Breaking Britain returns, this time it’s the schools
Why is so much of Britain’s infrastructure literally falling apart?
13 Sep 2023
News
Press release on the Autumn Statement.
Lib Dems condemn “chaotic and incompetent” budget
17 Nov 2022
Sewage in our Rivers
The sheer quantity of raw sewage being dumped into Britain’s rivers and coastal areas is a scandal and a disgrace.
14 Sep 2022
Electric Motoring: Tring to Cambridge and Back on a Single Charge Proves Practicality
Tring's Hertfordshire County Councillor, Nick Hollinghurst, remains very pleased with electric motoring and very satisfied with the performance of his 30 kWh Nissan Leaf.
29 Jul 2017
Have your say – Review of County Council free bus pass scheme
Warwickshire County Council (WCC) is currently undertaking a review of the concessionary travel scheme within Warwickshire. They have put together a survey to collect information about how people use their bus pass, and to collect any comments people may have about the current scheme.
RLD
29 Jul 2017
Corbyn wants a hard-right Brexit. Progressives must fight back, not follow
The Labour leader's 1970s-style thinking on Europe has no place in today's politics. Brexit is too important to be dictated by tribalism It is a paradox not lost on many Labour MPs that while their leader is to the left even of Michael Foot, he has collaborated with the right more than any Labour leader since Ramsay MacDonald. Jeremy Corbyn's insistence that Brexit means leaving the single market and customs union - unpicking Keir Starmer's carefully woven tapestry of ambiguity - now puts him in the same place as Theresa May and Liam Fox. That place is to the hard right of British politics.
VC
28 Jul 2017
Theresa May's disastrous immigration targets pushed the UK into an uncertain Brexit – things are set to get much worse
The PM has built her political career on a dogged determination to cut immigration. Judged by her own standards, she has failed In much the same way as the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was the trigger, if not the underlying cause, of the First World War, the adoption by the Conservatives of an unattainable immigration target triggered the demands for tighter control of EU immigration which is leading not merely to Brexit but to extreme forms of exit by leaving the single market.
VC
28 Jul 2017
Are we approaching a new "Dunkirk"?
My wife and I went to see the film about Dunkirk at Woodhall Spa this week and I agree with film critic, Adam Brannon. It was well worth the trip. Sitting there hearing the screaming sirens of the Stukas , seeing the burning oil, the flying bodies, and finally the triumphant arrival of the small boats led by Mark Rylance, all in a peaceful woodland setting, and following a leisurely lunch nearby, made me realise just how easy I've had it all my life. Mind you, if I had been born in 1923 instead of 1943 I could have been there. In fact, my late father, as a 39 year old member of the British Expeditionary Force, actually was. You can do the maths. Had he not managed to make it back to Blighty I wouldn't be here today. I know that the story lines were largely symbolic rather than factual; but that does not detract in any way from the overall impact of an outstanding movie. My dad, who died in 1968, would never talk much about his experiences in that summer of 1940. He told me about the eight hours he claimed to
JM
28 Jul 2017
Sir Vince Cable says there's an appetite for altering Brexit approach
In case not seen, please see this interview which Sir Vince Cable gave to the Sophie Ridge show on Sky on Sunday
28 Jul 2017