Today is World AIDS day. I lived through the 1980s when a Tory Government ramped up prejudice against LGBT people. It was awful. It made so many of my friends fear being open about how they were. It made them suffer bullying and harassment. Russell T Davies' drama It's a Sin brought that horror to our screens earlier this year. I was in bits by the end of episode 1. It's a very powerful warning against demonising any group of people. The theme of the day this year is about ending inequalities. You can find out more on the World ...
Ed Davey took the opportunity at Prime Minister's Questions today to challenge the Prime Minister to do more to support farmers. He mentioned three places in particular. Feel free to take a wild guess about which parliamentary constituency they are in.* Many British farmers are now on the brink, and facing payment cuts of at least 5% from this month. [IMG: 🚜] [IMG: 💷] Will the Prime Minister step up to protect British farmers and stop these vital farms from going bankrupt? @EdwardJDavey [IMG: 💬] [IMG: â–¶] pic.twitter.com/W8LRIdm0bh — Liberal Democrats (@LibDems) December 1, 2021 Farmers across our country are ...
If you want people to spread some news, the best way to get them to do it is to send them an email marked "Confidential" and tell them not to pass information on because it's "secret". To add a dash of drama, you send it out at 6:03 am, saying that you've just come out of the "daily briefing with the by-election team in North Shropshire." I don't doubt for a second that Lib Dem Chief Exec Mike Dixon is an early riser and his cannily timed email to catch party members when they had their breakfast or were on ...
My speech to full council on 22nd November explains what the council's district heat network, SDEN is, and how it contributes to our ambitions for a sustainable future for our borough: In October, on the eve of COP26, the Government published its Net-Zero Strategy: Build Back Greener. The policies that hit the headlines were ending [...]
Second paragraph of third part:She's the filmmaker whose images I described earlier, the image of the men who can't speak or hear crossing the rubble conversing with each other and the image of the man with the two suitcases at the edge of the high building.This is the fourth in a quartet of novels by Smith (whose How to be Both I also enjoyed). I haven't read the other three; I don't think it is essential to have done so in order to enjoy Summer, though I am sure it would help. It's a story of a dysfunctional London family ...
Idly filling in spaces in the family tree, which is about all I've had energy for of late, I discovered another celebrity relative, pioneering London gynæcologist Gladys Maud Sandes, my fourth cousin. Although she was born seventy years before me, in 1897, we are the same generation; her father John Sandes was born in 1868, sixty years before my father, his third cousin; Gladys' grandmother, Anna Whyte, was born in 1835, forty-five years before my grandfather, her second cousin; Gladys' great-grandfather, Charles John Whyte, was born in 1804, twenty-two years before my great-grandfather, his first cousin; and Gladys' great-great-grandfather, another ...
Tue, 12:56: Wil Wheaton, on separating Art from Artist. https://t.co/YYd0xwwjeX Tue, 16:05: Gladys Maud Sandes (1897-1968) https://t.co/0UKOVKWzfN Turns out this pioneering London gynaecologist was my fourth cousin. Tue, 17:11: RT @reclamation2022: Eastercon is the UK's longest running SF convention. 2022's Guests of Honour include @MaryRobinette, @tashadrinkstea,... Tue, 18:15: November 2021 books https://t.co/e48u0wt6yd Tue, 20:48: RT @ianbremmer: Germany's Olaf Scholz (set to be the next chancellor) and US Senator Chris Coons. For the record, we HAVE seen both in th... Tue, 23:27: RT @Wiswell: THEY FUNGED https://t.co/HdZoJIi7AT Tue, 23:34: RT @bbcdoctorwho: "What's the point in being alive if it's not to ...
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Business forums at COP26 revealed what company bosses need from carbon pricing to facilitate decarbo...
The recent Sustainable Innovation Forum 2021 and Hydrogen Transition Summit revealed that business leaders want to decarbonise but are held back by the lack of price ambition and predictability of the Emissions Trading Systems (ETS) carbon pricing regime. They argued for an economy wide, strong, predictable, preferably global, carbon price to facilitate decarbonisation, ...."The best (thing) governments can do to promote hydrogen is a global carbon tax" Seifi Ghasemi Chairman, CEO and President of Air Products. The management consulting company Roland Berger advocates a high carbon price to render decarbonisation cost effective, at a level only currently found in Sweden ...
The sense of entitlement emanating from 10 Downing Street and the Tory hierarchy is just overwhelming. It appears that they think they can carry on doing their own thing regardless of the rules and the law and, if the polls are to be believed, are encouraged in that view by a weak opposition and ane electorate who continue to give them the benefit of the doubt. The latest episode of 'one rule for us, another for the rest of you', is revealed in today's Mirror, who report that Boris Johnson and his Downing Street staff have been accused of breaking ...
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08:51LibLink: Christine Jardine Government looks heartless and out of ideas as migrants keep dying
In her Scotsman column this week, Lib Dem MP Christine Jardine accuses the Government of trashing our country's long tradition of providing sanctuary to those who need it. It is as if the Government does not know that the word and concept of refugees was created by this country. Its origins are in the creation of a safe haven, a refuge in London for Huguenots fleeing persecution in 17th century France. They became known as refugees. That was the start of a long, proud tradition of this country providing sanctuary for those fleeing persecution or poverty and willing to contribute ...
It's been a couple of months since the last council by-elections on a Tuesday, but this week brought another. This time it's from Wyre Forest.
From Sheena Wellington : For our last concert of 2021 Friends of Wighton can't provide the usual mince pies and chocolates but we are offering a very special pre-Christmas Zoom treat. Our guests are the award-winning traditional singer Shona Donaldson and the far-famed Tarland fiddler Paul Anderson MBE (pictured). Shona Donaldson grew up in Huntly in a musical family, learning the fiddle and attending traditional music festivals including Strichen and Keith. As well as picking up the usual song repertoire, Shona also learned from bothy ballad singers like Jock Duncan and Geordie Murison. Soon, to the delight of her mentors ...
The Cortisol Awakening Response (CAR) is managed by the HPA axis and is the process which makes people wake up in the morning so they can get on with the day. At times this happens during the night and can be a real nuisance as people cannot get back to sleep. It is possible using a small amount of Aspirin to disable the CAR (stop the CAR), but that then has knock on effecs on sleep for the
Nathan Abrams, Anaïs Augé, Maciej Nowakowski and Thora Tenbrink find that mask wearing wasn't disputed in previous crises and ask why is it so hotly contested today. The potential of hard-working, high-achieving young people with insecure immigration status is being squandered by a punitive immigration system, inflexible student finance and poor advice and guidance, says Vanessa Joshua. "If G4S was a family, rather than a private company, would the state be sending vulnerable children to its care? I think not." Carolyne Willow argues that G4S's improvement plan will not be enough to turn around Oakhill Secure Training Centre. Charlotte Hu ...
