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Sian Norris and Daisy Steinhardt on the call on Britain to act on Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation: "SLAPPs are often used by wealthy and powerful individuals and organisations to silence journalists and civil society organisations from exposing wrongdoing, and have a chilling effect that allows for wrongdoing to flourish in the shadows. The UK is particularly vulnerable to SLAPP lawsuits, including litigation against journalists not even based in the country, due to the country's libel and defamation laws." Restore Trust presents itself as a grassroots organisation of National Trust members, but lawyers claim it is funded by powerful, hidden ...
Here's the new film from the Liberal Democrats, featuring St Albans MP Daisy Cooper raising ambulance waiting times in Parliament.
A friend who contacted me is angry. I'm angry. A man has camped out between the Library and Tesco for a while. He has permission from the landowner to be there. But this afternoon young people attacked the tent in an act of wanton vandalism. The tent may not be wrecked. Examination will have to wait until the morning. There were probably no valuables in the tent. The owner is currently in a hotel sheltering from the plunging temperatures. But this vandalism is unacceptable. It's the guy's home. He has been there for months and may be there for while ...
Some bus routes serving Market Harborough could be scrapped because of the the budget crisis facing Leicestershire County Council. HFM News, with a clip from an interview with Liberal Democrat councillor Simon Galton, reports: The authority has warned its financial outlook is 'dire' and ahead of budget proposals being made public next week, some details have been shared with councillors. Cuts could be made to bus services subsidised by the authority, which include the number 33 town service in Market Harborough and route 44, which links the town with Foxton and Fleckney. Conservatives are now a complete shambles. Only last ...
It is the season of goodwill, the season of health services being stretched to the limit and this year, the season of strikes, including amongst some of our most dedicated health professionals. Nurses and ambulance crews. The government having applauded nurses, health and care professionals on their doorsteps during the pandemic is spoiling for fight over wage increases. Promising no money. That is one reason strikers are taking action. The need for some of them to go to food banks. The struggle to pay the rent or mortgage because pay has not caught up with the cost of living. The ...
And it happened again this week! Don't tell me now that the old boy wasn't on to something. I, for one. shan't feel confidence of the permanence of Bazball until progress is made on the issue he identifies here. Incidentally, as I recall, Doug Walters was always caught in the gully when he played in England. Thursday I can hardly bring myself to write I am so angry. Our new King was visiting York today - birthplace, it happens, of our own Vince "High Voltage" Cable - and a member of the assembled crowd launched several eggs at him. It's ...
The Independent reports on the view of the National Farmers Union that Brexit has added to the UK's mounting food supply crisis which has seen a "crippling" shortage of some goods in the supermarket. The NFU believe that current egg shortages "could just be the start" and warned that consumers could soon see a scarcity of tomatoes, cucumbers, pears and other fresh produce: NFU president Minette Batters said Britain's fruit and vegetable supply could soon be "in trouble", as she urged the government to help producers under severe strain from soaring costs. Ms Batters also said Brexit was partly to ...
Old King Coal was a merry old soul, And merry for coal was he, He called for his mine, and he sold his soul, Saying climate change is not for me! (Misremembered nursery rhyme.) So, the government approves a new coal mine in Cumbria. A ridiculous and dreadful decision. Climate change is our biggest earthly threat, yet the Tories want to dig up and burn more fossil fuels. What a pathetic failure of leadership. — Tim Farron (@timfarron) December 7, 2022 * Andy Boddington is a Lib Dem councillor in Shropshire. He blogs at andybodders.co.uk. He is Thursday editor of ...
This, says Jona Lewie, was not written to be a Christmas hit: it's an anti-war protest song. But a mention of the festival and a burst of tubular bills works wonders. In the event, Stop the Cavalry was kept from the top of the charts at the end of 1980 only by the newly murdered John Lennon. Me? I like knowing that Lewie wrote and played on the 1972 hit Seaside Shuffle. That was credited to Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs, but the band had long played together under the name Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts. And I like the ...
From the Curator of Museum Services at the University of Dundee : You can make your own Arctic animal decorations at the D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum at the University of Dundee on the final day of West End Christmas Fortnight - Saturday 10th December - from 10.30am to 12.30pm. Come and visit some of the Arctic and Antarctic animals found in the D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum. Discover Narwhals, Penguins, Puffins, Walrus and Polar Bear skulls. There are many other amazing specimens from around the world for you to be inspired by as well. After exploring the Zoology Museum, you can ...
