Latest News
- New In last 15 Minutes
- Green Party condemns grant of a licence for eggs and nests of buzzards to be destroyed to protect a pheasant shoot.
Green Party (Today) - The Green Party condemns the grant of a licence by Defra for eggs and nests of buzzards to be destroyed to protect a pheasant shoot. Caroline Allen, vet and the Greens' spokesperson on animal issues said: ... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News› - South Wales Programme - hospital services - consultation
RCT Welsh Lib Dems (Today) - ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Smart Reads May 24, 2013
The World with Gideon Rachman (Today) - ♦ Chinese novelists publish tales of military victory online, in the face of censorship. ♦ To avoid “perpetual war” with terrorists, Pres. Obama calls for less drone attacks.Continue reading »... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- What Goes Up….
Biased BBC (Today) - In January the BBC were boasting how much money they estimated they generated for the economy…but one stand out phrase is this from the Telegraph: ‘It concludes that value-for-money has improved overall at the... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Alliance oppose Holywood Pay and Display Parking Plan
Alliance Party (Today) - North Down Alliance Councillor Andrew Muir and Larry Thompson have said they will fight plans to introduce on-street Pay and Display parking charges in Holywood.The pair said the plans will destroy town centre trade and... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Correspondence: Children, Families and Maternity e-bulletin: May 2013
Department of Health (Today) - Children, Families and Maternity bulletin for May 2013.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Stormont’s falling turnout is the reason it is losing touch with wider public opinion Slugger O'Toole (Today) - This is David McCann arguing that the current malaise in Northern Irish politics has its roots in the fact that no less than 160,000 people stopped voting after 1998. From June 1998 to March 2011 electoral turnout dropped... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Is a ‘Harmonised’ International Tax System Viable? The Economic Voice (Today) - In a week where Google and Apple have hit the headlines for their corporate tax payments on both sides of the Atlantic, Taxand, the world’s largest independent global organisation of specialist tax advisors to multinational... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Woolwich: Be warned, this is the calm before the storm
Liberal Conspiracy (Today) - The current mood is that of sombre reflection, calls to 'carry on as normal', anger at the killers themselves and a broad understanding that all Muslims should not be blamed for what happened on Wednesday.This... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Brighton Greens in chaos after coup to depose leader is exposed
- Nominations are invited for BASCA’s British Composer Awards Musician's Union (Today) - The British Composer Awards celebrate the music of today’s composers living and working in the United Kingdom and also UK premieres of work by composers from outside the UK.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- MU Podcasts: Interview with Ralph Salmins Musician's Union (Today) - Revered UK drummer Ralph Salmins, and committed MU member, discusses his stellar career working with everyone from James Brown and Paul McCartney through to Van Morrison and The Waterboys. Interviewed by Geoff Nicholls.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Mountains for Mia - can you help Mia communicate?
Benefit Scrounging Scum (Today) - Mia Austin is a young woman from the Wirral. In 2009 when she was just 21 and working as a travel agent Mia suffered an enormous stroke and developed locked in syndrome. This means that... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- The Week in Review: Terror returns to London
Politics.co.uk (Today) - In a blood, brutal attack, two men bring terrorism back to British streets. But the muted response to the crisis should offer some reassurance.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- We are all equal in death, but not all deaths are the same
Bob from Brockley (Today) - In my post on the Woolwich killing yesterday, I said this: It is worth remembering those attacked and killed by racists for being Muslim, like Mohammed Saleem, 75, slaugtered in Birmingham, by vanload of white men earlier this... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- New In Last Half Hour
- Racism isn’t what it used to be
Alexander Boot (Today) - As our sensibilities become more acute and our sense of propriety more heightened, we refine and broaden our notion of racial slurs.What in the recent past would have been considered an innocent joke is well... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Wunderbar: in praise of the German way of doing things
Faisal Islam on Economics (Today) - With two German football teams meeting in the Champions League final on Saturday, it is time to list the country's many achievements.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- News story: Battle of the Atlantic 70th anniversary events
Ministry of Defence (Today) - Liverpool will take centre stage as the UK commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic (BOA 70) this weekend.... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- G4S contract to run sexual assault referral centres damned
The Guardian - Politics (Today) - Campaigners criticise 'sell-off' of sensitive services to private company that bungled Olympics security contractG4S, the controversial private security company, is to run services providing medical examinations and counselling for victims of rape and sexual assault... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Therese Welcomes Local Schools to Parliament
Therese Coffey MP (Today) - Therese welcomed pupils from the Edgar Sewter School and Ilketshall Saint Lawrence school to Parliament this week as they enjoyed a tour of the Palace of Westminster.Therese said: I was delighted to welcome the pupils... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Time to ban the word community
Iain Martin (Today) - Tune into any BBC London programme at the moment and one word dominates. That word is community. Even on a normal day on the capital's airwaves you will hear it a great deal, but in... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- "Logan's Chicken Run"
Mark Wadsworth (Today) - From Wiki and Wiki In the year 2274, The Tweedys are a troubled middle-aged couple who run their own chicken farm in a sealed domed city, a utopia run by a computer that takes care of... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Woolwich
Peter Cranie (Today) - Firstly and foremost, my thoughts are with family of the soldier killed in Woolwich today. The death of a loved one is hard enough, but to have to hear about the brutality with which his... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Nick Clegg: Woolwich attackers wanted to spread fear - video
Guardian Politics Videos (Today) - Nick Clegg emphasises the importance of community cohesion in the wake of the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Torbay locals and MP get busy saving iconic bee Adrian Sanders MP (Today) - Adrian Sanders MP with Friends of the Earth's bees Torbay MP, Adrian Sanders praised local residents’ work to save the Scabious Bee – the area’s ‘iconic’ bee Bee-lovers have taken over 93 actions to save... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›