The deadline is long gone for you to enter the Gladstone Library's quiz-prize- free accommodation at St Deniol's as it used to be called. Nevertheless I'm sure there will be some readers who who wish to test their knowledge . The full quiz can be found here. I should say that i have not kept the details of the quiz back to stop anyone entering. I only noticed it late on Friday. i do wonder if they had launched it in conjunction with Liberal History Group whether they would have spread their net a little wider. Anyway just to get ...
Dr Liam Fox's future as a front line politican hangs by a very thin thread after the initial findings of the investigation into the access he granted Adam Werrity. It is clear that Fox broke the ministerial code and his apology doesn't make his behaviour and lack of judgement go away. Anyone watching Newsnight (sadly not yet available on iplayer) and seeing the usually sure footed Nick Boles sinking as he tried to defend the line, must realise that Fox's time is up. Tomorrow's newspapers also make grim reading. If Cameron and Clegg want to run a government that tries ...
Today's Times reports how: The Chancellor has infuriated No. 10 and Cabinet colleagues by refusing to endorse a key component in the policy to boost renewable energy. In an extraordinary move last week George Osborne was rebuked by David Cameron's aides for failing to come on board for a key green policy. At a meeting on Monday the prime minister's most senior official, Jeremy Heywood, gave a dressing down to an Osborne adviser over the Chancellor's failure to rubber stamp the new price that power companies will pay for renewable energy such as solar, wave and wind power. Osborne has ...
That could have been the title of the Members Policy Update earlier this evening - presentations on developments in the 3 phases of education. A whistle stop tour of the compulsory 5-16 stage left us breathless but with a sense that at the moment schools in Stockton are working together remarkably well despite the best efforts of successive governments to introduce ever more variety of type and
I do wonder how much attention Martin Kettle paid to the Liberal Democrat conference this year before concluding that policy debate at it was a thing of the past and that factions have gone quiet on the fringe (Guardian, 7 October). The former claim he basis on one vote that he disagrees with – and skips past all the many hours of policy debate there were at conference. As for the fringes, the reality at Liberal Democrat conference is that factions have always been very few in number and weak in allegiance compared to the other two main parties. But ...
Liam Fox would have us believe that he has made an error of judgement (albeit on a fairly continuous basis) by hanging out with his friend Adam Werritty whilst on government business (some 40 times at the MoD and on foreign visits) since he became a Secretary of State. He might have us believe that Werritty is merely a kind of grand intern, if that could ever be justified, but to everyone else it looks like too much 'grace and favour' at the fayre of high level lobbying. The flagrantly erroneous business cards handed out by Adam Werritty advertising himself ...
Quiz time – where's this? It's not far away, and we took the Cubs on a hike there this evening (yes, we all got wet).
Earlier today the Cambridge Area Joint Committee, a mix of City and County Councillors representing the interests of Cambridge city (for which I am a substitute member) met to discuss city-wide traffic management and environment issues. The leader of the County Council, Cllr Nick Clarke, was in attendance at his first AJC representing the Conservative-controlled County Council. The agenda was fairly straight forward and the meeting took a little over two hours (which isn't that bad to an AJC meeting - as Cllr Clarke pointed out the room is booked for four hours for the meeting). There was nothing really ...
So many people have said that they know my type. I always contend they don't know what they are talking about. Looking at my relationship...well no...looking at my infatuation history there is no clearly defined type. However I do know I have a weakness looks wise but do other people know what they weakness is? Well I decided to put that to the test because I thought it might be amusing. Embedded below is the introduction to MasterChef Australia Season 3 (which is my favourite show by a country mile at the moment – can't believe Jay went tonight – ...
Earlier today the Cambridge Area Joint Committee, a mix of City and County Councillors representing the interests of Cambridge city (for which I am a substitute member) met to discuss city-wide traffic management and environment issues. The leader of the County Council, Cllr Nick Clarke, was in attendance at his first AJC representing the Conservative-controlled County Council. The agenda was fairly straight forward and the meeting took a little over two hours (which isn't that bad to an AJC meeting - as Cllr Clarke pointed out the room is booked for four hours for the meeting). There was nothing really ...
