Lower Gittenshay Cottage is billed by estate agents as a charming detached cottage offering excellent potential, set with outbuildings and land providing stunning views, in an idyllic and secluded rural location. But if you explore the photos of the property on the website, you may suspect there is more to the place than that. And you'd be right. I've blogged before about the Monastery of St Antony and St Cuthbert in the Stiperstones, but most of the videos and links I posted no longer work. Today I came across a post about the place on Citydesert, but it dates from ...
For being such keen environmentalists and anti-fascists, the Lib Dems need to be far more critical of generative AI than we currently are. But as opposed to talking about the obvious and well-known environmental damage that AI causes, I'd like to focus on the much less talked about the latter: AI art as the contemporary fascist aesthetic. This should be glaringly apparent if we just take a short look at the people who are pro-AI art: from Trump and his administration using Ghibli-style AI images to publicise their illegal and inhumane deportations, to Elon Musk generating a drawing of a ...
"The Lib Dems are quite extremist, when they get into council they want four day weeks and veganism" Shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith says "historically, people have done deals on a local council level with all sorts of — BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) April 13, 2025I couldn't let Andrew Griffith's, er, remarkable performance on the BBC yesterday pass without comment. So here's one from "a Liberal Democrat source" (insiders don't work Sundays): "These comments are frankly a bit weird. Andrew Griffith was Treasury minister under Liz Truss when the Tories crashed the economy and sent mortgages spiralling. "Voters haven't forgiven ...
The other day, I came across the notion that you are what you consume. It's one of those ideas that, while it sounds patently obvious on the face of it, genuinely caused me to think deeply and to realise the more profound truth that this simple phrase contains. I mean, we know that the food we eat and the things we drink play an important role in keeping our bodies healthy. So you don't need me to tell you to drink plenty of water, to eat lots of fruit and vegetables and to lay off the cookies. But the notion ...
[IMG: Lib Dems in sunshine with Mike Ross, Mark Pack and Shaffaq Mohammed] There are hundreds of important prizes at stake for us in the May local elections. Wards where we are standing our first candidate in years. Wards where winning would give us our first breakthrough in an area. Wards where winning would make us the main opposition on the council. Wards where winning could give us leadership of the council for the first time. Wards where winning would cement our record in power locally. But perhaps the biggest prize at stake for the Liberal Democrats is one that ...
Here are some of the people that Reform UK has put on the ballot paper for the May local elections across England. Reform UK has boasted of how rigorously it is vetting its candidates and called its local council candidates "outstanding". But let us take a look at some of those appearing on ballot papers with 'Reform' next to their name... Elliott Allman, Coalville North ward, Leicestershire The BBC reports: Reform UK has backed one of its county council election candidates in Leicestershire after local Conservatives called for him to be suspended over a racist comment he posted on Facebook ...
I love publishing guest posts here on Liberal England, whether they're on politics or wider culture. And I'm happy to entertain a wide range of views. But I'd hate you to spend time writing something I really wouldn't want to publish, so do get in touch first. These are the last 10 guest posts on Liberal England:An Oasis reunion? Have we not suffered enough? - Stuart WhomsleyThe night the Walker Brothers played a Market Harborough club - Jo ColleyAn essay in identifying Englishness - Stuart WhomsleyNo sign of an end to defections in local government - Augustus CarpWhen Syd Barrett ...
Mon 14th
07:30
Welcome to my day: 14 April - wouldn't a bit of boredom and a nice cup of tea hit the spot right now...
As you see this, gentle reader, I'll be back in the United Kingdom, but, as I write this, I'm on a Eurostar heading back after a week of looking out of train windows, eating local food, drinking local beers and wines, and admiring the architecture (or not, in the case of Wiener Neustadt) of a variety of European towns and cities. It has been reassuringly relaxing, if not exactly dull. But beyond the cocoon of a train, the world has been a tempestuous place, with on again, off again tariffs, all sorts of previously unthinkable actions, and a sense that, ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR THE WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 14 APRIL 2025 Blinshall Street (Douglas Street to 50 metres south) - closed until August 2025 for construction works. Douglas Street (Blinshall Street to Brown Street) - temporary traffic lights until August 2025 for construction works. Brown Street (south of Douglas Street) - closed until August 2025 for construction works. Scottish and Southern Energy Networks Elmwood Cable Renewal Scheme - temporary traffic lights and road closure from Tuesday 4 March for 12 weeks insofar as it affects the West End Ward : Ancrum ...
The Independent reports that the "savage" cuts to UK foreign aid will leave 55.5 million of the world's poorest people without access to basic resources> The paper says that analysis by Save the Children lays bare the true impact of repeated cuts to the budget, the latest of which will see spending fall to just 0.3 per cent of gross national income (GNI) - the lowest level in 25 years: Women and girls will suffer the most as the government is likely forced to scale back programmes across global education, family planning, water and food aid. This could leave 12 ...
