Gender Critics are taking exception to Drag Queens interacting with children. While this may be a cultural issue that sparks fear in the USA when they try to import it to the UK they forget a number of issues. Almost every adult in the UK's first introduction to the theatre was a cross dressing bonaza known as Pantomime. Not only was there always a motherly figure (two/three in the case of Cinderella's sisters/mother) who was clearly a man in a frock, or to be more precise a different frock every time they appeared on the stage. But also the leathere ...
The Long Man of Wilmington is a hill figure on Windover Hill near Wilmington in East Sussex. Here Professor Martin Bell, President of the Sussex Archaeological Society, discusses with Chris Hare the possible origin and meaning of the Long Man. They also talk about the significance of the surrounding archaeological features, including long barrows and round barrows. Something to visit next time there is a Liberal Democrat Conference in Eastbourne.
Welcome to the latest in my occasional series highlighting interesting findings from academic research. Today – the lack of an electoral impact for an MP if they rebel in Parliamentary votes. As the research says: Are there electoral consequences or benefits for legislators who deviate from the party line? We answer this question with data from individual-level vote choice and constituency-level electoral results in the UK for the last two decades. Exploring the variations in voting patterns over time with a panel-regression approach, we find results that are most compatible with the null hypothesis, that is, that dissent by legislators ...
Lord Bonkers' grasp of history may not be exactly secure: I have read that Saxon England was just as dominated by the aristocracy as Norman England was to be. But, as so often, he's right about present-day British politics. Wednesday Who should I meet in Westminster but our own Ed Davey? He is full of a new policy he has announced: "You know how we're targeting middle-class voters in affluent seats in the South of England?" he asks. "Well, I've decided to step that up. In future, if I come across someone who owns a house in Guildford or Wimbledon ...
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This week Keir Starmer launched a report for consultation entitled 'A New Britain: Renewing our Democracy and Rebuilding our Economy'. It is admirably full of attitude survey results, international comparisons, and north-south contrasts. The report has a solid narrative and an overall theme, and in this sense can be said to have a certain amount of clarity of purpose. The emphasis is on what some might call 'the real economy' - industry and commerce, and small businesses, and social deprivation resulting from declining economic activity, especially outside London and the SE. The 'problem' which the report focuses on addressing is ...
Today's Guardian reveals that a second company that the Tory peer Michelle Mone lobbied ministers over in an attempt to secure government Covid contracts was a secret entity of her husband's family office. The paper says that Lady Mone's lobbying on behalf of the company, LFI Diagnostics, which she tried to help secure government contracts for Covid lateral flow tests, prompted a formal rebuke from a health minister who reminded her of "the need for propriety": A departmental source told the Guardian that Mone was "in a class of her own in terms of the sheer aggression of her advocacy" ...
The words are an 1872 poem by Christina Rossetti, and the setting by Gustav Holst dates from 1906. Together they give you the feeling that the Nativity took place, not in the Holy Land, but in an English village.
Are you a third sector organisation in the West End that would like to meet new people and other third sector organisations to work together more collaboratively for the benefit of the community? If so, why not attend the West End Third Sector Network meeting taking place tomorrow - Thursday 8th December - between 10am to 12 noon at the Corso Street Sheltered Lounge. To book a place or for more information contact Katie Angus - contact details are in the poster.
