Further proof that the past is a foreign country comes in the shape of a story from the Wolverhampton Star and Express for 26 January 1973: Shorts penalty for 6½ft boy Social services officials are investigating the case of a 16-year-old, 6ft. 6in. boy who was told to wear short trousers as a punishment in a remand home. An inquiry was demanded by the boy's solicitor, Mr Peter Marron, who told the juvenile court at Leicester on Tuesday that his client was " humiliated and degraded" by the experience. Mr Marron claimed that the punishment led to another incident at ...
The Lib Dems have created a Farage Fighting Fund to stem the rising tide of Reform UK across swathes of England and Wales. So runs a story by Anna Gross that has popped out from behind the FT paywall (at least for me). She says the Lib Dems have received £100,000 from donors in recent weeks, with a specific mandate to repel the advance of Nigel Farage's populist party:The party hopes the fund will reach £1m this year to help step up production of campaign materials and digital ads to counter Reform in key areas where the Lib Dems are ...
[IMG: George Osborne Barratt's home on Stroud Green Road] Welcome to 175 Stroud Green Road, near where I live and a house with an important little role in the history of chocolate and Doctor Who. The middle of a run of three houses that currently has a Sainsbury's in their ground floor, it was back in the 1880s home to George Osborne Barratt and his family. The confectionery firm he founded made, amongst other products, Liquorice Allsorts and, Doctor Who's favourite, Jelly Babies: Barratt's eponymous firm became part of Cadbury in later years. Its manufacturing started in Islington and then ...
Oakham 1966 was a flop, but Spalding 1967 was a big success. In fact, an article on BBC News (which links to a radio report) suggests it pipped the Monterey Pop Festival in the US to the title of the world's first rock festival. Barbeque 67 was held at the Tulip Bulb Auction Hall, Spalding, on 29 May 1967. On the bill were:The Jimi Hendrix ExperienceCreamGeno Washington and the Ram Jam BandPink FloydThe MoveZoot Money and his Big Roll BandIf I recall rightly, the acts had been booked well in advance and had all grown in stature in the mean ...
"Kennedy has already indicated what he expects the 'findings' to be: that vaccines did it, even though all legitimate science shows that is false. To make sure no real science accidentally happens, he has put a non-scientist/non-doctor in charge of this non-study: David Geier, a man who has been fined for practicing medicine without a license. Worse, his 'treatments' of children are better described as pointless torture." Amanda Marcotte says RFK's pledge to discover the cause of autism isn't just a ploy: it's a war on children's health. Viv Griffiths reports on the widespread support among MPs for rejoining the ...
Scotland's NHS is under immense pressure. In 2023-24, the service spent £358 million on agency and locum staff. A figure, while slightly down from its peak, remains 45% higher than it was five years ago in real terms¹. This spending designed to plug short-term staffing gaps isn't creating long-term solutions. It's not building a workforce. It's not improving staff morale. And most of all, it's not sustainable. What Scotland lacks is not funding — it is a plan. This vision, developed independently by the author, proposes one possible approach to achieving NHS workforce sustainability within existing budget limits. A Cost-Neutral ...
It was a pleasure for Mayor Rotheram, Cllr Robinson and I to welcome the Lord Mayor of Dublin and the Irish Consul-General to Liverpool a couple of weeks ago. I have always known that Liverpool is a very Irish city. Its population burgeoned when more than a million people left the island because of the famine induced by the potato blight. Many of them went on to emigrate to other Countries, particularly America. Others stayed because they were dead, weakened by starvation and illness. But many stayed to help create the city which we are now. A city which understands ...
You may have in your mind an idea of what a consultant is like. Who they are. What they wear. How they speak. What school they went to. What university they went to. Where they work. How they behave. What they drive. What they eat for breakfast. And you may think that, if you're to be a successful solo consultant, you need to be or do all of these things. This is not the case. To be a successful solo consultant, the only thing you need to be is you. Because we are our best selves, and we do our ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR THE WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 21 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 ...
Some might say that they deserve each other, others that as unholy alliances go, this one had an inevitability that should have have been foreseen months ago. Nevertheless, talks between Nigel Farage and the disastrous Liz Truss are ongoing while the rest of us look on in some bemusement. MSN reports that the objective of these discussions is to take on the "Establishment Blob". You couldn't make it up: a former Prime Minister who achieved that position by climbing up the ranks of the Conservative Party establishment, joining with a former public school boy and ex-city of London commodities trader, ...
