Gateshead Council's Labour leader, Martin Gannon, had an interesting Facebook post recently (see above). For once it wasn't a post that attacked me but rather it was a barbed assault on MPs who accept free gifts, such as trips to sports events, dinners, tickets to the Brit Awards and so on. In a 6 month period, MPs had clocked up a range of gifts with a total value of £197,000. Martin wrote, "
Second frame of third chapter (on Egypt): This is actually a lot less exciting than it sounds, a brisk history of white people's sexuality (a follow-up volume looks at Asia and Africa) looking also at historical understandings of marriage and other sexual arrangements. Philippe Brenot is a veteran French sexologist who has written two dozen other books on the subject, and artist Laetitia Coryn is a well-known bandes dessinées writer who is also an actor and voiceover artist. It's not especially erotic, though it's certainly descriptive. In general the points landed fairly and not too didactically; but the scope is ...
Wendy Chamberlain has been elected as Scottish Lib Dems Deputy Leader. [IMG: 👏] [IMG: 👏] [IMG: 👏] Congratulations @wendychambLD https://t.co/goNkWMy6WT — Liberal Democrats (@LibDems) December 3, 2021 You can watch the whole programme here. * Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings
Sat, 12:56: EM [Entitled Mother] ends my engagement and gets me banned from a steak house all in one night https://t.co/oJzZM9VIhm A classic from the bowels of Reddit. Sat, 13:00: RT @chriszbeckett: @nwbrux @slashfilm Interesting. Curious fact I recently learned is that in many of Fellini's films, not only was the di... Sat, 14:48: No Protocol Christmas present, but NY resolution needed https://t.co/6fnQZiYMI6 Sat, 15:43: Ghost Light, by Jonathan Dennis (and Marc Platt) https://t.co/qBxDozCsC4 Sat, 16:05: RT @Glasgowin2024: Our first reveal for some fabulous supporter goodies is this fun colouring page of our winter logo by our very own @sill... ...
Excellent news: alongside the virtual spring federal conference in March, there will be a Conference Live campaign training weekend piloted by ALDC: Working with partners like the Green Liberal Democrats, the LGA, and the Young Liberals, ALDC's Spring Conference Live will include a series of training and workshop discussions - all centred around the theme of winning in May 2022 and beyond. Registration for Conference Live will automatically include registration for the virtual conference, so people attending the training and workshops will also be able to take part in our internal democracy, hear keynote speeches and all the rest of ...
With just 12 days to go before the by-election, called after Owen Paterson resigned amid allegations that he had used his parliamentary position to lobby for companies that paid him, Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey spoke to BBC Midlands Today yesterday from Oswestry. We are getting a sense that it is very close between us and the Conservatives. We are clearly challenging them very hard and Helen Morgan, our candidate, is going on really well. We are focussing on the issues people really care about like ambulance waiting times. Frankly, people feel taken for granted by the Conservatives. So, ...
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World Review: French elections, Barbados, Russian security pact, MI6 and abortion rights in America
The French Presidential elections are hotting up. Far-right candidate Eric Zemmour announced his candidacy this week. He is Euro-sceptic, virulently anti-immigrant and possibly the most anti-Semitic Jew in European politics. The 63-year-old journalist claims that he will save France from decadence and minorities that "oppress the majority." Zemmour is neck and neck with seasoned extreme right campaigner Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Rally Party. Which means that the extreme-right vote is split. The left-wing parties are in disarray and have been effectively written off by the French media in the April presidential elections. On Sunday, primary elections for ...
"A Community Christmas" is taking place later today in the Miller's Wynd Car Park as part of West End Christmas Fortnight! Many thanks to the Gate Church for organising this. More details are available here and all welcome!
Over at the Financial Times, Camilla Cavendish is writing about the authoritatian mess that is the UK Government's police, crime, sentencing and courts bill, which she describes as a monstrous jumble of laws that wouldn't look out of place in Soviet Russia — and that was before the government slipped in more clauses by the back door. Last week, the home secretary, Priti Patel, added 18 pages to the bill that hadn't been there when MPs voted for it in July. One provision would stop demonstrators blocking major transport routes: a fair response to Insulate Britain's campaign. But another would ...
