Thanks to the East Anglian Daily Times, we have our Headline of the Day.
Thu 22nd
21:59
Lib Dem MP Calum Miller backs campaign against the reopening of Campsfield House immigration detenti...
Calum Miller, the Liberal Democrat MP for Bicester and Woodstock, took part in an Oxford demonstration yesterday against the Labour government's decision to reopen Campsfield House, the controversial immigration centre near Kidlington. The centre was closed in 2018 after years of problems, including riots, escapes and complaints about conditions. Calum told BBC News: "I have to say I'm both shocked and angry to hear this news. "There are many different pathways to addressing the problems in the system short of announcing in the middle of the summer that they are planning to increase detention." He as also written to the ...
Lots of caveats apply to these sorts of figures, of course, but as well as being fun they do illustrate a certain truth about the 2024 general election: OK. I've combed through some of the UK political party accounts for last year.Here's how much parties spent in 2023, compared to how many seats they won this July.Just for fun really (a few caveats in my next post) — Josiah Mortimer (@josiahjourno.bsky.social) 2024-08-22T12:56:58.394Z
Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons No – that is not a joke. It seems that Taylor Swift's Eras Tour is likely to boost the British economy by an astonishing £1 billion, with London alone getting an uplift of £300 million. Liberal Democrats have called for her to receive the highest accolade granted by the City of London. Barclays Bank has done its sums, and reckons that Adding up the total spending for Brits on the UK leg alone - that's 1.2 million tickets over 15 nights and four stadiums at capacity, with merchandise, outfits, food, accommodation, travel ...
Looking through different leaflets picked up on the campaign trail around the country in the general election once again reminds me of the importance of good photographs in campaign literature. So to help illustrate what makes for a good campaigning photograph here is one of my favourites from a few years back, featuring Lynne Featherstone in 2007: [IMG: Lynne Featherstone with armfuls of residents surveys in 2007] It's a slightly different sort of photograph, and so catches the interest. It also conveys a good message about a local champion listening to the public. With a side-helping of encouraging others to ...
As the United States counts down to Election Day, all the world prepares to witness the breaking of the glass ceiling by Ms Kamala Harris. Being female and a person of colour, she has already smashed the "imagination barrier" showing us what a Vice-President and now a Presidential Candidate looks like. Will the American electorate be ready to install a female, Black-Asian President on 5 November? The Republicans meanwhile have taken to questioning her credentials by calling her, somewhat disparagingly, a "DEI hire." Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) has become short-hand for tokenism or "woke-ness". Referring to Ms Harris as ...
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The Indpenedent reports on comments by the Swansea West MP, Torsten Bell, who is also parliamentary private secretary to the influential Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden, that Labour will not use its first Budget to scrap the two-child benefit cap' They say that speaking at the Edinburgh Book Festival, the former chief executive of the Resolution Foundation said: "You've got to be clear where that money's coming from and that's what budgets are for and the government's committed to a child poverty strategy." He added: "My view is, why don't you let the ministers that are writing your child poverty ...
