In the days when I was on the Liberal Democrats' federal policy committee, the members were invited to a breakfast meeting with Channel 4 at party conference each year. At one of these events I asked someone from the network why it didn't bring back the open-ended Saturday night discussion programme After Dark. He replied snootily: "We like to retire formats become they become tired." I should have replied: "What about the format where Z list comedians look at old TV clips and say 'Blue Peter was for posh kids. We watched Magpie.' That got tired years ago, didn't it? ...
Earlier this month the rail union RMT revealed plans by the rail industry for a cull of ticket offices across the network. It said over 1000 ticket offices are at impending risk of closure. I looked at their list for the Midland main line and, sure enough, Market Harborough is on the list of ticket offices due to go. But so are Leicester, Nottingham, Sheffield and St Pancras. It looks as though pretty much all ticket offices are to be closed. But isn't this what has already happened on the London Underground? Does it really matter. The independent campaign group ...
I was in Whickham yesterday with other volunteers from Planting Up Whickham to help plant up the flowerbeds on Front Street and Church Green. The group raises the money for the flowers and looks after the beds after the council stopped doing this about a decade ago. 2 hours of planting on a Sunday morning and the job was done.
As you might be aware, there is a ridiculously important by-election going on in Tiverton and Honiton, in our former heartlands of the West Country. More than that, we can win it and deliver the death knells to Boris Johnson's premiership and get our country back from the quasi-mob outfit currently running the show. However, to get a decent government of the United Kingdom back that doesn't deport refugees to Rwanda, we badly need to get down and volunteer in Tiverton and Honiton. Here are four ways you can help: Get down yourself, there are members willing to host volunteers, ...
Well, the true heart and soul of the Tory Party has been revealed in the absurd utterings from two Tory MPs, neither of whom were known outside their constituencies until they recently revealed their ignorance of the lives that people ... Continue reading →
It is back! The Social Liberal Forum Conference will be held in London after a two year gap. It will be held at Resource for London, 356 Holloway Rd, London N7 6PA and online on 25th June 2022. We are delighted to be able to give you a first glimpse of the programme. An impressive list of speakers will lead off our discussions on Britain's role in Europe. We are concentrating on three key areas Environment Economy Security Although Brexit has allegedly happened and Boris Johnson pretends the UK's focus is on the "Indo-Pacific", wherever that may be, and the ...
Sun, 12:56: Sheeran & Ors v Chokri & Ors https://t.co/PQLVh98eMW Great Ed Sheeran judgement. "There is nothing surprising in one of the harmonies incorporating the fifth note of the pentatonic scale." Sun, 14:48: Thread. https://t.co/ghrsibP6h0 Sun, 15:19: RT @MargueriteS_IE: @nwbrux I appreciate that 3/10 is the best rating. Sun, 16:05: RT @cstross: Thread. TLDR: Johnson's threat to go back to imperial units is arrant nonsense on stilts. https://t.co/4YRdoee2Q2 Sun, 17:35: The Hear Here exhibition in�Leuven https://t.co/cBXWkaxX0P Sun, 17:48: The Hear Here exhibition in Leuven https://t.co/6NCVvgJ0p1 https://t.co/E5vFiwILB6 Sun, 20:48: Thread. https://t.co/I6plStkDvp Sun, 22:10: RT @IanMoore3000: @nwbrux one thing I am really ...
Only a week or so ago, I sat down at our Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council Annual Meeting. I sat thinking whether I did the right thing. I sat wondering whether, after a 6 year gap, it was the right decision to stand again. One of the Labour Councillors, a really decent guy, said to me: "Michal, you've done it before. You really wanted to do it again? You are crazy". There were a few moments before the meeting, when I was reflecting on sacrifices that many of the Cllrs have to make. Most of us have to work, full or ...
Not much tends to happen here on a Bank Holiday, which makes the job of a Day Editor a mite easier. And then the Queen has a platinum jubilee and the usual schedule gets disrupted... And I ought to wish Her Majesty the very best on her big day – it really is remarkable that she has reigned for seventy years, demonstrating her sense of duty and adherence to a code of behaviour and decorum alien to her Prime Minister. She'll be a difficult act to follow and I do wonder what role a new monarch will have in a ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 30 MAY 2022 Strawberrybank (at Perth Road) - closed for one week for Scottish Water emergency work. West Marketgait (Hawkhill to Dudhope roundabout) - nearside northbound lane closure from Monday 30 May for 6 days for Scottish Water work. City Road/Tullideph Road - 4 way temporary traffic lights from Tuesday 31 May for 4 days for CityFibre works. Hillside Terrace - closed on Sunday 5 June (11.00am - 5.00pm) for a Street Party. Forthcoming Roadworks Blackness Road at Abbotsford Street - 2 way temporary ...
