Ruth Coleman-Taylor has been a friend to many generations of Liberals and Liberal Democrats – and to many generations of members of liberal parties across the world. Many readers of this site will be very sad to hear that Ruth died on Wednesday in hospital in Greece, where she was moving with her husband Mick. Ruth was one of the kindest, wisest people and I feel very lucky to have known her. I first met her back in 1992 at a Women Liberal Democrats (as it then was) AGM in Bath. Her daughter, Rachel was telling us about her experience ...
Hello! I'm Mark Pack, author of Polling UnPacked: The History, Uses and Abuses of Political Opinion Polls, as well as 101 Ways To Win An Election and Bad News: what the headlines don't tell us. Welcome to my summary of the latest national voting intention poll from each pollster currently operating in Britain. Below the table, you'll find the option to sign up to email updates about new polls and also a set of answers to frequently asked questions about political polling. Or, if you'd like to find out more about how polls work, how reliable they are and how ...
Fri, 12:22: New Belgian foreign minister - Hadja Lahbib @hadjalahbib, journalist and film director. https://t.co/BbS2vq9iAn Fri, 18:49: Ninth Doctor and Thirteenth Doctor�audios https://t.co/rwVhl1Mbgj Fri, 22:09: RT @lithub: Tolkien's handwriting is unsurprisingly glorious. https://t.co/udkk24AA0k Fri, 22:27: RT @DecKelleher: Many congratulations David! Fri, 22:30: RT @mrjamesob: Mordaunt remains one of Vote Leave's most egregious liars. Badenoch professes to care more about statues than people because... Fri, 22:30: RT @mrjamesob: Sunak looks like a dazed Generation Game contestant insisting that he can spin plates or ice a wedding cake. Tugendhat is th... Sat, 09:51: RT @dagger0621: "We got hired to make a cover ...
Enjoy the summer sun while you can. It is going to be a c-c-cold winter – literally and metaphorically. Just about every corner of the globe will be affected. The US perhaps less than many. Europe more than most. But Inflation fuelled by energy shortages will affect almost every one. The rare exceptions will be those living in mud huts heated by gathered wood and financed by a barter economy. The major cause is the Ukraine war, European reliance on Russian energy and Vladimir Putin's willingness to use it as a weapon. But there are other factors: Grain and general ...
The UK Health Security Agency has issued a Level 4 alert for the first time. That declares a national emergency. The Met Office has issued its first Red Alert for extreme heat. A Met Office Red Alert is in place for Monday and Tuesday across central and south east England, including east Shropshire. Other areas of England and Wales have an Orange Alert. Temperatures in some areas are expected to zoom to 40°C, in Ludlow to 37°C. These are the levels of heat people fly abroad for but we are ill adapted to high temperatures in this country where our ...
Responding to the news of the secret plan to pack the House of Lords with Conservative peers before he departs, Ed Davey said: First he filled the Cabinet with his cronies. Now Johnson plans to fill the Lords with his cronies. That's why we need the Tories out and real electoral reform. — Ed Davey (@EdwardJDavey) July 15, 2022
Anybody who thinks that the government is in any way sympathetic to the position of the hundreds of thousand families who are struggling to afford energy costs, has only to look at the position of HM Treasury. The Mirror reports that the current surge in energy prices is set to rake in an extra £2.6billion for the Government, while if the cap on bills rockets in October to a predicted £3,285 a year, it would raise £4.22bn. This is because bills are subject to 5% VAT, meaning that the Government will be taking its cut of profiteering by energy companies. ...
We recently have had complaints about the extent of dumping in the council-owned empty site at Annfield Row. We contacted the council's property team and have been updated as follows : "The Council has only recently regained possession of the site and we are presently investigating options to have the site cleared and made available for re-letting."
