When writing about my walk from Desborough to Pipewell and Wilbarston, I mentioned that I cut across the corner of the disused World War II airfield RAF Desborough. That airfield is worth a post of its own. The map suggested there should be a path from the airfield down to the village of Wilbarston. Standing on the runway, it was not obvious where the path was. The best candidate was a hedge, with the blackthorn blossom showing prominently. When I reached it, there turned out to be two hedges either side of what was obviously an ancient lane - almost ...
As it's my preferred activity of late, it's about time for a post about canvassing. What is it and why do we do it? [IMG: i-heart-hove-actually-t-shirt] We've been canvassing in Central Hove since about Oct 2010. For those who are unpracticed with political jargon, canvassing is speaking to people 'on the doorstep'. Why do it? We are interested in what people have to say about the area and their concerns. We build a picture of support across the area in terms of voting patterns and topics of concerns - then keep people up to date on what we're doing about ...
It's been a weekend of two halves – the first spent going to and from Wembley for the FA Cup semi-final, and the second spent back here in St Mary's out on the campaign trail. For most of today I've been enjoying the lovely Prestwich sunshine delivering leaflets to people across the ward. It's even ...
The Welsh Liberal Democrats will expose an example of the waste and inefficiency of Labour and Plaid Cymru in government on each day of the Welsh general election campaign It was revealed last August that the legal cost of the Labour-Plaid Government's fight to challenges to its planned badger cull pilot was more than £57,000, with nearly £20,000 paid towards the Badger Trust's costs. The Labour-Plaid government's badger cull order was overturned by the Court of Appeal as they said it was wrong to make an order for the whole of Wales when the Government consulted on the basis of ...
Sun 17th
20:51
Parents' fury after Bobby Davro simulates sex with giant kangaroo during children's panto
The Daily Mail has just walked away with our Headline of the Day award.
On Thursday 5th May, I will be standing for the first time as the Green Party candidate for Malvern Link. Elected, I will campaign for the following: • More spending on services for people and less on council management• Keeping our local government local• Improving community transport• Preserving waste collection services and improving recycling • More local housing options• Regular consultation on the issues that matter to you More spending on services for people and less on council managementUnder this council, you are getting less for your money. While the council has been required by national government to hold the ...
John Hemming, the Lib Dem MP for Birmingham Yardley, is stepping up his campaign against the extraordinary injunctions being granted by British courts these days. According to a report on the Guardian website this afternoon, John is concerned about a new breed of injunction, used in relation to a case in the high court in London last week, which means journalists could face gaol simply for asking questions. The newspaper quotes him as saying: "This goes a step further than preventing people speaking out against injustice. It has the effect of preventing journalists from speaking to people subject to this ...
R v Lindis Percy Trial for alleged offence: section 128 Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCPA) 2005 (Decision to prosecute are made by the Attorney General) Heard before David Cooper (District Judge) Prosecutor - Ms Booth (Barrister)(Not THE Ms Booth) Defendant - Lindis Percy (litigant in person) On 30 October 2009 at about 12.45 pm Lindis walked into USAF Mildenhall via Gate 1, showed her driving license to US security (Kyler Sherman Brown) at the guard gate. He took it, examined it front and back and said: "O.K Mam - there you go - have a nice day". She ...
I am sitting at my sister's kitchen table in Inverness, glass of Rioja in hand while, watching her boyfriend do things with bicycles I never knew was possible. We have had a fantastic day. Earlier said sis and boyfriend came over to our gorgeous holiday cottage for lunch. We sat outside in the glorious sunshine having a laugh and playing Duck, Duck, Goose. And there was no alcohol involved, honest. That wasn't the case last night. I was a bit surprised that we should be invited for dinner when they had done a 100 mile cycle to the top of ...
I was going to say that everyone will know this song, but people are so young these days and that may no longer be true. Anyway, I was browsing in a recently opened second-hand bookshop in Leicester yesterday while this was playing. I cannot remember listening so closely to the long instrumental section in the song before. It is very good. I promise to put more thought into the selection next week.
Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 217th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere ... Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (10-16 April, 2011), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed. Don't forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging. As ever, let's start with the most popular post, and work our way down: 1. More on Clegg ...
