A couple of mad Scotsmen - Gus and Fin - and their ukuleles with a cracking cover of a top tune from Gary Numan.
There is more about the Liverpool Overhead Railway, which was dismantled in 1957, on Photo by D.J. Norton. It can also be seen in some films.
This evening I did my first live TV debate about next week's Royal Wedding, on the Iranian channel PressTV, along with former foreign and royal affairs correspondent Yvonne Ridley, who was in a studio in Cairo. She rather took me aback by declaring that the almost military straight lines of Union flags currently hanging over Regent Street were reminiscent of swastika ...
Fri 22nd
22:04
For those who wonder why Charles Kennedy is on Lib Dem leaflets - its to say I've learned to love th...
I've learned to love the coalition CHARLES KENNEDY 20th April 2011 — Issue 182 I admit that this coalition wasn't exactly my preferred option but I've come round, says the former Lib Dem leader Plenty of commentators are busy trying to paint the Liberal Democrats into a crisis. We would be well advised to ignore them. Personally, I'm not of the meltdown mentality. Politics is a marathon, never a sprint. But there are other reasons for optimism, too. I admit that this coalition wasn't exactly my preferred option. I've always considered myself in the reforming, centre-left tradition, so a centre-right ...
Question: The difference in miles between two journeys is 10 miles. What is the difference in time by public transport of these two journeys? 10 minutes? 30 minutes? 1 hour? Or longer? Answer: It depends. If you take a relatively short journey then there can be absolutely no difference. For example take the journeys Ayr
Writing for Liberal Democrat Voice, Merlene Emerson gives her impressions of Leicester South after being one of the busload of activists who came up from London last Saturday. (Thanks for the lift back to Zuffar Haq's HQ, by the way.) Stephen Tall, also on Liberal Democrat Voice, defends a Liberal Democrat candidate who has been outed by her local paper as appearing in photos on a fetish site. My reaction was that this is just what you would expect in Northamptonshire, but you may find Stephen's take more enlightening. I may just have chosen two of their articles, but Keith ...
I've had a migraine for the last couple of days, so NaBoWriFoNi might actually become NaBoWriFifteenOrSixteenDays, unless I can get a couple of ten thousand word days in (entirely possible – I have next week off work, though tomorrow is busy between the Yes stall and the new Doctor Who episode...). However, I can do ...
Elections take place on 5th March for Test Valley Borough Council. All 48 seats are up for re-election and Test Valley Liberal Democrats have candidates for nearly all the seats including every seat in the Andover area. Our candidates in the area are Alamein: Len Gates, Kevin Hughes, Robin Hughes Anna: Ben Harrington-Elsmore Charlton: Mike McGarry Harewood: Richard Rowles Harroway: Ryan Hughes, Josie Msonthi, Andrew Whiteley Millway: Barbara Carpenter, Ross Fifield, Margaret Henstock St Mary's: Katherine Bird, Nigel Long, Vince McGarry Winton: Dave Campbell, Sid Dajani, Peter Wilson We believe the top priority of councillors is to look after the ...
I've been talking on the Pod Delusion again this week, this time about some of the processes involved in standing for election to your local council. It's more complicated than some people realise, and my process piece explains some of the intricacies. The full podcast is available here. Most of the time, I just scribble something down and send it in to PD and all is well. This time, unfortunately, I got a bit carried away, and ended up writing seven pages of text before recording fifteen minutes of sound. Clearly that would not fit in a podcast where they ...
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 October that Wales won just £570,000 worth of Tier One Olympic Contracts compared to £17 million for Northern Ireland and £22 million for Scotland. Freedom of Information requests placed by the Welsh Liberal Democrats revealed that there had been no written correspondence between the Welsh Ministers and the Olympic Delivery Authority in the last three years. Welsh firms are missing out on multi million pound Olympic contracts ...
The major influences in my political development have been a personal lack of opportunity, football, the church and trade unionism (not necessarily in that order). Another key influence was Margaret Thatcher. I grew up in the 1980s and while political philosophies take some time to formulate I always knew I could never be a Tory. My political conscience was probably determined by issues such as the miners' strike and the destruction of industry. I owe Mrs Thatcher a great deal, although I have no wish to meet her to thank her personally. I'm sure I'm not the only Liberal Democrat ...
