Hospital's spend £3million on pest control as patients suffer from rats and insects Cameron and Trump: European leaders' summit needed to seize frozen Russian assets Cole-Hamilton: SNP have failed to help A&E recover Lib Dems launch London Transport Policy – Blackie: "No more bus cuts" Hospital's spend £3million on pest control as patients suffer from rats and insects Staff report being bitten by bugs as rats roam maternity and emergency wards Freedom of Information requests reveal NHS Hospitals coping with 18,000 pest incidents since 2021 Liberal Democrat Leader demands urgent repair fund for crumbling hospitals Freedom of Information Requests by ...
Because I wanted to read again what he had to say about Richard Jefferies, I ordered a secondhand copy of Raymond Williams's book The Country and the City. It arrived the other day with no index and an introduction by Tristram Hunt. We live in barbarous times. Williams's treatment of Jefferies is as good as I remembered and still the best I have come across. I have also rediscovered his exposure of the way that "traditional country values" recede further into the past the more you try to pin them down. His excoriation of great English country house is a ...
Peter Chambers argues that Brexitland by Maria Sobolewska and Robert Ford provides a model that explains why Leave was able to win the referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union. "All models are wrong, but some are useful" - George Box, statistician Brexitland describes political processes leading up to the Brexit referendum of 2016 and since. Unlike most Brexit books, it is not a journalistic narrative. It is based on data from social surveys and analysis done by the authors, so is rigorous. They propose a compact model of the changes in our society that led to Brexit, and ...
It has become quite mainstream now to portray Russia as an evil regime, about to invade Western Europe, that needs to be defeated at any cost (i.e. nuclear war ... even though some such advocates don't understand that implication). Until recently this was seen as a fringe conspiracy theory. Sure, Russia has a pretty appalling power structure with a lawless mafia-ised system clustered around the Presidency, with it's tentacles around Europe, Mid East and Africa. It is also technologically advanced, especially in military and space spheres, and has vast natural resources, managed centrally. Russia is not Iraq, Afghanistan or Libya. ...
I once asked the old boy about Agatha Mousetrap. His verdict: "An ingenious woman. She often wrote novels without a butler in them, so it was simply impossible to know who the murderer was." Thursday An advantage of owning a large Estate is that one has the odd cottage tucked away in a remote spot where someone can lie low if they have need - I once put up the noted woman crime novelist Dame Agatha Mousetrap while Fleet Street's finest were looking for her, and Violent Bonham-Carter made use of the same cottage on more than one occasion. Would ...
Tue 9th
10:19
Shropshire Council consults on saving Craven Arms HRC and charges for green bin collection
Do you want to save Craven Arms Household Recycling Centre (HRC)? How much do you want to pay for green bin collections? These are two of the questions being asked by Shropshire Council in a consultation. Opposition to closing Craven Arms Household Recycling Centre has been absolute. I have not heard a single word in favour of it. Around 8,500 people have signed the petition against it. Views on charging for green waste have been more mixed. Some people do not accept they should pay. Some say it will lead to an increase in fly-tipping or green waste in the ...
Tue 9th
08:51
Westminster 'Honeytrapper' targetted MPs at LibDem conference in Bournemouth - via Grindr
Politico reports that the "honeytrapper" implicated in the Westminster scandal actually tried to target LibDem MPs at our last Bournemouth conflict. No, this is not an April Fool's joke. "I was at the bar at the Bournemouth Highcliff Marriott [Hotel]," recalls an attendee at Lib Dem conference. He saw a message on gay dating app Grindr from a handsome man in a Levi's T-shirt. "M – xl" said he was 28 — and that his name was Charlie. "He was very open about wanting to sleep with MPs," said the attendee, a former MP's staffer who was there in a ...
Just a reminder that Fraser's ward surgeries today do not take place as it is during the school Easter holidays. However, we can be contacted at any time on 459378 or by email at westend@dundeelibdems.org.uk - many thanks! Fraser's surgeries return next Tuesday (16th) as the new term starts next week.
