As Local Elections Rapidly Approach and Covid Deaths Remain High, Ministers Remain Firmly Behind the Polls Taking Place
Peering into the Government’s pound shop mystic ball of predicting how the pandemic will play out, the Minister was clear that the elections would be run as a safe and accessible event where there wouldn’t be a play off between one’s personal health and one’s right to vote.
Lincoln MP Karl McCartney Blocks UoL Labour Society Twitter Account Over Free School Meal Package Questions
As the ongoing controversy on free school meal packages continues, Tory MP for Lincoln Karl McCartney has decided to block the University of Lincoln Labour Society account on Twitter for seemingly asking too many difficult questions for him around the debacle. The questions posed to him over Twitter were around what he will be doing…
Boris Johnson’s ‘Green Industrial Revolution’: World Leading?
In November 2021, the UK will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, which will help accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Delayed by one year (excruciatingly for the climate) because of the Covid pandemic, it is set…
Gouldnomics and the ‘Future of Socialism’
Its 1989 and Labour is going through the throes of its quest for ‘Modernisation’. Tony Benn has just lost the leadership election, depressing a generation of Labour activists, and Peter Mandelson has begun to ramp up his project that would eventually become New Labour. In this rather fluid climate of shifting allegiances, policies and politics,…
From Kinnock to Keir: What We Can Learn from the Labour of the 1980s
After the 2019 election defeat, the Labour Party were in similar circumstances to the 1983 election defeat… What lessons can Labour learn from then?
Turning a blind eye: when people remain silent to abuse in the name of religion, tradition, and culture.
The idea that people in the 21st Century are silent about abuse appears to be an absurd notion. Public opinion is increasingly aware of abuses that occur behind closed doors, and the responsibility of safeguarding to protect the most vulnerable. Case studies of Daniel Pelka, Baby P, and even the institutional abuses at Winterbourne View…
Diesel Trains: A very Lincoln Conundrum
In Lincoln we are well accustomed to the railways at the centre of our city. Intercity expresses, local services and freight trains frequent Lincoln 7 days a week, cutting across the high street and university campus. Lincoln, unfortunately, sits off the east coast main line meaning when it comes to investment in the services and…
Drinking in a time of Covid
The 4th of July isn’t usually a day of celebration in the UK, but this year we all had our own independence day as lockdown restrictions were lifted a little more. Britons are fuelled by tea, fish and chips, and pints – so the legal ban from going “t’pub” demonstrated how serious this pandemic really…
Blog 1201 Editorial – Before We Return to ‘Normal’, First Let’s Think About What ‘Normal’ Means
Pubs, Primark and Pret are back. Yes, after four months of lockdown, achingly, ‘normality’ is creeping back in the UK. There are, however, two reasons why we should hesitate at, and question, the slow-rolling slide back to ‘normal’. The first, the obvious, is that we are still not in a safe and secure enough place…
Local Lockdown in Leicester
The motto of Leicester that is engraved outside the city’s town hall is ‘Semper Eadem’ which translates into English as ‘always the same.’ It is interesting that a city with such a motto would create package holidays, find a King in a Car Park and despite 5000/1 odds against its football team, go on to…
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