North East Lib Dem regional conference was held at Spenneymoor Town Hall in Co Durham today. There was a good turnout from Gateshead (see the photos in this post). It was a good conference. The training session on dealing with small parties such as the Greens and Reform was particularly useful. I was able to talk about the Green's campaign in the Bridges ward by-election in Gateshead in
Embed from Getty ImagesJon Neale pays tribute to this blog hero Steve Winwood in the Birmingham newsletter The Dispatch... Sometime in the mid-1960s, Island Records founder Chris Blackwell was staying overnight in Birmingham. He'd managed to turn teenage Jamaican singer Millie Small into a star with the single 'My Boy Lollipop' — the first ska track to go mainstream. She was filming for Thank Your Lucky Stars, the teatime pop show that preceded Top of The Pops, at the Alpha Studios in Aston. Later that night, Blackwell was taken to see an early version of the band The Move, called ...
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 27% (+2) 28% (-1) 13% (nc) 7% (nc) 17% (-1) 1% 13-14/11 GB Opinium 24% (nc) 30% (-1) 12% (+2) 8% (-2) 21% ...
Martin Scorsese's documentary Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger is being shown on BBC2 tomorrow evening at 10. I saw it at the Phoenix in Leicester earlier this year and warmly recommend it to any lover of cinema. The British Film Institute said this of it on release: Martin Scorsese presents an impassioned and highly personal tribute to Powell and Pressburger's work, richly illustrated with clips and rare archive material. It's been said that had Martin Scorsese not become one of the world's great filmmakers, he would still have been one of its greatest teachers of film ...
Many thanks to the residents who contacted us recently about the deteriorated state of some of the Eurobins and food bins on Perth Road - particularly just east of Ryehill Lane and in front of St Peter's Free Church. We asked the waste services manager at the City Council if these could be replaced and received the following helpful response : "Thanks for highlighting. I'll ask a colleague to arrange for replacements to be issued."
The Independent reports on ceomments by the governor of the Bank of England that the UK must rebuild relations with Brussels following Brexit or suffer the economic consequences. The paper said that speaking alongside the chancellor at the annual Mansion House dinner in the City of London, Andrew Bailey spoke about the importance of economic growth and outlined the impacts of the UK's departure from the single market on trade: While he said he takes "no position on Brexit per se", he added: "But I do have to point out the consequences". "The changing trading relationship with the EU has ...