I was one of about 20 on the Team London coach to Leicester last Saturday to help our candidate, Zuffar Haq The lucky people of Leicester South will have 4 ballot papers to fill on May 5th: to vote for their ward Councillors, elect their Mayor, their MP as well as vote in the referendum on Fairer Votes. We were briefed to keep our canvassing strictly to the by-election. Fortunately our man, Zuffar was easy to sell at the door step. He is the only candidate of the 3 major parties who is local, born and educated in Leicester. Moreover ...
Earlier today I highlighted why and what your Android phone is storing about you (turns out not too much). Now the reason why your phone is doing this is because YOU opt'd in. You might not have noticed but the first time you opened Google Maps you would have got this popup: [IMG: Improve My Location] Pressing settings takes you here: [IMG: Location & security settings] and ticking bring up this warning: [IMG: Location consent - Allow Google's location service to collect anonymous location data. Collection will occur even when no applications are running.] Now worried that you are being ...
I've now had my Tata Vista EV electric car for 6 weeks. I'm taking part in a national trial of electric cars, which includes around 300 drivers trialling many different makes and models over a year of normal driving. The following are my main thoughts on the trial so far: 1) The biggest issue in getting used to driving the car were the mundane differences from my 'convential' car (a Focus) in particular the indicator and wash/wipe being on the opposite sides of the steering column. In other words it feels very normal, easy (its very similar to an automatic) ...
Brussels is requesting British taxpayers give an extra £682 million after the Commission defied member states and accepted an increase in the budget. When European nations are implementing adequate austerity measures, we should not be financing the avaricious and greed ... Continue reading →
(One of a series of regular posts on the run up to the AV referendum on May 5th. As the post makes clear, I'm in favour of voting Yes. For those whom it concerns, I believe the question is either a choice between FPTP and AV - or between standing still and electoral reform - and not what I think is the best of all the world's voting systems.) One of the simpler ways of looking at the AV referendum is to consider the problem we are trying to solve: how do we select Members of Parliament for each constituency? ...
Hello Dreamwidth. It's been a while, at least since I had a chance to sit down and talk about what's going on with life, and I have a "day off"1, so now is a good opportunity. Work; is... workish. I'm in the final month of my contract now and as yet don't know if I will be offered a new contract. I've worked out what I intend to do based on the various potential outcomes, but this is a public blog post :) Prospects are slightly better. I went to a 'recruitment day' with the organisation that has provided our ...
Fri 22nd
16:27
I may not know much about semi-naked fetish art-work, but I know what I like in a local councillor
'Lib Dem candidate posts semi-naked fetish photos online' shouts the local newspaper headline. I suspect it will be one of the more clicked-through articles. There's a kind of doomed inevitability to this story, which we've seen over the years with candidates from all parties... New person stands for council, with all the right qualifications — community-spirited, motivated, wanting to succeed — except one: they're not safe. They have an 'alternative' background. You may not find them propping up a saloon bar, or biding their time quietly waiting to become mayor, or 'turning native' the moment they're elected... or any of ...
From the Arab News: RIYADH: Saudi Arabia announced Monday that it was not yet ready for women participating in next month's municipal elections as voters or candidates. "We are not ready for the participation of women in these municipal elections," Election Commissioner Abdul Rahman Al-Dahmash said. On the Saudijeans blog, there's a call for an elections boycott: The municipal elections deserve
Today on Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland show there was a short panel piece about how the Scottish Election campaign was going. Siobhan Mathers was there representing the Scottish Liberal Democrats and towards the end of the discussion she was asked about the fact that a bad week for the Labour Leader Iain Gray had meant that some of the media pressure had been taken of Tavish Scott and the lacklustre Lib Dem campaign. Firstly Siobhan responded that the Scottish Lib Dem campaign was not going as well as had been hoped and that there had been a problem in ...
