Hello! I'm Mark Pack, author of both 101 Ways To Win An Election and Bad News: what the headlines don't tell us, along with maintaining the largest database of national voting intention polls in the UK, stretching back to 1943. The next general election is most likely several years away, but political polling of voting intentions for a general election is in full swing. Half-a-dozen firms are polling regularly, with a handful of occasional surveys from others too. Below the table, you'll find the option to sign up to email updates about new polls and also a set of answers ...
As I always say, I don't know much about art, but I know what I like. And I like the work of all of these artists. Without further commentary, my votes this year are as follows: Best Professional Artist 6) Tommy Arnold 5) Rovina Cai 4) Alyssa Winans 3) Galen Dara 2) Maurizio Manzieri 1) John Picacio Best Fan Artist 6) Cyan Daly 5) Grace P. Fong 4) Laya Rose 3) Maya Hahto 2) Sara Felix 1) Iain Clark
It was a cracker of a night on Thursday: A recap of the BRILLIANT Liberal Democrat by-election results last night! [IMG: 👏] Elected to ALL Town Council contests: 3 GAINS and 2 HOLDS [IMG: 🙌] 2 HOLDS on Ribble Valley Borough Council and a GAIN on Rutland County Council [IMG: 🤏] A close contest on Dover District Council (45 votes off!) — ALDC (@ALDC) August 20, 2021
This weekend we are publishing all the speeches from Alex Cole Hamilton's Scottish leadership event on 20 August, because, frankly, they are too good not to. This one is from Jack Norquoy, an activist from Orkney who now lives in Edinburgh. This morning I was in my home of Orkney, a place where Liberals have won for over seventy years. I'm standing here now in Edinburgh Western where Alex has won the most votes of any MSP in the history of the Scottish Parliament. And while these places are formidably Liberal, it is also true that in my travels today ...
Fri, 18:25: The Beast of Stalingrad, by Iain McLaughlin https://t.co/q1H3trpvE9 Fri, 19:23: Friday reading https://t.co/8N371pNz2u Fri, 20:48: Tom Baker: 'I didn't know what to do with Doctor Who' https://t.co/DO6Y1ddye2 Great interview with the great man. Sat, 10:45: Liberal Democracy Is Worth a Fight https://t.co/GlLgTVPqcM "In the real world, the battle to defend liberal democracy is sometimes a real battle, a military battle" - @AnneApplebaum
This weekend, we're publishing all the speeches from Alex Cole-Hamilton's launch event. Here's Wendy Chamberlain MP talking about I am so excited to be here with you all today, because today is a new beginning with a new generation of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, exemplified by Jack Norquoy, and under our new leader Alex Cole-Hamilton. I've been a member of this party for only six years. I always joke that I joined crying at Nick Clegg on the Telly in the aftermath of the General Election result of 2015. That was the start of my journey. If you had told ...
The defeat in Afghanistan of the liberal democrat West and the victory of an authoritarian Islamic fundamentalist Taliban has worldwide geopolitical consequences. It has called into the question America's commitment to its allies; provided political ammunition to China and Russia; emboldened fundamentalists in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East and Africa; increased the threat to Israel; weakened NATO; prompted a re-think in India; and, encouraged many in the Far East. Governments around the world heaved a collective sigh of relief when Joe Biden replaced Donald Trump in the White House. Trump's "America First" policy tinged with isolationism and a ...
Residents have queried with me why the footbridge over the rail line south of Harris Academy has recently been closed. I took this up with the City Council and the Team Leader, Bridges and Structures has advised : "One of the steps on the north side has been very recently damaged and presents a significant safety issue to users. The bridge closure was done urgently so we didn't have a chance to provide advance notice unfortunately. We have a hardwood replacement ordered but don't have a precise timescale for its renewal due to material shortages, hopefully should be a matter ...
L.P. Hartley's The Go-Between was the first adult literary novel I read and I was 13 when I read it. Having found myself suddenly fatherless a couple of years before, it is no wonder that I identified strongly with the young Leo Colston. To this day, I have a weakness for such characters. If I write about a Victorian novel it is probably Oliver Twist, and Lord Bonkers' Well-Behaved Orphans began as something of a joke against myself. The Go-Between was filmed in 1971 by Joseph Losey. In this video, Dominic Guard, who played Leo, talks about the experience of ...
