I know we said we were disappearing until after the New Year, but we thought you would like to see Ed Davey's Christmas Message. Merry Christmas from everyone at the Liberal Democrats! It is such a joyous time of the year. I have enjoyed watching the Christmas spirit spread across the country. Watching Christmas trees pop up all around, the lights making the darker evenings sparkle. It's a time when we can come together with friends and family. To sing, to eat, give and receive presents. And, thank God for the grace and blessings we have to celebrate in our ...
A flickering pinpoint of naked flame leads the way through the low and narrow passage: dank and pitch black, where the smell of candle grease mingles with that of freshly turned earth and slimy rock. Suddenly, there it is; a thin greyish streak running horizontally through the Stiperstones rock. An anticlimax to the man in the street who has painfully struggled the length of the 100-yard shaft to catch a glimpse of a lead seam. But to Norman Evans and Tom Rowson, who between them work Burgam Lead Mine, between Snailbeach and The Bog, south-west of Shrewsbury, this seam means ...
Sat 23rd
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Voodoo polling, Christmas polling and a correction to some polling - The Week in Polls
The latest edition of my weekly political polling round-up, The Week in Polls, is out. As it says: This time we've got a final sigh of disappointment for the year for a media report of a poll, a correction to a graph and some fun Christmas polling. 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% (+2) 41% (-5) 12% (+2) 6% (+1) 9% (nc) -14% 21-22/12 Techne 23% (+1) 43% (-1) 11% (-1) 7% (nc) 10% (+1) -20% 20-21/12 Redfield ...
Our Headline of the Day Award goes to Nottinghamshire Live for this tale of crime fighting in the East Midlands. Thanks to the reader who nominated it, and also to the judges for their services throughout the year. They were wearing paper hats and eating mince pies when they made this adjudication.
I have been away for a couple of days so have not had a chance to comment on the proposed extension of the surveillance state currently being mooted by the Tories. Facial recognition software has, of course, been controversial, with the court of appeal ruling in 2020 that South Wales police's use of facial recognition technology had breached privacy rights, data protection laws and equality laws, given the risk the technology could have a race or gender bias. It means that every one of us is under suspicion and has a built in bias against ethnic minorities. However, instead of ...
Yes, a year has gone by already and it's time once again for one of my animated Christmas cards.
We will be back in the New Year.
Dundee Liberal Democrats have slammed the SNP council administration's poor Christmas offer to the people of Dundee and have called for the return of the annual civic Christmas tree in the City Square and also the annual fireworks events on 5th November. You can more about this at
