From the Leicester Mercury: Andrew Bridgen has been labelled the "first cuckoo of spring" after claiming the BBC has repeatedly spread Covid-19 misinformation. The North West Leicestershire MP was also met with heckles of "shame" in the House of Commons before he was rebuked by its leader Penny Mordaunt. Mr Bridgen, who now sits as MP for actor Laurence Fox's Reclaim Party, spoke out after the BBC launched its new BBC Verify service this week, with the Leicestershire MP insisting the corporation had been behind much misinformation surrounding the pandemic. Mordaunt is right about Bridgen: he is cuckoo. But she ...
Lib Dem Vikki Slade has been re-elected leader of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council. It's her second stint in the role, having led a Unity Alliance administration from 2019-20. From the Daily Echo FOUR political parties across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole have agreed to form a new administration. Liberal Democrat leader Cllr Vikki Slade is expected to retake the role of BCP Council's leader, with the new administration named the Three Towns Alliance. The changes, subject to agreement of a full council meeting this evening, will be made up of the Lib Dems, who took 28 seats at the elections ...
Today's editorial in The Guardian about caring says: Westminster rarely serves up good news, so let us celebrate when it does. Millions of employees are about to get a new statutory right: they can take up to a week's extra leave to care for elderly, sick or disabled relatives. The law on carers' leave was introduced by the Liberal Democrat MP Wendy Chamberlain and cleared its final parliamentary hurdle last week. All that awaits is royal assent. The Lib Dems describe the new act as a "first step"; what they want next is paid leave for carers. It's an impressive ...
Reputable pollster, recent fieldwork, complete with nice graphic, so all good, right?
A welcome reappearance by Albert, who long ago wandered into these diaries from A.A. Milne's Toad of Toad Hall. And if this satire is crude, then so is the government it is satirising. Tuesday Nowadays the average Conservative is interested in but one thing: money. This allows those of us who are more liberal-minded to have sport with them. All you need do is securely tie a fiver to a length of string and wait in the saddle until a Tory happens along. Then, having made sure he has sighted your fiver, you set off across country at a brisk ...
I just love this headline from the Guardian. The phrase 'Undisclosed Covid-era Johnson events occurred at both Chequers and Downing Street' just seems to sum up Boris Johnson's premiership. And nobody should be surprised at the contents of the article, in which the paper says that about a dozen previously undisclosed gatherings at both Chequers and Downing Street, allegedly held during Covid, have been referred to the police by civil servants. Has the establishment finally tired of Johnson's shenanigans and decided to sell him out completely? It certainly looks that way. The report says that Government sources have suggested that ...
On Saturday 3rd June, there is a community music festival - the Face the Music Festival 2023 - at the University of Dundee's Chaplaincy Centre. Taking place from 2.30pm to 6pm, all are welcome!
