Tomorrow's Observer reports: The Liberal Democrats are to launch a digital advertising blitz in 'blue wall' seats held by leading cabinet ministers to highlight the new Conservative party deputy chair Lee Anderson's enthusiastic backing for capital punishment. The party believes that recent remarks by Anderson, who was promoted to the post last week by Rishi Sunak, will prove 'toxic' among Conservative voters in dozens of south-eastern constituencies, including those held by the chancellor of the exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, and deputy prime minister, Dominic Raab. The digital posters will also feature Anderson's statements about wanting to send people who arrive in ...
The new issue of Liberator (no. 416) is out and you can download it free of charge from the magazine's website. Radical Bulletin considers Ed Davey's deafening silence on Europe and the moves to deselect the Liberal Democrat candidate in Sutton. And there are articles on, among other subjects, the centralising measures introduced by the party, on Liberal Democrats and race, and on the lack of action and reform on Britain's crisis-hit maternity services. Oh and there's Lord Bonkers' Diary too. Saturday I hope you had as good a Christmas as I did - it always snows at the Hall ...
Liberator 416 can be downloaded here (click on the 416 icon). This is the free February-March online-only edition of Liberator and we hope you enjoy reading it. You can sign up here to be emailed each time a new bi-monthly Liberator comes out. There's also a free archive back to 2001. What's inside this issue? Alongside Radical Bulletin, Commentary, Letters and Lord Bonkers' Diary, Liberator 416 includes: DEMOCRATIC CENTRALISTS Liberalism used to be about enabling free thought and giving communities a voice. Has a series of centralising measures in the party stifled that creativity and innovation? Gareth Epps investigates BUSY ...
The Big Lie of the Russian position regarding the war in Ukraine is that they had no choice than to invade. They did have choices, and furthermore they should see the events of 2014 onwards in Ukraine as a Russian policy failure, rather pleading mere victimhood. The harsh reality is that all deaths in the war were and are avoidable. This is Step One in the doctrine of 'know your enemy'. But to go beyond Step One it is necessary to reject the Western Big Lie; that the war was unprovoked. The 'retail' position of the UK is that Russia ...
I woke up around 6am this morning. After rearranging dogs so that I wasn't clinging to the edge of the bed, I should have gone back to sleep. Instead I made that error of picking up my phone and looking at Twitter. Ok, so I might have wanted to see what people were saying about last night's episode of Death in Paradise, but that's not really an excuse. What I saw enraged me. A Daily Mail headline asking "Did living in the shadow of his high achieving wife lead to unthinkable tragedy?" This referred to the murder of Epsom College ...
Fri, 18:07: The Chosen and the Beautiful, by Nghi Vo; The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald; and an unexpected family�connection https://t.co/hgDLtZ4tPp Sat, 10:45: RT @BalazsJarabik: #Moldova government resigned not collapsed. It was expected and happened after considerable preparations. Background htt... Sat, 10:46: So, I just finished reading a science fiction story set on Rathlin Island in the 1990s. The story takes place in an alternate timeline. Rathlin and Northern Ireland are still part of the U.K., but the local police are the Garda (sic). Is a little basic research too much to ask? </ul
While a Chinese balloon floated through American skies President Joe Biden stepped up to the podium to deliver his annual State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress. The events were notable for two reasons: They exposed an irrational Yellow Peril fear that more than matches the Red Scare of Cold War years and pointed to a possible new era of American isolationism. Conspicuous by its absence from Biden's address to the Joint Session of Congress was any mention of foreign policy. With war raging in Ukraine, Turkey and Syria devastated by earthquakes, South America in political ...
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The Gate Church at 158 Perth Road runs its parent and child group 'Treasured Tots' on a Monday from 10am to 12.30pm. This is a free group for parents and carers of young children. These are drop in sessions and you can drop in any time between the opening and closing times.
