Having reported some of the initial polls following the news of fines for Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak over breaking lockdown rules, let's follow my own usual advice to others and round up all the polls on the topic. Four pollsters have so far all asked about whether the PM should resign, using significantly different question wording but – on this occasion – getting a similar set of answers regardless of the wording. Here's are those answers: The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson: It has been reported this afternoon (12 April) that the Prime Minister and the Chancellor have been issued ...
The Sunday Times reports on a damning set of court comments about Conservative Member of Parliament Andrew Bridgen.
In the months before Christmas I used my phone to play music for my mother every evening - chiefly Handel's Messiah and pieces by Aksel Rykkvin, the finest boy treble I have ever heard. I also introduced her to Michael Nyman's film music and she surprised me by more than once asking for Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush. My mother was never a great one for buying records but knew a good voice when she heard one, so there were Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash records in the family collection. I cannot remember a time when I did not know ...
The Liberal Democrats have warned the NHS is at breaking point after new figures uncovered a mental health crisis sweeping through staff across health services in the UK. A Freedom of Information Request tabled by the Party to all NHS Hospital Trusts has revealed that there have been at least 8.3 million mental health sick days since 2017. The number of mental health sick days has increased every year since 2017, with some Trusts seeing large increases during the pandemic years. The terrible revelations show that in 2021 alone more than 2 million days were taken off sick by staff ...
The Independent has a disturbing article on how right-wing parties are taking aim at climate policies as the cost of energy soars. They say that research from the University of Sussex Business School and the University of Warwick, suggests that while right-wing populists taking over mainstream centre-right parties is relatively rare, when they have done so, as with Donald Trump in the US, the impacts on climate policy have been strongly negative. Soaring energy prices potentially create a new opportunity for populists to attack policy, despite the fact that concern about climate change is at record levels, with the influence ...
In her spare time, Trudy Cunningham, the University of Dundee's Environment and Sustainability Manager, has been weeding the Bonnie Dundee tubs at West Port. The tubs are looking great - many thanks Trudy!