I doubt whether there are many people who genuinely think that Liam Fox ended his crisis this afternoon in the House of Commons. I suspect we will see more revelations tomorrow. According to order-order.com (Add Siberian salt mine here): There is a rumour doing the rounds that the Guardian have been sitting on some rather saucy details about Werritty and Fox since last Thursday, with the editor believing that Fox's position is untenable without the need for the full picture being disclosed. I also suspect The Sun will have dug up some details for us. This morning they carried their ...
[IMG: Jeremy Browne with Eastlea Amnesty Youth Group] Today I met with a group of students, activists and academics to mark the eighth anniversary of the World Day Against the Death Penalty, and the fourth anniversary of the European Day Against the Death Penalty. It has been a longstanding policy for the UK to oppose the death penalty in any and all circumstances as a matter of principle. As an individual, as a Liberal Democrat and as a Minister, I have always worked hard to push for the abolition of Capital Punishment across the world and to oppose any reinstatement ...
Avon Fire and Rescue Service want to help you make sure you stay safe this winter. They offer advice on: Home Fire Safety VisitsFirework safetyWinter safety issues like chimney firesElectric blanket testing - take your blankets to Yate Fire Station between 9.30am and 4pm this Friday (14 October) to have them tested for free. To make a booking, call South Glos on 01454 863632.Nationally, around 1,000 fires are caused by faulty electric blankets each year. Before you buy a blanket make sure it carries a recognised approval mark, such as the British Electrotechnical Approvals Board (BEAB) mark, or the International ...
Babergh's Planning Blueprint for the next 20 years (Local Development Framework) October 10th marks the start of Babergh council's consultation on the latest draft of its 20 year planning blueprint for the District, the Local Development Framework. The consultation closes on Friday 2nd December. Copies of the document are available online here Copies will also be available to view at Babergh council, Corks Lane, Hadleigh as well as in local libraries and mobile libraries. I thought it might be helpful to summarise what is planned for the villages which Sue Carpendale and I represent on Babergh: Capel St. Mary has ...
It's been a busy October so far and one that I expect to get busier once the prospective boundaries of our newly drawn Parliamentary constituencies come out on the 13th of October. There are plenty of things I could talk about such as; Willie Rennie MSPs contribution to the Future Operation Model debacle debate, Cllr McCabe's rant in the Telegraph from last Monday or the fact that Inverclyde Lib Dems have now got the sandbags out to try protect our office being flooded by bad weather like it sadly was last year. I could talk about many of these things ...
The BBC reports: The British National Party is under investigation by the European Union and the Metropolitan Police for alleged fraud and breaches of electoral law. The dual investigations come as a former BNP administrator told the BBC's Panorama programme that she was instructed to falsify invoices. Those invoices were then submitted by the BNP to the Electoral Commission. The BNP has strongly denied any suggestion of wrongdoing... Former party worker Marion Thomas said after the 2010 general election she was instructed by the party's treasurer, Clive Jefferson, to alter invoices and in at least one case stamp an outstanding ...
The Daily Telegraph reports: The Deputy Prime Minister said he was 'ashamed' at the lack of women Lib Dem MPs and their absence from the Coalition cabinet. "It is a very serious problem," he told an audience at Cheltenham Literature Festival. "It is a source of endless shame to me that the Liberal Democrat party I lead, which believes in the diversity of Great Britain in gender and everything else does not represent contemporary Britain in Parliament. "We are too male and too pale." Only seven of the current 57 Lib Dem MPs are female. The Conservatives have 49 women ...
You all know the story by now. Someone pulls out a camera and photographs their daughter. Security come over tell him to delete photos. Farther gets annoyed, daughter starts crying and plod turn up. Plod start throwing around terror laws and try to (unlawfully) bully him into deleting photos by threatening to confiscate his camera. I can't even get angry any more. This whole situation is just bloody depressing! If you want to read the full story here it is H/T @ update. You can read an hilarious take on this from news thump
...tell the Scottish government how to improve mental health services! You might not know, but currently the Scottish government is involved a consultation exercise to establish the views Scottish people have on an issue vital to facilitating tolerance, understanding, diversity and societal well-being. And I'm not talking about the not-very controversial consultation on marriage equality that most Scots are not only aware of but feel positively towards. Instead I'm referring to an equally, possibly more, important consultation being conducted on the future of mental health provision in Scotland. The SNP government are quite rightly looking to promote "a new national ...
