climate change busting £27b road building programme which is being seriously challenged in the courts by the likes of Transport Action Network:- tan.creationtest.co.uk/campaign/legal-action/ So there's a possibility here that the time being lost to delays could be used to further the environmental campaigns to save Rimrose Valley from having a road bulldozed through it. Having said that Highways England*, which is in my view not sufficiently regulated by a ...
A number of residents have queried with me why currently you cannot recycle cardboard at the Riverside Recycling Centre. I raised this with environment management at the City Council and the Assistant Waste Services Manager has advised : "The current waste acceptance restrictions at the two recycling centres and the reasons for them are detailed here. Due to the requirements for social distancing, both Riverside (two zones) and Baldovie (three zones) are running at significantly reduced capacity. As pretty much every resident has access to a paper/cardboard kerbside or communal bin, the decision was taken to should prioritise other waste ...
