We should publicly blame the Conservative Party for its role in ousting Tim Davie as the BBC's Director-General, and for President Donald Trump's $10bn lawsuit. The Party has insufficient grounds for `looking the other way'. Our Party Leader Ed Davey's `Guardian' article of 10 November was superb. His demand that Sir Robbie Gibb resign from the BBC Board was well focused. Even after Gibb had been exposed to many people who didn't realise his power within the BBC, shining the spotlight on him was right. I have been monitoring Gibb for the last couple of years, after my attention had ...
Here's the YouTube blurb for this film: The Roding is London's largest forgotten river. Out on the eastern fringe of the city, it endures every modern indignity: scythed by motorways and concrete bridges; choked with sewage and rubbish; canalised, fly-tipped, retail-parked, thickened with the polluted slime of London clay. It is a forbidding place to call home. Yet in 2017 that is what the environmental barrister, Paul Powlesland, set out to do. Embarking on a hair-raising journey up the Thames on a tiny narrowboat (his propeller nearly fell off on route) he made it to the mouth of the Roding, ...
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Ludlow market stallholder spends donkey's years raising £190,000 for equine charity - selling ...
Our Headline of the Day Award goes to one of its regular recipients: the Shropshire Star. This gives me an excuse for linking to one of my favourite stories from last year - the one about the pet donkey who strayed from home and was later found living as the head of a herd of elk.
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 18% (nc) 14% (nc) 11% (-1) 17% (-1) 33% (+3) -19% (4th, vs Ref) 17/12 GB ...
We often say we care about lived experience, and that is true. We talk clearly about housing, childcare and benefits. In some areas, we have led the way with strong examples and practical policies. Liberal Democrat councils are building new council homes. We pushed to end the two-child benefit cap. In government, we raised the personal tax allowance, the last significant rise before it was frozen. But when it comes to the economy, our message still stops short of what many people want to hear. And this hurts us when campaigning, especially against the Greens and Reform who are prepared ...
[IMG: Louis Adam] Louis Adam has posted on Facebook: I'm really excited to have been selected as the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Kenilworth & Southam. This means I will be the Liberal Democrat on the ballot at the next General Election in our area! I will be working really hard to speak to residents across the whole constituency, to find out what issues matter to you and what change is needed. People deserve to be listened to and to feel represented. I believe we can have a Liberal Democrat MP here, as a strong local voice for a fair and ...
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One of the highlights early on in my term as Lord Mayor of Swansea was the celebration of the 100 years since John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown made the first ever transatlantic flight. The RAF commemorated the occasion with an exhibition in Swansea Museum and a very swanky dinner, which I wrote about on my Mayoral blog, here. As Wikipedia recalls, together with John Alcock, Arthur Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight in June 1919. The two men flew a modified First World War Vickers Vimy bomber from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. The ...
