The collapse of the western-backed Afghan government in the last week has been breathtaking. My first thoughts go to the many thousands of Afghans who made use of its liberal freedoms, and who supported the western powers, but who now face a bleak future, and many who face no future at all. Some soul-searching is ... Continue reading The tragedy in Afghanistan is the price of hubris 20 years ago
I was at a big family party (big, subject to COVID regulations) last weekend, and discovered the hard way that I have become lactose intolerant. The dessert on Saturday lunchtime was a lovely creamy affair, meringue piled high with cream and more cream, and I allowed my taste buds to over-rule any concerns expressed by my digestive system and lapped it up. Perhaps an hour later I was seized by intense stomach cramps, followed by bloating and other symptoms which need not be further described, and retired to bed and could not get out of it (apart from repeated urgent ...
We really should make use of the peers who have local government experience in the Lords more, So I decide to. We have a site in Kingston where biodiversity is being destroyed. Seething Wells Filter Beds is a 'Site of Importance for Nature Conservation' and Metropolitan Open Land where nature had flourished after Thames Water left in the late 90s, but now the private owners are spraying pesticides, draining the standing water, cutting back grasslands and trees. They have even resorted to using goats to munch though all the vegetation on site! And as a council we are pretty powerless ...
[IMG: Hike Heroes [from Kent AONB Experience Project] As part of the Experience Project the Kent Downs AONB are looking for new North Downs Way Ambassadors and have set up a training programme to help people learn more about the trail with the aim of ultimately setting up new professional, engaging walking tours along the trail in Kent and Surrey. Applications are open until 5pm 20th August. Please see the links below which provides more information and how to apply: New Ways to EXPERIENCE Kent - Kent Downs North Downs Way Ambassadors - Kent Downs National Trails web page North ...
Sun, 15:56: Mother Ross, aka Christian Davies: a genderqueer soldier under Marlborough https://t.co/QWW2LcYFss Sun, 19:54: My uncle and his kite - note very small uncle in blue at bottom left, reminiscent of those diagrams of the earth and the moon, drawn to scale! https://t.co/IYp5iCvNwQ Mon, 08:24: My great-aunt, at 105, and my son, at 22. https://t.co/eXX3O9LvaO Mon, 08:48: RT @damonwake: Ah well that's OK then Mon, 10:45: The EU's Rise as a Defense Technological Power: From Strategic Autonomy to Technological Sovereignty - Carnegie Europe - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace https://t.co/6qoD9YrCIh from @rcsernatoni.
I had some fun on Twitter over the weekend. Here's a tweet I put out there: One of my favourite Brexiteer lines is "If you like the EU so much why don't you go and live there?" Perhaps because Brexit removed my right to do so? Although I didn't tweet this to specifically phish for information, what I learned was interesting to me. A lot of people don't actually understand what a right is and by extension, when that right has been taken away. Many Leavers shot back at me that Brexit hadn't removed my right to live and work ...
From a Liberal Democrat press release: The Liberal Democrats are calling on the government to work with international allies to secure a safe corridor of land in Afghanistan, to allow more people an escape route from the Taliban to an international border. Layla Moran MP, Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs, said: The scenes from Kabul airport this morning are heart-breaking and we must offer a new way out for those desperate to escape the terror of the Taliban. A safe corridor of land from Kabul to an international border may offer an escape route from this murderous, tyrannical and ...
The Liberal Democrats are calling on the government to work with international allies to secure a safe corridor of land in Afghanistan, to allow more people an escape route from the Taliban to an international border. Layla Moran MP, Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs, said: "The scenes from Kabul airport this morning are heartbreaking and we must offer a new way out for those desperate to escape the terror of the Taliban. "A safe corridor of land from Kabul to an international border may offer an escape route from this murderous, tyrannical and barbaric regime. The government must make ...
The unfolding military conflict in Afghanistan has long been leading to a humanitarian crisis. As British and American troops leave the country, the Taliban has continued its offensive march, taking towns and cities almost at will. At the time of writing they have entered the capital and look set to destroy Afghanistan's fragile but growing democracy and replace it with a brutal regime. British troops are currently evacuating UK nationals and are encouraging those who risked everything by working with Coalition forces against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban to go through the resettlement scheme. This bureaucratic nightmare however can take months ...
Between Bow Road and Bow Church lie four disused stations. Jago Hazzard takes us to their various sites - you can support his videos via his Patreon page.
Our county's market towns have been expanding into their extra mural parishes for many years. There will be much more housing and business development on the edges of the market towns in the years to come. This article is not about the whys and wherefores of housing and other development. It is about local governance. Are our town and parish council boundaries still fit for purpose? Do we need revised unitary wards for the unitary authority? The debate on that gets underway in earnest in few days' time. If any changes are proposed and agreed, they will come into force ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 16 AUGUST 2021 Riverside Approach -overnight (midnight to 6.00am) temporary traffic lights for one week for bridge parapet works. Larch Street - closed from Wednesday 18 August for 6 days for road resurfacing. Brown Street (at Hawkhill) - closed on Monday 16 August for road marking works. Riverside Drive Taxi Rank - closed overnight (10.00pm - 7.00am) Saturday 21 and Saturday 28 August for work at Railway Station. Forthcoming Roadworks Annfield Row (at Annfield Street) - closed from Tuesday 31 August for 5 working ...
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Dig discovery hints that Leicester people were fed to the lions by Romans, say archaeologists
The Leicester Mercury wins Headline of the Day and the story beneath is worth reading too: An archaeological dig in Leicester city centre may have found evidence people were once thrown to the lions by their Roman overlords. ... A newly published paper by archaeologists concludes that a bronze key handle showing a man and a group of naked youths being savaged may suggest it actually happened here in Leicester - or Ratae Corieltauvorum as it was known - during the city's time as a prominent Roman town. The discovery - at the site of a former Roman townhouse - ...
