Embed from Getty Images"You have a home with us," Pippa Heylings has said in an open letter to Green members who feel environmental issues have slipped down the party's agenda in recent month reports, Politics.co.uk. Heylings, who is the Liberal Democrat spokesperson on energy security and net zero as well as being MP for South Cambridgeshire, published her letter as COP31. the United Nations' annual climate change conference, got underway in Antalya, Turkey. In it, says the website, Heylings (seen nearest the camera in the photo above) sets out five environmental commitments championed by the Lib Dems: She cites the ...
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Save the date! Lloyd George Society and Liberal Democrat History Group meeting with Damian Collins a...
When Britain declared war on Germany in August 1914, David Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer and Herbert H. Asquith was Prime Minister. On 6 December 1916, Lloyd George replaced Asquith as Prime Minister, leading a wartime coalition that included the Conservative Party. Lloyd George's ascendancy (via stints as the Minister of Munitions and the Secretary of State for War) is just as controversial now as it was in 1916. Ultimately, it created a schism within the Liberal Party, pitching the Lloyd George group against the Asquith loyalists, from which the party would never recover. Yet, under Lloyd George, ...
British politics has never been short of defectors. It has, however, been rather less well supplied with defectors whose principles survived the journey. Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler was one of the exceptions. A Conservative MP who crossed the floor to join the SDP, subsequently embraced the Liberal Democrats and eventually found his way into Tony Blair's Labour Party, he was a political traveller of unusual range. As the One Nation Liberals prepare to publish our founding pamphlet, Beyond the Right, his career challenges the increasingly tedious assumption that One Nation politics is the proprietary invention of the Conservative Party. Born in Banbury ...
"The public's disgust with Trump is now inextricably bound up with disgust for that other cult - the smug-maxxing techno-narcissists who think we all want to live in the world they're designing."Tina Brown looks at America after the midterms. Sol Gamsu finds that Britain's schools are segregated by social class - in London in particular: "For post-16 education, London's state schools and colleges are very unequal. In affluent western boroughs such as Richmond upon Thames or Kingston, working-class students are heavily concentrated in further education colleges, with a larger number of more middle-class state schools." Lindsey Blumell says the media ...
Once, long before you were born, I played this over and over again on the jukebox of The Bird in Hand, Henstridge. The pub also had a bar billiards table, so it was a good evening.
During the Senedd election the now-First Minister said that his first goal was to show people what a Plaid government can do. Yet rather than focus on the key issues of health, education, and the cost of living, it seems that they are still obsessed with independence, and it is the taxpayers who are picking up the bill. The BBC reports that the case for Welsh independence, as well as more devolution for Cardiff Bay, will be considered by a new body set-up by the Plaid Cymru Welsh government. The news website says that the so-called National Commission for Wales ...
Ah Ghostwatch on the BBC!! (Spoiler Warning) I will set the scene for you, I was 10 years old it was a Saturday 31st October to be exact. My parents were always a bit more liberal where bedtimes were concerned on a Saturday and I was looking for something to watch on a Halloween night. I seem to remember seeing an advert for Ghostwatch during the week and I think I joined the program about 10 to 15 minutes in so it was already in full swing. The first thing I recognised were some very familiar faces. Michael Parkinson a ...
On Sunday, after the remembrance service was over in Whickham, there was a parade of uniformed organsiations.
Over 50 local organisations laid wreaths at the Whickham War Memorial during the Remembrance service on Sunday 8th November 2026.
My 3rd video from Remembrance Sunday - Last Post.
Following Charlie Maynard's resignation as the Lib Dem Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Ed Davey has now done a mini-reshuffle of the Liberal Democrat spokesperson team in the House of Commons: Bobby Dean takes over Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Lee Dillon replaces him as Shadow Leader of the House of Commons Manuela Perteghella replaces him as a Parliamentary Whip Paul Kohler is the party's new Immigration and Asylum Spokesperson, adding this to his Northern Ireland brief Ian Roome is the party's new Veterans and Service Personnel Spokesperson Announcing the appointments, Leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Davey ...
From The Morecambe Fringe Festival Podcast: In this episode writer and filmmaker Iain Sinclair catches up with Sci-Fi author and Hawkwind collaborator Michael Moorcock in an exclusive Morecambe Fringe Podcast interview. Click on the image above to listen to it.
Filmed on Sunday 8th November as the Remembrance parade arrives at the Whickham war memorial.
Yesterday's Joy of Six included a post by Lucy Siegle about the Guardian's long and close involvement with Russell Brand in . In it Siegle, a former Guardian journalist herself, referred to a letter she had written to the newspaper. As she expected, that letter has not been published, so she has included it in a new post on her blog: The Guardian must examine its own role in enabling Russell Brand Your editorial on Russell Brand's conviction (The Guardian view on Russell Brand: his conviction sends a powerful message, Friday 6th November) rightly challenges the media culture that enabled ...
On Sunday we held the Remembrance Sunday parade in Whickham. I've made a number of videos of the event. This is the first - the parade forms up ready to head to the War Memorial.
Over on The Atlantic, Nick Clegg has written an excoriating critique of Silicon Valley's cosying up to Donald Trump after his 2024 re-election: Over the past week, following MAGA's significant losses in the midterms, I have been asked the same questions again and again: How could Silicon Valley have gotten it so wrong? Why did tech leaders not anticipate the consequences of joining themselves at the hip to MAGA straight after Donald Trump won reelection in 2024?" What follows is not a critique of the individual tech leaders themselves—some were more restrained than others—nor is it a personal commentary on ...
Ben Maguire MP was interviewed on LBC by our old friend Iain Dale. Iain summed up the interview saying: "You've done very well – you've got "North Cornwall" in five times. Do you get media training to do that?" – To which Ben replied: "It's only because it's the best constituency that I have to keep banging on about it". * Newspasty only contains skirt steak, potato, turnip, onion, salt and pepper.
Charlotte Cane, the Liberal Democrat MP for Ely and East Cambridgeshire, has been elected chair of the all-party parliamentary group for sustainable flood and drought management, reports the Ely Standard. And it's no wonder that she takes an interest in such matters. As Cambridgeshire Live once described, the freezing winter of 1946/7 was followed by something worse: Swollen by torrential rain, the onset of a rapid thaw, and unusually high spring tides, all the major rivers burst their banks, inundating farmland, roads and homes. A vast area of land was swamped, half of it prime arable land desperately needed to ...
The Liberal Democrats have set Andy Burnham a deadline of the end of the year to publish a full plan to fix Britain's broken water industry - or explain to Parliament why his new Environment Secretary has made so little progress since taking office. The Liberal Democrats are calling on the Prime Minister to publish a full plan for the water industry by 31st December. If no plan is forthcoming, Burnham must come to Parliament and explain why Environment Secretary Angela Eagle has made so little progress in more than 100 days in post. This comes as regulators confirmed water ...
The Guardian reports that Shabana Mahmood's ICE-style raid agency has been accused of engaging in "fishing expeditions" after figures disclosed that almost two-thirds of enforcement visits result in no arrests and nearly three-quarters are conducted without a warrant. The paper says that the home secretary has hailed the expanded use of immigration enforcement teams, and claimed they will help to secure the UK's borders by removing a key incentive for irregular migration. She has sent these teams to targeted establishments associated with informal "black market" work such as nail bars, car washes, barbers, takeaways, construction sites and warehouses, as well ...