The latest edition of The Rundown podcast from Politics Home looks at candidate selection and features two Liberal Democrats. They are Josh Babarinde, who will fight Eastbourne for us at the next election, and Roz Savage, who will fight South Cotswolds. Also taking part are a Conservative candidate and the veteran political journalist Michael Crick, who keeps a close eye on the subject.
"These British-induced uprootings - the emigration from India, the three million African slaves transported on British ships across the Atlantic, the millions who left Ireland after the 1840s Famine - permanently changed the world's human geography. The empire changed global ecology too." Neal Ascherson reviews Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe by Sathnam Sanghera. Laleh Ispahani and Jennifer Weiss-Wolf argue that: "Reproductive rights do not exist in a vacuum. Bodily autonomy is inextricably linked to the integrity and durability of the body politic - with threats to one reinforcing threats to the other." "Next Monday [that's tomorrow] the ...
The latest edition of my weekly political polling round-up, The Week in Polls, is out. As it says: For anyone who seriously follows polling, it's a very high likelihood that their top pet peeve over how polls are covered is the way a 1 point change in support gets written up as a "surge" if the change suits the media outlet's editorial line. Me too. My second pet peeve is... 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:
Sir Keir Starmer's list of six priorities are clearly dictated by what their Focus groups tell his team are necessary to win the election. They cast a poor light in the priorities of "the British People" as distorted by the Tory party's sycophantic press but are, perhaps, wise, seeing the vast amount of money the Tories have at their hands to further poison the debate. Only one of Starmer's priorities, the NHS, overlaps with mine (more of which later.) In brief, the Starmer's "election winners" are: 1. 1. Deliver economic stability, but sadly under misguided financial constraints imposed by the ...
OK so I chose this mostly for the band's name, but the song is enjoyable and, like the name, very late-Sixties California. And Frumious Bandersnatch did have an interesting afterlife. After they split in 1969, having recorded just one EP, four members joined the Steve Miller Band. Later, in 1973, one of the four and the band's manager became founder members of Journey. So they were far from shunned.
The Lady Mayoress and I spent yesterday morning out and about in Penny Lane Ward talking to local producers and retailers and encouraging people to use their services and buy their local produced food and goods. I am the first ... Continue reading →
Gateshead annual council meeting was held on Friday and new member Joe Sowerby took his seat in the chamber. Joe was elected as councillor for Birtley on 2nd May, taking the ward from Labour by a slender 5 votes. Joe is pictured with Paul Elliott who won Birtley from Labour last year.
Russia and China It took Vladimir Putin just nine days for Putin to go from his inauguration in the Kremlin to Zhongnanhai – the seat of China's political power and the home of President Xi Jinping. At the end of the two-day visit the "partnership without limits" had been elevated to one in which there are now "no forbidden areas of cooperation." The two countries – and the two leaders – are united in their common goal of dismantling the liberal Western political order that has dominated the world since 1945. Democracy, they are convinced, has had its day. It ...
The Guardian reports that lawyers and migrant rights campaigners have warned that the government is heading for a repeat of the Windrush scandal after imposing a "cliff edge" deadline for immigrants to switch to new digital visas. The paper says that an estimated 500,000 or more non-EU immigrants with leave to remain in the UK will need to replace their physical biometric residence permits with digital e-visas by the end of this year. These permits demonstrate proof of their right to reside, rent, work and claim benefits: In order to access their e-visa, people will need to open a UK ...
Very much looking forward to the next craft fair on the Bank Holiday Saturday, 25th May, in Glastonbury Town Hall, Somerset with West Country Fairs. I'll have a range of crochet and handmade items including a couple of new linocuts for this year based on Glastonbury Tor and the Little Egrets who who visited our local flooded fields this Spring. hand dyed crochet items Small linocut prints. (Tor & Stile) Cards and prints. Handmade crochet and fabric items. Dip-dyed paper collages. (Overhead I, Overhead II)
The latest exhibition in the University of Dundee's Lamb Gallery is "A Decade of Design." The exhibition celebrates the tenth anniversary of Dundee's UNESCO City of Design status by showcasing a decade of design created by students at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, many of whom have gone on to successful careers as professional designers. The show features stunning and thought-provoking examples of Animation, Comics & Graphic Novels, Graphic Design, Illustration, Jewellery & Metal Design and Textile Design. The free-to-attend exhibition is part of Dundee Month of Design and more details are available at www.dundee.ac.uk/events/decade-design, including opening ...
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