Following my visit to Brixworth last week, here's a video about the village's remarkable Saxon church.
Thu 27th
22:23
Social class: Another column for the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy
More about the JCPCP on the Egalitarian Publishing site. I've slightly lost the thread of which issue which column has appeared in, but this one has certainly been published. In fact, I don't remember writing parts of it. SighcologyThe progress of the working-class grammar school boy and the estrangement from his background it brought about were once such a theme of English letters that it was honoured with a Monty Python sketch inverting it. A coal miner returns home to his playwright father and receives a cold welcome: "Hampstead wasn't good enough for you, was it? You had to go ...
We are tearing down a wall by riding a wave on a surfboard while paddling through the air. I hope that is all clear.
He has not, God knows, been much of a leader, and it's not even certain that he will be returned for Richmond and Northallerton next week, but Rishi Sunak should not resign the Conservative leadership if he loses the election. Martin Kettle makes the point in the Guardian today: He should wait until at least after the autumn party conference before making any announcement, to allow the Tories some time for reflection and, if possible, to change the leadership election process. And Kettle links to a whole article on the subject that he wrote back in March: Many Tory MPs ...
Local parties and residents have been creative in the use of posters. This splendid display is in our target seat of Esher and Walton: Here is a novel cantilevered approach in Ed Davey's constituency: I like the way the diamond points to a leaflet. Thanks to Ruth Bright for this one from a home in Eastleigh: Got a (copyright-free) photo to share? Landscape works best. Email them to voice@libdemvoice.org and we will add them to the post. * Mary Reid is a contributing editor on Lib Dem Voice. She was a councillor in Kingston upon Thames, where she is still ...
Michael's surgeries take place today and are as follows : Thursdays at 5.45pm prompt - West End Campus (come to reception area of St Joseph's RC and Victoria Park Primary Schools) Thursdays at 6.30pm prompt - Harris Academy reception area All welcome - no appointment necessary! These are the final surgeries of this school term with the school year ending tomorrow. Michael's and Fraser's surgeries return when the new school term starts in August.
Wales-online reports that Wales will be left out of pocket if either the Conservatives or Labour win the forthcoming general election. They say that new analysis by Cardiff University's Wales Governance Centre (WGC) suggests cuts are likely to hit rail, bus, and road transport as well as business support, communities and regeneration, arts, culture, and sport, and housing and homelessness whoever wins the election: It is hard for members of the public to get an idea of what party manifestos will mean in real terms. This is especially hard for people in Wales because so much of the money we ...