It's funny how certain topics tend to stick in your mind and others don't. I've spent most of today so far revising the attitudes and attributions chapters. With attitudes, I now feel absolutely confident that I can tackle any of the previous questions, so if something similar comes up on Thursday I should be fine. As for attributions though, I simply can't get Langdridge and Butt's critique straight. It still makes little sense to me! However, I'm hoping that I can use Merleau-Ponty's argument about the overvaluing of empiricism and intellectualism elsewhere, as I do understand that part of it ...
Greenpeace latest campaign for sustainable fishing policy is aimed at some of the mal practice from certain parts of the vast Spanish fleet. This is also heavily subsidised by the European Parliament and needs to be stopped. A healthy planet needs healthy fishing and a healthy ocean. latest email from Greenpeace Hello friends, A few days ago, we lifted the lid on a very smelly dish of paella. The case we uncovered followed a nine-month investigation into the fishy dealings of "Toño", one of Spain's notorious fishing barons. We exposed how his family network has amassed a list of illegal ...
One thing I am setting out to try and achieve in my studies is to get through as much of my degree as possible without producing or consuming paper. Not out of any particular environmental concern (though not using scarce resources, for an economics student at least, must surely be a positive!) but just because in many situations electronic is now better than paper. Unfortunately at the beginning of each module, and at various stages along the way, lecturers tend to hand out paper by the truck load, whether it be module handbooks, weekly lesson plans or question sheets for ...
Sectarian conflict has been a depressing sideshow to many of the uprisings in the Arab Awakening this year, the latest being the bloody crackdown on Copts demonstrating in Cairo last night. But whether it is Egypt, Syria, Iraq or indeed Great Britain, a mature policy of multiculturalism is the only answer. This doesn't mean one ...
I have a number of friends who work all over the world travelling to meetings here and there. Apart from the ones who have traveled for the same work purposes or have traveled to where I am, very few of them have seen me on the margins of any of their work meetings. But apparently the Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox has encountered his friend Adam Werrity on the margins of 18 of his foreign trips. This appears to be on top of the 14 trips to his Ministry of Defence offices since May of last year. Now surely the ...
[IMG: @DPMoffice Twitter screenshot] Nick Clegg has added another string to his social media bow – this time it's a new Twitter account. @DPMoffice will be "Tweeting the official business of Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg." It will be run separately from his existing party Twitter account, @nick_clegg, which will still cover Nick's Liberal Democrat and Government-related activities. See also the Deputy Prime Minister's website, his (Cabinet Office) Flickr gallery and the Deputy Prime Minister's YouTube channel.
As I wrote earlier, I was on Call Kaye this morning talking about the incident in Braehead where poor shopper Chris White ended up being tackled by Police and security for taking a perfectly innocent photo of his 4 year old daughter eating ice cream. I wrote more about that incident earlier today. You can hear my contribution to the programme from around 48:30 here. Anyway, you can hear me talking about the time a local sports centre stopped parents taking photos of their own child's birthday party because they didn't have the written permission of the parents of all ...
As regular readers know, I'm a big fan of QR codes. I often castigate advertisers for poor usage, bad placement, and inaccessibility. I can just imagine how the conversation at the offices of Success Appointments went... "Dave, we need a QR code on our advert!" "Righto, Fred!" "It'll be on the tube, so it has to work offline." "How about a VCARD – that way when you scan it, our address will appear on your phone?" "Perfect! But..." "What?" "Can we make it nice and prominent?" "Of course..." [IMG: Massive QR Code] Let's take a closer look at this behemoth: ...
Posted by Chris: I see that Coastal View is claiming, in its letters page, that my letter in issue 13 was crass and they were only reporting news. This was not news reporting it was pure propaganda with hardly a sniff of the truth. It was a series of exaggerated claims and smears about the Liberal Democrats with no balancing comments, no journalism, no editing, no right of reply, just Labour press releases published verbatim without any check on the facts at all. It was unfair, biased and most unprofessional. There appears to be no end to it or any ...
.......if you are judging it on the usual formula for keynote speeches by senior politicians. They so often are sterile affairs, with a bit of spin, interspersed with a few cheap gags, sometimes fairly personal gags, about opposition politicians. These sorts of tub thumping speeches, I suppose, have their moments, but Willie's first ever speech as leader was different. It had heart, soul, optimism and passion. Yes, he talked about some of the less attractive traits of nationalism, but there was not one single personal attack on anybody. His speech was full of ideas and liberal values.Where he did pull ...
