Hello! I'm Mark Pack, author of Polling UnPacked: The History, Uses and Abuses of Political Opinion Polls, as well as 101 Ways To Win An Election and Bad News: what the headlines don't tell us. Welcome to my summary of the latest national voting intention poll from each pollster currently operating in Britain. Below the table, you'll find the option to sign up to email updates about new polls and also a set of answers to frequently asked questions about political polling. Or, if you'd like to find out more about how polls work, how reliable they are and how ...
Be grateful for good health if you have it. It's a privilege but gratitude isn't about feeling smug over others. An element of gratitude is compassion. Let's have compassion for those suffering from Covid or long Covid. Around this time in 2020 the World Health Organisation declared Covid 19 to be a pandemic. About 6 ... The post 21 Days Happiness Challenge. Day 12 – Appreciating good health. appeared first on A Midlifer in London .
Today, Conference agreed a roadmap to improve the UK's trading relationship with Europe, benefitting British families and businesses, helping counter the threat posed by Putin's Russia. The approved motion calls for closer ties in education by through the Turing scheme and Erasmus Plus. The UK should seek cooperation agreements with EU agencies and work to reach a UK-EU agreement on asylum seekers. It should deep trade with Europe, including by negotiating greater access for UK food and animal products to the Single Market. Eventually, the UK should place its relationship with the EU on a more formal footing by seeking ...
The Lib Dems are celebrating two resounding victories in Hertfordshire this week. On Hertfordshire County Council we held the seat of Hitchin South with a majority of over 1700 votes and a 72% share of the vote. Our vote increased by a massive 34%. Well done to Councillor Keith Hoskins and the local Lib Dem team on a brilliant result: Hertfordshire County Council, Hitchin South ward Liberal Democrat (Keith Hoskins): 2401 [71.7%, +34%] Conservative: 690 [20.6%, -16.3%] Green: 223 [6.7%, -2.2%] Christian People's Alliance: 35 [1%] The Lib Dems held a further seat in Hitchin - this time Hitchin Highbury ...
Fri, 12:56: Strange Horizons - The Author and the Critic I: Christopher Priest and Paul Kincaid By Paul Kincaid, By Christopher Priest https://t.co/nG6YrhrhoE A good read (as usual). Fri, 13:59: 90 hours left to nominate in this year's Hugo awards! https://t.co/SfW9ypyORq Fri, 14:11: RT @JazzyJaney: Happy 70th birthday Douglas Adams. We wish you were here. ♥️ Fri, 14:15: RT @HuffPost: "Thank you for that grace," CNN's Anderson Cooper told "Amelia" after showing the viral video. https://t.co/ZZcQj1AwTB Fri, 14:32: RT @KyivIndependent: British actress Emilia Clarke posted a photo wearing a T-shirt with a Ukrainian flag. "My heart is breaking along wit... ...
At Conference yesterday, Lib Dems blasted the Government for its slowness in taking action on air pollution, the cause of thousands of premature deaths each year in the UK. We passed a motion submitted by Ealing Lib Dems and moved by Hina Bokhari AM which called for a greater empowering of local authorities and the introduction of stricter, legally-binding national limits for particulate matter and other pollutants. Our spokesperson for the Climate Emergency, Wera Hobhouse said after the debate: "Air pollution is a killer. Thousands of people lose their lives each year, with many others suffering from ill health because ...
After a series of eight votes on Friday night ably navigated by session chair Duncan Brack, Liberal Democrat federal conference passed an important set of reforms to address one of the key findings from the Thornhill Review, the independent post-mortem into the 2019 general election. It found that the Federal Board, at 41 in size, was far too large to do its job properly. That finding wasn't a surprise, as all the way since the party's creation there have been repeated complaints that the Board, and its predecessor the Federal Executive, was far too large. But over the years not ...
Chair Duncan Brack remarked late yesterday evening as he opened the debate on reforming the party's Federal Board, we had reached "peak Lib Dem" as before us we had 4 options, constitutional amendments, standing order amendments, 3 requests for a reference back and 7 votes. The Federal Board put forward those 4 options – 3 for reform, 1 to keep roughly the same arrangements in response to the Thornhill Review's criticism of party governance in the 2019 General Election. The option passed was to have a slimmed down board of 16 people who are: The President, who shall act as ...
After almost 19 years of blogging on Livejournal, and almost 15,000 entries, the time has come to move to a dedicated WordPress site, managed by the amazing Damien at Elucidate. I have archived all of my old entries to the new site (or rather, Damien has); and I hope to import all comments and tags as well. I don't plan to delete my Livejournal, and I will crosspost to it once I work out how, but I have a strong suspicion that it won't stay up for much longer. This is still a work in progress, and I hope to ...
The government has been mired with sleaze. The Conservatives attempted to keep Owen Paterson as an MP and thankfully failed. Boris Johnson is the first prime minister to be interviewed by the police under caution. He is dodging the question of whether he will resign if he is fined over partygate. Yesterday, the Lib Dem Spring Conference voted for a package of reforms. These include putting the Ministerial Code into law and making sure it is fully independent of the prime minister; appointing an Independent Adviser to oversee the Code and launch their own investigations; and introducing a range of ...
Gloucester Live reports: Water companies should be forced to give local environmentalists a "seat at the table" of their management boards to combat sewage dumps, the Liberal Democrats have said... By forcing water firms to accept local environmentalists onto their management boards, the public will be able to hold them to account, the Lib Dems said. "Local groups will hear first hand how bad the problem is from water companies and be able to release the details to the public," the party said. The Lib Dems said the move is inspired by the former frontman of the Undertones, Feargal Sharkey, ...
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As recently reported in the Courier (see below), the Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has intervened in the Ryehill Health Centre concerns by raising the issue with Humza Yousaf, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care. Alex said : "I have raised the concerns over Ryehill Health Centre with the health secretary at the request of West End Councillor Fraser Macpherson who has already asked NHS Tayside to consider taking over the running of the health centre rather than see it closed and the patients having to be disbursed to other GP practices. "The impact of ...
The Liberal Democrats have blasted the Government for its slowness in taking action on air pollution, the cause of thousands of premature deaths each year in the UK. The Party passed a motion at its Spring Conference yesterday which called for a greater empowering of local authorities and the introduction of stricter, legally-binding national limits for particulate matter and other pollutants. In 2019, fine particulate matter was responsible for more than 33,000 deaths while nitrogen dioxide was responsible for a further 5,750. In spite of this, UK limits for both are set at four times the level of the World ...
Anybody who doubted that the decision to oust Cressida Dick as Metropolitan Police Commissioner was the right one, must surely be reassured by the decision of the high court to rule in favour of the organisers of a planned vigil for Sarah Everard. As the Guardian reports, the Metropolitan police breached the rights of the organisers of the planned vigil in the way they handled the planned event: Reclaim These Streets (RTS) proposed a socially distanced vigil for the 33-year-old, who was murdered by a serving Met officer, Wayne Couzens, near to where she went missing in Clapham, south London, ...
