The Joy of Six 1571"This is Britain at the end of the hottest summer on record. So, it beggars belief that the Conservatives have chosen this time - or would choose any - to try to scrap the world's first legally binding framework to cut carbon emissions. Legislation born in Britain and adopted by over 60 countries around the world including Germany, France, Mexico and countless others."Pippa Heylings condemns the Tories' scorched earth policy. Anna Merlan tells us what ICE's scrobbling of Milo Yiannopoulos tells us about America's far right: "But while Yiannopoulos' deportation contains an extremely rich vein of schadenfreude- he previously called ... (more) |
What can we really do to influence the situation in the West Bank?Every day we hear of more attacks by settlers on Palestinian villagers, driving them off their farms and out of their homes. We've seen in the Israeli election campaign, a continued hardening of support for annexation of all the occupied territories, with the E1 settlement policy leading to further condemnation in parliament by Callum Miller as our foreign policy lead who recognises its impact on the viability of a Palestinian State. Our parliamentary party of 72 MPs have led the way in parliament on this issue calling for equal rights, freedom and security for Palestinian people. Many of our MPs ... (more) |
Same old, same old from FarageHe's only been back in the House of Commons for a day and already Farage is playing fast and loose with the rules. The Independent reports that the Reform UK leader has broken parliamentary rules on his first day back, after he filmed a video of himself on the roof of the Houses of Parliament. The paper says that permission from parliamentary authorities must be sought before any filming takes place on the estate, while the roof is even more sensitive as a result of its implications for security and personal safety. They understand that Farage did not seek permission ... (more) |
How Long Has it been?Well to answer my own question first around 2 and a half years!! To be truthful my life has hit a few continuous roadblocks in the last few years and this has stopped me wanting to take the time to post anything. Hardly a huge surprise as I comment constantly in my life there always seems to be something!! Looking back on previous posts on here it seems I have blogged about politics and lots of other topics, whined and moaned as many of us do. Now let me just say I do not feel for a second I it ... (more) |
Oh no, not another by-electionHas Keir Starmer left a ticking time bomb in Burnham's inbox? His resignation as MP for Holborn and St Pancras means a tricky by-election. The Greens are already sniffing around the constituency and they are doing nothing to deflect suggestions that Zak Polanski will be their candidate. The talk is that Starmer has handed the constituency to Polanski. But is that really the case?In the May local (more) |
Restoration of Gone to Earth to be shown in London Film FestivalFrom the London Film Festival website: Long overshadowed within Powell and Pressburger's canon, this major new restoration reveals the visual splendour and dramatic intensity of one of their most misunderstood films. Powell and Pressburger's passionate Technicolor melodrama stars Jennifer Jones as the free-spirited Hazel, who refuses to be bound either by her clergyman husband or the predatory squire who pursues her. The untamed Shropshire landscape is at one with Hazel's primal spirit, making this one of the filmmakers' most rhapsodic odes to the English countryside and among their most intoxicatingly sensual achievements. The showing of Gone to Earth is on ... (more) |
Lib Dem policy is light on politics not on outside expertiseThe Liberal Democrats are getting a new think tank, reports Politico. The Britain Project, though it will not be formally affiliated to the party, will be launched at the Liberal Democrat Autumn Conference later this month: Tim Leunig, the group's policy director, who recently became a Liberal Democrat peer in Britain's unelected House of Lords, said: "We are here to help them." "But we're also here to ask them tough questions because: who knows? They might be a minister one day, and then the civil service will ask them tough questions." And Lord Leunig does sound a little like a ... (more) |
Cole-Hamilton responds to Swinney on BBC RadioResponding to John Swinney's interview on BBC Radio Scotland, in which he failed to explain how his plans to cut the number of health boards did not amount to a centralisation, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said: John Swinney has not explained how these plans are any different to the SNP's previous centralisation projects. Rural communities have been seriously harmed by those schemes. It is also not at all clear how exactly these plans would save money or help front line services that are struggling right now, including social care. Communities should be in charge of decisions that ... (more) |
Back to Sandy Campbell and Tsar Nicholas IIMy great great grandmother's brother Sandy Campbell, as we have seen, was the subject of an article in The Sphere (13 October 1900). This photograph was one of those that accompanied it, and was captioned:Sandy Campbell looking our for deer on Lochnagar These field-glasses were presented to Mr. Campbell by the Czar when his Imperial Majesty visited Glassalt Shiel According to A,N. Wilson's Victoria: A Life, the Nicholas II did not much enjoy his visit to Balmoral in 1896: Nicholas hated Balmoral; he hated being surrounded by all his wife's extended German family; and he disliked being taken out for ... (more) |
Welcome to Lib Dem Friends of Gaelic Language and Culture[IMG: Logo for Lib Dem Friends of Gaelic Language and Culture] A bheil Gàidhlig agaibh? Do you speak Gaelic? Would you like to learn? Are you interested in Gaelic language and culture? If so, read on. Four years ago, I started learning Gaelic on Duolingo after my son bullied me into it. Since then, I have completed the online introductory course at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Scotland's Gaelic College and have just started on the next course. I spent a week at the college on Skye in the Summer being taught by a very funny German, Michael Klevenhaus, who has a ... (more) |