In the news today is the scarcely believable but sadly very true story of the father prevented from taking photographs of his daughter eating an ice cream in Braehead Shopping Centre. The basic fact is that a 45 year old man was innocently taking pictures of his young girl on his mobile before being approached by security personnel and police officers who advised him that his activities were illegal and that his mobile phone could be confiscated under the terms of the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Braehead has issued a rather patronising and contradictory statement in which it argued that ...
I find it ironic that I am writing this post whilst in the middle of one of my worst depressive episodes in years. I walk around my house like a ghost, unable to function in even the most basic of ...
After the Hapless Huhne affair (poor choice of words I know) which we noted here at the time, I read Paul Walters explanation of it all on LDV with interest at the weekend. I was surprised, particularly given Chris' track record,that such a bold defence was mounted so promptly. Experience would have told most people to "hold on a while" ..er just in case.... Here in essence is what Paul said... "Chris Huhne had obviously been having a private text exchange with (that ubiquitous Huhne Aunt Sally) "a staff member" (if you believe what Huhne told the BBC's excellent Peter ...
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings" Shakespeare, Julius Caesar There come times when a strange conjunction appears in human affairs. Times when, in the words of WB Yeats: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." The Millennium Depression, which has been with us now for nearly four years, is testing the apparatus of government to the utmost. ...
Dear Labour, I'm writing to you because I've seen a lot of talk lately by various Labour party members on the need to do things like adopt a less authoritarian approach on civil liberties and backing a mansion tax in order to reach out to left wing Liberal Democrats and bring them back into your arms. The reasons given for this are because Labour might not get enough seats to have a majority at the next election and needs to be ready to accept the few shell-shocked survivors of the Liberal Democrats (because our massacre at the next election is ...
I had the pleasure this morning of discussing civility in society, with Julia George on BBC Radio Kent, and in relation to the blogsphere. Unsurprisingly, the "general all round polite gentlemen from Canterbury" line from my About section was mentioned (oh, how embarrassing!) and what it actually meant. Julia was correct in her assertion; the ...
Although this article may be a few days old, a few Tweets posted this morning by Adrian Masters shows that Labour's spending culture isn't over – in short, they haven't learnt. The article says that the Welsh Government has "raided" its reserves to deliver Labour's manifesto commitments – Wales' economy is footing the bill to ...Read More
Some people are morons. We all know that. However some show off their moronity (is that even a word? Google says no...) more than others. Some even say I am a moron. Some maybe right but for this edition of 'Why some people are morons' we go across to the Digital Spy F1 thread where a user known as Zenith posted the following two comments: Thanks to the BBC website I knew the result before I had a chance to see the race. The BBC website is my homepage & at 10am this morning, not once but twice the heading ...
Blyth Town Council announce the first Blyth Town Council Photography Competition. Open to all residents of the town, there are categories for "Under 16's" and "16 and over". There are several rules, but simply the theme is "Blyth" , and entrants are limited to 4 per person. The 12 winners will have their photographs included in the Blyth Town Calendar 2012 which should be published in time for the "Christmas Festival" Full details are on the council website, and there is also a link to download the full rules and entry form (in .doc format) See http://www.blythtowncouncil.org.uk/ for details
Despite the weather's recent best efforts to pretend we are currently in June and in the south of France, the encroaching nights mean that local party AGM season is nearly upon us. To help local parties get the most out of them, I've written in conjunction with London Liberal Democrats a simple factsheet giving 10 tips to lift an AGM from being a boring, business meeting that no-one comes to into an interesting and successful event. Though written for London, the tips are applicable elsewhere. Hope you find it useful – and of course please do share this post (or ...
Many congratulations to everyone at Acocks Green Primary School which has been graded as "outstanding" by OFSTED following a recent inspection. This is the top OFSTED grade and is a reflection by many years of hard work by everyone at the school. The opening paragraph of the inspection report says it all: "Pupils make exceptional progress in this outstanding school. 'My child and the children I care for are extremely happy and proud to be at Acocks Green School. It is a wonderful community that prides itself on achieving and aiming high.' These words from one parent and carer sum ...
Mon 10th
11:14
West Wirral Area Forum 6/10/2011, PACSPE (Parks and Countryside Services Procurement Exercise) contr...
Dave Green continued that since 2008 different administrations had agreed to the need for Wirral Council to save money. There were pension costs to do with the contractor joining Merseyside Pension Fund, however there had been briefings and a report on this which detailed the risks and options. The lack of a bid for in-house ...
