Inflation rises: Proof the Chancellor should have cut energy bills in the budget Windsor Framework: Conservative MPs are mutinous pirates who no longer care what their captain says Inflation rises: Proof the Chancellor should have cut energy bills in the budget Responding to this morning's inflation figures, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Sarah Olney said: This rise is just more proof why the Chancellor should have cut energy bills in the budget. Instead he sat on his hands and we are left with rising inflation once more. People across the country are struggling and the Government has failed totemically to support ...
"'It's time for the police to stop virtue-signalling and start catching robbers and burglars,'' the home secretary, Suella Braverman, said at the Conservative Party Conference last autumn. 'More PCs, less PC.' It's not surprising that the government's most committed culture warrior would use her speech to launch an attack on wokery. What's strange is that anyone could think that the main problem with the British police is a surfeit of political correctness." Daniel Trilling reviews two books on the problems facing British policing. Heidi Siegmund Cuda explores how Russia joined forces with our own anti-vaxxers to wage biological warfare by ...
Our Headline of the Day Award goes to the Leicester Mercury. The judges were particularly pleased the paper had found a clickbait story that had local relevance "unlike most of the stuff it tweets these days". I asked the judges if, deep down, this wasn't a sad story. They replied that most of our award winners are if you think about them for more than a moment.
Shaun Ward is well known to residents of Ludlow. For more than a decade he served Laurence's Church as Director of Music, Clerk of Works and Executive Manager. In 2019, he left St Laurence's to concentrate on his gin business, which is going from strength to strength - if you will pardon the pun. Now, Shropshire Hills Distillery is planning to consolidate its two current sites with a single site on the Ludlow Farmshop (Food Centre) site at Bromfield. The plans include a distillery, a bar, a shop, a gin garden and a "gin school" where visitors will be able ...
Deltapoll asked, "generally speaking, would you say that you support or oppose each of the following policies, announced in the Budget?"
I have always felt very comfortable to be a member of a party that is able to disagree well. Sometimes Liberal Democrats have been so bloody reasonable we have taken the side of our opponents in a debate! However, I have been increasingly concerned that this almost unique characteristic has at times been at risk of being lost in the recent debate on gender identity and the recent call for members who disagree to leave the party has compelled me to speak out. I voted for the Gender Recognition Reform Bill in the Scottish Parliament. Several party members opposed the ...
The Guardian reports on estimates by the Refugee Council that the cost of detaining and accommodating people under the UK government's controversial plans to tackle Channel crossings could amount to more than £9bn in the first three years. The paper says that the charity believes that more than 250,000 people, including up to 45,000 children, could have their asylum claims deemed inadmissible under the illegal migration bill in that time: The charity said its policy experts came up with the estimates as part of an impact assessment of the consequences of the first three years of the bill, assuming it ...
This Saturday at 11am, the Victoria Gardens community garden will have an energy saving/advice talk from Home Energy Scotland. All welcome and free to attend!