Christopher Jefferies (who was arrested for questioning on the murder of Joanne Yeates) is suing a ton of newspapers including the Sun, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Daily Express and Daily Star. Quite right too, just have a look at some of the stories about him in my blog Not the nutty professor. His treatment by some papers was disgusting, simply I think because he seemed a little too different to our press. I wish him luck.
By the end of the weekend this should have been delivered in Chells. So apart from Polling Day that will be the bulk of the leg work done. If you are looking to lose weight then get in touch March 2012. The full PDF download is here (655 KB) [IMG: Chells FOCUS Election Special 2011] Chells FOCUS Election Special 2011
Conservatives said they would protect the Green Belt. Instead they plan to build a Rugby Stadium and hundreds of houses on it. You can't trust the Conservatives to protect our Countryside. The Liberal Democrat Wycombe District Election manifesto 2011 states "We will aim to provide sport and leisure facilities which are of high quality, affordable, accessible and situated within the heart of each local community. We welcome the presence of major sport clubs such as Wycombe Wanderers and London Wasps in the District. We will work with them to support their development and growth. Any development must include clear benefit ...
Sir, I noticed that around half the recent stories about phone hacking on the Guardian website with photos feature a photograph of Sienna Miller. Does she make up around half of all the people whose phones were hacked? Yours etc.
Back in March I posed the question on my blog: which services would Reading Labour cut to balance the Council's books? This has since proved to be one of the most popular posts ever on my blog. Back then I wrote: "Over the past year Labour councillors in Reading have opposed every single saving we have identified and every charge we have sought to introduce which when taken together help protect services to the most vulnerable. In their mindless opposition to everything Labour councillors have not differentiated between bulky waste charges and day centre charges: they are opposed to them ...
We've reported previously (here and here) about the big banks' intention to get rid of paper cheques. The Treasury Select Committee has said that plans to phase out cheques should be put on hold because they are still vital for vulnerable people. They have been inundated by letters from members of the public saying that they rely on cheques, so they are reopening an inquiry initially launched last year. More detail from Yahoo! Finance here.
Earlier this week Michael Crick reported on a critical article by Torbay MP, Adrian Sanders, in the latest edition of left-liberal magazine, Liberator. The thrust of the piece is that the party has "irrevocably damaged our public image... fractured our core vote, alienated a generation of young voter..." and needs "better organisation on the ground... (to) fight for backbenchers' rights... (and) to return to what the party is all about. A devolutionist, anti-authoritarian, internationalist, pro-environment, fair-tax, socially progressive Liberal Party in the tradition of Beveridge... we need the leadership to start acting like the leadership of an independent political party..." ...
Local Campaigner and Liberal Democrat candidate Peter Fane is taking action to reduce speeding in Dry Drayton following discovery that one of the 30mph signs in Dry Drayton is no longer working. Peters' discovery means that vehicles speeding through the village are not being warned. "It is not good enough that the small measures we do have to slow cars down, do not even work. Dry Drayton has to be safe for children and adults and I will be monitoring this situation carefully with our local County Councillors." said Peter. The Conservative-Controlled County Council is responsible for the maintenance of ...
To refer to my last E-cop, a nuisance motorcycle had been driven on foot paths in Bar Hill area, I am pleased to say that these youths have now been located and have had visits to their home address in presents of their parents. They have had warnings by myself and PCSO Whiteman on this occasion. If they continue to cause a nuisance in the village, it could cause them to get their motorcycles seized by the police and a heavy fine. On Thursday 7th April, I had a report direct from the Primary School in Bar Hill. Three local ...
[IMG: Yes to Fairer Votes] This is our once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. This referendum is our historic moment, our chance to make a difference for generations to come. Without your support, there's just no way of saying how the vote will go, but if there are enough of you on the ground on that day, we know we'll win. No matter what smears the No Campaign plaster on their billboards. Don't let the referendum pass you by without a fight. Dedicate your 5 May to getting people out of their houses and into the voting booths. Sign up to be part of ...
