A tour, in the company of Jago Hazzard, of some of the stations that have existed at various times in this quarter of London . You can support his videos via his Patreon page.
"Calling people out triggers feelings of shame and defensiveness which entrench difference and deepen divisions. Calling people in acknowledges somebody's starting point, encourages calmer conversations and potentially provides pathways to more open, evidence-based thinking. After all, changing an opinion is a big ask for all of us. It is a genuine challenge." Her experience at the centre of a storm has taught Corinne Fowler how to respond to the culture war through engagement and dialogue. Matthew Pennell on the school buildings crisis. "He was a real Liberal: happy to be in a minority arguing for change on a range of ...
The Gloucestershire Gazette reports: The Liberal Democrats party has announced its candidate who will fight for the South Cotswolds seat in the next general election. Dr Roz Savage MBE – who holds four Guinness World Records – has been nominated by the party to stand for the new constituency... Dr Savage MBE, aged 55, studied law at Oxford before becoming a business adviser for 11 years. Her growing awareness of the environmental crisis led to a dramatic career change, where she decided to row across oceans and share environmental messages online. Dr Savage MBE said: "I wanted to find a ...
Cllr Prad Bains, who left the Conservatives in 2021, has joined the Liberal Democrats on Hampshire County Council: Very pleased to welcome Independent Councillor Prad Bains to the Lib Dem Group on Hampshire County Council. An excellent addition to our team! @libdemlocalgov pic.twitter.com/s6Gq63qF4U — Keith House [IMG: 🇺🇦] (@CllrKeithHouse) September 6, 2023
Remember that snap, allegedly taken in Staffordshire, claimed to be "probably the best photo of British big cat that exists"? The latest issue of Fortean Times reports that research has proved it to be a composite image made up from two different photographs. In other words, it's a fake. But I shan't give up my hope that there are big cats out there in the British countryside, but farmers don't make a fuss about it because they prey on deer. Nor do the farmers want to be troubled by the media, idiots with guns or officialdom snooping round their barns. ...
Taking on the housing brief for the Liberal Democrats has been a huge privilege. One of the biggest challenges my constituents face is the lack of affordable housing; nearly a third of my casework is about unsuitable, temporary or downright dangerous housing, and my colleagues report the same. Our government lacks ambition on housing, it has repeatedly taken the easy road, failing to tackle the crisis facing millions across the country. At the moment we're facing a cost of living crisis making both renters and mortgage holders deeply worried about staying in their homes, a Levelling Up Bill that has ...
Gateshead Liberal Democrats have never before had an annual dinner. That is now changing. On Monday 16th October, we will be sitting down to dinner in Rosa Twelve in Low Fell. Guest speaker is Simon Hughes. I will be attending and I've just carried out the most significant job of today: choosing starter, main course and dessert!In the olden days, when I worked for the Lib Dems, I once prepared a
As if the reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) crisis in English schools is not bad enough, the media are reporting that other public sector building may well be affected as well. The most bizarre example of this is the Houses of Parliament, which, according to the Independent, is being tested for the lightweight, crumbling concrete as I type. The paper says that if Raac is found it would add to the considerable problems at the ailing parliamentary estate, which is urgently in need of essential repairs such as the removal of asbestos, reducing the fire risk, renewing plumbing and conservation ...
Residents recently highlighted to us that the the Victoria Park boundary hedging in Jedburgh Road was badly needing trimmed - see photo. We therefore raised this with environment management to get the necessary work undertaken.
Liberal Democrats in Kent, Yorkshire and Manchester in particular will remember Michael Steed as a candidate, councillor, and activist on many issues over more than 60 years. Others will recall him as party president in 1978-9, as a regular attender of party conferences in spite of being wheel-chair bound by a neurological disease that resisted precise diagnosis, and latterly as an active member of the Liberal History Group and of its journal's editorial board. Michael grew up on a farm in Kent, went to a local independent school, and took six months before he went to Cambridge University in 1959 ...