To round off my media-tastic weekend, I've been talking to Channel 4 News about electoral reform: Speaking to Channel 4 News he added: "It's a shame that the 'No' campaign has sunk to such desperate tactics as inventing fake stories about counting machine costs, but it shows just how scared the old-fashioned political establishment is about a change that would give the public far more power in future elections. "What's been great to see is the high level of grassroots campaigning around the country for a 'Yes' vote, involving far more people than the 'No' campaign and bringing in many ...
Here's details of the forthcoming Friends of Magdalen Green public meeting and AGM. The poster can be downloaded by clicking on the headline above or by going to http://tinyurl.com/fomg2011.
Further to my recent article about the forthcoming Boys Brigade concert, here's a poster about the event that you can also download by clicking on the headline above or by going to http://tinyurl.com/bbconcert2011.
Following concerns brought to my attention by residents about the vandalism of a wheelie bin in the Black Street play area and some graffiti close by, I have had a very prompt response from the Waste Management Department of the City Council, who have promised action to tidy the area.
Following on writing about HMS Campbeltown, my wife and I went on a look around the Canadian Navy flagship HMCS Athabaskan. Unfortunately I forgot to put the memory card in my camera and the batteries ran out by the time I got back which meant the photos were lost. Differences between HMCS Athabaskan and HMS ...
On the 5th of May the good folk of Guildford will go to the polls. They will be voting to elect 48 councillors across 22 wards. These 48 men and women good and true will form Guildford Borough Council. At the moment the Tories have overall control of the council with 27 seats to the Lib Dems' 21. This means that a Lib Dem gain of four seats will leave us back in control of the council eight years after the tories took it from us. (Of course, if we only took three seats off of the tories then both ...
Whilst pondering the phrase I love to hate, social mobility (see here for the explanation, featuring benches and broken paving stones), I wondered how its usage how fared over the years in books. Courtesy of Google's rather nifty book search tool, I've produced this graph of how frequently the phrase and several others have been used in the very large number of books in English that have been scanned by Google: [IMG: Book search graph] (Click on graph for larger version) From after the First World War until around 1970 the use of upper class, middle class and working class ...
Today my wife Claire and I took part in the 30th Wirral Egg Run. This is an annual event where thousands of bikers meet at New Brighton promenade and go on a run round The Wirral to end up at Clatterbridge Hospital. Here easter eggs and cash are donated. In 1998 it was decided that due to the vast amount of Easter eggs being collected that monetary donations would be asked for instead of Easter eggs, as some people would still bring eggs but the children's ward at Arrowe Park Hospital would also benefit from the toys / equipment.In 1999 ...
This chapter has three parts: first, the growth of the controversy about the use of icons in religious worship, and how this drove a wedge between the Pope and the Empire; second, the rise of Charlemagne and the re-foundation of the Western Empire; and third, the subsequent re-foundation of the Holy Roman Empire and a brief sketch of its history, finishing by contrasting the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, at his coronation in 1356, with Augustus, who started it all. I must say I found it a really enlightening chapter; I had had no idea that it was iconoclasm that ...
Well - here I am on the campaign trail again - feels easier each time I do it but there's always that "waiting in the wings, heart in mouth" feeling before banging on the first door. We are a select few who are campaigning in the Fakenham area of Broadland. We aim to back each other up and I spent some time in Fakenham South on Thursday afternoon supporting the local Councillors there.We are very short of volunteers to deliver leaflets or help to canvass opinion and if anyone would like an excuse to walk in Wensum's lovely villages just ...
Hat tip to Dan Falchikov They are an excellent musical group. Worth catching for all their pop song renditions.
As a churchgoer in my distant past Holy Week was the undoubted climax of the year. Sometimes we would attend services daily the whole week, and almost always from Maundy Thursday. The move from fast to feast was dramatic. As with Christmas, the festival may have pagan undertones, linked to Spring and fertility, but unlike Christmas, the Christian content has been able to hold its own. Even now as an agnostic, Holy Week retains a lot of power; power that other festivals have lost. Why would that be? This might be a puzzle. My attraction to Christianity is based on ...
I recently had my second lovely meal from Guildford's Tong Tong - a Chinese takeaway. Now as a student I've had quite a few Chinese takeaways in my life and I maintain that Tong Tong is without a doubt (in my opinion) the best in Guildford. It's certainly not the highest of quality but it's definitely great value for money. For example, their Special Fried Rice (which comes with large pieces of chicken and pork) only costs £5.25 and is large enough to be a meal in its own right. I ended up having the Special Fried Rice and Spicy ...
