As Jago Hazzard explains, Sudbury Town is where the London Underground began to build its stations in a European Modernist style. The station today is in something of a residential backwater, but it looks worth seeking out, You can support Jago's videos via his Patreon page.
I filmed this last week on Wednesday to Friday, from the last full day of campaigning in the local elections to the count on Friday. It also includes my failure to predict the Lib Dem gain in Saltwell and my visit to the A&E at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead at 2am, 4 hours after the polls closed! Most of the video is set in Birtley where I managed the campaign that saw a Lib Dem gain
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Welsh composer Sir Karl Jenkins denies he was Duchess of Sussex in disguise at King's coronation
Embed from Getty ImagesSky News wins our Headline of the Day Award. A dissenting judge comments: Well, she would say that, wouldn't she?
The Mirror reports on the speech by the Archbishop of Canterbury in the House of Lords, when he launched a scathing attack on "morally unacceptable" Government plans to lock up refugees who reach the UK by small boats. They say that Archbishop Justin Welby - fresh from his central role at King Charles's Coronation on Saturday - lashed out at Suella Braverman's draconian Illegal Migration Bill, saying it will do huge damage to the UK's standing in the world: In a rare intervention he told peers that the legislation "fails to live up to our history, our moral responsibility and ...
There will be new constituencies at the next general election, whenever it comes. Gateshead Lib Dems have added up the votes cast for each party in the new Gateshead and Whickham constituency. The resulting graph is above. The new constituency has joined the three strongly Lib Dem Whickham wards to equally strongly Lib Dem Low Fell ward. We can now add into the melting pot Saltwell ward where we
It's vital to learn from failures. But it's much more fun to learn from successes. So there is a lot of fun to be had in learning the lessons for the Liberal Democrats from the latest local elections. Let's summarise those successes with three numbers: +407 seats – the party's second biggest gain in raw seats since the mid-1990s. +12 councils – taking the number of Lib Dem majority councils to its highest for at least 18 years. 20% equivalent national share – the highest on this BBC measure since going into coalition in 2010. (The alternative NEV measure was ...
In Portsmouth: After 15 years leading Portsmouth City Council and 19 years leading the Lib Dems here I am stepping down. We had a great election a week ago and the ambitious and effective Lib Dem team will carry on the work. @LibDems pic.twitter.com/PvyTOIbicb — Gerald Vernon-Jackson [IMG: 🔶] (@geraldvjuk) May 11, 2023
The Liberal Democrats have called on Rishi Sunak to hold a cross-party summit in Downing Street on social care, to tackle soaring vacancies and the funding black hole. It comes after the NHS and social care crisis was repeatedly brought up by voters at last weeks' local elections. The Conservative Party 2019 manifesto committed to "urgently seek a cross-party consensus" on social care and they pledged that no one would have to sell their house to pay for care. Proper reform of social care is one of the biggest challenges facing the UK. Half a million people in England are ...
This is a new date for the Victoria Gardens international food festival - this Saturday - 13th May. Come along to try food from different countries made with love by the garden volunteers. Bring something if you want to share or just get ready to try something new - all welcome!
