Here are the scores on the doors for the latest quarter of principal authority council by-elections:
The latest edition of my weekly political polling round-up, The Week in Polls, is out. As it says: Most of the time, question wording matters. Tweak the wording and you get different answers. Asking people what issues are most important is, however, different. Find out more by reading this edition of The Week in Polls here, and you can sign up below to receive future editions direct to your email inbox:
In addition to all the MEPs, Prime Ministers and Grandees there were also quite a few local Councillors like me in attendance. The Committee of Regions continued to focus on Local Government issues by mounting a couple of specific interest Fringe sessions. One regular event is entitled the Liberal Mayors Summit, and despite the poor attendance of Mayors and Group Leaders from the UK ,even when we were in the EU, I've fortunately managed to sneak in on a couple of occasions. There were about 20 attending this year, from metropolitan areas across the EU, with representation from well-known cities ...
There's a programme about Les Dawson that used to be shown regularly on high-numbered TV channels. One of the people who pays tribute to Dawson is John Cleese, who was a regular in two series of Sez Les. Cleese describes Dawson as "an autodidact, a very smart guy who was fascinated by words " and mentions in passing that something the Monty Python team had in common was an interest in and affection for music hall. And that interest in music hall may explain why Leslie Sarony is in the cast of The Crimson Permanent Assurance, the short that begins ...
Why is it that when Plaid Cymru or Labour politicians feel that they need to get more attention, they resort to proposals that will either restrict individual choice or will seek to use legislation to compel people to act in a certain way? The BBC reports that former Plaid Cymru leader, Adam Price has proposed that voting in Senedd and local elections should be compulsory. He believes that this move could boost turnout, which has yet to top the 47% hit at the Senedd election in 2021. He is supported in this by Counsel General Mick Antoniw who, speaking for ...
The World reacts to Russian Mutiny World Reaction to the Wager Group Mutiny ranged from the supportive to the thoughtful to the frightened and everything in between. A Russian exile in Turkey told America's National Public Radio: "The Putin regime is a circus because they don't have power. They can't even control their pets." Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky was understandably jubilant. "Anyone who choose the path of evil," he said, "destroys himself... Russia's weakness is obvious...And the longer Russia keeps its troops and mercenaries in our land, the more chaos, pain and problems it will have for itself later." The ...
We recently received concerns about damage to the pavement at the junction of Annfield Road and Blackness Road - see photo. We therefore brought this to the attention of the council's Roads Maintenance Partnership requesting repairs and have been advised as follows : "An order has been raised for repairs to be carried out."
