NICs: Prime Minister is still peddling this deception Chamberlains's Carer's Leave Bill to come into force 91,000 people call 999 or turn to A&E after struggling to get GP appointment Rennie: Fall in modern languages teachers jeopardises vision for Scotland Blackie: 'My top priority: fix the Met' NICs: Prime Minister is still peddling this deception Responding to the changes to National Insurance (NI) and freezing of income tax thresholds coming into force tomorrow, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson, Sarah Olney MP said: The Prime Minister is still peddling this deception and voters will see straight through it. Hammering the public with ...
Jago Hazzard looks at the many HS2 stations in London that might have been but weren't. You can support his videos via his Patreon page.
The new issue of Liberator was posted on the magazine website this morning. You can download it free of charge from there - it's Liberator 422. As well as Lord Bonkers' Diary, which I'll start posting here tomorrow, it includes an article by me on Simon Titley and his writings. The photo here was taken during our lunch in Melton Mowbray. Does a decade make a difference? Simon Titley was fond of claiming that he joined the Liberator editorial collective in the 1980s because it was the only way of ensuring that his articles were pasted down in the correct ...
As we get nearer to the local elections on 2 May the number of by-elections is naturally reducing a bit. However there is still a steady stream of by-elections each week between now and May that we will continue to report on. There were 3 principal council by-elections this week - including yet another Lib Dem victory. Our win came on Cornwall Council where we held Looe West, Pelynt, Lansallos & Lanteglos ward. Congratulations to our new Councillor Jim Candy and Cornwall Lib Dems for holding the seat. Cornwall Council, Looe West, Pelynt, Lansallos & Lanteglos Liberal Democrats (Jim Candy): ...
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 24% (-1) 45% (+1) 10% (nc) 5% (nc) 13% (+3) -21% 4-5/4 Techne 22% (-1) 45% (+1) 9% (-1) 5% (nc) 13% (+1) -23% 3-4/4 YouGov ...
Windows that don't fit. Gaps between walls of roofs. Dangerous wiring. Holes in walls. Incomplete insulation. Kitchen units falling off. Recurring dust everywhere. Even polystyrene coming out the walls. On Friday, 5 April 2024, BBC Radio Shropshire broadcast interviews with the residents of the Sandpits Estate in Ludlow where work to refurbish social housing has been in trouble for months. Work has been left incomplete. Homes are cold, draughty and mouldy. Parents believe their children have become ill because of the state of their homes. They want urgent action to get them fixed. There is a great community spirit on ...
What's inside this issue? You can download Liberator 422 for free here: https://liberatormagazine.org.uk/recent-issues/ Find out in Radical Bulletin why there was a row over Lib Dem participation in the South Devon primary election, why members got four conflicting messages about Rochdale and about a mind-bending case for STV enthusiasts, and much more. Also in this issue: Why Putin Cannot be Allowed to Win Lib Dem MP Sarah Green joined a parliamentary delegation to Ukraine and saw a country still determined to resist a tyrant with whom negotiation is impossible Ukraine Resists – With Some Help From Shakespeare Nataliya Torkut is ...
The Mirror highlights a report by Transparency International UK that almost a quarter of people nominated for a seat in the House of Lords over the last 10 years have donated to a political party, new figures reveal today. They say that 68 out of 284 peerage nominations from political parties made between 2013 and 2023 were political donors: Together the individuals had boosted parties' coffers by a staggering £58million - with 91% of the donations (£53.4million) going to the Tories. Twelve of the "super donors" - representing 92% of all donations - had also provided donations of over £1million, ...
Some good news from Layla Moran: We know we are lucky. They're in Manama to be with their immediate family and are grateful to Bahrain for giving them sanctuary. They're exhausted and traumatised. I look forward to Zooming with them in the next few days. — Layla Moran [IMG: 🔶] [IMG: 🕊] (@LaylaMoran) April 4, 2024 She adds: Thank you to all who have followed their story. But while theirs ends with reunification, having lost one along the way, this atrocious war rages on. I won't stop working until we achieve not just an end to violence, but peace once ...
Three principal authority council by-elections this week, starting with a Lib Dem defence in Cornwall: Looe West, Pelynt, Lansallos & Lanteglos (Cornwall) Council By-Election Result: [IMG: 🔶] LDM: 44.8% (-16.6) [IMG: 🌳] CON: 30.7% (+0.5) [IMG: 🌹] LAB: 18.9% (+10.5) [IMG: 🌍] GRN: 5.6% (New) Liberal Democrat HOLD. Changes w/ 2021. — Election Maps UK (@ElectionMapsUK) April 5, 2024
Last time we were in Aldbourne we saw Jon Pertwee get the better of The Master, or Mr Magister as he was known in this Wiltshire village. But before the Doctor was in Aldbourne, another BBC camera crew had been there. Click on the still above to watch Desmond Hawkins's meditation on changing attitudes to the countryside and whether village life can still exist in 20th century. Early on there is much talk of the downs and the ancient bones buried on them. This put me in mind of "the man in the hill" in Richard Jefferies's Wood Magic: "There ...
