I thought I'd make up a list of things that took my fancy this week. First up, if you know someone going to the Notting Hill carnival, Liberty has an excellent guide to your rights if you are zapped by facial recognition technology. Former Love Island contestant Sharon Gaffka talks to Politics Home about how her experience of reality tv gave her a platform to campaign for women's rights and highlight the discrimination women face. I'm very chuffed with the Guardian for sticking by its journalism and the women who told their stories about their dealings with Noel Clarke, who ...
The End Violence against Women and Girls coalition has called for an end to the "racist weaponisation" of violence against women and girls to further an anti migrant agenda: Over recent weeks, people claiming to care about the "safety of women and children" have left families, women and children living in temporary asylum accommodation afraid to leave their front door. They follow in the footsteps of the rioters who used the appalling murder of three young girls as an excuse to bring violence to our streets; with targeted attacks against migrant, minoritised and Muslim communities. That two out of five ...
We have our Headline if the Day - well done, BBC News. If it's any consolation, the gentleman it refers to, Haden Pentecost, wins Name of the Day,
Alan Robertshaw explains the law on putting flags up and taking them down. I remember staying at Crackington Haven when I walked the South West Way - or The Salt Path, as I now realise it was.
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 Opinium 17% (nc) 23% (+1) 14% (+1) 9% (nc) 29% (-2) -6% (vs Ref) 20-22/8 GB Find Out Now ...
The party seems to be getting into a strange situation about the European Union, and it seems confused as well. On the one hand it is calling for a special customs union with the EU, when there's a perfectly good one already available - one we were in for over 40 years - and on the other it's castigating Labour for not having the courage to join the Single Market and the Customs Union, but not, apparently, seeking for the UK to join them. Serious observers of the state of the British Economy vis-à-vis the EU know that the only ...
Yesterday, Fraser had a very useful site visit with a member of West End Community Council regarding Riverside Approach road safety issues - we have since raised these with the council's roads team. One issue is the need for a proper pedestrian crossing between Magdalen Green and the Roseangle playpark. We had previously raised this with officers but a survey resulted in it not meeting the criteria for a crossing. However, following residents' requests and the extent of pedestrian and vehicle movements, we asked for a review of this. The council's Traffic and Road Safety Team Leader has now advised ...
When people think of famous authors associated with Swansea, most will name Dylan Thomas, some will suggest the poet Vernon Watkins, who drafted much of his work perched on a clifftop in Pennard, while others will talk about Kingsley Amis, who worked at Swansea University between 1949 and 1961. As the Swansea University Alumni site says, Amis published his first novel in 1954 while lecturing at the university: It was called Lucky Jim and it was a comic satire on higher education, set in a provincial university. There are obvious parallels with Swansea, although Amis always said that he based ...
