Rainy Sundays, pure and simple, because it makes you feel cosy. Happiness involves getting joy from the natural elements. A rainy Sunday isn't a terrible day, unless you have an outdoor event planned, but a day to stay indoors and rest up. Happy Sunday. The post 21 Days Happiness Challenge. Day 13-Rainy Sundays appeared first on A Midlifer in London .
A robust and well-functioning justice system is a foundation stone of society. But in England and Wales we are facing a soaring backlog of court cases. The backlog of outstanding criminal cases in the Crown Court stood at 59,928 at the end of September. 13,202 cases in the backlog are more than a year old. A Crown Court case now takes an average of 23 months from offence to completion. Court backlogs have caused the number of people being held in prison on remand to rise by 48% since 2018. The independent Chief Inspectors of Constabulary, the Crown Prosecution Service, ...
The Independent reports that the government has decided that Ukrainian refugees who carried their pets as they fled their homes will be allowed to bring the animals into the UK without paperwork or facing vaccine and quarantine bills. These emergency measures will make it easier for the victims of war to keep their cats and dogs with them rather than abandoning them in countries en route to the UK, such as Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Germany, while ministers will also waive the strict rule that requires owners to have a pet passport or health certificate to bring in their pets. ...
The scheme for 213 homes on a wedge of greenfield land off Bromfield Road between the railway and the A49 were first proposed in 2013. They were rejected by the South Planning Committee twice but were approved by a planning inspector in 2015. A controversial footbridge linking the development with Fishmore View was removed from the scheme in 2017. That left a footbridge over the railway as the only pedestrian access to the site. Tesni, the housing developer, could not reach agreement with Network Rail on construction of footbridge. The new proposal is to create a pedestrian and cycle path ...
South Cambridgeshire is one of the "Blue Wall" seats that the Lib Dems are targetting for the next General Election. PPC Pippa Heylings was given a keynote speaking slot at Conference. This is her speech: It's good to see so many of our seats have selected their candidates already and are working hard to win.
"We can defeat this awful government, bring down the Blue Wall and build a fairer country" - Ed Davey
A powerful selection on Ukraine, a call for Priti Patel to be sacked, a celebration of Chesham and Amersham and North Shropshire, a tribute to Lib Dem by-election stalwart Erlend Watson, a decent gag about Dick Turpin, an evisceration of the Tories over sleaze and partygate (including a call for a public enquiry into Boris Johnson's relationship with Lebvedev) and an attack on Tory MPs for keeping Boris Johnson in power, setting out what the Lib Dems offer for health and education and a look forward to the local government elections in May...all this and more delivered by Ed Davey ...
Liberal Democrats want a way forward which works for Britain – that cuts down red tape, reduces costs for businesses and makes people better off as a result. At this dark moment, our security depends on urgently forging a relationship ... Continue reading →
Ongoing bureaucratic barriers to refugees fleeing Ukraine and the appalling UK Government attitude to them, the bravery of young political activists in Ukraine who are having to defend their country against invasion, the courage of young activists in Russia who are protesting Putin's actions, the need to end our dependence on others for energy supply, the importance of standing up for the right of sovereign nations to be part of Europe, the chilling prospect of how we respond to escalating brutality from Putin's army. These were just some of the points mentioned in an emotional and powerful debate on the ...
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Lib Dems warm of Blue Wall Farmers revolt - "We are now the party that Backs British Farmers"
The Liberal Democrats have put the Conservatives' former rural heartlands on notice at their conference this weekend. It comes as the party has passed sweeping reform aimed at targeting the farming community that is "fed up with being taken for granted by the Government". The push to win the farming community comes after the North Shropshire by-election which caused a political earthquake in true blue Shropshire. Now the party is gearing up to win over farmers in the May elections where eyes are on the blue walls of rural heartlands in places like Somerset, Herefordshire and Westmorland - key Lib ...
Responding to Michael Gove saying the Government is considering the seizure of oligarch's mansions to house Ukrainian refugees, Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesperson Alistair Carmichael MP said: "This is the right move but once again the Government is moving so slowly that they risk letting Kremlin-linked oligarchs off the hook."The Tories have managed to take money off Russian oligarchs for years and never found it as difficult as they seem to now."So far the Government has sanctioned just 18 oligarchs, fewer than one a day since the invasion. At this rate there won't be any oligarchs' mansions left to seize ...
Sat, 12:56: RT @ThreshedThought: Two weeks in. Here are some strategic thoughts on #Ukraine. 🧵 Sat, 13:17: Inside Putin's circle — the real Russian elite | Fascinating from @LievenAnatol. https://t.co/kl0rfqCtfZ Sat, 14:48: RT @WarintheFuture: It is 16 days since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. Today I will examine the the importance of the adaptation ba... Sat, 15:43: The Postmistress, by Sarah Blake | From the Heart of Europe https://t.co/8RmiQNFtsv Sat, 16:05: RT @AlexGabuev: 🧵Two weeks ago, as Vladimir Putin was declaring his vicious war on Ukraine, he called the West an "Empire of Lies." In fact... Sat, 16:33: July ...
The Lib Dems are gearing up to win over farmers in the May elections when eyes will be on the blue walls of rural heartlands in places like Somerset, Herefordshire and Westmorland - key Lib Dem, Conservative battlegrounds in May. The Liberal Democrats have put the Conservatives' former rural heartlands on notice at their conference this weekend. It comes as the party has passed sweeping reform aimed at targeting the farming community that is "fed up with being taken for granted by the Government". The push to win the farming community comes after the North Shropshire by-election which caused a ...
Meet Winston Davis from St Albans: Introducing Winston Davis – one of our fantastic @LibDems candidates for the local elections on 5 May. Check out his story and his motivations for standing for councillor here [IMG: 👇] pic.twitter.com/UnJMfxyKk3 — St Albans Lib Dems [IMG: 🔶] (@StAlbansLDs) March 12, 2022
Back in the halcyon days of the Cold War both sides accepted a nuclear strategy called Mutual Assured Destruction which was gifted with the appropriate acronym of MAD. It had a simple basis: Both sides (the West and the Soviet Union) possessed enough nuclear weapons to wipe out the other (and the rest of the world). Therefore it was in neither's interest to use their nuclear weapons. As mad as MAD sounds, it worked. No nuclear weapons by either the US or Soviet Union, or Britain or France were used throughout the Cold War. There were some almost incidents, such ...
Helen Morgan, Liberal Democrat MP for North Shropshire yesterday evening passed a party policy motion at the Liberal Democrats Spring Conference to tackle the ambulance service crisis. In the new policy, called 'The Crisis in Our Ambulance Services' passed by Liberal Democrat members this weekend the party calls for: Emergency funding to be made available to ambulance trusts to reverse closures of community ambulance stations and cancel planned closures where needed. The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Sajid Javid to commission the CQC to conduct an investigation into the causes and impacts of ambulance service delays. An ...
From the Curator of Museum Services at the University of Dundee : Let's Go Round Again - the Women's Angle Tues 15th March, 6pm - 7pm, D'Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, Tower Building Our current exhibition in the Lamb Gallery, Let's Go Round Again, showcases work by alumni of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art who studied from 1968-72. As part of the festival, this special event invites women artists and designers showing in the exhibition to discuss their time at art school and the challenges they faced as women in a male-dominated art world. Taking part in this live in-person ...