The young people working on plans for a skatepark in Garston are inviting anyone interested, or anyone with queries, to come along to a meeting tomorrow. Its 7pm at the Urban Village Hall on Banks Road Queries to Brendan at burtonb@mya.org.uk
Thanks to Friends of Garston Park, there've been some improvements to our park this Spring. The Friends raised money for a new noticeboard (for the Island Road side) and for new benches to create some more "quiet places" to sit. The board is already being used for some Friends and Community notices and the benches went in just this week (although we know they are already being used) The Friends raised money for both these projects by holding raffles and sales, but also by applying to funds. They received money from the Councillors Initiative Fund for Cressington and from the ...
[IMG: House of Lords. House of Lords. Parliamentary copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament] Today's Sunday Telegraph has a piece on Lords reform - on which the Coalition Agreement from last year promises a mostly elected Upper House, with elections by "proportional representation". Because that's why the agreement says, I think the Telegraph over-eggs the issue a little with the sub-headline: "David Cameron is planning to allow peers to be elected to a reformed House of Lords by a system of proportional representation in a major boost for Nick Clegg". But even so, given how deeply divided ...
To King's in the morning for the 6-monthly scan of my plastic aorta, to make sure it isn't leaking at the ends, where it joins the natural arteries. It was looking OK, so when I saw the surgeon Mr R afterwards there wasn't much to be discussed. But we had an interesting short chat about the current state of affairs in Egypt!
Just realised that I needed to catch the voting deadline for the BSFA awards, and I have hastily ranked the nominees for Best Art as follows, before scanning and emailing my ballot: 1) Ben Greene - 'A Deafened Plea for Peace', cover for Crossed Genres 21 2) Andy Bigwood - cover for Conflicts (Newcon Press) 3) Charlie Harbour - cover for Fun With Rainbows by Gareth Owens (Immersion Press) 4) Adam Tredowski - cover for Finch, by Jeff Vandermeer (Corvus) 5) Joey Hi-Fi - cover for Zoo City, by Lauren Beukes (Angry Robot) 6) Dominic Harman - cover for The ...
Something's bothering me about one of the arguments used by the NO2AV campaign: 1) AV benefits the least unpopular party 2) AV will benefit the Lib Dems 3) You should vote against AV because the Lib Dems are unpopular. Bit of a big assumption there, wouldn't you say?
Interesting diary piece in the Daily Mail's Black Dog column today featuring the Conservative MP for Monmouthshire, David Davies, who used to represent the same constituency in the Welsh Assembly: Old Etonian Nicholas Soames bawled out fellow Tory David Davies for wearing a short-sleeved shirt in the Commons. Davies, who went to a Welsh comprehensive, promptly invested in a posh, double-cuff shirt and silk tie. But Soames still found fault. 'You're wearing a checked shirt, man. This is the bloody House of Commons, not a ******* farmers' market!' he roared. He would never have had that problem in Cardiff Bay. ...
... are the ones who want to "share" it with the rest of us? I want to blog about stuff: elected House of Lords, royalty, the awesomeness of Vince Cable, the shitstorm that has blown up around Gail Simone this weekend, my wife's marvellous bread-making abilities, internal party election rule changes and why they are needed, etc. etc. etc.. And yet somebody outside the house is playing loud irritating music and I can't form coherent thoughts to put down on the screen. All I can think is SHUT UP SHUTUP SHUTUUUUUUUUUUUUP!!!! I mean, is there any need for Mika? Just ...
It just keeps getting worse for Andrew Lansley. Having already had his plans to reform the NHS rebuffed by Liberal Democrat conference and the BMA, this week the Royal College of Nursing passed a motion of no confidence in him . By 98.76%. No wonder he became the first Health Secretary in eight years to ...
I came across this video celebrating the departure of Tony Blair. In addition to being bloody hilarious, it's the perfect reminder of why I will never, ever vote Labour and why I sincerely hope to one day piss on Tony Blair's grave. Unfortunately for some reason you may only be able watch it on youtube but please go and watch it. It's effing brilliant!