Finally getting around to doing last week's [IMG: [community profile] ] fannish5: Name your five favourite fictional marriages. Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart and Sgt Benton (Doctor Who). Nobody is ever, EVER going to convince me that Doris is not a post-op Benton. Right from Benton's first appearance in The Invasion she is clearly in love with the Brig, and there are LOADS of bits of body language throughout the UNIT era between the two characters which suggest at something a lot more than a professional relationship. And then in Battlefield, where you get Doris with lots of screentime, the Brig actually ...
Greece continues to be consumed by civil disorder, riots and protests. Bristol it appears has had its own mini-riot, not over austerity measures or cuts but over the construction of a Tesco express store and the eviction of a squat. Parts of Bristol are a well known haven for student activists, anarchists, greens, trustifarians and the far-left. Whilst most of the population choose to shop at Tesco because it offers good prices and convenience, for quite a few young people in Bristol it's a symbol of all that is wrong with our consumerist capitalist culture. As such they seek to ...
Yesterday morning, deputy prime minister Nick Clegg delivered a speech at the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank on political reform, particularly on the need to change the UK's voting system as part of the 'new politics'. The speech was trailed on the Voice here. You can read the text of Nick's speech below. (We also linked to Nick's Telegraph piece yesterday here.) Liberals have been champions of political reform since the formation of our party more than a century and a half ago. House of Lords reform, party funding, devolution - and of course, reform of the voting ...
Some of you maybe aren't aware that Colchester Borough Council has now adopted a policy of cleaning all graffiti, which is making a big difference to the way the Borough looks. That's not to say that we don't get any graffiti any more, but when it does appear, it now gets covered or cleared in a few days. As an example, here's the Colne Bank underpass a couple of weeks ago: I reported to the Council's graffiti team – part of Street Care – and this is the result: If you've graffiti problems in your area, then let me know ...
Want to see the world's financial system at its most dysfunctional? Visit a gold mine. Huge expenditure of human and physical energy; destruction of landscape; poisoning of local people with its polluting by-products; lots of horrid, dangerous jobs. All for what? Digging up something that the world doesn't need, and adds no value to anything. Gold has real value as a decoration. It is soft and easy to work; best of all it is inert and does not lose its shine in the air; it is virtually indestructible. But most of the world's gold is not used for decoration; it ...
What a great time to be out of doors talking to people - the very best way of finding out what people really want from people like me - a politician, that "dirty word". The system has changed in that the election expenses shame has been dealt with, but it needs further change in order to really clean up politics in this country. Along with the election for the District Council elections runs the referendum on a new voting system for the UK "Alternative votes" or AV. Along with the rest of my party, I am championing this change in ...
I wasn't going to write a post on the Alternative Vote (AV) referendum, but given the generally poor way in which both campaigns have explained the choice, I've decided to stick my oar in. You should know that I'm voting for a change to the AV system, but reluctantly. I'd like to see a fully proportional system such as the single transferable vote (STV) within multi-member constituencies but as that's not on offer, the only decision that needs making on 5th May is whether AV is "better" than the current system. And my logic says that it is and in ...
There once was a time when the longest distance that women could compete at was 1500m a mere 3¾ laps of a standard track. Into this era there was a Norwegian girl Grete Anderson from the suburbs of Oslo broke into the scene following the sporting footsteps of her brothers Arild and Jan. In 1971 aged 17 she broke the European junior 1500m record running a time of 4:17. The following summer she made the trip to Munich as part of the Norwegian Olympic team but was knocked out in the heats. However, two years later she did pick up ...
As we approach 5 May there is a lot of speculation in the press about the possible fall-out from the AV referendum. Ed Miliband is attempting to drive a wedge between the party and its leadership in order to peel off voters and possibly Lib Dem members. There has also been speculation that the party is imploding. As I have stated previously, I believe that the worse the polls get the more likely the coalition will last the five years. Trying to predict what will happen in politics is, of course, risky. At any time a black swan could come ...
