Schools have a lot to worry about besides crumbling concrete, says teacher, councillor and Lib Dem PPC for Cambridge, Cheney Payne. Fred Skulthorp discusses the reasons for, and consequences of, our loss of interest in the news: "One of the stranger paradoxes of our time is that the worse the world seems to get, the less people want to know about it. The number of people taking a "strong interest" in the news has dropped by around a quarter in the last six years to 48 per cent, according to the Reuters institute. A third of people worldwide report that ...
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Councillors accused of 'unreasonable behaviour' blocking solar farm on farmland in shadow of Belvoir...
Our Headline of the Day comes from the Leicester Mercury. The judges observed that it's probably not a good idea to build a solar farm in the shade.
Welcome to my summary of the latest national voting intention poll from each pollster currently operating in Britain. If you'd like to find out more about how polls work, how reliable they are and how to make sense of them, check out my book, Polling UnPacked: the History, Uses and Abuses of Political Opinion Polls, or sign up for my weekly email, The Week in Polls: General election voting intention polls PollsterConLabLDGrnRUKCon leadFieldwork WeThink (was Omnisis) 26% (+1) 46% (nc) 9% (-2) 6% (+1) 6% (-1) -20% 7-8/9 Techne 25% (+1) 46% (+1) 10% (-1) 6% (nc) 7% (-1) -21% ...
In the 1980s, Max Atkinson revolutionised understanding of political speech making which his classic work, Our Masters' Voices: The Language and Body Language of Politics.
The Guardian reports that No 10 has rejected proposals by a Commons committee to prevent ministers bringing in personal and political friends on to the boards of Whitehall departments. The paper says that Ministers ruled out a series of recommendations from the House of Commons public administration and constitutional affairs committee, led by the Tory MP William Wragg, which were aimed at making sure non-executive directors of civil service boards were truly independent and the best candidates: Its report published earlier this year found that ministers may be bringing in political "super-spads" through the back door by putting them on ...
The City Council now has an online form to allow members of the public to request drop kerbs, pedestrian crossings or improvements to accessibility such as the removal of chicane barriers or bollards. You can access this at :
