Mike Pitts, who I quoted the other day on the Richard III film The Lost King, has written an article on the subject. You can download a pdf of it from the British Archaeology magazine website. A few quotes for you: The film portrays the university, and Richard Taylor in particular, as patronising and dismissive, coming on board only when they could see financial or personal career advantages; Langley, aided by the Richard iii Society, puts up all the funds. This is wrong. The society paid for a desk-based assessment and a ground-penetrating radar survey (against Buckley's advice - in ...
Thanks to the acquisitive Demo, the Leicester Mercury wins our Headline of the Day Award. The judges did note, however, that Demo lives in Calidicot, Gwent, and they were later heard mumbling about "clickbait".
Black History Month starts today and this year its theme is "Time for Change: Action not words" From the Black History Month UK website: To get to a better tomorrow, we can't just focus on the past. The past is in the past. We can acknowledge and learn from it, but to improve the future, we need action, not words. We need to come together around a shared common goal to achieve a better world for everyone. This year's Black History Month in October is more important than ever. It's not just a month to celebrate the continued achievements and ...
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. ...
Our former leader really is a glutton for punishment. Last year he ran the London Marathon, raising over £5000 for the Brathay Trust, a social enterprise supporting young people in Cumbria. And tomorrow he plans to do it all again: 12 hours ago I was speaking at the Upper Eden Rotary Club in Brough (great people!), then Rosie and I got the 145am sleeper from Carlisle (which was excellent).. and I've now got my race number for tomorrow. No turning back! (Oh, and please sponsor me..) https://t.co/zoVpnTfH1R pic.twitter.com/zyOFTQfDQ8 — Tim Farron (@timfarron) October 1, 2022 This time, he's fundraising for ...
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Lib Dem social media ad calls on Conservatives to cancel conference and sort out their mess
On Thursday we reported on Ed Davey's call for the Conservatives to cancel their Conference and get on with sorting out the mess they have created in the economy. We will all feel the effects of their recklessness in the months and years to come. The party's comms teams have backed this up with this social media ad. If you haven't seen it in your feeds, that's probably a good thing as party members and supporters aren't usually the target audience of our campaigns. New Lib Dem ad just droppped on social media ahead of Conservative Party conference. pic.twitter.com/W8gfZ2cQpE — ...
Russia's dependence on Chinese markets, sanctions busting finance and political support is turning it into a vassal of Beijing. The bromance between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin was unbalanced to begin with. The Chinese economy and population are ten times that of Russia. Russia is a primary commodity producing country which makes it more susceptible to the economic winds of change should its raw products – mainly grain, gold, oil and gas – drop. China, on the other hand has emerged as an advanced, complex economy which is far more dependent on good relations with its Western markets than on ...
We have received concerns about the deteriorating condition of the road surface in Hillside Place. We have therefore contacted the Roads Maintenance Partnership seeking repairs. Meantime, we have been assured that the junction of Hillside Drive / Hillside Road will be resurfaced in the near future.
Those of us who are old enough to have lived through the UK's crashing out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism in September 1992 (yes it really was 30 years ago!) may find some similarities with the events of the last week. The Tories, in one single move, shredded their reputation for economic competence. It took them nearly a generation to recover from the collapse of their key economic policy of
"It appears those who called Friday's mini-budget a "special fiscal operation" had it right. Not just because of the subterfuge involved in undertaking a full-scale budget under the guise of a 'Growth Plan 2022 speech,' but also because of the government's inability to foresee its self-destructive consequences." Robin Niblett explains why markets don't buy the government's growth plan. Will Lloyd witnessed the eclipse of Jeremy Corbyn's supporters at the Labour Party Conference. "Looking for the reasons for children's behaviour is often equated with 'the soft bigotry of low expectations', lack of responsibility and chaos. Here's why that's a mistake." Take ...
