Today the Boundary Commission for England released its first stage proposals for parliamentary seats in England. You can read the proposals for every part of the country here. The proposals for Scotland and Wales come out next month. For Liberal Democrats, there was mixed news. In Hertfordshire, there is a new constituency which comprises the entire Three Rivers Council area, which should be a good prospect for us as we have run that Council successfully for a long time. This will mean that one ward from Daisy Cooper's St Albans constituency will move into the new seat but it's otherwise ...
Second paragraph of third chapter:But not this land, she thinks. Not any land that exists under weather like this. ...I got this in 2018 when the Divine Cities trilogy was on the Best Series Hugo final ballot, and read the first volume that year. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I thoroughly enjoyed this one too, combining ancient magic returning to life with a military regime wobbling under the burdens of administering captured territory and running intelligence gathering in a hostile environment. I had forgotten most of what happened in the first book, but that wasn't really a burden here. Some ...
Mon, 12:56: RT @JP_Biz: 'We underestimated the effect of the protocol on goods movements to NI, with some suppliers in GB simply not sending their prod... Mon, 13:27: The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant https://t.co/LJ9kE2AckZ Mon, 15:54: Eight years ago, @jasonomahony published this piece on abolishing the Seanad. He was right, and those who voted to retain it in the expectation that it could be reformed were wrong. (There is no reference to any reform in the current government's agenda.) https://t.co/GZMi3OrHNl Mon, 16:05: Easy when you know how. https://t.co/7h3SbLDqZF Mon, 17:11: Unexpected guests from the past at Ulster ...
i) births and deaths 8 June 1933: birth of Derek Newark, who played caveman Za in the story we now call An Unearthly Child (First Doctor, 1963) and engineer Greg Sutton in Inferno (Third Doctor, 1970) 8 June 1942: birth of Peter Grimwade, director of Full Circle (Fourth Doctor, 1980), Logopolis (Fourth Doctor, 1981), Kinda (Fifth Doctor, 1982) and Earthshock (Fifth Doctor, 1982) and writer of Time-Flight (Fifth Doctor, 1982), Mawdryn Undead (Fifth Doctor, 1983) and Planet of Fire (Fifth Doctor, 1984). 8 June 1943: birth of Colin Baker, who played the Sixth Doctor from 1984 to 1986 and also ...
As if it wasnt bad enough that the Home Office is pursuing a hardline immigration policy, an employment tribunal has said that it is "deeply concerned" about Home Office contractors who deport people from the UK having used the racist term "cotton pickers" to describe their black colleagues. The Guardian reports that the Home Office uses the contractor Mitie to deport people to destinations including Jamaica, Pakistan, India, Nigeria and Ghana along with European countries and other locations. The escorts are only allowed to do this work if they have received accreditation from the Home Office. It is the behaviour ...
Yesterday, responding to Mr Speaker's ruling that the amendment on aid cuts was out of order and therefore not selected for a vote, Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for International Development Layla Moran MP said: "Today's decision is just the start of the battle to reinstate the 0.7% target. Boris Johnson might have had a lucky escape from a vote on the cut today, but he cannot run and hide from Parliamentary democracy forever. "In a week which sees the eyes of the world on the UK at the G7, the Conservatives' actions - from making it harder to vote at home ...