I noticed in John Lamonts latest leaflet ironically titled "Common sense with John Lamont" a moment of short term memory loss. In the leaflet, John Lamont has criticised Euan Robson, his Scottish Liberal Democrats challenger (SNP and Labour are over 4,000 votes behind Euan), for wanting to become an MP. Is this the same Conservative John Lamont who spent tens of thousands of pounds trying to beat Michael Moore to become an MP only last year? It certainly is. Maybe John Lamont and the local Conservatives have got some short term memory loss?
It was revealed last August that the legal cost of the Labour-Plaid Government's fight to challenges to its planned badger cull pilot was more than £57,000, with nearly £20,000 paid towards the Badger Trust's costs. The Labour-Plaid government's badger cull order was overturned by the Court of Appeal as they said it was wrong to make an order for the whole of Wales when the Government consulted on the basis of an Intensive Action Pilot Area (IAPA) which only supported a cull on evidence within the IAPA. The assembly government had to pay £57,000 for losing the legal challenges to ...
Many of the illuminated "keep left" bollards on King's Hedges Road are not lighting up. A resident came to me saying that despite reporting it to the County they hadn't been fixed. We are now on the case and will try to get the County to fix them. There seem to be a number of problems: not least that the County don't seem to have half of them in their system which makes getting repairs ordered tricky. These bollards are important in highlighting the locations of the junctions off King's Hedges Road. As many residents have told us, King's Hedges ...
It's only two and a half week to the council elections. Loads of people are cheerfully predicting electoral meltdown for the Lib Dems. Aside from the fact that this has been promised on multiple occasions before (and failed to materialise), there seems to be some substantial evidence that it may not be as simple as that. Now, to be fair, the national polls are rather bad at the moment with the party on about 10% if you look at the average of all the polls. But national polls aren't representative of what happens in local elections - at least not ...
Sun 17th
11:57
In other news... Croatian justice, the monarchy, death penalty impeded and elections news
More good news on the increasing reach of international justice: "Two Croatian military leaders have been convicted of atrocities against Serbs during the break up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s" (BBC) Both Lynne Featherstone and Evan Harris have previously pushed for the rules of royal succession to be changed to remove the precedence given to males over females. As Lynne has put it previously, the monarchy is about symbolism – so it should have the right symbolism. Now Nick Clegg is also on the case: "Mr Clegg, who is responsible for constitutional reform, told the BBC the issue would "require ...
Meeting at the Department for Education of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Education Stakeholder Group, which I chair. There were a lot of important items on the agenda such as the Ofsted consultation and the reviews of the national curriculum, vocational education, school funding and school admissions, but several of the key players had sent apologies. An important European Union development coming down the track is a proposal for "An EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies up to 2020", which is to be discussed at the next meting of the European Council.
There is nothing left to cut in Greece, but still the government continues austerity measures. €110 billion bailout scheme was forced onto the population by the European Central Bank and the IMF. But yet national debt has grown to over €300 ... Continue reading →
My third edition of 'Random Thoughts' is about politics and the Liberal Democrats. BBC News: Clegg advisor Norman Lamb could quit over NHS changes I thought Norman Lamb's interview on the Politics Show last Sunday was a superb piece of political communication. Norman was rational, moderate and even handed but at the same time made a strong political point with clarity and in language everyone can understand. What is more he demonstrated how what he was saying was rooted in principle and that he was prepared to back what his words with action. This is how to do it. LDV: ...
Morning, meeting with Nick Hopkins, manager of the High Elms visitor centre, and his assistant Alex Filby, about their project of constructing a virtual model of the House, and accumulating as much information as possible about what life was like there in the past. Lyulph also came, and of course his collection of photographs and articles is an excellent basis for the scheme. As one would expect, though, fewer pictures of the inside of the rooms exist, and only of some of the main rooms. Afternoon, a visit by senior members of the Bangladesh Jamaat Islami, mainly to discuss the ...
As promised earlier this week, I popped over to London's Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology to take a look at what they're doing with QR codes. [IMG: iPad QRator] The staff were very friendly and quite happy to chat about their experiences with the codes. I'd like to thank them for taking the time to talk to me about the installation – and for letting me photograph the exhibits. About The MuseumThe Petrie is one of London's smallest museums. Nestled within UCL, small but perfectly formed, it contains a fascinating array of ancient Egyptian artefacts. It also held one of ...