Mon 10th
10:56West Wirral Area Forum 6/10/2011, PACSPE (Parks and Countryside Services Procurement Exercise) contr...
Dave Green, Director of Technical Services continued by saying that they had received specialist help in going to tender and there had been a massive consultation with undertakers, bowlers, Friends groups and others. He said the undertakers had been the most fun. They had tried to address things and wanted a three-way partnership between the ...
Tony Greaves was on Radio 4's Westminster hour pondering out loud whether he was going to support the Health Bill in the House of Lords this week. You can listen to it here for the next 6 days. I must admit I was not persuaded by Tony's objection to alternative providers being engaged in the provision of services. Tony appeared to have a very minimalist approach to the contribution that can be made-restricted to specialist services and innovation on the margins. As a Liberal I have always been uncomfortable with monopolies. I do not change my mind because it is ...
Mon 10th
10:25West Wirral Area Forum 6/10/2011, United Utilities roadworks (Hoylake), Merseyrail, PACSPE Part 4
A member of the public asked when the road works were starting. Peter Cummings of United Utilities responded by saying on the 17th October. Deputy Mayor Cllr Gerry Ellis said the United Utilities road works had been delayed due to the disruption to rail services between West Kirby and Birkenhead North this week. He moved ...
Many people in Scotland have been appalled by an incident which took place in Braehead Shopping Centre near Glasgow on Friday where a man had shopping centre security staff and the police on his back because he took a photo of his 4 year old very cutely eating ice cream. The Police said that they would be within their rights to take his camera and delete the photos under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. I thought that we in Scotland had largely avoided this sort of nonsense, which was prevalent in England for a while. Even worse, when he tried ...
We're pleased to be working alongside the team at MOO in offering a competition to win some great MOO products for our readers. The grand prize winner will get 100 of MOO's business cards (a product which I've been a happy user of for many years) and a ShowCase business card holder. Two runners up will be receiving 100 business cards each. Who is MOO? In case you've not come across MOO before, they are business card printing experts, but also do stickers, greeting cards, MiniCards, labels and postcards. They make designing and printing your own unique products easy. You ...
Mon 10th
09:49
Is the Coalition changing the Lib Dems? Polling data shows people more confused by the Lib Dems
Is something strange going on? Nick Clegg and many others have called Ken Clarke a Lib Dem. Now Ken Clarke is calling Nick Clegg a One Nation Tory. The Tory conference didn't ridicule the Lib Dems and Labour conference wanted to rule out a Coalition with the Lib Dems. With so many people having an ...
Just to be clear in writing this blog, I am not claiming any great wisdom with regards to my own musical taste, which is and always will be eccentric and diverse. As I proved in conversation at the weekend I also have a complete ignorance of classical music. being unable to distinguish between Handel and Bach. Having said that, this morning's Independent does have a valid point: just who does choose the incidental music at party conferences and what qualifications do they have to impose their taste upon the rest of us? The paper points to such choices as "Bohemian ...
Mon 10th
09:35West Wirral Area Forum 6/10/2011, Neighbourhood Plans, United Utilities roadworks (Hoylake) Part 3
Cllr Jeff Green started talking, but someone from the audience said they couldn't hear him, so the wireless microphone was passed to him. He continued by thanking Tracey Smith and her team for the opportunities that local residents had been given to feed into Neighbourhood Plans. He wanted to make a point about the number ...
What an upside down political world we live in! This evening (Monday), Mark Harper MP, the Conservative Minister who is the detailed designer of the Coalition Government's proposals for Lords reform, will explain their rationale to a special public meeting of our Joint Committee of MPs and Peers. As one of the brightest and best new ministers he can be relied upon to combine the necessary realism and radicalism to spearhead the Government's reform programme. Meanwhile, Labour Peers continue to provide the deepest resistance to democratic progress. Last week, I dealt with the redoubtable Lord (Bruce) Grocott, who opened the ...
Alan was approached by residents asking for an extension to the route of the 87 bus and has had a positive response from the bus operator: From 30th October the bus will go along Urlay Nook Rd to the Hunters Green Roundabout meaning that it stops at Valley Gardens again. This is the earliest date on which the change can legally be made. It's nice to have a positive response from a bus company.
