In London yesterday, I visited the extraordinary All Saints, Margaret Street - a mid-Victorian church in Fitzrovia. Look for it behind John Lewis's Oxford Street store. I have always found it a difficult building to photograph satisfactorily, so here is a video about it and its history instead. It's worth emphasising that Butterfield didn't just find room for a courtyard and church on this restricted urban site: he also fitted in a vicarage and a choir school (which lasted until 1968 and once counted Laurence Olivier amongst its pupils).
Tony Heron and Gabriel Siles-Brügge argue that the decision to ditch the UK's Department for International Trade is a tacit acknowledgement that attempts to seize Brexit 'opportunities' through trade have been a failure. "The 'grassroots' backlash to a traffic reduction scheme in Oxfordshire is being boosted by an international network of established climate and Covid science deniers and amplified by right-wing media." Adam Barnett, Michaela Herrmann and Christopher Deane reveal all. "His claim to fame, or rather infamy, will be that of being a man who once wrote a PhD thesis on the links between the political and economic dimensions ...
So Kate Forbes, who at the time of writing this, is running in the leadership election of the Scottish National Party has said she would have voted against same-sex marriage legislation at the time, if she had been elected to Holyrood. She is also accusing others of being illiberal who speak out against her views. The irony is that same-sex marriage was from the time was written as policy the whole way up to legislation shows how liberal you can be, while not excluding other. You see same-sex marriage legislation could have forced faith groups to carry out such marriages. ...
At PMQs, Ed Davey raised with Rishi Sunak the failure to deliver on the 40 promised new hospitals and the appalling state of so many others: Our @itvnews hospitals investigation raised at PMQs today by Lib Dem leader Ed Davey [IMG: 👇] pic.twitter.com/hoDUKoPQRp — Daniel Hewitt (@DanielHewittITV) February 22, 2023
be campaigning for a new referendum: not for joining the EU, not to be part of the Single Market, which in any case are not for the UK to decide for itself, but for a referendum to mandate negotiations towards a closer relationship with our closest neighbours, the community of EU states.
Over the weekend, further anti-migrant protests continued in Rotherham and elsewhere following protests in Knowsley last week held outside a Hotel housing asylum seekers. Roughly 300 people from the local area were involved initially, before around 150 far-right protesters joined later. Some threw fireworks and a group attacked a police van with hammers before setting it alight. One police officer and two members of the public suffered light injuries. Fifteen people were arrested on suspicion of violent disorder, mostly from the local area. Far-right agitators had played a significant part in the protest from the start. A video purporting to ...
The 20 houses at Tunstall Street which were supposed to be transferred to Foundations on completion but instead were transferred to a housing association at a loss of between £1 and £2 million Tonight, at the Companies Governance Committee we ... Continue reading →
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Beyond potholes ... addressing fly-tipping is an issue LibDems can campaign on in cities everywhere
Canvassing in the Hounslow by-election recently, I couldn't help but notice old refrigerators, household waste, and builders' rubble accumulated on the street corners and estates of Heston West. Residents were fed up and felt that they were being taken for granted. Statistically, Hounslow has the 2nd highest number of fly-tipping incidents in London. Even more depressing is that the Labour-run Council only bothered to issue 53 Fixed Penalty Notice fines for fly-tipping in 12 months. (Fly-tipping data for all UK Local Authorities is available here). Fly-tipping is a real blight on the sense of pride everyone wants for the place ...
The Independent reports that scientists have criticised the Treasury for taking back £1.6 billion it had allocated for research. They say that the money, which had been set aside for UK involvement in the EU's 100 billion euro (£88 billion) Horizon Europe research programme, was returned to the Treasury by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy after the stalemate with the EU over the Northern Ireland Protocol saw the UK's association with the flagship research initiative blocked: News that the funds had been returned was revealed on page 300 of a Treasury document entitled Central Government Supply Estimates ...
There is unfortunately again a lot of graffiti in the underpass across Riverside Avenue around Clovis Duveau Drive to Invergowrie. We have asked the City Council to have this removed.
