George Eugeniou is the force behind Theatro Technis, a community arts venue to be found in a former mission hall behind St Pancras Old Church House that I came across the other day. Here he talks about his work, filmed, presumably, in the mission hall itself. Eugeniou was born in Limassol in 1931, cam to England in 1950 and has appeared in films including Ill Met by Moonlight and Miracle in Soho.
Embed from Getty ImagesProfessor Bryce Evans from Liverpool Hope University tells the Leicester Mercury: "Make no mistake, we're facing a national emergency which I don't think has truly bitten yet. The Government must think creatively about how we enable people to eat cheaply and to eat well and it has to be something more sustainable than what we saw with Eat Out to Help Out or the basic food bank." The "something more" he suggests is a revival of the British Restaurants that were set up by the government during the Second World War and run by local government or ...
Tue 26th
15:03
How to draw national trends from local election results: national vote share calculations
How PNS (Projected National Share of the vote) and NEV (National Equivalent share of the Vote) allow May elections to be compared across years.
Tue 26th
13:30
Last chance to develop Lib Dem policy on food and farming, international security and training
The Federal Policy Committee is in the process of setting up 3 policy working groups, to report to Autumn Conference in 2023. Any party member can apply to join them. But you need to hurry – the deadline is tomorrow. The groups will update policy on Food and Farming, Opportunity, Skills and Training and International Security. In an email to party members, FPC Vice Chair Lucy Nethsingha said: Below you can see the aims of each working group: Food and Farming This group will consider how we can improve our approach to food and farming, including looking at the future ...
There are lots of elections going on at the moment, with Lib Dems across the country campaigning hard to hold and gain council seats. There is another competition going on , however. Voting is open for Holyrood's Dog of the Year. If you like dogs and want a wonderful way to take a break, spend some time reading about all the canine participants. We can guarantee you will fall in love with at least one of the contenders. They are all wonderful. The sole Lib Dem entrant is Gerry, the cleverly named Springer Spaniel who owns Liam McArthur, our Orkney ...
Those who boast that British justice is "the best in the world " and " the envy of the world" and that British enterprise still believes in "fair play" should watch last night's Panorama programme on the sub-postmaster scandal. I'm told that present-day Panorama investigative journalism and reporting is but a shadow of its former self, but I found this programme both horrifying and convincing. Briefly, in the period 2000 to 2014 (that's fourteen years - FOURTEEN YEARS) a total of 736 sub- postmasters and mistresses were prosecuted for theft, embezzlement or fraud. Some went to prison (though they were ...
Mon, 12:56: RT @ErikLoomis: I present to the world---my obituary of Orrin Hatch, who was a very bad, no good, awful person. https://t.co/Uc0b1UzXC7 Mon, 16:05: RT @nicktolhurst: Even by Express standards this is hysterical. The Brexit "masterstroke" mentioned is the UK unilaterally recognizing EU... Mon, 17:11: Tested by war, Ukraine's Jews keep faith in their country - POLITICO https://t.co/4MpIUgFuaX Really interesting. Mon, 19:03: Air, by Geoff Ryman https://t.co/FwdmUYKMPl https://t.co/9gAh7foBnZ Mon, 21:58: Daily Quordle 91 4️⃣5️⃣ 7️⃣6️⃣ https://t.co/Cm9zc2fDBW https://t.co/C8E513Xvqf Tue, 10:28: My take on next month's elections in the #Philippines and in #NorthernIreland. https://t.co/gGIa3VAVvN Tue, 10:53: Happy birthday to me (and ...
217 police stations and counters across England have closed since 2015, shocking new figures uncovered by the Liberal Democrats have revealed. It's the equivalent of over one police station closing every two weeks in the past seven years under the Conservatives. The figures were obtained by the Liberal Democrats through FOI requests to every police force in England and Wales, with responses London and the South East, in particular, have seen a staggering fall in the number of police stations. Thames Valley Police, responsible for policing in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, has closed the most locations, with 23 stations and ...
I recently had a number of complaints about the extent of litter right along the pathways of the Seabraes site from Roseangle to Greenmarket. This area is owned and managed by Scottish Enterprise. I contacted SE and the Regional Facilities Manager of its managing agents Nile Management responded positively as follows : "I have arranged to get one of our contractors on site ... to carry out a litter pick of the area and will also price up to have additional litter bins installed at various points throughout the site. These will be emptied by our new landscaping contractor going ...
Last night's Annual Town Meeting was fairly well attended with more than 20 residents. The usual question and answer session followed presentations by councillors. Jennifer Gill asked about progress on repairing the town walls behind St Laurence's Church, which fell nine years ago. Mayor Robin Pote gave the reply. He said the work could cost £3 million, money that many need to be borrowed. This might be borrowed from the Public Works Loans Board. My back of envelope calculation is that would lead to repayments of around £150,000 a year if the loan period was the normal 30 years, roughly ...
The Guardian reports that British universities are facing a brain drain as the row over Brexit in Northern Ireland threatens £250m in research funding from the EU. The paper says that the European Research Council (ERC) has written to 98 scientists and academics who were recently approved for €172m (£145m) in grants telling them that if the UK's associate membership of the €80bn Horizon Europe programme is not ratified they will not be eligible to draw down the money: Scientists have said they are now scrambling to find alternative EU institutions to host the funding, with some already turning down ...
