John abandons London - the capital city of psychogeography - to explore a Sussex resort with the author Travis Elborough. As he explains on YouTube: Our walk starts at Worthing Station and then heads down into the heart of the Town Centre. We are looking for sites associated with Jane Austen who stayed in Worthing in 1805 and used it as the setting for her unfinished novel Sanditon. This is based on one of the chapters in Travis Elborough's latest book The Writer's Journey (White Lion Publishing). https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-.... The locations visited include: the Connaught Theatre; Stanford Cottage (where Jane Austen ...
The new year's here, so why not have your say? I welcome guest posts on Liberal England. Not only that: I'm happy to publish posts on subjects far beyond the Liberal Democrats and British politics. I'm also happy to entertain a wide variety of views, but I'd hate you to spend your time writing something I really wouldn't want to publish. So if you'd like to write for this blog, please send me an email so we can discuss your idea. To give you some inspiration, here are the last then guest posts published here on Liberal England:Saving Church Langton's ...
A Liberal Democrat press release brings the news: Ambulance services in England are set to face a huge £70m fuel bill this year, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request from the Liberal Democrats has revealed. The FOI asked ambulance services for their spending on fuel in the last three financial years and their projected spending for the 2022/23 year. VIDEO: 'How has it come to this?' Daisy Cooper MP on ambulance waiting timesHere's the new film from the Liberal Democrats, featuring St Albans MP Daisy Cooper raising ambulance waiting times in Parliament. more All nine of the ten ambulance services ...
The latest edition of my weekly political polling round-up, The Week in Polls, is out. As it says: If your new year has got off to a super-busy start, I can give you a super-short answer to the question posed for this week's newsletter: "No". But let's take a look at the longer answer. Find out more by reading The Week in Polls in full here, and you can sign up below to receive future editions direct to your email inbox:
Sat, 17:22: My books of 2022, including my book of the year https://t.co/OTAeqDfCWE I read 298 books in 2022, 4th highest of the 19 years that I have been keeping track, and the highest since 2011. Page count for the year: 76,500, 9th highest of the 19 years I have recorded. Sat, 17:36: My books of 2022, including my book of the year https://t.co/OTAeqDf576 I read 298 books in 2022, 4th highest of the 19 years that I have been keeping track, and the highest since 2011. Page count for the year: 76,500, 9th highest of the 19 years I ...
Anglo Renewables has submitted an application for a solar farm east of Ludlow and south of Rocks Green (22/05424/EIA). The solar panels at Rocks Green Farm would generate around 40 megawatts of renewable energy, enough electricity to power approximately 11,300 homes annually (Ludlow has around 5,000 households). The site would also include 12MW of battery energy storage to manage energy flows to the grid. The generating capacity of the solar farm has been reduced from 49.95MW in the original proposals. I can't see any explanation for this change as the area of the solar panels is the same. The scheme ...
The I newspaper reports that a Government scheme announced under Boris Johnson's premiership to build around a dozen schools alongside housing developments was wound down without any schools being built. The paper says that the Developer Loans for Schools scheme, a £220m policy announced when Gavin Williamson was education secretary in 2019, was designed to cut overcrowding in schools caused by new housing developments. At the time, the Government claimed the policy would "deliver thousands of school places up front, so they are ready for communities before new properties are finished". However, even by UK Government standards, the scheme was ...
Happy new year everyone. For Croatia, it is goodbye to the Kuna and hello Euro. Go back a decade and those hostile to the EU and the Euro were predicting the collapse of the Euro because of the Greek crisis. A decade on and the Euro has grown to be a currency in even wider use. No collapse to make the sceptics smile. The pound however has not fared well. We may not be at the historically low
None of this is true but some of it could become true, though hopefully not. January Records After three prime ministers and 49 secretaries of state in 2022 — and more ministers than Old Bodders can count - the Conservative Party applies to the Guinness Book of Records for the most changes in political leadership in a year. Party chairman Nadhim Zahawi tells the media: "At least we will have achieved something last year." Railway unions announce they will renounce strikes and work overtime to deliver record performance if train companies run well maintained trains to timetable. The train operators ...
Darf ich würdig sein der Herrin – dein Macht ich dien – Gnade erfahren?
... from Councillor Michael Crichton and Bailie Fraser Macpherson
A happy new year to all our readers. An article in the Financial Times gave the background to this haunting piece:: In May 1934 the young Benjamin Britten composed a carol — not for Christmas, but for New Year. In "A New Year Carol", he set to music a lyric that had been circulating among folk song collectors for some decades, and which had been sung long before that: "Levy Dew". As with many carols that are sung around Christmas and New Year, its origins and meaning were — and remain — a mystery. Britten's carol, with its sweet, simple ...
