I set myself the task of sorting through a filing cabinet of photos in my office at home this morning. All my photos taken since 2005 are digital. So the contents of the filing cabinet are something of a historic nature, being at least 21 years old. Some were over 40 years old. I did however find this photo which we decided to scan. It was taken in spring 2001. These 5 young people (I'm on
Thomas Hill "T.H." Green Peter Clarke is the author or two books, Lancashire and the New Liberalism and Liberals and Social Democrats, that anyone interested in British Liberalism should read. Here he is back in 1980, reviewing Ian Bradley's The Optimists: Themes and Personalities in Victorian Liberalism in the London Review of Books:The attention given to T.H. Green can be justified partly because he sought to present such a formula in philosophically cogent terms. "When we speak of freedom," he argued, "we do not mean merely freedom to do as we like irrespective of what it is we like. We ...
This is the record that Opus III were sampling, covering or something between the two. Sovering, perhaps. Or campling. Introducing interviews with Edward Barton and Jane Lancaster, who respectively wrote and sang It's a Fine Day, Bob Fischer explains: It's a Fine Day, the acapella single written by Edward Barton and sung by Jane Lancaster, is both haunting and enchanting in equal measure. Turned into a daytime Radio 1 staple after evening plays from - inevitably - John Peel, it later became the sampled source material for a deluge of 1990s dance hits: including the Pete Waterman-backed Opus III, who ...
Sir Keir Starmer should be Britain's Foreign Secretary. His handling of foreign policy is first-class. Unfortunately, for a country's foreign policy to be effective, it needs a strong economic and political base and Sir Keir — as Prime Minister — has failed to produce that. But the world economic crisis created by Trump's attack on Iran and Iran's closure of the Straits of Hormuz means that the British Prime Minister now must focus on world affairs. He has decided that he — along with French President Emmanuel Macron — should take the lead in trying to find a diplomatic solution ...
The Guardian reports on research that has found that opening major new fields in the North Sea would make almost no difference to the UK's reliance on gas imports. The paper says that the Jackdaw field, one of the largest unexploited gasfields in the North Sea, would displace only 2% of the UK's current imports of gas, which would leave the UK still almost entirely dependent on supplies from Norway and a few other sources. They add that the Rosebank field, also in Scottish waters but mainly containing oil, would displace only about 1% of the UK's gas imports: Tessa ...