.................said the Secretary of State for Scotland. So scurrilous and trashy, he went on to say, that it was even prepared to interview him. Mike Moore was chairing RNIB Scotland's fringe meeting on the Welfare Reform Bill at Scottish Liberal Democrat conference on Saturday where I was speaking and that's how he introduced me! Now, I think it is such a positive thing that a Cabinet Minister was happy to take part in a meeting where people were expressing quite a lot of concern about a measure being taken by the Government. I know that Mike cares deeply about these ...
Quite a bit it seems, just swilling down my breakfast cup of coffee, trawling through my paper the "i" , and I stumble across yet another article about our beloved Margate The article written by Dominic Prince, describes how "urban guru" Andrew Ashenden, would save Margate. Not surprisingly in referring to Tesco's plans to plonk a supermarket around Arlington House, Mr Ashdowns suggestion is to flatten the tower block "one of the ugliest buildings, I've ever seen" and create a nice open space. Not a bad appraisal, but then my home doesn't happen to be in Arlington House. For myself ...
TweetThe press is out for blood on Lib Dem MPs in the coalition. In particular Chris Huhne MP is suffering many blows. Yesterday the BBC reported the headline "Huhne apologises to May over Cat story tip-off". To the majority of people, and certainly confusion appeared on Twitter, this headline implies that Huhne in fact gave ...
As I mentally shut down last night, here's what was the most interesting thing about the previous week: Labour Youth seem very comfortable with being well funded. They had good stuff at Reading University Freshers' Fayre when I nipped down to help for an hour or so. I'm no fan of poverty porn. You shouldn't have to play down one's wealth by being deliberately being shoddy or what have you. It always seems a bit odd to me that celebs have shoppers finding second hand stuff for them. If you've got parents who can afford expensive gear for you, well ...
Following the passing of my motion on the Employment Support Allowance at Lib Dem autumn conference, Liberal Youth (who sponsored the motion) have been working with the DPC (Disabled People's Council) and Macmillan to campaign to get peers to amend the welfare reform bill to stop it having drastic and devastating effects on the lives of the long term sick and disabled. The most pernicious of these changes is the introduction of an arbitrary time limit, where sick and disabled people (including cancer patients) will only receive benefits for a maximum of 12 months, after which they'll be left to ...
Dear Michael Meacher, I'm puzzled by your views on individual electoral registration. You call it "insidious", "underhand", "utterly anti-democratic" and "Tory". Yet the legislation for it was introduced by a Labour government, Labour's 2010 manifesto boasted about Labour's achievement in passing that legislation and – as far as I can see – you didn't rebel once over the legislation when it was going through Parliament. Of course there are issues about whether or not electoral registration should be voluntary and whether the annual canvass should be kept in 2014, but those are not the target of your written ire. Your ...
Mon 10th
07:45
Mystic Calder forecast last year that Liam Fox would be the next cabinet minister to resign
Here is an extract from a post that I wrote in August of last year discussing tensions in the Coalition cabinet: I also suspect that the differences within the two Coalition parties, Conservatives as well as Liberal Democrats, will ultimately prove more significant than the differences between the parties.So my own tip for the first resignation would be a Tory right-winger like Liam Fox.It should have been "next resignation" rather than "first resignation", as David Laws had already come and gone, but this post is looking spookily accurate this morning.
I have received residents' complaints about the amount of litter and other rubbish left late at night on Fridays and Saturdays in particular in Nethergate, near South Tay Street. The photo (right) is the situation first thing Sunday morning. I have brought the matter to the attention of the Environment Department of Dundee City Council, at residents' requests.
Don't forget the coffee morning in support of the RNLI on Friday 14th October, starting at 10 am at St Mary's Church Hall (next to the Town Council Offices )
There are two meetings at Blyth Town Council this week The Finance Committee meets at 6pm on Tuesday 11th October The Planning & Development Committee meets on Thursday 13th October , also at 6pm Both meetings will be held at Ebor House, Church St, Blyth, and are open to the public
One of the deciding factors in doing my degree now was that with my IX course in "Economics, Politics and International Relations" Brookes is for the first time delivering a course that officially combines economics and politics. In my political journey from left-leaning statist political activist to outright market anarchist I have concluded that the two are inseparable. Indeed, as I will return to in a later post, they are two sides of the same coin. Were I one for banning things, I'd probably ban people studying politics without also studying economics. As has been repeatedly mentioned in the first ...
