Whinnies Wanderers are a group of parents and pre-school children based at the Whinnies Community Garden in Sunniside. Earlier this week, they invited me to bring some of our recently hatched chicks for the children to see. The good news is that they want me back next week. I will be bringing a goat instead!
Davey calls on Government to pull Welfare Bill before vote as "PM's own backbenchers" can see the damage carers face "Bungling Badenoch" urgently needs to clarify Conservative position on PM attending major summits after Pritchard criticism Married couple Yi-pei Chou Turvey and Michael Turvey top North East list Wendy Chamberlain MP and People's Postcode Lottery respond to Government not lifting Charity Lottery Cap Cole-Hamilton: Cancer patients deserve better than SNP failures Davey calls on Government to pull Welfare Bill before vote as "PM's own backbenchers" can see the damage carers face Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has called on the ...
"The government's planned disability benefit cuts could affect the majority of current working-age claimants with ischaemic heart disease, inflammatory arthritis, hip and knee disorders and Crohn's disease, according to official figures revealed to Big Issue."Chaminda Jayanetti analyses data on the likely impact of the cuts. Ella Cockbain interviews a representative of SPACE (Stop & Prevent Adolescent Criminal Exploitation) about the authorities' inadequate response to recruitment of children into serious crime: "Nobody's trying to look beyond that to see the child's victimisation as the source of their criminality. We're not asking, why has this child got drugs? Why is this child ...
Over a pint of Tiger, somebody told me that Anthony Burgess used to drink in our pub. The story sounded implausible - that Burgess had been a familiar face at the Black Horse, Aylestone in the 1950s - but I filed it away mentally. Long ago, Phil Beesley kindly wrote me what is still one of my favourite guest posts on this blog. It hold of his discovery that Anthony Burgess had once lived in the Leicester suburb of Aylestone and set one of his novels - The Right to an Answer - there. Today a friend (thanks, Herbert!) sent ...
After more than a year and a half of bombardment, siege, and systematic starvation in Gaza, it is becoming harder than ever to grasp the true scale of Israel's atrocities there. Not because the evidence is lacking, but because the horrors have become so appallingly routine. Since March, when Netanyahu abrogated the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement, and effectively curtailed the further release of Israeli hostages, the Israeli military has killed almost 6,000 Palestinians, bringing the total Palestinian death toll to 56,000. Day after day, dozens of Palestinians are killed by Israeli soldiers while in their homes, in shelters, or in the ...
If Keir Starmer backs down on his planned cuts to Personal Independence Payments, he will be attacked for being weak and making a U-turn, but really it will be a sign that our political system works. He has put forward a policy that does not command a majority in the House of Commons, so he has found that he can't get it through. This ought to happen more often. If the Conservatives were better at politics, they would have announced they would vote for the cuts, deepening the split in the Labour Party if Starmer went ahead with them. But ...
Solo consultants generally have a type of organisation they prefer to work with. Some prefer to work with large multinationals. Others prefer to work with companies in a specific sector, like technology or healthcare. I, for example, work almost exclusively with organisations in the public, not-for-profit and social enterprise sectors. But in addition to the sorts of organisations we like to work with, we solo consultants should also have an idea of specific organisations we really want to work with. This is the target list. The target list isn't simply a load of companies that we'll include in our marketing ...
Both highs and lows have marked Keir Starmer's premiership. With achievements such as beginning the process of renationalising railway services, committing more funding to securing Britain's defence capabilities, and the slow march towards renegotiating the UK's relationship with the EU, you could be forgiven for assuming Labour's period in power has so far been a success. That is, of course, until we consider the more harmful decisions this government has made. The government had, for the longest time, defended cutting the Winter Fuel Allowance for millions of pensioners, until mounting backlash forced them to reverse their decision. Most recently, it ...
If any policy can pinpoint Nigel Farage's Reform party as Trump-lite then their proposal for a Britannia card is it. The Spectator reports that the party's attempt towin over 'non-doms' allegedly by Labour and Conservative governments will let wealthy foreigners pay a £250,000 fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets. Reform says that the policy will raise between £1.5 and £2.5 billion annually, but the Spectator's anaysis of the data suggests it is more likely to cost around £34 billion over five years: To understand why the policy will cost ...
We are holding a Thursday 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 Dundee 459378 and we will be pleased to meet you - many thanks.
