Embed from Getty ImagesFrom the Guardian this evening:The Daily Mail's parent company is facing its first legal claim for phone hacking, after the former Liberal Democrat MP Sir Simon Hughes filed a case against the newspaper publisher. Hughes is alleging that Associated Newspapers - the owner of the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and MailOnline - misused his private information. He is expected to claim that the newspaper publisher employed a private investigator who improperly accessed his voicemail messages.The paper says this is the first time the publisher of the Daily Mail has faced a legal claim based on allegations ...
The Swedish dramatist August Strindberg once lived in Gravesend. That's our Trivial Fact of the Day taken care of. I discovered it through my admiration for Freda Jackson. The video above shows her in the town with Michael Redgrave to present a plaque honouring the centenary of Strindberg's birth. A paragraph in The Stage (Thursday 20 January 1949) tells us exactly what was going on: Strindberg The centenary of the birth of August Strindberg falls on Saturday next. The occasion is being marked by the placing of a commemoration plaque on Gravesend Pier, where, in 1893, Strindberg first set foot ...
The Guardian reports: The Daily Mail's parent company is facing its first legal claim for phone hacking, after the former Liberal Democrat MP Sir Simon Hughes filed a case against the newspaper publisher. Hughes is alleging that Associated Newspapers - the owner of the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and MailOnline - misused his private information. He is expected to claim that the newspaper publisher employed a private investigator who improperly accessed his voicemail messages. This is the first time the publisher of the Daily Mail will face a legal claim based on allegations of voicemail interception. Widespread use of ...
There are many ways in which people who follow politics closely or are particularly committed to a party differ from most voters. One intriguing difference is about how people change their political views. The excellent study The Politics of Competence, finds that those who are most committed to a party ('partisans') notice smaller scale events that show the government to be competent or incompetent. These smaller things accumulate over time in their minds. But for those less into political commitment, there's usually little such memory of events. These people don't accumulate views over time, but rather discard the past. That's ...
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Things have changed: last month, nearly 2,000 voters were asked to give their view of Liz Truss in just one word. Here's what they said: And here's what people said last weekend: This is one of the most astonishing and precipitous falls in popularity on record. The time has come to return to a different kind of political party. Liberal Democrat members shape our direction and approach, not union bosses nor hedge funds, multinational corporations or Russian money. The message is now hitting home: this Conservative Government is taking you for granted, the Liberal Democrats would offer you a fair ...
Sun, 12:56: RT @bigfinish: Sunday timeline cleanse: Tom Baker reads letters from fans. 📮 https://t.co/Mx3dR2Af4D Sun, 22:21: Weekend in Trier https://t.co/3DcNVQPw8C Mon, 10:45: The Town That Went Feral https://t.co/hf4AO197yy Some of my ancestors came from Grafton, New Hampshire. Sounds like they were wise to leave. Mon, 11:48: RT @NobelPrize: BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sci...
A few days ago, I received an email from someone, who said that as a direct result of the cost of living crisis and high inflation, she will have to find a second job. She was feeling down and quite overwhelmed with the whole situation. She is not the only person who is desperately worried about her finances. Nowadays, the world is facing many difficulties; war in Ukraine, famine in Africa, climate emergency, divisions and political polarization. It is often hard to see the light in a dark tunnel. Local, national and global news are not always too heartening. It ...
Our exit from the EU was aways going to be felt particularly sharply in Wales, if only because of the loss of hundreds of millions of Euros invested in our poorest communities. The fact that this money was not always invested wisely, and that ordinary people did not feel its benefit, almost certainly contributed to the vote in favour of leave in many of those areas. That though does not mean the cash was not important, nor that we will miss it if it dries up. The UK Government pledged to replace the funding, a promise that has not been ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR THE WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 10 OCTOBER 2022 Miller's Wynd - closed until 26 December 2022 at its junction with Hawkhill for major construction works. City Road (Tullideph Place to Logie Street) - closed for up to 2 weeks for Scottish Water emergency works. Hillside Road (junction with Hillside Place) - closed for up to one week for carriageway resurfacing works. Lower Pleasance - road closure from Friday 14 October for 5 days for CityFibre work. Forthcoming Roadworks Lochee Road (at Polepark Road) - temporary traffic lights from ...
