From the Shropshire Star:Chris Naylor, the Liberal Democrat candidate for the new South Shropshire constituency at the general election, says the county needs to be better prepared for deluges like that that hit the area as part of Storm Babet. He said immediate steps that need to be taken are drain clearance and looking for ways to control the flow of water.After meeting residents in Church Stretton affected by flooding from the A49, he told the paper:"Yet again it has rained hard. Yet again there were flash floods that could have been avoided if the county had been better prepared. ...
The latest edition of my weekly political polling round-up, The Week in Polls, is out. As it says: Aside from the size of the budgets and the egos, there are two big differences between political polling in the US and the UK. One is the much higher and better standards of transparency over polling details in the UK, thanks in large part to the British Polling Council. The other is... 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:
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 27% (-1) 48% (+4) 10% (+1) 4% (-2) 7% (nc) -21% 19-20/10 Techne 26% (nc) 45% (-1) 11% (+1) 6% (nc) 6% (nc) -19% 18-19/10 YouGov ...
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Erica and I had a great time at the Maghull Wind Orchestra Concert at the Phil recently. The enthusiasm was a joy to behold and the music was good as well. I have been to two marvellous events recently in ... Continue reading →
Lost in the mists of musical history, the Monochrome Set appeared in the hazy period just after punk and hung around for a good two decades, releasing clever albums full of hook-crammed melodies and coloured with a dark sense of humour. Frontman Bid's arch vocals gave the band a wonderful camp quality, and it was probably his lyrical smarts that alerted a young Morrissey to their presence; they were even one of his favourite groups before he formed the Smiths. Johnny Marr recalls first meeting Morrissey and flicking through his singles collection that Morrissey had whittled down to just 10 ...
Russia Russian President Vladimir Putin must be delighted by the Gaza Crisis. It ticks a number of Moscow's foreign policy boxes. For a start, it distracts the world from his war crimes in Ukraine and allows him to point the blame finger at America's absolute support for Israel. Russia's Middle East policy is complicated. It supports Bashar al-Assad in Syria, but Putin also has a close personal relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He has used that relationship to stop Israel from sending weapons to Ukraine. Russia has also refused to go along with most of the rest of ...
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