"The never-not-mentioned 'slick campaigning machine' of the SNP was true in about 2006-11, but after the landslide 2011 election and especially after the referendum, complacency allowed it to dwindle." And that's just one of the Scottish Nationalist Party's problems, according to Robert McAlpine. Matthew Pennell says an overarching health and wellness policy for children must include play. "[Devon Malcolm] and his England colleague Phil DeFreitas - who received death threats from the Nazi National Front - successfully sued Wisden Cricket Magazine in 1995 for an article titled 'Is It In The Blood?', which accused England's foreign-born and black players of ...
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Are you going to Lib Dem conference next month? Conference starts at 9am on the Saturday morning, so if you want to be there and not miss anything you probably need to arrive the day before. So what is happening on the day before on Friday evening? Well the conference program will not mention anything because conference has not started yet. There will be hundreds of Lib Dem members in Bournemouth, but nothing is happening. Apart from one event that we in Social Liberal Forum (SLF) are organising. For every in-person autumn Lib Dem conference the SLF have organised their ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR THE WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 28 AUGUST 2023 Brown Street (south of Douglas Street) - closed for 13 months until May 2024 for construction works. Greenmarket - closed for electricity works at its junction with West Marketgait (northbound exit lane only) from Monday 21 August until Tuesday 29 August. Seafield Road, Dundee. Closed from its westmost end (in cul de sac) extending for a distance of no more than 20 metres in an easterly direction to facilitate a site access for a new housing development. Commencing Tuesday 22 ...
This may look dated now, but it in its day it was groundbreaking. When the BBC tried to sell The Master Game, a series of televised chess tournaments, to other national broadcasters, they were told: "We've tried doing chess on television, but it doesn't work." Then the representatives of those stations heard the players voicing their thoughts and bought the programme. Those thoughts were recorded immediately after the game, though not every player was as eloquent as these two, who were both heroes of mine. Tony Miles was the first English grandmaster. Only a few years before he secured that ...
