Another walk with our favourite psychogeographer, John Rogers. This time it's: A walk from the Angel Islington to the City of London exploring the northern branch of the River Walbrook, one of the lost rivers of London. We start on Amwell Street then go to the White Conduit in Barnsbury Road. From here we locate the possible source of this branch of the Walbrook in White Conduit Street near Chapel Market. The route then basically follows City Road to Moorgate where it meets the branch of the stream that rises around Shoreditch. John has a Patreon account to support his ...
The 2004 US elections are bringing all sorts of weird stories and eye-catching adverts, and perhaps none more so than one of the races in Virginia, where Derrick Anderson is the Republican candidate. As Huffington Post explains: Anderson, who is unmarried and has no children, made national headlines in September after The New York Times flagged that his campaign was using footage of him posing with the woman and children in what could easily be mistaken for a family photo shoot, except it turned out to be a friend's family... Anderson's campaign told HuffPost in September that this footage was ...
In my original article on children and bombsites in postwar British films, which really needs to be updated with my later discoveries, I noted how children's command of these spaces was celebrated in the 1947 Ealing comedy Hue and Cry, but later films came to see them as freighted with danger. One reason for this positive early view, I now believe, is the role played by London urchins during the Blitz. In an article on the History Press site, Ian Parson reveals that many of the children evacuated to places of safety in the countryside soon voted with their feet ...
Welcome to my summary of the latest national voting intention polls for the next general election, along with party leadership ratings. If you'd like to find out more about how polls work, how reliable they are and how to make sense of them, check out my book, Polling UnPacked: the History, Uses and Abuses of Political Opinion Polls, or sign up for my weekly email, The Week in Polls: General election voting intention polls PollsterConLabLDGrnRefLab leadFieldwork Techne 24% (nc) 30% (+1) 14% (+1) 7% (nc) 18% (-1) 6% 30-31/10 GB BMG 29% (+4) 28% (-2) 13% (nc) 8% (+1) 17% ...
In a brilliant day, too bright for autumn, we go stepping out to gather for a contest, to lose our selves in the collective hope and find a reckoning below the Clock; clarity unleashed from overthinking... Sidestepping everyday enjoyments to take part, we fall towards our floodlit field: a struggle to conclusion in the dusk, where hooks and barbs of angst in prospect are sharpened and then suffered on the pitch...
Though the story soon disappears behind its paywall, the Shropshire Star wins our Headline of the Day Award - and not for the first time. I don't know what the judges think, but to me the case for legalising cheese is overwhelming. Better that people buy it in supermarkets than buy (or steal) it from street-corner dealers.
Seven principal authority council by-elections this week and a full slate of Liberal Democrat candidates too, which is two up on the last time these wards were up. Let's start with another landslide Lib Dem win in Tim Farron's patch: Kirkby Stephen & Tebay (Westmorland & Furness) Council By-Election Result: [IMG: 🔶] LDM: 82.7% (+48.7) [IMG: 🌳] CON: 17.3% (-24.6)No IND (-24.1) as previous.Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative.Changes w/ 2022. — Election Maps UK (@electionmaps.uk) 2024-11-01T09:56:15.285Z
Last year, we mentioned the excellent community growing initiative residents have started in the path that runs from Tait's Lane to Peddie Street, which has allowed for community use of the planters for growing herbs, vegetables, fruits and flowers. More volunteers are welcome and if you are interested, please contact Ged Gourlay at gedgourlay@gmail.com
The extent to which Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer have painted themselves into a corner has become clearer today with claims by the Institute for Fiscal Studies that Labour could need £9bn of further tax increases to avoid a fresh round of austerity for some struggling public services. This is despite their first budget setting out the largest tax rise in a generation. The Guardian reports that the leading experts in public finances believe she could be forced to top up her tax plans to avoid real-terms cuts in some areas, including councils, the justice system and prisons: The IFS ...
