Cole-Hamilton comments on day one of SNP conference Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said: In the morning Stephen Flynn is on the radio trying to sound contrite but by the afternoon depute leader Keith Brown is already bellowing about how the answer to everything is breaking up the UK. The SNP don't really seem to have learned anything from the defeat voters handed them in the election. When I am out knocking on doors, no one is interested in wasting more time on constitutional clashes. They want to see action on long NHS waits, rising violence in schools ...
"It doesn't matter what statistics Musk does or doesn't announce, or which advertisers stay or which leave - this statistic is the real ballgame. Engagement numbers that can't even reach a dozen, for an account that boasts over 30,000 supposed fans, is an outright apocalypse."Hunter Lazzaro offers a post titled How to Kill Your Tech Company (Elon Musk edition). Katie Rosseinsky claims Euston Station is hell on earth: "You stand, neck craned towards the departures board, squinting under artificial lights that seem perfectly calibrated to induce migraines. You dodge passengers who stampede like wildebeests towards platforms announced moments before trains ...
All that glitters has been mustered here: a shining ceaseless restless sea of brilliance, salting all it touches... In a parched world without rain, dust and ash prevail... Our lives consumed as wraiths and smoke, thralls with no shadows in a pixel wonderland, we dance to the layered algorithm.
Three principal authority council by-elections this week, featuring a full slate of Lib Dem candidates – hooray – and that's one up on the last time these seats were up – double hooray. And speaking of the importance of contesting wards we've not stood in before: Badsey & Aldington (Wychavon) Council By-Election Result: [IMG: 🌳] CON: 32.7% (-23.5) [IMG: 🔶] LDM: 28.8% (New) [IMG: 🙋] IND: 27.4% (New) [IMG: 🌹] LAB: 11.1% (-32.7) Conservative HOLD. Changes w/ 2023. — Election Maps UK (@ElectionMapsUK) August 30, 2024
The general election is over and there are 72 (count 'em) Liberal Democrat MPs. What should Lib Dem strategy be in this brave new world? Is there a policy you would like to see us adopt? Any heretical thoughts you want to confess? You're welcome to share your ideas in a guest post for Liberal England. I'm happy to entertain a wide variety of views, but I'd hate you to spend your time writing something I wouldn't want to publish. So do get in touch first. And, as you may have noticed, I'm happy to cover topics far beyond the ...
Fri 30th
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In which I show two philosophers the real-life models for some of Malcolm Saville's Shropshire locat...
As well as visiting new places, you can fight off holiday nostalgia by meeting new people. For all its faults, this is something that social media has made easier. So it was that I found myself outside Church Stretton Co-op waiting to meet two philosophers from Crete. We had arranged for me to give them a tour of some of Malcolm Saville's Shropshire locations. The philosophers were Keith Frankish and Maria Kasmirli, who also brought their young teenage daughter Matea. I have got to know Keith on Twitter over the years through a shared affection for Malcolm Saville's books. The ...
We have now seen this year's GCSE and A level results, and they inevitably led to comparisons between girls and boys. (Sorry – I am not linking to the Daily Mail, but you know what I mean.) Over the last few years concerns have been expressed about the underperformance of boys. In April the Parliamentary Education Committee launched an inquiry, asking: Why do boys lag behind girls at all ages of education? This conclusion was based on the previous year's results: In 2022/23 the attainment gap at GCSE level between girls and boys tightened to its smallest difference for 14 ...
Now's the time of year when many Liberal Democrats will have been delivering 'thank you' leaflets after the election. So let's take a look at an old example of this leafleting genre. Tony Greaves was first elected to Colne Borough Council in 1971, defeating the incumbent Conservative, Cllr Parkinson. Here is the thank you leaflet he put out afterwards, produced on a Gestetner stencil. Note how far Cllr Parkinson's political fortunes had fallen. That was thanks both to Tony's campaigning and to the switch from the Conservatives being in opposition in Westminster when he won his seat to, by 1971, ...
Small projects and community-driven requests can now be considered through a new scheme in Dundee. Community Wishes, under the umbrella of Dundee City Council's established community benefits policy, includes support for small installations, maintenance, clean-up projects, materials, volunteering time to complete projects or sponsorship. Community Wishes involves a seven-stage process from initial idea through to evaluation including : + gathering wishes+ submitting/uploading wishes+ moderating wishes+ approving and publishing wishes+ directing contractors;+ delivering and evidencing wishes and+ evidencing and reporting Local Community Planning groups and communities contacts have been given details of the scheme which is open to a wide range ...
Nation cymru reports on rumours that Secretary of State for Wales Jo Stevens has been lobbying for disgraced former First Minister Vaughan Gething to be given a seat in the House of Lords. The news website says that while Ms Stevens herself has not responded to our questions on the matter, the suggestion that she has been pushing for Mr Gething to get a peerage has been denied vehemently by a UK Government source. This has not stopped speculation though: Mr Gething resigned as First Minister in July following a succession of scandals. He accepted donations totalling £200,000 from a ...
