David Chadwick selected as the Welsh Liberal Democrat candidate in the party's top Welsh target seat of Brecon & Radnorshire. The Selection follows major gains made by the Welsh Liberal Democrats in the Conservative/Liberal Democrat battleground of Powys during this year's local elections, where the Conservatives were left with just a single councillor in Brecon & Radnorshire The Welsh Liberal Democrats have selected their first General Election candidate to stand in their top Welsh target seat. David Chadwick was selected by local party members as the Prospective Parliamentary candidate for Brecon and Radnorshire. David currently works as a cyber security ...
David Chadwick was selected by local Lib Dems as the Prospective Parliamentary candidate for Brecon and Radnorshire.
Nation Cymru reports: The Welsh Liberal Democrats have selected their first General Election candidate in a bid to unseat the Conservatives in a key battleground seat. David Chadwick has been selected by local party members as the prospective parliamentary candidate for Brecon and Radnorshire, the seat of Tory MP Fay Jones. The seat has gone back and forth between the two parties in recent elections, with the Liberal Democrats coming out on top in a 2019 byelection before losing it again in the December General Election of that year. The Liberal Democrats then failed to win the seat at last ...
Our latest eFocus for the Whickham area was published last night. Issues covered include:Charles proclaimed King in Gateshead;Dunston Hill School to be replaced by housing;Harvest tin can challenge in Sunniside;Chase Park fair;Sunniside Leek ShowBook sale at Whickham Library;Warm spaces;Long to reign over us;Budgies in Swalwell;Can you sponsor a Christmas tree?You can read eFocus on this link.
Chase Park fair was held today. I went along around midday and chatted to lots of people. I couldn't stay long however. I had my ward Focus newsletter to finish writing!
We knew yesterday's budget was coming. Most of its measures had been trailed. Gone are the days when MPs find out what the Government is doing actually in the Chamber, even though that is what is supposed to happen. The reality still came as a shock, though. You would expect me as a good old fashioned tax and spend liberal to be horrified by a reckless spending spree that made the rich richer and some of the poor very much poorer. I lived through the 80s when the last iteration of trickle down economics failed miserably. Mary Reid looked at ...
Fri, 12:26: RT @4thEstateBooks: We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel, and our thoughts are with her friends and fa... Fri, 12:56: RT @ktowens: More than 10 million children have lost a parent or caregiver to #COVID19. Nicholas' simple act helps to protect him and thos... Fri, 17:05: Daily #222 0️⃣4️⃣⬛1️⃣9️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣⬛0️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣7️⃣⬛0️⃣6️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣⬛0️⃣8️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣⬛0️⃣9️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣⬛1️⃣1️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣⬛1️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣⬛1️⃣5️⃣ https://t.co/1E46GFXTgD #sedecordle Fri, 20:13: RT @EmerMofficial: Very excited to be heading to Brussels today for a very special performance! Thank you to the wonderful @ArtsCouncilNI f... Sat, 10:35: March 2018 books https://t.co/kx3LwthuvS Sat, 10:45: RT @DadJokeMan: ...
Once more, his lordship demonstrates the close relations between Liberalism and the arts. Saturday Conservatives believe culture is something they find in the refrigerator if their cleaning lady is off with her legs, but to Liberals the arts are what make life worth living. One thinks of Visconti's masterly 'Beith in Venice,' of Stephen Sondheim's 'Anyone Can Birtwhistle' and of Nick Harvey and his invisible giant rabbit. Today the culture portfolio is in the safe hands of Jamie Stone, who has a particular interest in contemporary Chinese art. I recently accompanied him to an exhibition of the same, and he ...
The Guardian reports on some very interesting expenditure charged to Foreign Office credit cards at the same time that Liz Truss was Foreign Secretary. They say that officials are facing questions about spending on credit cards, including £1,841 at Norwich City football club online, and £10,000 at Fortnum and Mason: Emily Thornberry, the shadow attorney general, wrote to the Foreign Office questioning why spending was up by 45% on its government procurement cards between September 2021 to July 2022. She asked Gillian Keegan, a senior minister, to give more details about the spending on a range of items, including luxury ...
Vladimir Putin is daring the West to blink first. It is the second time since 1945 that the nuclear super powers have been dragged to the brink of the abyss. In October 1963 it was the Americans who felt threatened. Soviet missiles were moving into their backyard. This time it is the Russians. No US nuclear weapons are being sent to Ukraine, but Russia claims that Washington is using Ukraine as its proxy to—using Putin's words—"destroy Russia." But that is where the reverse parallels end. Ukraine is no Cuba. It is more dangerous. For a start Putin is not Khrushchev. ...
Blether Tay-Gither is the Dundee Storytelling Group. From Sheila Kinninmonth, Blether Tay-Gither's secretary : Once again we are meeting in person at Dudhope Castle this coming Tuesday - 27th September. Time : 7pm to 9pmVenue: Dudhope CastleDudhope Park Our theme this month if you need one is "Games." Join us with a story or just come to listen. There are many types of games that feature in stories, depending on the definition of game; those that are played briefly for fun, celebratory and annual competitions and contests, tricks and pranks, and the games people play. Join us with a story ...
Embed from Getty ImagesWhen I was writing my article on children and bombsites and post-war British films I thought that what I should do is look at contemporary newspaper reports to see if they reflected the themes I had picked up. Today I found that Rose Staveley-Wadham has already done it for me on the British Newspaper Archive site, and those themes are certainly present in the reports she had picked out. There are stories suggesting a positive site to bombsites, but they do not celebrate children's freedom there so much as their organisation by adults. So you can read ...