Further to my last blogpost, the Yes to Fairer Votes campaign should simply change course dramatically and base all their efforts for the next two weeks on this: It is a brilliant, exhaustive discussion of the differences between FPTP and AV, and should leave no open-minded reader in no doubt at all of the facts. It was written by Timothy Gowers, a Fields Medal-winning mathematician and Cambridge academic. Not that I'm appealing to authority - the article would stand on its own regardless of its provenance.
Yesterday, David Cameron took up the issue of people on incapacity benefits, claiming that "We are finding a large number of people who are on incapacity benefit because of drink problems, alcohol problems or problems with weight and diet" (see footage here). There's only one problem with the claim. He said "a large number". Yet the Department for Work and Pension's own figures show that it's less than one in twenty of people who are on incapacity benefit for those reasons (3.9%). So if 3.9% is "a large number", what does that make the 96.1%? A huge, enormous, gigantic, big, ...
Political slogans that people can remember are priceless in a campaign. Some researchers in the US believe that candidates with the best, most memorable ad slogans usually win. So how can the Lib Dems improve their slogans? Orwell once said "From time to time one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out ...
[IMG: Barack Obama] If there's one person you'd expect to be able to dominate online, it's Barack Obama. His ground-breaking online presidential campaign in 2008 caught the imagination of the federal government of the world's largest economy - and he's now hitting the headlines and filling up online spaces with his recently launched Obama 2012 re-election campaign. And yet, search his name online and you'll see a picture of search results significantly outside of his control. News stories pop up near the top most days (meaning, ahem, that his public relations has a much bigger impact on his search results ...
A year ago I thought I travelled a lot on the campaign trail in the general election. With a constituency of about 1,500 square miles it was of course a necessity. But this year I really know how long that trail can be. Supporting colleagues across Scotland in the build up to the Parliamentary election on 5th May, I have covered over 1,500 miles in ten days. Many others have done the same, or indeed more, but I doubt many have seen the spectacular contrasts in scenery and political geography that I have enjoyed in that time. Scottish Liberal Democrats ...
I don't often do a post which essentially just links to another blog post but I am making an exception here. This is simply one of the best blog posts I have ever read from award winning mathematician Tim Gowers. He goes through all of the arguments for and against AV and FPTP and with intelligence and humour analyses each one from a mathematical perspective but in an accessible way. He is clearly in favour of a switch to AV but he is not afraid to point out its weaknesses as well as its strengths. It is a very long ...
This has been a hugely frustrating campaign for me. I was passionately advocating for AV even before the election last year and am sorry to say that the Yes campaign has been a great disappointment. The No campaign is trotting out outrageous lies about how much AV will cost, the end to one person one vote and the implication that in a two-person race the loser could win (amongst others. They really have no shame). In response to these false, but highly emotive claims, the Yes campaign has been trotting out wooly assertions that "AV will make your MP ...
How close were the Terminator films to the reality of 2011? Today is Judgement Day. Watch and smile. (tags: scifi) I've learned to love the coalition by Chuckie K Charlie nails the Labour politicians who sank all other prospects than a coalition with the tories (tags: libdemmery) Photo Album - Imgur Good dissection of the lies on a No to AV leaflet (tags: politics) Why London should say no to AV | News Hilarious comments thread (tags: funny) Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq - UK Politics, UK - The Independent (tags: popeshitsinwoods) Yes To ...
Fri 22nd
09:58
AV Indie poll: Just two points in it. High turnout likely and Labour voters hold the key
[IMG: Yes2AV flickr (4)] [IMG: Creative Commons License] photo credit: Steve Punter Phew! After a couple polls showing the Noes a country mile ahead, an Indie poll by TNS today shows No at 34, Yes at 32,Don't knows 21 and Won't votes 13. The poll indicates a high turnout with two-thirds saying they will vote in the referendum. The survey also indicates that Labour supporters may well hold key to the result: According to TNS, one in four people who voted Liberal Democrat at last year's general election oppose AV (26 per cent), while 74 per cent support it. In ...
Whilst I was putting together my list of things that I found as lead councillor that the previous Labour administration did that I thought were possibly illegal, were at a minimum iffy and some of them clearly had the smell of dubious practice about them, I had a dig through my old emails from the good old days when I used to get told what was going on. There was one interesting one detailing the setting up of an independent investigation that the new administration demanded after finding serious discrepancies in the allocation and spending of section 106 receipts by ...
