Jago Hazzard is our guide to this South London line. Parts of it are still in use, and more remains of the abandoned stretches than you may expect. You can support Jago's videos via his Patreon page.
The 2023 Lib Dem Christmas Draw is now open, with great prizes to be won and with over 70% of the value of your tickets going to support the local party or party body that you chose. The draw will take place on the evening of Monday 11th December with prizes including: [IMG: 💰] A cheque for £1,500 [IMG: 🍾] A bottle of House of Commons Whiskey signed by all of our MPs [IMG: 🍫] A chocolate truffle trunk (leave that one for me, please) Tickets cost just £1 each and you can purchase as many as you want. It ...
Welcome to the latest in my occasional series highlighting interesting findings from academic research. Today, it's the words of Professor Jennifer Piscopo, writing for the Electoral Reform Society: Amanda Clayton (University of California, Berkeley), Diana O'Brien (Washington University in St. Louis), and I study citizens' attitudes about political representation. We find that citizens strongly prefer that political decision-making bodies have gender parity, meaning that they have equal numbers of men and women. Even when governments require gender quotas for women candidates, citizens still prefer to see gender parity amongst officeholders. We conducted experiments using public opinion surveys. In these survey ...
Concern and anger about drug use and related crime in Ludlow has been growing in recent weeks. Drug use and abuse has led to an increase in shoplifting and burglaries by addicts and dealers desperate to grab items they can sell to buy more drugs or pay their drug debts. Shoplifting has taken in place in broad daylight. Sometimes under the noses of security. Shopwindows have been smashed overnight and goods stolen. These goods are usually of no use to the thieves. They are to be exchanged for drugs or money for drugs. Those drugs quite often include cocaine supplied ...
Lily Gladstone is related to William Ewart Gladstone on her mother's side, while on her father's side she is descended from Red Crow, a Kainai Nation chief who was a signatory of one of its treaties with the Canadian government. The opportunity was too good to miss, even if my knowledge of American Indian culture has not progressed much since I read Little Plum in the Beano - and even that now removes the word "um" if it reprints old strips. Gentle humour at the expense of foreigners is a sin I must confess, but I do think a feathered ...
I've been getting letters published again, this time in The Guardian: Far from being too cautious, the Liberal Democrats under Ed Davey have shown incredible boldness (Lib Dems are being too cautious, say senior party members, 29 November). We are the only party committed to 0.7% on international aid, to proportional representation and to combating climate change. Above all, we are the only party to have a real plan to transform our broken relationship with Europe. With Ed Davey as leader, our plan to get this Conservative government out of power is working, the team is united and we are ...
The BBC report on comments by transport expert, Professor Stuart Cole, that the Welsh government has got its priorities wrong over public transport. Professor Cole believes that Ministers should have improved bus and train services before reducing speeds from 30mph to 20mph on many Welsh roads. He said public transport facilities should have been "put in before any other anti-motorist legislation". Despite this, it is estimated that almost 10% of bus routes have been axed this summer in Wales over funding issues.: The Welsh government said current arrangements were complex across Wales. But Prof Cole said the Welsh government had ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR THE WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 4 DECEMBER 2023 Blinshall Street (Douglas Street to 50metres south) - closed from 27 November 2023 for 6 months for road safety concerns. Brown Street (south of Douglas Street) - closed until May 2024 for construction works. 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 August 2023 for 15 months. Magdalen Yard Road ...
Embed from Getty ImagesBBC Sport wins our Headline of the Day Award and the judges suggest your read the story below: Uefa says it is investigating after sex noises were transmitted during the broadcast of the Euro 2024 draw on Saturday. Lewd noises could be heard as Switzerland were drawn in Group A with Scotland, Hungary and hosts Germany. A similar incident occurred on the BBC in the build-up to January's FA Cup tie between Liverpool and Wolves. YouTube prankster Daniel Jarvis claimed responsibility for both that and the latest prank
There are three letters in Monday's Guardian in response to the recent letter to that paper from 30 more or less senior Liberal Democrats saying the party is being too cautious and needs to explain to voters what it stands for before the general election. The first is from the party's president Mark Pack and claims: "Far from being too cautious, the Liberal Democrats under Ed Davey have shown incredible boldness." The second is from Alan Butt Philip and says it would help if the party linked what it's saying to longstanding liberal ideas. "When the voters are crying out ...
