"By 2015, it was becoming normal for 12-year-old girls to spend hours each day taking selfies, editing selfies, and posting them for friends, enemies, and strangers to comment on, while also spending hours each day scrolling through photos of other girls and fabulously wealthy female celebrities with (seemingly) vastly superior bodies and lives. The hours girls spent each day on Instagram were taken from sleep, exercise, and time with friends and family. What did we think would happen to them?" Jon Haidt says there is an epidemic of mental illness among teenage girls and social media has been its major ...
Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey is demanding the Chancellor cancels plans to hike the average household energy bill by £500 in April.
Thursday was our first opportunity to have a photo taken of the whole of the Lib Dem group since the elections last May that saw Amanda Wintcher, Dawn Welsh and Amelia Ord elected to Gateshead Council. And of course, first photo with Ron as leader.
Betty Boothroyd, the former Commons speaker, has died at the age of 93. She was a warm and popular figure - my mother once suggested that, with her faux posh voice, there was a little bit of Mollie Sugden about her. Boothroyd was defeated in four different constituencies before she held West Bromwich for Labour in a 1973 by-election. The first of these was the old Leicester South East seat, which included Oadby, where she stood in a 1957 by-election. If you want to see what women politicians had to put up with in the Fifties, see how here selection ...
Aberavon and Neath Liberal Democrats demand that the Government cancel plans to hike the average household energy bill by £500 in April, and bring in a tax on the "bonanza bonuses" of oil and gas bosses. The party is calling for cuts to people's bills instead, combined with a new energy support package for businesses and essential public facilities, In April the Conservatives are planning to hike the energy price guarantee by £500. The Liberal Democrats plans would mean that in Neath Port Talbto the average household would be £410.64 better off. In total, Neath Port Talbot would save a ...
This might not be the actual drain down which Labour has thrown away £400 million of Liverpool taxpayers money but it was certainly one like it! Liverpool's Liberal Democrat Councillors will be voting against Labour's budget at the Council's budget ... Continue reading →
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Tory group leader on Blackpool Council resigns after row with Tory MP, but that's not the most inter...
BBC News reports: The leader of Blackpool Council's Conservative group has resigned from the role after falling out with one of the town's Tory MPs. Councillor Tony Williams has led the Tory group for the past eight years. He said he signed a letter of no confidence in Blackpool South MP Scott Benton and was then suspended from the Conservative party, so he subsequently stood down. The letter, which was signed by a number of other Tory councillors, asked the controversy-hungry Benton to stand down at the next election. But I don't want to tell you that. Tony Williams grew ...
Sun, 17:51: Sunday reading https://t.co/DFJzZKnFty Sun, 20:48: Great music history thread. https://t.co/PQL9v4MLNO Mon, 10:45: What a Sixty-Five-Year-Old Book Teaches Us About A.I. https://t.co/VN0emt2dfl "Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine" considered in the context of the A.I. debate.
A local press release brings the news: Wells Liberal Democrats are thrilled to announce that Tessa Munt has been selected as the Party's Parliamentary Candidate at the next General Election. Tessa was the Member of Parliament for Wells from 2010 - 2015, winning the seat from the Conservatives and ending their 87-year rule. Tessa is passionate about representing residents and organisations in our community once again. A prolific community campaigner, Tessa is known for listening actively to locals and has an outstanding reputation and proven track record which includes strong opposition to MPs holding second jobs, and campaigning to keep ...
The Guardian reports on claims by thinktank, the New Economics Foundation that Rishi Sunak's government is hiding £28bn of "stealth cuts" to public services over the next five years. They say that the report by the leftwing thinktank, shows that Hunt's spending plans outlined at the autumn statement in November included cuts to public services worth £1,000 a household by 2027-28: Hunt promised in the autumn statement to increase spending by 1% a year after inflation. However, this was underpinned by Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts, which had assumed inflation would fall below zero. The thinktank said this was unlikely ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR THE WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2023 Dunmore Drive/Gardens - closed from Thursday 27 February for 3 days for carriageway resurfacing. Perth Road (Roseangle to Nethergate) - rolling overnight (7.00pm to 6.00am) temporary traffic lights on Monday 27 February for C-Plan cabling works. Abbotsford Street (at Seymour Street) - temporary traffic lights from Monday 27 February for 3 days for telecommunications mast maintenance. Blackness Avenue - temporary traffic from Monday 27 February for 5 days for installation of pedestrian crossing island. Forthcoming Roadworks West Marketgait (Nethergate to ...
