"Yes it's been applied all across Europe but it's as British as a stick of Blackpool rock or a carefully constructed Chris Tavaré half-century. If you hate Britain, if you hate what Britain stands for and what makes Britain special, if you hate what other Britons value then you probably hate the National Trust, the NHS and the BBC. You'll also hate the European Convention on Human Rights because a swivel-eyed libertarian Think Thank told you so." Matthew Pennell identifies the six British heroes who gave us the ECHR. "The two-year study, conducted 2018-2020 in the Netherlands with students aged ...
The latest edition of my weekly political polling round-up, The Week in Polls, is out. As it says: This time I'm taking a deeper dive into the polling figures behind the death penalty as we've had a high profile politician calling for its re-introduction, claiming it's what the public wants. But does it? Find out more by reading this edition of The Week in Polls here, and you can sign up below to receive future editions direct to your email inbox:
It always snows at Christmas in Rutland, or at least on the Bonkers Hall Estate, which makes me think that it must be part of 'the old England' described by T.H. White. And BBC Radio 4 used to broadcast a humorous play, Crisp and Even Brightly, which starred Timothy West and claimed to portray the real events behind the carol Good King Wenceslas. It may have given me the idea for this diary entry. Follow the link and you'll find the whole thing on YouTube. Sunday There I was at my Home for Well-Behaved Orphans on Boxing Day with a ...
People who aren't on the gas grid have been waiting five months for vital energy bills support.
There is a long standing aphorism that people become more conservative with age. A well known example that comes to is Winston Churchill. However, the evidence for age giving a blue rinse to voter's politics has been uneven. New surveys and analyses suggest that while many people may previously have swung to the right in later life, that is possibly no longer the case. People are remaining liberal thinking longer and later in life. This gives hope for progressive parties as the "Thatcher's children" generation ages and a more liberal cohort advances in age and remains liberal thinking. This has ...
Sat, 15:34: Moonlight (Oscar-winning film) https://t.co/wvBOfgwEay Sat, 15:51: I'm at @ASAdventure in Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant https://t.co/Pzw86lPmdN
Vashti Bunyan appeared on the London music scene in 1965 and was identified at once as 'the next Marianne Faithfull'. But her single flopped and she and her boyfriend Robert Lewis decided to join a commune that Donovan was setting up on Skye. Aimee Ferrier takes up the story:The pair sold their only valuable possession, an old grandfather clock, which earned them enough to buy a wagon and a black horse named Bess. Now the couple could stop living in fields and take to the road, determined to live away from modernity with minimal possessions. When Bunyan started her journey, ...
The death toll of Turkey's earthquake has passed the 20,000 mark. It will soar further as freezing weather and disease sweep through the refugee camps and devastated towns and villages to replace falling rubble as the primary cause of death. But the earthquake has also created and exacerbated political problems and opportunities whose rippling aftershocks have the potential effect of toppling political as well as physical structures. The first possible victim is Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who is coming under attack for his failure to build sounder structures in the middle of the one of the world's most dangerous ...
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Different polling question wordings get very different answers on European Convention on Human Right...
Two different pollsters with two different questions got two very different answers on the public's attitude towards the UK's membership of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The Sunday Times has been doing some more digging into David Warburton, the scandal-hit Conservative MP who has been suspended from his party: Somerton and Frome news pic.twitter.com/UHjJKUsYRj — Ben Walker (@BNHWalker) February 11, 2023
The National Library of Scotland has an an online tool to allow people to see how an area looks in a recent satellite photo compared to a map published in 1896 - later dates can also be chosen. Using the blue slider button on the left hand side of the tool's screen, you can look at the map, the photo or, best of all, a merged combination of both. The following link at : ... will take you to the tool zoomed in on part of the West End but you can of course use it to look elsewhere ...
