Action from Coventry's Butts Park Arena on Saturday. Despite my lack of enthusiasm about the Rugby World Cup final, there was no lack of sport to interest me over the weekend. Indeed there was a rare treat on offer. When we lived in Kincardineshire in the 1970s my father used to take me to see Montrose FC, our nearest professional football club - usually evening matches because he played rugby on a Saturday afternoon. I look back fondly on winter nights standing on the terrace with the ground illuminated by floodlights. While I always look out for their results on ...
Wed 1st
20:06
Cardinal Wolsey is buried somewhere in Leicester - don't worry, he's not under a car park
At last, with easy roads, he came to Leicester, Lodged in the abbey, where the reverend abbot With all his convent honorably received him; To whom he gave these words: "O Father Abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among you. Give him a little earth, for charity." If the furore over the finding of Richard III ever dies down - at present there is another court case in prospect - the Leicester people could turn their attention to another historical figure who was buried in the city but whose ...
Wed 1st
17:42
"Confusion over whether Cheltenham mural shows blood-sucking vampires or leading Tories"
Quite the newspaper headline: Confusion over if Cheltenham mural shows blood-sucking vampires or leading Torieshttps://t.co/RQbty1UV0H — Gloucestershire Live (@GlosLiveOnline) November 1, 2023
Wed 1st
16:48
Conservatives and council officers tried to exclude opposition councillors from North West Relief Ro...
The Northern Planning Committee met yesterday to consider the planning application for the controversial NWRR road. After nearly four hours, the committee voted by six votes to five to approve the planning application. The vote was on political lines. Six Conservatives voted for the plan. Three Lib Dem, one Green and one Labour councillor voted against. This article is not about that debate. It's about the attempts by Shropshire Council and a former cabinet member to exclude members who have in the past indicated that they don't support the road from yesterday's committee. No attempts were made to exclude those ...
Looking back it's pretty crazy that a highly religious and highly aggressive corporate raider would ever get involved with the Lib Dems. For many years, however, Paul Marshall played a vital role bankrolling the party and he tried to construct an entirely new narrative for us based on a low tax, small state agenda you'd ... Continue reading Paul Marshall & the Lib Dems
The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts is another special with the Lib Dem Pod team. We talked about a year of Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister and lessons from the Mid Bedfordshire by-election. Listen carefully also to spot a litter Easter Egg from me... Feedback very welcome, and do share this podcast with others who you think may enjoy it. Show notes The Lib Dem Pod Theme tune by Hugo Lee. New to listening to podcasts? Here are some tips on how to listen to podcasts. Check out some of this show's most popular previous episodes. Enjoy ...
If there is one thing that we have learnt from yesterday's evidence session of the covid inquiry, it is that no matter how appalling, how incompetent, how crass we thought Boris Johnson's government was, the reality was much, much worse. Who knew that was possible? The Guardian posts eight shocking revelations from Dominic Cummings, Lee Cain and others from yesterday's session. These include: * That Boris Johnson suggested 'Covid is nature's way of dealing with old people': * That Dominic Cummings connfirmed what we had all thought, that vulnerable people were 'appallingly neglected'; * That Cummings frequently called for the ...
Following on from my article on Sunday about how we could develop a more distinctive liberal voice in our messaging for the General Election, I thought readers might like to have a look at one of the most packed fringe meetings at our recent Bournemouth Conference where Professor Sir John Curtice took a look at our performances in elections and opinion poll ratings. Layla Moran chaired the meeting and Dick Newby, our leader in the Lords, responded for the Party. He had some sobering facts for us, particularly on the loss of voters to Labour, as the BBC reported at ...
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From the Curator of Museum Services at the University of Dundee : Pattern Play is currently on display in the Lamb Gallery, the University of Dundee's Tower Building, exploring patterns in art, design and science. Patterns are all around us. The physical world depends on regularity and repetition. A large part of scientific research involves the identification and understanding of patterns, either physical or theoretical. What may seem random and chaotic often still depends on underlying, predictable patterns. Art too is all about patterns. The mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead described art as "the imposing of a pattern on ...
