I am deeply honoured to have been appointed as the new editor of Challenge, the magazine of the Green Liberal Democrats. Ever since I joined the Green Liberal Democrats I've found Challenge to be a great source of materials and inspiration, and I never thought that I would get the chance to edit it. I'd also like to say a massive thank you to George Miles, my predecessor, for his time in the hot seat. The post Green Liberal Democrats first appeared on David Watts.
Great to be able to report that the Liberal Democrat Campaign Innovation Fund is up and running for its second year, as Kath Pinnock writes.
Next Tuesday, 30 November, Edinburgh based Locogen Consulting will be holding drop in session in Bitterley Village Hall from 2:00pm to 6:30pm. The company aims to build a solar farm on the opposite side of Squirrel Lane from the existing solar farm. This consultation comes ahead of a planning application, at which point members of the public will be able to submit formal comments. Locogen has confirmed that no hedges will be lost and it has every intention of improving biodiversity. That will be an issue to be discussed further at the drop in session. Another issue will be construction ...
Second paragraph of third chapter:Right now, it was hurtling on a course towards Westminster Abbey on the bright, frost-flowered morning of 15 January 1559. After their tangle with sinister robots and exploding bubble-wrap at Kerblam!, the whole fam favoured a trip into a tech-free era, far enough back to not jeopardise the existence of any close relatives, but somewhere civilised enough to have decent grub and no cesspits to mess up Ryan's new trainers. Graham suggested the coronation of Elizabeth I, as the feast and flooring were bound to be top notch, and also because his recording of Cate Blanchett's ...
Second paragraph of third chapter:Irfan had been quieter than usual for a couple of weeks. As the ship ploughed on, southbound and unstoppable, he'd seemed paler, too, and while Irfan had always coughed for as long as Halim could remember, a dry-throated tickle that flared up when he was nervous or embarrassed, the racking, shuddering cough that he had picked up on the ship was new, a cough that seemed to rattle his membranes and tear him up from the inside out. Irfan had assured him that he was perfectly fine, it was just a bit of a cough, it ...
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Daisy Cooper outlines Lib Dems' 5 point plan for clinically extremely vulnerable people
As the world's scientists try to work out the extent of the danger posed by new Covid variant Omicron and Governments grapple with with what it might mean for the Winter ahead and Christmas in particular, Lib Dem Health spokesperson Daisy Cooper has set out a 5 point plan to address the needs of one group of people let down by the Government. In the first lockdown, those who were clinically extremely vulnerable had to completely isolate. Our Mary Reid wrote a brilliant Isolation Diary which she later expanded into a book. The impact on those who had to shield ...
Thursday was White Ribbon Day, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. At Holyrood MSPs paused for a minutes silence to remember those women murdered by men over this past year. Later there was a debate on ways to eradicate men's violence against women. Beatrice Wishart, our MSP for Shetland, who has a long record of helping women who have suffered domestic abuse made a brilliant speech in which she called for a Commission to look at ways of ending men's violence against women in all its forms. She drew attention to the way the media reports ...
Sat, 12:56: RT @patmcfaddenmp: Attached is our APPG report out today on Sickle Cell and health care. A story of frustration, lack of understanding, in... Sat, 15:34: Latest instalment of @OctothorpeCast. I am invoked at 13:15 and briefly audible at 35:20. https://t.co/uP7RL7q6tu https://t.co/PPxxgVEm19 Sat, 16:44: Chicago (2002) https://t.co/pj1Hylmbyk Sat, 20:12: Not a lot better today in fact, and I've been out of bed less than yesterday. I am coughing a bit more but I'll https://t.co/9wq2VFvIMO Sat, 20:13: COVID, day 10 and 620 days of plague https://t.co/adULJEpyj8 #covid19 Sat, 20:48: Watch how still it keeps its head! https://t.co/vmpqqiNxtr Sat, 21:31: RT ...
I can't get this video to load up, so please click on this link to see the real facts behind the so-called 'migrant crisis in the channel'
Prepare for an oil price war in 2022. The combatants are OPEC and a consortium of top energy consuming countries including the US, China, UK, Japan, India and South Korea. All of these countries have built up huge strategic oil reserves in case of emergency such as war or another 1973-style OPEC oil embargo. The US has the largest reserves with 638 million barrels tucked away in storage facilities in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. The last two times America's oil reserves were used was after Hurricane Katrina and during the Gulf War. Biden is depleting them to combat the energy ...
Our country has been battered by Storm Arwen. Could it also be about to be battered by Variant Omicron? The new Covid variant has twice as many mutations as Delta, which is currently the dominant variant worldwide. That's why many scientists and politicians are so concerned about it, even if we have little scientific evidence at this early stage about its transmissibility, the extent to which it can infect vaccinated people, whether it causes serious illness and whether it can compete with Delta. Face masks will be compulsory in shops and on buses and trains from Monday. New arrivals to ...
Blether Tay-Gither is the Dundee Storytelling Group. From Sheila Kinninmonth, Blether Tay-Gither's secretary : Hope you can join us for our November Blether on Zoom! Tuesday 30th November 7pm to 9pm Our theme if you want one is "Hills and Glens" Bringing the theme into the landscape of Scotland for November. Stories abound in the hills and glens, those of real life and those of legend and the supernatural. Join us this month and share a story, it could even be a personal anecdote about an experience in the hills and glens. Log in details are : Topic: Blether Tay-GitherTime: ...
