John's blurb on YouTube explains: Part of a series of videos exploring Roman London, this walk follows the Roman Road that led from the Thames at London Bridge to Chichester. Our journey starts at London Bridge and a stop at the Wheatsheaf pub. The road leads us through Elephant and Castle, Kennington, Stockwell, Clapham, Clapham Common, Balham, ending at Tooting in the Trafalgar Inn. A collaboration with Young's Beer. John has a Patreon account to support his videos and blogs at The Lost Byway.
Mon 2nd
19:37
Spying: Another column for the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy
I've just sent off another column to the JCPCP, so it's time to post another of my earlier ones. The idea that Noel Coward had a role in wartime intelligence has been taken seriously by recent biographers - something else to read up on. And whatever the truth of that, he had upset the Nazis enough to appear on the list of people to be executed after the invasion. When this list was revealed after the German surrender, Rebecca West, who also appeared on it, sent Coward a telegram: "My dear, the people we should have been seen dead with." ...
"Psychologists, however, are all too aware that people are reluctant to change their minds and that, when it happens at all, it occurs gradually. Famously, those who invest heavily in ideological projects such as end-of-the-world cults (or Prohibition, or Brexit) are likely to double down when their prophecies fail (numerous cults have seen the hour of the apocalypse arrive and pass without incident, and then simply recalibrated their calendars)."Richard Bentall asks when Britain will change its mind on Brexit. Gemma Gould sets out what happens to women who speak out on social media: "For women who take a stand on ...
After such a successful national election campaign, led by a coherent leadership team, I hesitate to disagree with Mark Pack's August Report (LibDem Voice August 20th) on 'the New Political Landscape'. But I don't agree that in the first year after a decisive election our party's campaign themes should be driven primarily by what the polls tell us about public priorities and what voters want to hear. Political parties should aim to set the agenda when they can, not simply respond to existing public anxieties. A political party has to appeal to three different audiences: to the wider public, directly ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR THE WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2024 Blinshall Street (Douglas Street to 50 metres south) - closed until December 2024 for construction works. Douglas Street (Blinshall Street to Brown Street) - temporary traffic lights until December 2024 for construction works. Brown Street (south of Douglas Street) - closed until December 2024 for construction works. Seafield Road, Dundee - closed from its westmost end (in cul-de-sac) extending for a distance of no more than 20 metres in an easterly direction to facilitate a site access for a new ...
The Observer reports that the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is under fresh pressure this weekend over controversial plans to limit winter fuel allowance to the poorest pensioners, amid claims that it will cause "severe hardship" to millions of elderly people. The paper says that they have learned that the country's leading charity for older people, Age UK, has written to Reeves with a specific proposal it believes will be fairer and that would prevent around two million pensioners being deprived of a payment it says they badly need: The UK chancellor revealed plans in July to introduce a means test for ...
