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Vince Cable and Ed Davey are appearing at the Edinburgh Festival next month. On Wednesday 9th August at 1pm, Vince will be taking part in Iain Dale's All Talk and you can buy tickets here. I went to a few of Iain's shows back in 2019 and they were very entertaining and aimed at getting past message discipline and exposing the human being. This will be pretty easy with Vince. I say with great affection that message discipline was not always his biggest priority which is probably why he was so well liked. Rumours that the press team will be ...
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The behind-the-scenes civil war within the Tory Party burst out into the open yesterday with the resignation of Lord Goldsmith from the government. The Independent reports that the situation became even more fractious as Zac Goldsmith hit out at the "misleading" No 10 briefing over his scathing resignation, insisting that Rishi Sunak was "wrong" to claim he had refused to apologise over his Partygate comments. The paper says that the outgoing environment minister claimed he was "happy to apologise" for remarks labelled "disturbing" by the privileges committee in their report alleging "interference" from 10 Tories during their investigation which found ...
The Kremlin skies are turning black with the wings of chickens coming home to roost. The Russian mutiny may have caught Putin and the rest of the world off guard, but its roots were there for all to see. It is the direct result of hubris, decades of corruption, lies, autocracy and an over-reliance on uncontrolled non-state players. Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin may have been exiled to Belarus but the problems raised by his largely unopposed march on Moscow are still there. They start with the structure of the Russian military and government. Vladimir Putin has created a feudal edifice ...
From the City Council : THE ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14(1) THE DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL AS TRAFFIC AUTHORITY being satisfied that traffic on the road should be prohibited by reason of Scottish Water manhole repair works being carried out HEREBY PROHIBIT the driving of any vehicle in Blackness Road (from Glenagnes Road to approx. 100metres west), Dundee. This notice comes into effect on Tuesday 4 July 2023 for one day. Pedestrian thoroughfare will be maintained. Alternative routes for vehicles are available via Balgay Road / Scott Street / Glenagnes Road. For further information contact 433082. Executive Director ...
