Gateshead Lib Dems have set up a photo gallery page on the party's website. Photos included range from members campaigning across Gateshead to councillors attending party or council meetings. You can see the March photos on this link.
Raven is another of those supernatural children's television series from the Seventies, but not one of the best remembered. I don't know how much of it I watched at the time, but I do remember reading the book. The only thing I would take issue with in this short video is the idea that Raven was ahead of its time in showing concern for environmental issues. In fact, the environment came to the fore as a political concern in the Seventies, as everything from the founding of Friends of the Earth to the popularity of The Good Life will attest. ...
"Neither More in Common nor Opinium highlight the fact that Ed Davey tops their net approval ratings. This amnesia spills into other areas. BMG data shows that more people have not heard of Kemi Badenoch than have not heard of Ed Davey, while Ipsos gives Ed Davey the best net score on whether he would be a good or bad PM."Stephen McNair asks why the press and the pollsters aren't talking about Britain's most popular party leader. Tom Gordon, Lib Dem MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough, calls for adoptive parents to be given more support: "Adoption is often viewed as ...
Following on from the events at the National Liberal Club and at the party's Harrogate Spring Conference, the John Stuart Mill Institute is completing its trio of book launches at the Scottish Liberal Club, 4 Clifton Terrace, Edinburgh EH12 5DR, at 7.30pm, Friday, 25th April. All colleagues are warmly welcome. The Institute has sponsored the book "When We Speak of Freedom – Radical Liberalism in an Age of Crisis" as the definitive current publication on Liberal philosophy and values. The twenty chapter writers include a number of respected politicians, academics and specialists, including Sir Vince Cable, Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, ...
The most prized real estate in my office is the left-hand edge of the whiteboard above my desk. Because this is where I stick yellow post-it notes with ideas, quotes or concepts that I have found to be particularly insightful and that I want to keep at the forefront of my mind. There are currently three post-it notes stuck there. The first has scrawled on it 'you are what you consume', an idea that we considered in a recent blog post. The second highlights the need for diversified, small-scale land economies that are dependent on people, which I noted down ...
I feel compelled to begin this article with a confession of jealousy. Since joining the Scottish Liberal Democrats, I've met many wonderful people who can say that they are lifelong liberals. I always wince with envy when I hear it. As I've told those who have asked, I was a member of the Scottish Conservatives for some years, including a brief stint working in their press office in Holyrood. I'm not ashamed of that per se, and nobody in the party has even hinted that I should be, but facts are facts. Especially given the right-ward march of the Scottish ...
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Maybe the cancellation of Time Team is the event after which everything started going wrong
Time Team, Channel 4's (ahem) groundbreaking archaeology programme, ran for 20 years from 1994. At its best it was like a nonfiction version of Detectorists. So Time Team's cancellation rivals the death of David Bowie as the event after which everything started going wrong. This special programme celebrates those 20 years. I've been watching old episodes of Time Team on YouTube recently and have noticed one way in which it changed over the years. In its final year or two, the programme included a montage of the best bits to come in that episode to dissuade people from changing channel. ...
We are holding a street surgery tonight to speak with residents on any local issues or concerns they may have. Should you have an issue you wish to discuss with us, e-mail us at westend@dundeelibdems.org.uk or call us on Dundee 459378 and we will be pleased to meet you - many thanks.
Following yesterday's blogpost in which I highlighted how Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are seeking to get the UK to repeal hate speech laws in return for a trade agreement, the Independent reports that these demands on free speech may also harm children. The paper says that these concerns have been raised after allies of vice-president JD Vance told the paper that he wants the UK to repeal hate speech laws and ditch plans for a new online safety law in exchange for a trade deal that could see the UK avoid tariffs. They add that Vance has previously claimed ...
