Gentle footage of the city as it was when I started at the university there in 1978. I remember in particular two long-vanished bookshops: Godfrey's in Stonegate, which you could get lost in, and Pickering's in The Shambles, with its invaluable tray of pamphlets on obscure chess openings.
One of the cruellest things that the Conservatives introduced was limiting benefits claims to two children. Just last week, the Child Poverty Action Group and other children's charities wrote to all party leaders highlighting the impact of this dreadful measure and calling for its removal. They said: The two-child limit is a discriminatory policy which is a clear breach of children's human rights under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The two-child limit robs children of the basic joys of childhood. It forces parents to take out a loan to buy a school uniform. Children give ...
Liberator 418 is out. You can download a pdf of the magazine free of charge from its website. Which means it's time to spend another week in the company of Rutland's most notorious peer. Lord Bonkers' ordeal in the gorilla costume came about because I had to miss an issue of Liberator because I was caring for my mum. She was amused when I told her where I had parked the old boy. Tuesday Alarmed by tales of children identifying as cats, I telephone the headmistress of the village school and Matron at my own Home for Well-Behaved Orphans. Both ...
What's inside this issue? You can download Liberator 418 for free here: https://liberatormagazine.org.uk/recent-issues/ "PAPERS PLEASE". Voter ID has caused a damaging fall in the number of people who can vote and must be reversed before the assault on democracy worsens, says Shaun Roberts THE DIVIDE STARTS TO BREAK. Stephen Farry MP reports on the Alliance party's progress in Northern Ireland as its politics slowly sheds past sectarianism HOW TO SUP WITH STARMER'S DEVILS It may be necessary to have a tacit 'progressive alliance' at the next election but Liberal Democrats should remember that Labour is only slightly better than the ...
Florian Foos has worked with eight different political parties in five different countries carrying out field experiments to test what does and doesn't work in election campaigning. So I invited him on Never Mind The Bar Charts to talk about what both his research and that of others reveals.
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Embed from Getty ImagesNigel Farage has been a wholly malign influence on British life. His championing of Brexit has made us poorer and less free. He's an admirer of the genocidal Putin and the treasonous Donald Trump. For all his claims to be a patriot, we wouldn't have seen his froggy green arse for dust if his media career in American had worked out. But I'm uneasy with the enthusiasm for Coutts's decision to close his account. Because, despite what right-wingers believe, the banks are not part of a woke blob. They are conservative organisations, and if they start refusing ...
In the middle of a cost of loving crisis, any extra demands on household income can be catastrophic for some families. The Summer holidays should be a carefree time of play and fun for children. For parents on the lowest incomes, though, it can be incredibly difficult to find the money to provide an extra daily meal if their children are on free school meals. In Wales, the Labour (just have a think about that for a minute) Government ended the scheme to give families entitled to free school meals vouchers during the Summer holidays. This policy was, of course, ...
Imagine how great it would feel to wake up on Friday morning to find that the voters of Somerton and Frome had elected Sarah Dyke as the 15th Lib Dem MP, and the fourth Lib Dem by-election winner in just over two years? You can be part of the campaign either on the ground or from the comfort of your own home. All the information you need to help is here. Our campaigners have been flocking to this gorgeous bit of Somerset from all over the country. Scottish Lib Dem Leader Alex Cole-Hamilton is spending the week there: Over 1,000 ...