@paulwaugh But 'leaders' not named so results not necess a problem for Miliband (or Clegg). And how do figs cf last time asked? Any shift? in reply to paulwaugh # Listening to @divinecomedyhq's Casenova (while compiling @libdemvoice Golden Dozen)... Woman of the World sooo good! http://bit.ly/heJbez # RT @lordbonkers Ahem, I make that the Golden Eleven. < What ever did I do with my number 2? # Ok, @libdemvoice Golden Dozen now restored to 12. Bloody html. I blame @helenduffett's template (busked it in my day). http://www.ldv.org.uk/23844 # @lordbonkers Heh, listened to Regeneration too. Lacks Joby Talbot's input tho. in ...
I was shocked to to hear that Gerard Houllier, Aston Villa's manager has been taken to hospital. Aston Villa manager Gerard Houllier Houllier of course it is well remembered, underwent an operation on his heart whilst manager of Liverpool a decade or so ago but on being offered the hot seat at Villa Park earlier this season, was given the all-clear to take on this demanding and pressuried role. He's had a tough baptism in the Midlands as the Villa have struggled to gain any level of consitency and have been floating around the relegation zone for most of that ...
Lord Bonkers continues to answer his readers' problems. How did the prisoners of war in The Great Escape dispose of the earth from their tunnels? - Well-Behaved Orphan, Rutland What they did was Terribly Clever. Each chap carried two bags under his tunic. They were tied off with string which was looped over the neck in a sort of yoke arrangement. Pulling a drawstring released a pin so that the soil trickled down to the ground and was trodden in as the fellow strolled around the camp. Why do you ask? Earlier this week Introduction to my problem pageHas the ...
The Leicester Mercury reports: A guide to the city mayoral election has been published without information about one of the leading candidates. Tory Ross Grant is missing from the Your Vote Matters booklet, which has been sent to all 229,777 voters in the city. The 11 people hoping to be elected mayor were invited to pay £250 to submit an address with details about themselves, their policies and why people should vote for them. Councillor Grant did not provide any information and has been excluded ... He declined to tell the Leicester Mercury why he failed to submit anything for ...
I am taking the day off from the campaign today. Partly because it is Good Friday but also because at the request of the youngest member of my family I will be visiting Pleasurewood Hills theme park near Lowestoft. The total wipeout rollercoaster awaits. Both Melvin Caton and myself have had a very warm welcome on the doorstep. We have distributed some excellent literature campaigning on local themes that matter to people. A few people have reservations about the coalition whilst there are many others who see the benefit of two parties working together nationally for the good of the ...
Over on Slugger O'Toole I've posted the following earlier to day. Is it right that only three of Northern Ireland's 18 MPs had the backing of over 50% of those who voted last May? Or right that another three had only one in three people vote for them? That is the situation that Northern Ireland found itself in last May after the only election that we place an X on our ballots rather than ranking our candidates by order of preference. You can read the rest here it even contains my word of the week 'promiscuous'.
Every fourth Wednesday of the month WordJazz happens at Citizens House in Consett, the community room based close to the Medical Centre in Station Yard, or for older readers the former ticket office of Consett Station. WordJazz is a modern Performance Poetry and Acoustic Music evening. It's informal and friendly and any and everyone is welcome to try it. You can find it on Facebook if you choose, and your next chance to sample it is April 27th. It runs from 7.00 pm – 10.00 pm.
Your local Area Committee for the North of Cambridge has a small pot of money available for environmental improvements within King's Hedges, Arbury, and both East and West Chesterton. Lib Dems pushed for these committees to be introduced so that local people can have a say in the decisions that affect their local communities. Mike Pitt and Simon Brierley would be keen to hear your views about what environmental improvements you would like to see in King's Hedges and how you think the money could best be spent. The Labour party have called for these committees to be scrapped. They ...
