This is a little embarrassing for Liberal England. Ben Elliot, co-chairman of the Conservative Party and creator of a club that gives large donors privileged access to the prime minister and chancellor, has been in the newspapers - and not in a good way. The Times suggests his company arranged for its clients to buy coronavirus tests for hundreds of pounds while the NHS was struggling to increase its testing capacity. And the Daily Mail reports that Prince Charles was dragged into a 'cash for access' row yesterday after the Tory party's co-chairman was accused of arranging a private dinner ...
Mon 2nd
18:40
Alex Cole-Hamilton: It is time for Scottish Government to kickstart a new era of drugs policy radica...
Days after the release of tragic drug deaths statistics, Scottish Lib Dem MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton has written an open letter setting out a series of radical proposals to tackle the ongoing epidemic of drugs deaths. Statistics released on Friday show that 1,339 people died of drug-related deaths in 2020, an increase of 5% from 2019. Alex is urging the Scottish Government to: take radical steps with the prosecution authorities and the Lord Advocate to help establish heroin assisted treatment and safe consumption spaces. establish new specialist Family Drug and Alcohol Commissions to help provide wraparound services and to take a ...
Second paragraph of third story ("A Bit of Our Harlem"):The boy approached the table where the girl sat with the air of a homeless dog who hopes that he has found a friend.Collection of the short stories written by Hurston in the 1920s and 1930s, all about the contemporary experience of black Americans, mostly set either in Harlem or in Eatonville, Florida, her home town. Several of these stories were unpublished in her lifetime, perhaps intentionally so; they are good honest reportage of her people's life, some better than others. There's a lot of marital infidelity, a lot of smart ...
If I tried to write a fictional story about what has happened in Liverpool, it would be condemned as being impossible and a huge exaggeration. For years we have tried to break into the system but were stonewalled by both politicians and officers who either held information close to their chest or blatantly lied. 16 arrests have been made by the Police of people in or around the Council including the former Elected Mayor, Joe Anderson. Now an inspection team led by an independent former Council Chief Executive, Max Caller, has officially exposed the grotesque practices of Liverpool Council over ...
Sun, 13:11: RT @DaveKeating: #Vaccination latest: #Belgium has now vaccinated a higher share of its population than the #UnitedKingdom. https://t.co/mV... Sun, 15:37: The Vlooybergtoren https://t.co/XvVN1E4rpH Mon, 10:27: The week before the world ended, I tracked my commuting time from home to office and back. I'll do the same this week, my first full week in the office since Mar 2020. I drove in this morning, due to having a load of stuff to unpack. 22 mins drive, door to desk in 25 mins. https://t.co/d3ZgBAzKey Mon, 10:45: RT @garius: Okay, as requested, more history of weird stuff with food and logistics. ...
Today's Daily Record reports that a Scottish nursery refused three separate applications for children with names that might indicate they were from a minority ethnic background while simultaneously offering places to children who appeared to be from white backgrounds. The first of those was for the two year old daughter of Scottish Health Secretary Humza Yousaf and his wife Nadia. The Record subsequently conducted its own investigation. After being contacted in July by Nadia, the Record made its own inquiries using fake names. Under Aqsa Akhtar we asked Mill on July 7 for any afternoons free for a three-year-old daughter ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 2 AUGUST 2021 Lochee Road at its junction with Dudhope Terrace - prohibition of some entry and exit manoeuvres for 3 days (commenced Saturday 31 July- to complete today - 2nd August) for City Fibre works. City Fibre H3G Project - temporary traffic lights on Brook Street between Brewery Lane and Brook Court for 3 days starting 2 August 2021. Blinshall Street (Lochee Road to Guthrie Street) - temporary traffic control from Monday 5 July for 4 weeks for Street Lighting work. Lochee Road ...
There is an extraordinary claim in the Independent, who allege that the Home Office set up a website targeting asylum seekers with "misleading" claims to deter them from journeying to Britain. They say it created a fake organisation called On The Move, complete with a logo and glossy branding, which claims to "provide migrants in transit with free, reliable and important information". Links to the website were pushed out to asylum seekers in France and Belgium as part of a social media campaign that cost the government £23,000 over five months: The website, using a .org domain commonly associated with ...
"You can mock Lindell, dismiss him, or call him a crackhead, but none of this will seem particularly funny when we truly have an illegitimate president in the White House and a total breakdown of law and order." Anne Applebaum meets the billionaire who is funding Trump's fantasies about stolen election. Lewis Binnie explains why he has joined the Liberal Democrats and left the Scottish National Party. "The vast pictures of the battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar in the Royal Gallery also convey images that disappeared from 'England's story' in the century that followed. Waterloo is presented as a joint ...
