The new Liberator can be downloaded free, gratis and for nothing from the magazine's website. While you are there you can sign up for its email newsletter so you will know as soon as a new issue is posted. Issue 406 includes tributes to Tony Greaves and articles on the Conservatives' importation of American voter-suppression tactics, British arms exports to Saudi Arabia and the 40th anniversary of the SDP's founding. The magazine always carries a wide range of articles, but I usually turn first to Radical Bulletin, which has news and gossip about the Liberal Democrats you will find nowhere ...
Philip's story is sometimes controversial, sometimes inspiring. It is sad that he has died, and I am sure I reflect the feelings of all Liberals in sending my condolences to the queen and to everyone that is grieving their loss. It is reasonable for public resources to be used in supporting and reflecting that grief, and I take no issue with reasonable coverage of Philip's death and his funeral. But what isn't reasonable is the national tub-thumping that's going on, treating the population like worms that must rise to the beat of a drum of conformity. What isn't reasonable is ...
The Silence of the Lambs won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1991, and four others: Best Director (Jonathan Demme), Best Actor (Anthony Hopkins), Best Actress (Jodie Foster) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Ted Tally). It lost Best Film Editing and Best Sound, the latter to Hugo winner Terminator 2: Judgement Day. So far it is the third and last film to win Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Screenplay, after It Happened One Night (1934) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) That year's other Best Picture nominees were Beauty and the Beast, Bugsy, JFK ...
I want an evidence based to dealing with drugs. the so called war on drugs isn't working so lets try something that is. I explain more in this video. Click here to see it. The post Dealing With Drugs first appeared on David Watts.
The governments Police, Crime, Courts and Sentencing bill is one of the most illiberal bills ever introduced by a government, This video explains why I am so opposed to it. See it here. The post Bin The Bill first appeared on David Watts.
As I've listened to the discussions about the future of the City Council following the Caller Report I have been struck by how many people know what they are against. They are against the mayoralty, corruption, waste, incompetence, dodgy deals. ... Continue reading →
Liberator 406 is out and can be downloaded for free here. You can also sign up through the website to receive each issue as it comes out. Alongside Radical Bulletin, Letters, Reviews and Lord Bonkers' Diary, Liberator 406 includes: NUCLEAR OPTION Are Liberal Democrat members just electrons floating around or part of the nucleus of something larger, asks David Grace THE VOTERS TORIES WANT TO TURN AWAY Voter suppression – in particular of young people and ethnic groups – is a feature of Americans politics the Government seeks to import here, says Shaun Roberts DETENTION QUESTIONS ON THE DOORSTEP The ...
Sat 10th
11:22
Latest PollBase is out, with all the voting intention polls since the general election
With the end of another quarter, another update to PollBase, my database of British voting intention opinion polls since 1943 is now up. Just the usual quarterly update this time without any additional obscure 1950s information added. Enjoy! P.S. For the very latest polls, see my polling scorecard. Get polling news and analysis by email Sign up here if you would like to receive the Polling UnPacked occasional email newsletter, highlighting the best in analysis and news about British political opinion polling from a carefully curated range of high-quality sites (no more than one email a day and usually much ...
Fri, 12:13: RT @royalsociety: Born #OnThisDay in 1921 was Mary Jackson, @NASA's first black female engineer. She developed expertise working with wind... Fri, 12:56: Thread. https://t.co/rzQ1XJYUA6 Fri, 13:05: RT @RoyalFamily: It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The P... Fri, 14:29: RT @Mr_John_Oxley: In Kingston upon Thames the Monster Raving Loony Party is running 13 candidates in a single council ward. https://t.co/Q... Fri, 14:29: RT @JP_Biz: 100 years ago #newsnight https://t.co/VQTIGKs8DR Fri, 16:06: RT @ChuckTingle: also to clarify way (even though iam sure everyone knows what ...
Greenland is not usually a world election hotspot. This is because most of the time the biggest issue for the 57,000 inhabitants is filling the pothole on Nuuk's high street or the siting of a new streetlight to illuminate the long cold winter nights. Not this time. The issue at stake—mining—will have consequences well beyond the shores of the misnamed Danish possession involving the environment, world shipping, defence, economic development and tectonic shifts in global power. The election was won by the Inuit Ataqatigiit or Community of the People Party on the platform of stopping development of the uranium and ...
It was the last round of by-elections this week before the big May polling day. Three vacancies this time, all for Torfaen Council.
So, the candidates for the County Council and Police and Crime Commissioner elections on 6 May are known. And here in Creeting St Peter, which falls within the Stowmarket North and Stowupland division, it looks like we've got an interesting contest. I'll come back to that in a moment though. The Police and Crime Commissioner contest sees four candidates enter the fray; Elizabeth Hughes (Labour)Tim Passmore (Conservative)Andy Patmore (Green)James Sandbach (Liberal Democrat)As it's an AV election, my first preference is an easy one - I'll be voting for James, obviously. As for my second preference, it will be a question ...
i) births and deaths 10 April 1954: birth of Glen McCoy, writer of Timelash (Sixth Doctor, 1985) and the first writer of colour to write for televised Who (I think also his novelisation is the first Who book by a writer of colour). ii) broadcast anniversaries 10 April 1965: broadcast of "The Wheel of Fortune", third episode of the story we now call The Crusade. Barbara remains a captive; the Doctor is forced to reveal Vicki's true gender. 10 April 1971: broadcast of first episode of Colony in Space. The Time Lords send the Doctor and Jo to a colony ...
I have in recent months had repeated complaints about the recycling centre at Roseangle being overflowing. Although the environment management team at the City Council has responded promptly to each issue I raise about this, I have now had an assurance that it is pursuing the viability of increasing the frequency of sevicing of the site which will hopefully resolve this problem.
This is my tribute to Kirsty Williams published in the latest edition of Liberator magazine: When I first met Kirsty Williams, she was a recent graduate living with her parents in Llanelli, having been brought into the Liberal Democrats a few years earlier by her teacher, the late and much-missed Nick Burree. She had just won (or possibly lost) the toss of a coin and had been appointed the agent in a local council by-election on the now defunct Llanelli Borough Council in a ward briefly held on Dyfed County Council by the current Conservative Secretary of State for Justice. ...
Well, it's official ! My nominations to stand for the Liberal Democrats have been accepted for both Northumberland County Council South Blyth Division and Blyth Town Council South Blyth Ward. There are four candidates for the County division. I am the Lib Dem candidate , along with candidates for the Conservatives , Labour and the Social Democatic Party. For Blyth Town Council there are four candidates for the two seats. David Sumner and myself for the Lib Dems, with two candidates for the Conservatives. Unusually there is no Labour representation. Over the border in Plessey, Jeff Reid is standing for ...
Sat 10th
02:02
Good news for harebells, yellow mountain pansies, stonechats and skylarks in the Stiperstones
The Stiperstones ridge is the site one of 10 new projects across England and Wales to be funded by the Wildlife Trusts Coalition, reports the Ludlow & Tenbury Wells Advertiser. It will see Shropshire Wildlife Trust is to restore 12 acres of unsprayed fields above Tankerville to allow harebells, yellow mountain pansies, stonechats and skylarks to thrive. You can hear John Hughes from the Shropshire trust talking about this project on BBC Radio Shropshire's breakfast show. The item starts at 2:17:20. I don't know when I'll be able to visit Shropshire again, but I can still blog about it.
