Zaghari-Ratcliffe released from Iran: At a dark time, this is joyful news Jane Dodds: Aberpergwm Coal Mine Expansion Must be Stopped Zaghari-Ratcliffe released from Iran: At a dark time, this is joyful news Responding to the news that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman detained in Iran has now been released and is on her way back to the UK, Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Layla Moran MP said: At a dark time, this is joyful news for us all to celebrate. Members of the public, NGOs, Parliamentarians and, of course, Nazanin and Anoosheh's families have campaigned tirelessly for their release ...
Yesterday Ed arrived in Poland at the Ukrainian border and saw first-hand how Polish people were welcoming their exhausted neighbours. He shared some photos and stories with colleagues back in Kingston. Here are some of them. Border crossing – the exhausted people are met with a short walk to the queue for the onward bus, and either side are multiple tents and "stalls" with hot food, drinks, nappies and toiletries, sim cards for the Polish telecom networks and initial information 12 year old Artsiom with his mum – just had a very long journey from Kharkiv which they said was ...
[IMG: Folkestone College logo] Things I don't get to do everyday: promote ABSOLUTELY FREE, gratis, for nothing, adult education taster courses available to ANY over 18 year old local resident. Free. No strings attached. Just learn a bit more about the subject of your choice. There may even be support * to do so. Can't say much fairer than that... In person (6 week, 1 day a week) taster courses across the four colleges include: Beauty Treatments Bricklaying Construction Criminology Digital Users (Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced) Early Years Electrical Hairdressing Health & Social Care Media Makeup & Beauty Nail ...
Trans rights are human rights, trans men are men, trans women are women and nothing will ever change this. It is becoming clear, however, that a minority of our citizens and even representatives in our parliament, Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists – or "TERFs" – do not feel the same way, choosing to see trans people as threats, and choose to attack and undermine them simply for existing, which I cannot help but regard as foolish and wrong. Trans women are women and trans men are men; how can they be threats when all they're doing is living their lives, no ...
What can you see in this photograph of Hornsey Lane, on the border between Haringey and Islington? Not very much. And that's good news.
Tue, 12:56: RT @anthonyzach: Interesting historical overview of self determination referendums from @nwbrux https://t.co/8V7wvwkqht Tue, 15:39: Elections, near and far - Teaser for my talk in Belfast on Friday next week (UU Belfast campus, 5pm, 25 March). #imaginebelfast https://t.co/CGcd6c5bzp Tue, 18:43: Duran Duran: The First Four Years of the Fab Five by Neil Gaiman https://t.co/u6C5yN11gw https://t.co/d6YvwlLZNQ Wed, 02:59: 5 hours left to nominate in this year's Hugo awards! https://t.co/SfW9ypyORq Wed, 06:59: 1 hour left to nominate in this year's Hugo awards! https://t.co/SfW9ypyORq Wed, 07:59: This year's Hugo nominations have closed. Now for the hard part...
I am proud to report that the Scout Group of which I am the Akela – First Wandsworth – raised £1,500 for the International Red Cross in just two hours. A group of 8 to10-year-olds baked cookies, biscuits and cakes. Decorated them with the blue and yellow colours of Ukraine. Set up a table on Wandsworth Common. Raised the Ukrainian flag and produced homemade collecting tins and mobile phones for credit card payments. They were mobbed. They were also enthused and motivated to do more. And they will. The young people of this country are one of its most under-utilised ...
Internet advertising does not have the best of reputations. But when it comes to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the ability to slip adverts telling the truth pass the eyes of Russian regulators makes it a way of battling Putin's disinformation.
There's an event known as "Not the leader's speech", which seems to have gained semi official status in the party. While the leader gives their speech at the end of conference, a group of members meet up at a nearby pub. They follow the coverage of the speech on social media, and discuss at what point they would have walked out, if they had been there. I've never attended "Not the leader's speech", but I do have a good deal of admiration for the irreverent approach of this group of members. I don't think I have ever actually "walked out ...
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"Shambolic and amateur": the government's failure to help refugees on the Polish border
The Independent reports: British government help for Ukrainians fleeing war has been branded "shambolic and amateur" by Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey after a visit to a crossing point at the Polish town of Medyka. In an impromptu refugee centre, somewhat incongruously established in a disused Tesco supermarket, Davey saw charity workers from around the EU able to swiftly process new arrivals and assure them that sanctuary was awaiting them in Germany, Italy or Spain. But Ukrainians hoping to seek refuge in the UK told him they had no idea how to go about it, and had heard it ...
Yet another example of a callous disregard for our natural environment from Tory MPs, as the Independent reports that the party's MPs have voted down a law that would have named and shamed water companies that kill animals animals by dumping sewage into the natural environment. They say that in a Commons division on Monday evening parliament rejected the plan by 286 votes to 179 - despite support from the Liberal Democrats, Labour, and other parties: The amendment to the Animal Welfare Bill would have required a new committee on animals to detail "the number of sentient animals killed or ...
Responding to the government's new expanded sanctions list of Russian individuals, coming almost three weeks since Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Layla Moran MP said: "This is shutting the door after the private jet has bolted. The Government has finally got their act together - but we should have been in this position weeks ago. This delay has given Putin's cronies a priceless window to firesale their assets. "Now we need to go further. There are still too many associates of Putin getting away with it as we speak. "The fix to sanctions legislation is good ...
