England's water company bosses have awarded themselves almost £27 million in bonuses over the past two years despite pumping out raw sewage into waterways 1,000 times a day, the Liberal Democrats have revealed. Analysis of Companies House records by the Liberal Democrats shows that executives at England's water and sewage companies were paid £48 million in 2020 and 2021, including £27.6 million in bonuses, benefits and incentives. The eye-watering executive pay packets and company profits were made despite the Environment Agency reporting nearly 772,000 sewage dumping events taking place in 2020 and 2021 alone, or over 1,000 per day. The ...
It wasn't just the Reverend Doctor Pearson's Observatory I missed the first time I visited South Kilworth. When I got home that day I found that Pevsner also lists The Timbered House, parts of which date from the 15th and 16th centuries. I found the house easily enough on Saturday, but it is a little way back from the road. Even taking a footpath into a neighbouring field, which contained the relics of a moated site and fish ponds, did not give a clear view. And it's not just me. A google search throws up no photograph of The Timbered ...
Ukrainian victims of Russian war crimes should not be deployed as a human shield to keep a discredited Boris Johnson in Downing Street, says an angry Euan McColm. Jonathan Meades argues that war and famine offer opportunity to the spivs: "It doesn't matter how catastrophic, how terrible, how morally squalid, how globally imperilling the circumstances, there is nothing that cannot be shamelessly exploited by the descendants of Stanley Baldwin's 'hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war'." Josie Giles recalls Orkney's short-lived anarchist newspaper The Free-Winged Eagle. Arundells, Edward Heaths former home in ...
Liberal Democrat Newswire #159 came out last week, looking at the Lib Dem message for the May elections, the major party reforms voted for by conference and more.
No, it wasn't Stalin. It was Joseph Chamberlain, the hero of Theresa May's right-hand man while she was prime minister, Nick Timothy. In his speech to the annual dinner of the Royal Colonial Institute, "The true conception of empire", in London on 31 March 1897, Chamberlain said: You cannot have omelettes without breaking eggs, you cannot destroy the practices of barbarism, of slavery, of superstition, which for centuries have desolated the interior of Africa, without the use of force; but if you will fairly contrast the gain to humanity with the price which we are bound to pay for it, ...
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The decision by Federal Policy Committee to launch a Food and Farming Policy Working Group comes at a time when food security is back on the global agenda for the first time in maybe three decades. The Russian invasion of Ukraine came at a point where grain prices were already causing problems in lower income importing countries. Last week WTO Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said that the conflict could cause widespread hunger. Countries such as Egypt and Sudan are already struggling for supplies. With Russia also the world's main exporter of nitrogen fertiliser, input costs have risen even faster than ...
Elon Musk, who according to Forbes and other sources is the richest person in the world, has made a $43 billion bid for Twitter. Musk is very, very rich. He is also an ideas man and manages to get clever people around him. Space X, more than any other company, has brought the world into an era of space where businesses rather than governments lead in space. Space X is launching satellites and humans into orbit and beyond. Tesla is building more than 300,000 electric cars a quarter in the company's largely automated factories. The Boring Company has several projects ...
Following the quartet of polls showing a majority of the public want Boris Johnson to resign over his breaking of COVID-19 lockdown rules, a new JL Partners poll shows what words people most associate with the Prime Minister: An exclusive poll for The Times suggests that Johnson may have more difficulty winning over the public. The survey, conducted by J L Partners, co-founded by James Johnson, Theresa May's former pollster, asked almost 2,000 people to give their view of the prime minister in a few words. Comments from 72 per cent of respondents were negative, more than four times the ...
Women in the poorest areas of England are dying earlier than the average female in almost every comparable country in the world, according to a damning analysis of life expectancy data that MPs and leading health experts have called "shocking", ... Continue reading →
Liberal Democrat Voice comes to you today from what is claimed to be the world's oldest extant sovereign state, the Most Serene Republic of San Marino. For those who might not know, San Marino is about one-three hundred and fortieth the size of Wales and sits about ten miles inland from Rimini, on Italy's Adriatic coast. But we're still talking about Rwanda, aren't we? I wrote about the emerging plans to send asylum seekers to the East African country on Thursday, and as the proposals become clearer, they get worse. The idea that we're going to pay the Rwandan Government ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 18 APRIL 2022 Westgrove Avenue (Farington Street to No 8 Westgrove Avenue) - closed from Monday 18 April to Wednesday 20 April for Scottish & Southern Energy Networks work. Scott Street (Ashbank Road to Glenagnes Road) - closed on Monday 18 April for Scottish Water work. Road at Thomson Street - 2 way temporary lights from Monday 18 April for 2 days for CityFibre works. Perth Road at West Park Road - 3 way temporary lights on Wednesday 20 April for CityFibre works. Forthcoming ...
The decision by the Home Secretary to send single male asylum seekers to Rwanda, against the strong advice of her senior civil servants, has already started to unravel. Not only is opposition building within the Conservative Party itself, but there are consequences in Rwanda itself. The Mirror reports that orphans of the Rwandan genocide will lose their home to make way for refugees being booted out of Britain by Home Secretary Priti Patel. The paper says that some 22 residents are being turfed out of Hope House hostel to make room for asylum seekers sent to the African country under ...
It's something we haven't seen in Gateshead for 30 years: the Conservatives winning a seat on the council. Sadly, the chances of this happening this May are now higher than they have been for 30 years. You have to go back to 1992 to find the last Conservative win when they topped the poll in Low Fell. Since then Gateshead has been an electoral desert for the Conservatives. Are we about to see an
