Embed from Getty ImagesMajor Denis Healey and Captain Roy Jenkins photographed on the seafront with fellow delegates during the Labour Party conference in Blackpool, May 1945. This photo was published in the 9 June 1945 issue of Picture Post. A little on the wartime careers on their wartime careers from Wikipedia. Denis Healey After graduation, Healey served in the Second World War as a gunner in the Royal Artillery before being commissioned as a second lieutenant in April 1941. Serving with the Royal Engineers, he saw action in the North African campaign, the Allied invasion of Sicily (1943) and the ...
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 – indicates that party didn't feature in the polling questions separate from 'Others' or that the data is not yet available. RUK = Brexit Party or Reform Party. Numbers ...
Like many others, I am yet to be convinced that Labour are offering anything new in the forthcoming general election, but in the interests of fair play one has to laugh at the Tories response to Keir Starmer's six points of blandness which he launched the other day in an unparalleled snoozefest. As the Mirror reports the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt has put forward a series of "dodgy dossiers" in an effort to discredit Labour's economic credentials. Hunt released a 19-page document on Friday which claims Labour's policies will leave a "black hole of over £10billion a year ...
The man who shot Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has inflicted major damage on the cause of liberalism. Fico is a far-right populist who started his political life as a far-left populist. He supports Putin and opposes Zelensky. He is anti-immigrant, anti-vaxer, anti-LGBTQ, anti-Muslim and hates journalists. While Fico is fighting for his life in a Bratislavan intensive care unit, far-right politicians in Slovakia and beyond are using his fate as a rallying cry. In short, Robert Fico is a sinner who has been turned into a saint by an attempted assassination and may yet become a martyr. When the ...
Over the years, we have repeatedly raised issues at the former garage site at the top end of Benvie Road. Following our previous concerns being raised with the City Council, an amenity notice was served on the site owner. The situation is currently concerning with fallen fencing giving access to the site and resulting fly-tipping. We raised this again recently with the council and the planning enforcement officer has now updated us as follows : "An amenity notice for this site remains in place. I have contacted the owner and requested the boundary enclosure is erected to secure the site ...
