It's Charles Dickens' birthday. He was born on 7 February 1812 in Portsmouth - you can visit the house where he was born. To celebrate the day, here is his description of the effect the building of the London to Birmingham railway had on Camden: The first shock of a great earthquake had, just at that period, rent the whole neighbourhood to its centre. Traces of its course were visible on every side. Houses were knocked down; streets broken through and stopped; deep pits and trenches dug in the ground; enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that ...
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 16% (-1) 23% (+1) 10% (-3) 13% (+2) 31% (nc) -8% (vs Ref) 4-6/2 GB Find Out Now ...
Welcome to Manu Singh, previously a Green councillor on Runnymede Council and now a Liberal Democrat: We're delighted to welcome Councillor Manu Singh who has joined the Liberal Democrats from the Green Party in Surrey! [IMG: 🔶] — Liberal Democrats (@libdems.org.uk) 2026-02-07T11:32:55.350Z
The short answer is yes a national set of rules and controls does need to be put in place. but not in such a way that they will not guarantee fairness within the system and a fair vote for all. The United Kingdom does not have identical election systems across the whole of our Country. However, we do have a system in which the UK Government as a whole has taken an in-principle decision about the number of Members of Parliament and the type of voting system that will be used. I do not like the voting system that we ...
[IMG: Jackie Pearcey surrounded by orange diamonds] However much I love Vince Cable, I can't let his comments urging people to vote tactically for Labour in the forthcoming Gorton and Denton by-election pass without comment. He told the I Paper: He pointed out that in previous by-elections and at the last general election, the Lib Dems had benefited from tactical voting by presenting themselves as the main anti-Conservative force in certain areas. Cable - who was business secretary in the coalition government before leading his party from 2017 to 2019 - said: "First of all, the Lib Dems are not ...
"The fallout from the latest revelations has again put survivors secondary to the actions of powerful men. Mandelson, who maintained a friendship with Epstein after his 2008 conviction, initially declined to apologise to Epstein's victims and distance himself from any knowledge of the financier's sex crimes." Victims have told us the worst of Epstein's crimes for decades - and but they are still being ignored, says Lindsey Blumell. Stephanie Burt on the organised opposition to ICE in Minnesota: "In January a horde of masked thugs arrived in the Twin Cities as part of Donald Trump's Operation Metro Surge to brutalise, ...
The Patti Pavilion is situated on Swansea's seafront having started life as winter garden conservatory at Craig-y-Nos in the lower Swansea valley. It was constructed along with a clock tower by Spanish opera singer, Adelina Patti who, after the failure of her first marriage, and in search of privacy and good trout-fishing for her lover, married French tenor Ernest Nicolini, bought a Welsh country house overlooking the River Tawe near Penwyllt, on the edge of the Brecon Beacons. The conservatory and clock tower cost £100,000, which she was able to pay for by doing just one tour of the USA ...
