The Scotsman wins our Headline of the Day Award, though the judges said that in their day a school would have carried on regardless.
The Grimond Society, a Liberal Democrat group that aims to build support for economic democracy and a more cooperative and mutualistic economy, gets a good write up on the Co-op News website. It quotes the society's founder, Jack Meredith:"The Liberal Democrats have always stood for the idea of liberty and freedom from poverty, from homelessness, from what Beveridge called the evils of society. And why would we stop at the ballot box? Clearly it makes sense that if we want to try and enrich people's lives, and help them find meaning, why aren't we supporting co-operatives more and being more ...
Competing demographic trends inside Israel and its Western traditional supporters in are stacked against the Jewish state. This week's round of British-led sanctions against goods produced by West Bank settlers is a recognition of changing Western attitudes towards Israel. Democracies by their very nature are dominated by short-term electoral cycles of two, four or five years. Demographic attitudinal changes, on the other hand, run over decades. Governments can postpone responding to the demographic realities because the electoral penalty is initially small. Then, quite suddenly, the accumulated change becomes impossible to ignore. Especially if there is a catalyst such as Gaza ...
Whether you are interested in neolithic graves or not, the trip to Arthur's Stone is worth taking for the view if nothing else. Right at the top of Cefn Bryn, the backbone of Gower, you can see Oxwich Bay to the south and the Loughor Estuary to the north. To the west is Rhossili Bay, boasting the highest point on the peninsular, once a favourite haunt of hang gliders, though I can't recall seeing many for some time. As the Discover Britain website tells us, the stone is easy to miss from the road and not marked on many maps, ...