Lord Cameron urged to answer questions in the House of Commons amid global conflicts Long Covid may have reduced Scotland's GDP by £120m and cost 11,000 jobs Scottish Liberal Democrats attack Government over GP closures Blackie: Abolish London's bedtime Lord Cameron urged to answer questions in the House of Commons amid global conflicts Liberal Democrats call on "unelected and unaccountable Foreign Secretary" to take questions from MPs Layla Moran MP writes directly to the Foreign Secretary demanding accountability Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Layla Moran MP, has written to the Foreign Secretary urging him to appear in the House of ...
I saw a tweet by Wera Hobhouse, the Liberal Democrat MP for Bath, in support of the End Sexism in Schools campaign. It said that, "shockingly", only two per cent of GCSE students study literature by female authors. It is a shocking statistic, and it made me think back to my own schooldays. Sure enough, I didn't study a single woman writer for O level or A level English literature. Since you ask, here are the books I studied: O level The Merchant of VeniceAn anthology of 20th-century British poetsLord of the Flies You had to study Lord of the ...
William Davies reviewed The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet by Brett Christophers in a recent issue of the London Review of Books. The opening of his review is worth reading in its own right:The words 'market' and 'capitalism' are frequently used as if they were synonymous. Especially where someone is defending the 'free market', it is generally understood that they are also making an argument for 'capitalism'. Yet the two terms can also denote very different sets of institutions and logics. According to the taxonomy developed by the economic historian Fernand Braudel, they may even be ...
Rabina Asghar stands beside George Galloway in a video that appeared on Twitter yesterday. A Lib Dem council candidate has been suspended after being endorsed by George Galloway MP. Rabina Asghar, who was to contest the Spotland and Fallinge ward for the Lib Dems as she has three times previously, has been suspended by the party after the Workers' Party MP used a video to urge voters to support her in order to "Get Labour out" of Rochdale Town Hall. In the video, he said: "In Spotland and Falinge I am backing Rabina Asghar who has grown her vote share ...
This is like gold dust - a Conservative local election leaflet in Gateshead! I haven't seen one of these for about 30 years. I picked this one up in Ryton last week. I don't reckon for a moment that this is evidence of the Conservatives taking an interest in elections to Gateshead Council. Instead, this is everything to do with the general election and changed constituency boundaries.
Not one for the squeamish! Liz Truss, briefly Prime Minister in 2022, was interviewed by Sky News this morning. Her explanation for why things went wrong was because everyone else messed up, but not her. She then went on to attack Net Zero. And finally, asked who she wanted to win the US Presidental election, she immediately said Trump, whereas the answer should have been, "That's for the
I was in Ryton yesterday campaigning in the local elections for the Lib Dem candidate Steve Kelly. We were on the main road and used a couple of our newly arrived large diamond posters. We certainly got noticed by passing motorists. Thumbs up from lots of people plus two fingers from one person and another who shouted "vote Reform" at us! This latter person may have difficulty trying to
Maddy Costa wrote about the Raincoats in the Guardian back in 2009: When Gina Birch and Ana da Silva decided to start a band in the late 1970s, they were art students who "knew nothing" about music. "Ana knew a couple of chords," says Birch, "and I could sing along with a few hymns and rock'n'roll tunes." But this was the do-it-yourself punk era, and the pair felt so inspired by their nights out at notorious London clubs like the Roxy (and by another female-fronted band, the anarchic Slits) that they forged ahead as the Raincoats. Only later did they ...
United States of America Self-inflicted cracks are starting to appear in the MAGA edifice. The two Republicans wielding the sledgehammers are Alabama's conspiracy theorist Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and, of course, Donald Trump himself. The former president, has time and again, demonstrated a total disregard for the rule of law, or at least its application to his affairs. Next week the judge in his New York trial, Juan Merchan, will decide whether Trump is guilty of contempt of court for repeatedly breaching a gag order against his making comments about witnesses, jurors, the judge, the judge's family or any court ...
Nation Cymru poses a very reasonable question, asking was Welsh Government loan money used to donate £200,000 to First Minister, Vaughan Gething? They do so in light of the latest revelation that newly published accounts, filed at Companies House. have revealed that companies run by a convicted criminal that bankrolled Vaughan Gething's Welsh Labour leadership campaign owe £400,000 to a bank wholly owned by the Welsh Government. They add that this has raised concerns that Mr Gething's successful campaign may have effectively been financed by money borrowed from the Welsh Government: The Welsh political world was rocked when Nation.Cymru reported ...
Letters sent to voters by the Conservative Party fail to mention their own Mayor candidate (except in the imprint) and admit they think they are not going to win.
From the City Council : THE ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14(1) THE DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL AS TRAFFIC AUTHORITY being satisfied that traffic on the road should be prohibited by reason of Scottish Water manhole repair works being carried out HEREBY PROHIBIT the driving of any vehicle in James Black Place (from fourth bus stance around the turning area), Dundee. This notice comes into effect on Sunday 28 April 2024 at 9am until Monday 29 April 2024 at 6am. Pedestrian thoroughfare will be maintained. Taxi access will be maintained. No alternative routes for vehicles are available. For further ...