I love historic quirks. One that I was unaware of until this week was that of the 335 year war between the Isles of Scilly and the Netherlands! Today, April 17th, is the 15th anniversary of the signing of the Peace Treaty in 1986 which ended this unlikliest of rivalries! Isles of Scilly Republic of the Seven United Netherlands Vs It apparently all began during the English Civil War. Cromwell's Parliamentarians had taken control of mainland Britian, forcing the Royalist Navy to retreat to the Isles of Scilly, which lie off the Cornish coast and which were under the ownership ...
Hurrah! At last (and hopefully finally successfully) the issue of the first born MALE child of the monarchy being first in line to the throne – regardless of any sisters that might have been born before him – looks like it will now end. I have been banging on about this for ages including here , here, here, here and here. You can see it's been one of my recurring themes.... Of course – now the race is on – because the change must come before it becomes an issue with actual children involved – and therefore far more difficult ...
John Curtice is a God among psephologists. He is not a man to be criticised lightly. But he left me muttering into my cornflakes when I heard him suggest on the Today Programme that we could be sure AV delivers a benefit to the Lib Dems in terms of seats won. Now, the national media - even Radio 4's august news flagship – is not happy dealing in nuance but there are at least three reasons why it is dangerous to make assumptions about future elections fought under AV on the basis of past elections fought on FPTP. First is ...
Saturday morning started off early with Sky and Sean Dilley... And on Saturday evening I took direct action on poor quality Saturday evening telly - by appearing myself on the BBC News Channel [IMG: :-)]
Sun 17th
10:02
Nick writes to Dame Jenny Abramsky as Heritage Lottery Fund poised to decide on Pier funding applica...
Dear Dame Jenny, You will know, no doubt, that the coming week is an absolutely crucial one for the future of Hastings & St Leonards. We are a seaside town attempting to progress real, community-led regeneration, and I know that there is agreement across the political spectrum about the fact that Hastings Pier, and what ...
Way to go, Nick! Following our recent party conference (the Lib Dems are the only truly democratic party in the country) which told the leadership most members were not happy with plans for NHS reform, Nick Clegg has today called for major changes to the plans which guarantee that the moves under the previous government to privatise services in the NHS are stopped. Nick has confirmed that 'there will never be privatisation of the health service on our watch'. We're still the good guys.
The Telegraph signposts some news that will warm the hearts of democrats everywhere. They say that David Cameron is planning to allow peers to be elected to a reformed House of Lords by a system of proportional representation. The proposals are due to be unveiled by the end of next month. The paper reveals that the plan would be for a reformed House of Lords, with 80 per cent of its members elected for single "terms" of 15 years under a proportional representation system.
[IMG: Majestic] [IMG: Creative Commons License] photo credit: Phil_Parker I remember going for a family outing to Polridmouth Cornwall in an open boat with an outboard motor. It got very choppy and we kids had to hunker down under anroaks. Fortunately we had our Grandpa at the helm of the Seagull outboard. Clenching his pipe firmly in his teeth, as ever, he didn't bat an eyelid as he steered us confidently home through the choppy waters. He'd been shipwrecked twice, after all, so this was a doddle for him. The day after, my Grandpa was chatting with a friend at ...
In his Wales on Sunday column this morning, Matt Withers points out that all the parties in this election are going negative on the record of the others. That is the nature of modern elections. However, as he further elucidates, it is one thing to go negative, quite another to do so whilst pretending to be whiter-than-white and accusing your opponents of taking the lead in dissing the others. Matt refers to the statement issued by Labour on Friday afternoon in which they say that: "It will be interesting to see if the other parties rethink their incessantly negative campaigns ...
Woke this morning in some discomfort due to minor but inconvenient medical complaint, and in the course of driving to doctor and then the pharmacy and then back home, I finished listening to the last few installments of A History of the World in 100 Objects, which has been my recourse when I run out of Doctor Who audios since I finished a rather unimpressive BBC history series on the British Empire four months ago. A History of the World in 100 Objects is really excellent. A hundred thirteen-minute programmes - so 22 hours in total - each taking a ...
