Null. Light Dust was there in the beginning; then gravity drove Vulcan's forge... Bacteria, march! God is with us. Heaven awaits... But a seductive illusion took root, that we could bring life under control ~ We skate the ice of first world problems; performance optimised, but increasingly fragile, until at last we end alone. 1 0
Newcastle Labour group have not been having a good time of it recently. Having seen the resignation of their leader a few weeks ago, the authority has now experienced the resignation of 6 Labour councillors who will now sit as independents. To add to the confusion, there is already an independent group on the council called the Newcastle Independents. If you think that is confusing, there are 5
"When I retired from professional chess in 2005, I channeled all of my energy into preventing Russia from sliding back into the hands of the KGB, the Soviet Union's secret police and most sinister spy agency. Unfortunately, those efforts were unsuccessful: Vladimir Putin consolidated power and rebuilt an authoritarian state in the image of the Soviet regime under which I was born. Facing imminent arrest, I was forced into exile and have lived in New York since 2013. I never thought I would need to warn Americans about the dangers of dictatorship."Garry Kasparov endorses Kamala Harris. James Chapman argues that, ...
BBC Radio Shropshire is running a series of short programmes on strange stories from the county under the title Secret Shropshire. So far there are 17. They range from Bloudie Jack to the ghost barge of Ironbridge; from Wild Edric and the seven whistlers to the RAF Cosford UFO; from Mad Jack Mytton to the Child's Ercall mermaid. Because he was born in Dawley, there's a good programme on Bill "Fatty" Foulke, who played only 34 games for Chelsea but remains part of the club's folklore to this day. I've not plucked up the courage to listen to The Phantom ...
Fraser's weekly ward surgeries take place later today and are as follows : Tuesdays at 5pm prompt - Blackness Library Tuesdays at 5.45pm prompt - Ancrum Road Primary School All residents welcome - no appointment necessary.
It was inevitable, given the parlous state of university finances, that the new education secretary would have to increase the level of student fees, but were there other options open to her? The Independent reports that university tuition fees will increase in England for the first time in eight years putting Labour on course for a clash with one of their biggest voter bases, students. The paper says that fees have been frozen at £9,250 since 2017 but will now rise in line with the Retail Price Index inflation from September 2025, matching them to the current rate of inflation ...
