RAF Husbands Bosworth opened in August 1943 and was decommissioned by the Air Force in 1946. Its buildings were then used to house displaced Polish families. This video tells its story and you can read more about the airfield on the Husbands Bosworth website.
Quite a few people know I have been putting some effort into debugging my metabolism. This in many ways is medical research where N=1, but actually is different to most medical research. Rather an apply a protocol for a period of weeks or months and measure the results I apply different protocols almost on a daily basis. I do, of course, measure the results. However, rather than experimenting
This is the latest post in a series I started in late 2019, anticipating the twentieth anniversary of my bookblogging which will fall in 2023. Every six-ish days, I've been revisiting a month from my recent past, noting work and family developments as well as the books I read in that month. I've found it a pleasantly cathartic process, especially in recent circumstances. If you want to look back at previous entries, they are all tagged under bookblog nostalgia. My travels that month were an awkward work trip to New York followed immediately by a sad trip to England for ...
[IMG: Kinfe Bin (East Kent Police Division press release supplied image)] Two knife bins have been placed in Folkestone to give anyone in possession of a bladed object a safe place to dispose of it. One of the bins is at the Canterbury Road entrance to the Canterbury Road Recreation Ground and the other is near the Payers Park Car Park, off Dover Road. The scheme encourages anyone with a knife, or any other potential weapon, to dispose of it in these safe places without fear of prosecution. The knife bins have been funded by Kent and Medway Violence Reduction ...
If, like me, you were waiting for life to calm down a bit before you binge watched the new drama about Bill Clinton's impeachment and his appalling behaviour which led up to it, think again. The first episode disappears from iPlayer at 9:15 on Thursday (18th November) and the subsequent 4 every Thursday afterwards. I watched the first two episodes on Sunday night and found it to be absolutely brilliant, made with sensitivity and understanding. That may well be because Monica Lewinsky is one of the producers and has the chance to tell her story in a way that she ...
Rather excited to see that after both the fun and the slog of writing it, my next book is now available to pre-order: a guide to and history of political opinion polls. As the blurb says: Opinion polls dominate media coverage of politics, especially elections. But how do the polls work? How do you tell the good from the bad? And in light of recent polling disasters, can we trust them at all? Polling UnPacked gives you the full story, from the first rudimentary polls in the nineteenth century, through attempts by politicians to ban polling in the twentieth century, ...
There is a shocking article in the Guardian that sets out in stark terms the uncomfortable and, in my view, improper relationship between the UK's gambling industry and some MPs. The paper highlights a number of example of MPs who, within Parliamentary rules, have made interventions in Parliament, depite being in receipt of benefits from the gambling industry. A a Guardian audit found that 28s MPs - 19 Conservative and the rest Labour - have taken almost £225,000 in wages and freebies from the gambling industry since August 2020, all have been declared in the register of interest in accordance ...
Mon, 12:56: How Nella Larsen's Passing deconstructed the question of race https://t.co/HfgLJKgXOX Larsen's 1929 novel, now a Netflix film, illustrates the degree to which race is a construct - without lecturing the reader. Mon, 14:41: RT @PadraigBelton: My biggest #DoctorWho squee yet: @ThaddeaGraham. 24 and Chinese-Northern Irish, she writes music too and reminds us ther... Mon, 18:09: RT @chriscurtis94: How have views on Boris Johnson changed since the end of the vaccine boost since May. The biggest shifts are on...[% ag... Mon, 18:50: Shadowboxer, by Tricia Sullivan https://t.co/mMjK863P44 Mon, 19:22: Novacon https://t.co/patMJBoa9x Mon, 20:48: She is soooo sweet!!! https://t.co/7r3zTWPw0w Tue, ...
Helen Morgan has been selected as the Lib Dem candidate in the North Shropshire by-election, which was called after the resignation of Conservative Owen Paterson amid allegations of sleaze. The campaign in North Shropshire has been underway for a week-and-a-half. Last Saturday Sarah Cooper, who was elected as MP for Chesham and Amersham in June, opened our campaign HQ near Wem in North Shropshire. Helen said this morning her top campaigning priority will be to demand a better deal for the constituency's local health services, which have been taken for granted by the Conservatives for years. It comes with the ...
With the Liberal Democrat by-election campaign already off to a flying start, local members have also selected the party's candidate, Helen Morgan.
Helen Morgan has been selected as the Lib Dem candidate in the North Shropshire by-election, called after the resignation of Conservative Owen Paterson amid allegations of sleaze. The campaign in North Shropshire has been underway for a week-and-a-half. Last Saturday Sarah Green, who was elected as MP for Chesham and Amersham in June, opened our campaign HQ near Wem in North Shropshire. Helen said this morning her top campaigning priority will be to demand a better deal for the constituency's local health services, which have been taken for granted by the Conservatives for years. It comes with the closure of ...
First, the Tories rubbish the triple lock when it is included in the 2008 Lib Dems manifesto; secondly they are forced to accept it as part of the coalition agreement that year; then they claim it as one of their own when it proves popular, including it in all their subsequent manifestos; finally Rishi Sunak goes back on their word. Responding to the rejection of an amendment to the Social Security Bill which would prevent the ditching of the pension triple lock, Liberal Democrat Work & Pensions Spokesperson Wendy Chamberlain MP said: "Pensioners will not forget this triple lock betrayal. ...
Responding to the Government's failure yesterday evening to endorse a Standards Committee report on rule breaches by former Conservative MP Owen Paterson, Liberal Democrat Chief Whip Wendy Chamberlain MP said: "This is a total farce. First, the Government scheduled this motion so there would be no chance for debate. Now, the motion hasn't passed. It's insulting that, after two weeks of this scandal, the Government couldn't even perform their sleaze U-turn successfully. This tells you all you need to know about the state of the Conservative Party. "It's vital that the Government brings this back before MPs as soon as ...
A West End online event is taking place later this week, organised by the council's communities team. This will give local residents the chance to give their views on local issues and actions to help further improve the West End. All welcome - and details below. UPDATE : Please note change of joining link to https://bit.ly/3Cj44kU
When we last heard from him, Lord Bonkers' tour of Britain had reached a zoo in the West Country where he was living contentedly as a gorilla. That headline was about nuns too. I allowed two penguins to 'go back to our nunnery' I am at last granted an audience with the head keeper, where I explain that, despite my costume, I am not a gorilla but a peer of the realm and press my case to be allowed to return home to the Hall forthwith. She, however, is implacable: "If I believed every sob story I heard from an ...