Sun 17th
09:26LibLink: Paddy Ashdown - The AV vote matters - the no campaign's scaremongering shows it
With the AV referendum drawing closer – and postal votes hitting doormats this weekend – there's plenty of coverage of it in today's newspapers, including a rather excellent piece in The Observer by former Liberal Democrat Leader Paddy Ashdown. The majority of Paddy's piece has its sights firmly set on the increasingly pernicious NO campaign, most pertinently on this week's "bizarre" intervention into the debate by the chancellor George Osborne – which unsurprisingly makes it onto The Observer front page. Here's an extract of what Paddy has to say: What I am perplexed and deeply disturbed by is that those ...
i) births and deaths 17 April 1924: birth of Clyde Pollitt, who played a Time Lord (the Chancellor) in The War Games (1969) and The Three Doctors (1973). also 17 April 1924: birth of Kevin Lindsay, who played Linx in The Time Warrior (1973-74), Cho Je in Planet of the Spiders (1974), and Styre/The Marshal in The Sontaran Experiment (1975). 17 April 1941: birth of Brian Miller, who played Dugdale in Snakedance (1983) and Harry Stevens in The Mad Woman in the AtticSJA, 2009); is also married to Elisabeth Sladen. 17 April 1963: birth of Russell T. Davies, head writer ...
The central question in the current debate over the Government's NHS reforms is whether the "listening" exercise taking place during the recently discovered "natural pause" in the legislative process is genuine or symbolic. Concerns that the exercise is cosmetic will only be fuelled by an article in yesterday's Guardian which cites a letter from David ...
All I really know is that I saw this on the back wall of Boradhurst Gardens, from West Hampstead Tube station and thought wow! It stands out and is impressive and colourful - I was also interested to be joined by three other travellers who were admiring it... The reality is railway graffiti is the norm now but with some basic imagination it could be developed... some of the graffiti is abusive and incredibly tatty and undermines a building and the area. So perhaps as part of the London elections next year there could be an intelligent engagement on the ...
The video above is of me interviewing my wife Leonora about an issue of concern to local residents that's been rumbling on for years. Not only is the alleyway behind the shops getting full of rubbish (the gates put there to cut down on it have been vandalised and one is lying at an angle ...
As a Liberal, an egalitarian and, I hope, a rationalist I ought to be in favour of a republic. However, in the highly unlikely event of my doing something brave and being awarded a medal I'd prefer to receive it from a member of a royal family rather than an ex-politician, and certainly not from Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair or even Charles Kennedy. (Jo Grimond would have been acceptable, but unfortunately there aren't many of his calibre around.) Consequently I welcome the proposals to abolish the discriminatory law that puts girls at the back of the succession queue in favour ...
The economy of Estonia is recovering very quickly. Spring has brought with it a gigantic inflow of new visitors. The bars and restaurants in the Old Town are full. Things have returned to the heady days before the crash. Finns, Swedes, Germans, Spaniards all aiming to get to the bar first. However, one of the more... bizarre... signs of this recovery is the return of the British stag party. Now it is possible to fly directly to Tallinn from Edinburgh, Liverpool and East Midlands, as well as Stansted, Luton and Gatwick, we seem to have the return of the previously ...
Atlas Shrugged - the movie! "it is my great regret to inform you that Atlas Shrugged: Part I is neither good nor good-bad, but bad-bad-bad-bad. I dreamed, not of sesame chicken, but of my own swift and merciful death, and that of the director, not necessarily in that order." (tags: sf films) i don't even - mnwka: ATTENTION INTERNET: THIS IS A PENGUIN... Baby penguin being tickled. OMG teh cutez! (tags: cute video) Blind ten-year-old becomes European Parliament's youngest interpreter | Metro.co.uk The headline slightly exaggerates - she was basically doing work experience with her MEP. And I'm aware of ...
A Court in Chile has ordered the remains of Salvador Allende be exhumed in order to determine whether he committed suicide or was murdered as part of the 1973 coup. The Court is looking into no fewer than 726 alleged cases of Human Rights abuse as part of the Coup. The official version of events was that Allende committed suicide with a rifle given to him by Fidel Castor but others believe he was assassinated during the coup d'état. I have noticed that different countries who have thrown off despotic regimes handle them in different ways. Few have managed to ...
I received not one but two leaflets from the Independent Party a couple of days ago. Three if you count the additional leaflet that one of my sons received sealed in an envelope. There is an emphasis on explaining that they are the genuine Independent Party and the reason for this is that there has been a split and we now have two independent parties. The first party found success on the back of putting Morecambe first. This is not a great basis if you want to expand but that's what they did. I am sure that the second party ...
