The latest edition of my weekly political polling round-up, The Week in Polls, is out. As it says: Welcome to this week's edition which looks at polling about the death penalty as it's back in the news following Lucy Letby's conviction for a horrific set of murders. 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:
Mutineer Yevgeny Prigozhin – and the nine other passengers on his private plane — this week joined a long and growing list of "Putin's Bodies." Those on the grisly register share one common fatal flaw: They dared to cross the Russian president. The tally starts with 1,300 innocent victims. It was 1999. Putin was yet to become president. But as prime minister and head of the FSB he needed a false flag operation to win support for his war in Chechnya. It is alleged, therefore, that he bombed a Moscow apartment building and blamed it on Chechen terrorists. Three hundred ...
We're coming to the end of the school holidays and it's perhaps a sign of the world getting back to normal post-pandemic that my local area has seen a return to play. There's plenty of kids on bikes, because I live in a garden suburb lots of kids are climbing trees and dangling from makeshift ... Continue reading Getting serious about playtime
The Almighty Dollar is a bit too mighty for a growing number of countries. They want to curb it. That was one of the driving forces behind this week's 5-nation BRICS meeting in Johannesburg and the reason why another 40 want to join the latest political/economic organisation. Six of the applicants were admitted to the club this week. BRICS is the acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—the current membership of the 14-year-old organisation. It controls 26 percent of the world's GDP as opposed to the G7's 30.7 percent, although the G7 is dropping and will drop further ...
It was off to St Neots this weekend for the campaign launch in the new constituency there with Ian Sollom.
This culvert under the main London railway line used to flood every 3 to 4 years. This year it has already flooded badly three times. Climate change is not just more typhoons and hurricanes but more localised events such as ... Continue reading →
Bessie Smith (1894-1937) was the Empress of the Blues. She was the highest-paid black entertainer of her day and had her own railway carriage. This thread will tell you all about it, and the part Southern racism played in her decision that she and her troupe should travel that way. Gwen Thompkins says of her on the NPR site: She was big and brown and built high off the ground - "a hell of a woman," men called her, but most women said she was "rough." And while there were other blues singers in the first half of the 20th ...
Nadine Dorries first announced her intention to resign her parliamentary seat "with immediate effect" on 9th June. And then she decides to actually do it 79 days later while I'm out celebrating my 35th wedding anniversary, returning to the scene of the crime for an absolutely delicious meal and some even lovelier cocktails. So this means that the formal starting gun will likely be fired on the by-election campaign to replace her when Parliament resumes on 4th September. However, the Lib Dem campaign to get our brilliant candidate Emma Holland-Lindsay elected has been going on since the day after Nadine ...
Fraser is pictured on the north side of Perth Road at a blocked street drain. In recent weeks, we have had numerous complaints about blocked drains in the stretch of Perth Road between Harris Academy and Glamis Road. We therefore reported this to the Roads Maintenance Partnership to get them all cleared.
