The Worcester News reports: A former health secretary who served under Margaret Thatcher and John Major is to stand in the coming county council elections for Worcester. Stephen Dorrell is to stand for the Liberal Democrats in a bid to become the Worcestershire County Council candidate for Bedwardine. The decision to stand by the former MP [Loughborough and then Charnwood, 1979-2015. puts him head-to-head with Cllr Alan Amos, himself a former MP [for Hexham, 1987-1992]. Cllr Amos won the seat as a Conservative before he left the party and announced he would now contest the seat as a candidate for ...
"At the turn of the 20th century, British protectionists waged a long and unsuccessful crusade against free trade. Like President Trump's policies, their campaign for tariff reform expressed the anxieties of a global power in decline."Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri draws an enticing historical parallel. Will Hutton talks to Yvonne Wancke at North East Bylines: "Capitalism ... does produce wealth, it does produce innovation...but it has a propensity to inequality, a propensity to monopoly, a propensity to oppress and exclude, it has phenomenal inbuilt instabilities that have to be pro-actively managed by public agencies, and that is elected governments." "HS2's so-called ...
The new issue of Liberator is out. Liberator 428 is out and can be downloaded for free here: In Liberator 428 we have Commentary, news in Radical Bulletin, Letters, Lord Bonkers' Diary and: TRUMP DRIVES US BACK TO EUROPE. America's pivot away from Europe got noisier under Trump but is a long term policy change. Time for a European Defence Union, says Nick Harvey GIVING UP ON SOFT POWER Deliberately cruel actions by the Trump administration mean the end of international development aid and the influence of its former donors in developing countries, says Rebecca Tinsley THE CRUEL CONMAN IN ...
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The life of the Boer War whistleblower Emily Hobhouse is now celebrated at her Cornish home
Embed from Getty ImagesEmily Hobhouse, who exposed the suffering of women and children held in British concentration camps during the Boer War, is now honoured at her childhood home in Cornwall. A new historical attraction called The Story of Emily at the rectory in St Ive, near Liskeard, where she grew up. The Guardian reports: From 12 April a series of events are being held at the Cornish home where the pacifist, whistleblower and activist Emily Hobhouse grew up, around the 165th anniversary of her birth, part of efforts to shine a new light on her fight for justice. Hobhouse ...
Lord Bonkers has always been one to keep up with the latest political developments in political communication; here he enters the world of podcasting. Tuesday To Oakham's cyber-quarter to record my weekly podcast with the Duke of Rutland. You know the idea: put together two chaps you'd expect to fall out and see if they can get on even so - Naomi Campbell and Patrick Stewart have been doing it for years. The first time the Duke and I recorded one of the things, conversation turned to the ownership of certain Stilton mines outside Cropwell Bishop, harsh words were exchanged ...
Can the election of Donald Trump be a major opportunity for Liberal Democrats? Quite possibly, though the jury is still out. In fact I've just written a short history of British Liberalism which ends with that question. I've argued in the book that British Liberalism has made the political weather when it has mobilised public opinion in favour of a political reset, or against a particular threat. Liberals have campaigned best when they have attacked powerful vested interests and damaging concentrations of power - when they have urged constitutional reform (the nineteenth-century Reform Acts) or stood against tariffs and sectional ...
As the school Easter holidays are currently taking place, please note that our ward surgeries do not take place today. Surgeries return next week after the holidays are over but we can be contacted at any time at westend@dundeelibdems.org.uk
The Independent reports that a former ambassador to the US has said that the UK should "notch up" its threats of retaliation towards Donald Trump after he imposed 10 per cent tariffs on UK exports. The paper says that the intervention comes as the government scrambles to boost support for British businesses and negotiate a trade deal with the US that would give Britain a carve-out to avoid the sweeping tariffs, which have been slapped on all major economies: The UK should "notch up" its threats of retaliation towards Donald Trump after he imposed 10 per cent tariffs on UK ...
