Degenerate Art on Donald Trump's concentration camps and what can be done to resist their building: "When you consider the number - again, in the tens of millions—that the administration is promising to detain or deport, and when you look at the network of planned facilities that we already know about, what we're witnessing is the express repetition of a project on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history - the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, and Chinese labour camps in the People's Republic of China." "Westminster's moral compass went haywire a long time ago, and ...
Trump is panicking. He knows that come November the Republicans are highly likely to lose control of the House of Representatives. They may also lose control of the Senate, but it would take an electoral miracle for the Democrats to win the two-thirds majority necessary to boot Trump out of the White House. But loss of the lower house would be bad enough. It is the lower house that could impeach him for the third time. Democrat-control of the House of Representatives, can, make it very difficult for Trump to continue to implement his far-right agenda. They can investigate all ...
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 Techne 19% (-1) 17% (-2) 14% (-1) 15% (+2) 30% (+2) -13% (3rd, vs Ref) 11-12/2 UK Find Out ...
Local history a bit closer to home this week, with the only blue plaque in my council ward. It is situated in Lynn Street in Cwmbwrla on the side of a corner house, which may once have been an old bakery, and commemorates a gentleman by the name of David Ayres Jones. Interestingly, the plaque is not listed on the council's official site, which suggests that it may have been mounted privately. According to this historical marker database, David Ayres Jones was an engineer and inventor of Bakery Machinery, being responsible for creating the Worlds first bread moulder in 1947. ...
