Shocking research reveals almost 4 in 5 car thefts go unsolved Davey: Social care commission "long overdue" Davey: social care review should be "done and dusted within a year" Flu admissions: alarming consequences from lack of winterpoofing SNP have starved local communities of funding for public toilets Shocking research reveals almost 4 in 5 car thefts go unsolved Shock data reveals that on average 78.5% of all car thefts go unsolved, a grand total of 24,837 in the quarter ending June 2024. Liberal Democrats are urging the government to restore proper community policing, where officers have the time and resources ...
From the blurb on YouTube: A Suffolk walk through the town of Felixstowe and along the coast path past the pier to Landguard point and Landguard fort. We see the enormous container port - the largest in the UK and the Harwich Haven. From here we pick up the Orwell and Stour walk around the dock and along the River Orwell and around Trimley Marshes. The walk was inspired by the writing of Felixstowe resident Mark Fisher who popularised the term 'Hauntology' and wrote about this coastline on his influential blog k-punk as well as in the books, Ghosts of ...
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An official inquiry into 'child rape gangs' reported in October 2022 but the Tories showed no intere...
Embed from Getty ImagesElon Musk has demanded an inquiry into 'child rape gangs', now his acolytes in Reform and the Conservative Party have followed suit. This demand ignores the fact that one of the streams of the Independent Inquiry Child Sexual Abuse was into "Child sexual exploitation by organised networks" and covered just this ground. The report from this stream was published in October 2022. You can read its executive summary on the IICSA webpage. It includes the following recommendations: We recommend the strengthening of the response of the criminal justice system by the government amending the Sentencing Act 2020 ...
'Graham', a victim of John Smyth, explains why the attitude of the Church of England means that he cannot move on: "victims have no closure. We do not yet have the truth. We do not yet have personal apology. We do not yet have justice. We do not feel that anything has changed." "Cottesmore Hunt were about to be forensically challenged - and in real time. Along with Chris and Megan was Fabian who, armed with a live broadcast camera, captured all the action as it happened and shared it via a live social media stream. The only veil of ...
Fri 3rd
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Jewish opinions on Palestine vary considerably - As the daughter of a holocaust survivor my own view...
My mother was a secular Jewish refugee who fled Czechoslovakia in 1938. My grandfather, Ernst Sommer was on the Nazi death list and escaped separately. He wrote (in 1943) one of the earliest German-language novels on the Holocaust: 'Revolt of the Saints: A tribute to the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto.' Published in Mexico City (1944) while in exile. My mother was always very against what was being done to the Palestinians in her name as Jew. Because of this I became an active campaigner for Palestinian human rights and very concerned about the creeping rise of weaponised antisemitism. It ...
Like many of us, I did try to use the Christmas period to switch off and recharge my batteries. It wasn't easy, as I liked working and being busy, however a little break was much needed after a very exciting and challenging year. On the last day of the year, my phone rang. Someone, who I met a number of years ago, called to ask for a bit of advice. It was a longer conversation about the school admissions, additional support for a disabled child and a housing issue. Who is responsible for schooling? Whose responsibility is it to maintain ...
The UK boasts the third highest electricity prices in the world, and we're nowhere near the third highest incomes. Congrats, UK, we've won a gold medal in paying too much! Meanwhile, our friends in the United States are paying a third of what we do, even though we generate a good chunk of our power from cheaper renewables. The UK currently has the highest industrial energy prices in the IEA making our manufacturing goods more expensive which, when combined with trade restrictions due to Brexit, makes the UK less competitive. So, what's the deal? Why is our electricity pricing system ...
Government is hard, you make unpopular decisions, you upset members of your own party and then you have to keep them in line so that you can implement the policies people are complaining about. This is the meat and drink of politics and each party has a different approach to getting these things done. Whether it is Boris Johnson withdrawing the whip and ending the political careers of a large number of pro-European MPs who wouldn't go along with his bonkers Brexit plan, or Keir Starmer temporarily suspending seven Parliamentarians early in his term because they voted to scrap the ...
Again with thanks to SJ Bogue and Dundee Memories, some of the revellers at the Dundee Millennium New Year Party!
If you ever wondered why the last Tory government was such a disaster then you need look no further than former Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, charged with reducing irregular immigration. It transpires that this was a subject on which, at best, she had a tenuous grasp only. The Mirror reports that Braverman has been mocked for saying she visited a non-existent "land border" between Italy and Turkey - even though the two countries are hundreds of miles apart. I have illustrated this post with a map for any Tories reading it. The paper says that the former Tory Home Secretary, ...
