In Church Stretton this morning, I treated myself to the Buildings of England volume on Shropshire by John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner. Ludlow? Schmudlow. I knew where to turn first: Snailbeach is less lunar than it was before the great glistening white hills of mine waste were cleared away in 1994 but it is still an odd place It has no obvious centre, no coherent street pattern and little in the way of public amenities. The double-glazing and conservatory industries cannot disguise the origins of virtually every dwelling in a C19 worker's cottage of the most cramped and basic sort. ...
The story is hidden behind The Times paywall. In fact, the headline is pretty much hidden there too. Nevertheless, the judges were unanimous. This is our Headline of the Day. Besides, you can read about the saga of Altnabreac station on Wikipedia.
The Heritage Foundation is best known as the people who brought us Project 2025. Remember, that was the blueprint for a second Trump Administration which Trump denied he ever heard of and then implemented. About the same time as Project 2025 was published, The Heritage Foundation produced another blueprint—Project Esther. The paper is named after the biblical heroine who saved her people in ancient Persia. Its avowed purpose is "A National Strategy to Combat Anti-Semitism." Its real purpose is to use the veneer of Jewish protection to introduce extraordinary governmental and legal manoeuvres to stifle left-wing dissent. Like most Trumpian ...
Welcome to my summary of the latest national voting intention polls for the next general election, along with the latest MRP projections and party leadership ratings. If you'd like to find out more about how polls work, how reliable they are and how to make sense of them, check out my book, Polling UnPacked: the History, Uses and Abuses of Political Opinion Polls, or sign up for my weekly email, The Week in Polls: General election voting intention polls PollsterConLabLDGrnRefLab leadFieldwork Find Out Now 17% (+1) 20% (nc) 13% (-1) 10% (+1) 30% (-4) -10% (vs Ref) 30/7 GB BMG ...
Togs - Children's Clothing Bank for Tayside - is looking for new volunteers to join its team. There is more information in its poster below and on its website at https://togs.care/volunteer
An historic event will be taking place on Monday when the Swansea City Supporters' Trust will be unveiling a mural to five extraordinary men, all from a single street with just thirty three houses in my ward on Swansea Council. As the BBC reports, over a 13-year period in the middle of the 20th Century, Alice Street in the Cwmbwrla district of Swansea produced five Welsh international footballers, including the Charles brothers, John and Mel. The mural is a tribute to these men: It is one of the few examples in world football of such a small area rearing so ...
