Sunak should rule out ever restoring Hancock's Conservative whip Small boats 'vanity project' bill trashes UK's reputation Sunak should rule out ever restoring Hancock's Conservative whip The Liberal Democrats are calling on Rishi Sunak to rule out ever restoring Matt Hancock's Conservative Whip after the latest set of leaked WhatsApp messages. The messages show Hancock threatening to block a disability centre in a Conservative MP's seat in an attempt to force him to vote for the new Covid tier system. This is yet another shocking revelation from the Lockdown Files which raises even more concerns about Matt Hancock's integrity and ...
It's time for a final post on Barbara Cartland the social critic and reformer. We have seen her views on women in wartime and seen her helping Gypsies and travellers, so let's see more or her views on children. Here expression of horror at the death of Dennis O'Neill is followed in The Years of Opportunity 1939-1945 is followed by wider foreboding about the lives of children in public care: How many Dennis O'Neills who don't actually die are living a life of cruelty and torture, of privation and utter hopeless misery? How many little boys and girls are existing ...
The queue to file past Richard III's coffin passes the old song school on its way to the cathedral entrance Archaeologists excavating the site of the old song school at Leicester Cathedral have discovered what is believed to be a Roman shrine, reports the Leicester Mercury: The cellar of a Roman building and a 1,800-year-old altar stone have been discovered during the excavation of the site where the choir would have been practised and rehearsed, led by University of Leicester Archaeological Services (Ulas), suggesting the presence of a shrine or cult room. The cellar - now nearly 10ft (3m) below ...
Lib Dem conferences come with quite a lot of paperwork, which makes the Liberal Democrat conference app very handy to help keep on top of all the information.
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Matt Hancock is 'two-faced' and 'was like a headless chicken' during COVID vaccine drive
After summoning the nation's top philosophers to examine the question of whether one can have no head but two faces, the judges made Sky News the winners of our Headline of The Day Award. Chickens, eh? This will cheer us all up...
As resignation honours go, Boris Johnson's must rate as the most shameless since Lloyd George first hit on the idea of selling them for cash. As the Independent reports, even senior Tories think Johnson's "absurd" plan to give his father a knighthood will discredit the system and "corrode public trust". The paper says that former cabinet minister David Davis told The Independent: "I think it's ridiculous. It's discrediting the honours system, which is rather a good one in that it doesn't cost money and it recognises achievements of ordinary people.": "There has been progressive corrosion of public trust in this ...
An earlier post describes how our government has used our Brexit-acquired "freedom" from EU regulations to postpone the EU requirement to stop polluting all (sic) our rivers and water resources by 2027, to the later date of 2063 (yes, forty years later, rather than four), and then only 75% of them rather than all. Now, announced last month, we are to use our "freedom" to suspend the EU's ban on the use of neonicotinoids, an insecticide used in agriculture. These insecticides are apparently toxic to bees. Experts (of whom some members of the Tory party have "had enough") tell us ...
On Monday evening, BBC Radio 4 presented a documentary on ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence star of the moment. The programme was partly written by ChatGPT. I am a fan of AI. It has the potential to transform our access to information, our understanding, our health services and much more. If it would only get it right. Whether you like the current generation of AI (services like ChatGPT) or not is like Marmite. More on Marmite below. ChatGPT is good at national party and international politics. But it can be rubbish at a constituency level. Some answers are like a teenager ...
Liverpool could and should be the best City in the North of England and one of the best in Europe. It has a great location, physical environment, strong universities and innovative business people yet it ahs been badly let down ... Continue reading →
Residents will be aware that we have repeatedly raised the security of the former Queen Victoria Works site that is situated between Brook Street and Douglas Street. We are grateful to the residents who recently highlighted to us that one of the boarded up access doors was open and persons had accessed the site - very worrying as it is not a safe environment. We immediately raised this with the City Council who had it repaired (see photo) and advised : "I can confirm the door breached at Queen Victoria Works has been secured and recorded against the relevant record. ...
Last week I paid a visit to Leyburn in North Yorkshire. The reason for the visit was to attend a funeral of Mary, who was David's mother's brother's wife's sister. It was an opportunity to meet up with David's relatives who we hadn't seen in person since before the pandemic.The interesting point about Leyburn is that I have visited it before though it was about 34 years ago. The occasion was the