The growth of super-injunctions to gag the media about potential scandals has led to some fundamental questions being asked about freedom of speech, Parliamentary privilege and the role of the courts. Now the Prime Minister has joined in by declaring that parliament and not the courts should decide where the right to privacy begins. The question that David Cameron poses is whether it is right that judges should be acting in this way and, by implications, whether Parliament should step in and pass its own privacy law? He said: "The judges are creating a sort of privacy law, whereas what ...
Last night, after my weekly surgery at Blackness Primary School, I attended the latest Dundee Contemporary Arts Board meeting. DCA Director Clive Gillman gave a fascinating presentation on DCA's Annual Review of 2010/11, which covered the varied activities of the facility and showed extremely positive visitor levels, an outstanding year for the cinema including its highly successful live satellite events, the Discovery Film Festival and so much more. And ... look out for the forthcoming horror-filled Dundead weekend - see more at http://twitter.com/DUNDEAD.
i) births and deaths 22 April 1942: birth of Denis Lill, who played Dr. Fendleman in Image of the Fendahl (1977) and Sir George Hutchinson in The Awakening (1984). 22 April 1984: birth of Michelle Ryan, who played Christina de Souza in Planet of the Dead (2009). 22 April 1989: death of Kenny McBain, who directed The Horns of Nimon (1979-80). ii) broadcast anniversaries 22 April 1967: broadcast of third episode of The Faceless Ones. The Doctor convinces the Commandant to let him investigate the mysterious disappearances. 22 April 1972: broadcast of third episode of The Mutants. Jo, the doctor, ...
So after it turned out ios4 has been storing nearly all the wifi and cell sites you've been near since you upgraded to the firmware is an sqlite file which is backed up to your PC unencrypted via iTunes, @packetlss has found the Android equivalent. Why They Do It You expect your phone to be able to tell you the weather for your current location, maps to know where you are and to check into foursquare in seconds. In the old days phones has two options. 1) Turn GPS on, wait a while for a fix, hope you are outdoors, ...
Continual Lib Dem bashing by certain people is beginning to get me down. (tags: politics) The importance of being "Glee" (tags: glee tv sexuality) Apes are monkeys - deal with it « Zygoma But don't show this to an Orangutan, for fear of violence (tags: taxonomy science)
YouTube - Elisabeth Sladen tribute from David Tennant David Tennant's tribute to Elisabeth Sladen (tags: doctorwho elisabethsladen) The Y Article - By John Norris | Foreign Policy The report places considerable emphasis on the importance of achieving a more sustainable approach to security, energy, agriculture, and the environment. Again, it is important to stress that this narrative was penned by senior military thinkers, not the Sierra Club. The simple fact is that any clear-eyed analysis pretty quickly comes to the same conclusion: The United States has established an incentive system that just doesn't make any sense. It continues to pour ...
Fellow voters of the UK, Regardless of how you're planning to vote on May 5th, I hope we can all come together in condemning the lies of the No2AV Campaign, which basically sum down to the following arguments: AV will be expensive - costing £250 million AV offers more votes to some people than others AV leads to broken promises / weak governments The third-placed candidate can win AV is a 'miserable little compromise' AV will help the BNP AV is complicated Let's take a little look at each of these claims, and weigh up the evidence for and against ...
Get Reading has reported on the ongoing problems faced by residents living on Northumberland Avenue, and my campaign to get action taken to make the neighbourhood safer and more pleasant for people who live there.Northumberland Avenue is a residential street divided between several wards, including my own so I feel responsible for looking out for people who live and visit the area. I attended a public meeting at the South Reading Youth & Community Centre on Northumberland Avenue a few weeks ago where serious concerns were expressed by local residents - in particular about alcohol-related disorder. Following the meeting I ...
The AV referendum hinges on whether we have a good system now or not. My answer is simple, not. General elections are decided by a few thousand voters in marginal constituencies and this means that the vast majority of votes don't affect the result. For the vast majority of MPs their biggest hurdle to re-election will be to get the party nomination, not the votes of the electorate. If that is the case then the MP only has to be concerned with the wishes of the party members. Compare that to AV. Not only does an MP have to persuade ...
