As the London Transport Museum puts it: In a leafy suburban corner of north London, 39 metres below ground, remains the abandoned tunnels of an Underground station that has lain incomplete for over a century. A non-descript surface-level building, which could easily pass as an uninteresting electrical sub-station, is actually the way down to what exists of the abandoned North End station. While this site, in between Hampstead and Golders Green, never had a life as an operational station, it did fulfil an intriguing purpose at the height of the Cold War. Jago Hazzard expands this story and shows us ...
I've been known to complain that the only time you hear John Stuart Mill's On Liberty quoted is when someone is citing Mill's Harm Principle. And when they are, you can be sure they are using it to justify state intervention. You rarely get reminded by today's Liberal Democrats that On Liberty is a hymn to individuality and its importance to our wellbeing. But Mill lived in an age more used to political violence than we have become, so it's worth studying what he has to say on incitement: No one pretends that actions should be as free as opinions. ...
The Liberal Democrat Autumn Federal Conference agenda and directory, with details of all the motions, fringe meetings, training and more, are now out.
An open-windowed curtain billows out;the signal to proceed with an encounter ~ My siren, shape-shifter, is waiting in the hallbefore the dungeon – cool and darkand lined with racks, below the voyeurs' floor –then climbs above, toward her mirror in the light Confident and sharp, laced with smooth nectar,she has facets of her life that [...]
Our maiden speech tour heads to the West Country now, to hear Brian Mathew, our MP for Melksham and Devizes. The text is below: Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker, and congratulations on your new role. I also congratulate the new Secretary of State. I thank all those who have made maiden speeches, including—I have a list, too—the hon. Members for Hertford and Stortford (Josh Dean), for South Ribble (Mr Foster), for Stevenage (Kevin Bonavia), for High Peak (Jon Pearce), for Smethwick (Gurinder Josan) and for Birmingham Northfield (Laurence Turner), and my hon. Friends the Members for Taunton and ...
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Lib Dem Home Affairs spokesperson Alistair Carmichael had some wise things to say about the riots that have plagued the country over the past two weeks. He compared what happened here to the events of January 6 when MAGA types invaded the Capitol as some Republicans in Congress tried to steal the 2020 election from its rightful winner, Joe Biden. Today the man who encouraged and stood to benefit from that political violence, if it had succeeded, is an even bet to be elected as President of the United States. As the UK faces down our own wave of misinformation-fuelled ...
LDV has been bringing you our new MPs' maiden speeches. We're catching up with those made at the end of the Parliamentary session with Alison Bennett from Mid Sussex. The full text is below: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and congratulations on your appointment to your new role. I congratulate the hon. Member for St Helens North (David Baines) on his maiden speech and election to Parliament. He is right to remind us all about the role of aspiration and all children seeking to do their best. I must pay tribute to my parents: to my father for sparking my ...
With the schools now back after the summer holidays, Fraser's weekly ward surgeries start again later today and every Tuesday during school term time. They are as follows : Tuesdays at 5pm prompt - Blackness Library Tuesdays at 5.45pm prompt - Ancrum Road Primary School All residents welcome - no appointment necessary.
Never mind the rivalry between Sue Gray and Morgan McSweeney for Keir Starmer's ear in No.10 Downing Street, the real battle is between Larry and JoJo. However, the Downing Street staff may be spared too much confrontation as it seems likely that Keir Starmer's cat may not have the run of Downing Street after all. The Mirror reports that the Prime Minister is facing cat-astrophe as he tries to settle his beloved family pet in Downing Street. They say that Starmer is reportedly keen to install a cat flap in the No11 flat to allow his rescue moggie JoJo to ...
Elon Musk is not posturing as a deluded conspiracy theorist, argues Jeremiah Johnson, he really is one: "He essentially never posted about trans people or the gender wars five years ago. But one of his children came out as trans a few years back, got into left politics, completely cut contact with Musk and even changed her last name. And mysteriously, right around that time, Musk began to obsess about how progressive schools were turning kids trans." Joe Lepper reports a University of Glasgow study that suggests child mortality and the number of looked-after children could be slashed by around ...
