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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 to make sense of them: Check out my book, Polling UnPacked: the History, Uses and Abuses of Political Opinion Polls, andSign up for my weekly analysis of the latest political polling: The Week in Polls. ...
Another week another financial scandal! Last week I revealed how problems at the Cunard Building and at Festival Gardens could cost the Council £ millions. Now I can reveal problems with a development in Tunstall Street off Smithdown Road in ... Continue reading →
My somewhat dated Pocket Oxford Dictionary (bought when I started teaching in 1959) defines "risible" as: "laughable, ludicrous." 1. Almost everyone in the "Wester World" will regard Russia's claim that the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline to Europe is closed solely for "urgent repairs" as risible. Anyone who thinks otherwise must be wrong in the head (or just lying). 2. Prime Minister Johnson's,claims that "no COVID rules were broken" a the Downing Street parties, and, in any case, he wasn't there, and if he was he didn't realise they were parties, are risible. Any one who believes them must be ...
Waking up one morning in my late 40s I had this incredible urge to bite everyone's head off. The urge was so strong that I wondered whether I had been visited by some alien being overnight intent on destroying mankind. Had I become an alien conduit, I wondered to myself. I can't quite swear by ... The post At what age does the Midlife Crisis start? appeared first on A Midlifer in London .
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The world has lost another brilliant liberal. Former Brentwood Lib Dem Councillor and Parliamentary candidate Karen Chilvers died on Wednesday at just 51 years old. She had a stroke at the end of July and subsequent complications were just too much for her body to deal with. We never met in real life, but for over a decade she has been a cheerful, supportive, friendly presence on Facebook and I loved reading about her adventures with her dogs Louis, Bailey and Tiffany. Karen had had many health issues over the years and she would often talk about her frustrations about ...
The Lib Dem Focus Team recently published edition 111 of the Low Fell eFocus. Issues covered include:meeting on crime;petition calling for Kells Lane park to be locked at night;learning about the Royal British Legion;St Helen's Church joins warm spaces network.You can read eFocus on this link.
As if it was not bad enough that Boris Johnson flouted his own lockdown rules, that the Metropolitan police failed to investigate properly and let him off the hook, and that Johnson then misled Parliament about his activities, it turns out that the concerted Tory campaign to overturn a Parliamentary inquiry into the Prime Minister's conduct has been given a huge assist with £130,000 of taxpayer's money. The Guardian reports that Johnson has been accused of trying to "intimidate and bully" an inquiry into claims he misled MPs over Downing Street parties, after No 10 took the highly unusual step ...
Mikhail Gorbachev is an object lesson in the dangers inherent in moving a corrupt, highly-centralised autocratic government in which the individual is a servant of the party and state to a fairer and more open society in which the state is the servant of the people. That is not to detract from Gorbachev's greatness. His policies of perestroika and glasnost helped to bring an end to the Cold War. But it also opened the door to the rise of dangerous Russian nationalism and Vladimir Putin. Gorbachev did not set out to topple the Soviet empire. He was a true believer ...
It was a pleasure recently to meet Andrew Cronshaw whose exhibition "The last Tay Spinners" is currently taking place at Verdant Works. The exhibition documents one of the last days of jute spinning at Tay Spinners in Dundee before closure in 1998. Using colour and black and white photographs, 27 people are shown at work in the mill. The pictures record the processing of raw jute into finished yarn. The exhibition also includes artworks created during lockdown based on the photographs. Well worth a visit - admission free!
