The UK has 42,000 miles of rivers, but the public has access to only 1400 miles of them. Paul and Rebecca Whitwick investiage the twin issues of our pitifully limited access to river banks, at least in England, and the polluted state of many rivers. There's more from Paul and Rebecca Whitewick and from Right to Roam on their websites.
Embed from Getty ImagesThe report from the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket convicts the game in England of racism, sexism, classism, elitism and every other ism you can think of. Which will come as no surprise to anyone who follows cricket. There was a good feature and discussion of the report broadcast on Test Match Special during the lunch interval at Lord's today. Jon Agnew pointed out that the number of players from an Afro-Caribbean background who played for England in the 1980s led us to believe we were more inclusive than we really were. Devon Malcolm, Gladstone Small, ...
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The Independent reports on the warning of one auto-industry chief that there is a post-Brexit "cliff edge" looming in January 2024 that threatens the growth of Britain's electric car production. The paper says that the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has said that the future of the UK's industry is a stake unless a deal was struck with the EU to delay new tariff rules until 2027: Among the final parts of the Brexit deal agreed by Boris Johnson, changes set to come into force in 2024 state 45 per cent of an electric car's value should originate ...
Editor's Note: Mick wrote this piece after the Brighton Conference in 2018 and sent it to me recently as he felt it was still relevant today. Apart from the fact that Brexit is now an (at least for now) inescapable reality, he's right. We need to be radical and punchy to deliver the liberal, fair, more equal society that we want to see. I'm reminded of the Liberal not Moderate t-shirts that some of us wore proudly around that Conference... After a short period at the Lib Dem conference I am still in Brighton for a couple of days. Brighton ...
With the school summer holidays starting at the end of this week, we renewed our call for greater use of the facilities at Harris Academy to be made available to families over the holidays, particularly given the continuing non-availability of Olympia. We took this up with the Managing Director of Leisure & Culture Dundee and have been updated as follows : "Further to your email regarding access to the Harris facilities, Leisure & Culture Dundee has worked hard to increase access to swimming opportunities for public lane swimming, family swimming, clubs and the Learn to Swim programme. The majority of ...
