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There has been some excellent research on the 'King's Own' Ethiopian expedition of 1868. I was lucky enough to be invited to see some of the collection a few months ago. The redisplay will shine a light on Lancaster's and Britain's colonial and imperial history.
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Liberal democracy, pluralism. Neat summary of why we are where we are (in part) by Chantal Mouffe. This was first published in 1993.
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UN, ICJ, environmental issues, climate change, international law: BBC News - Top UN court says countries can sue each other over climate change - BBC News.
bbc.co.uk
The decision from the world's highest court has been welcomed by developing nations at most risk from climate change.
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Electoral reform.
Key point. The most consequential measure in this election reform package is automatic voter registration - not because more will vote but because constituency boundaries will shift as a result - crudely more low registration inner city seats/fewer leafy high registration ones.
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Voting, rights, Labour: Starmer defends lowering voting age to 16, saying people can work and pay tax then so have right to say where money goes - live
theguardian.com
UK PM and German chancellor answered media questions after signing first treaty between two countries since second world war
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Pressure groups.
As there’s a lot of ”Think Tanks” being posted in the media I thought I’d do a little thread on three of them. They are all located in Tufton Street and this is basic information. You will find anywhere on the web. They all have apparently nice sounding names that will make.
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Brexit, role of the media, Boris Johnson.
I’d say that with this article Boris Johnson has completely lost his mind, except that we all know that happened some time ago.
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When you compare UK growth to other big economies since 2010 then it makes 15 years of Conservative government all the more surprising and Labour's recent struggles less so.
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Recall votes, parties, role of MP.
Given that Zarah Sultana voted for this bill enabling the recall of MPs who swap party affiliation, presumably we can look forward to a Coventry South by-election in the near future?.
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Saxons the winners. Their shield wall was rock solid. No way through for the Normans this year.
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Maybe they weren't counting this in the same way you need to play a certain number of games to get a winners medal.
No one? In a hundred years? No other disastrously inept starts?
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Whilst this may not be the view of a majority it will likely be the view that a large number will hold and so is useful in helping understand some of the appeal and tactics of Reform and others sympathetic to their cause.
“I heard you want your country back. Ha. Shut the f*** up” angrily yells Vylan, fresh from calling for “death to the IDF”, to a chanting crowd of white middle-class British liberals excitedly waving their foreign flags. All rather depressing, isn’t it?. I note the intense border.
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Planning, reform.
Reopening a 3.3-mile train line to Portishead from Bristol took 79,187 pages of planning documents. Printed out, that’s 14.6 miles of paperwork - 4.5 times the length of the actual railway. The process has taken 16 years.
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PM qualities, Labour.
“It tells a story of a fundamentally incompetent prime minister.”. Political biographer Sir Anthony Seldon believes that Keir Starmer has made the worst start of any Labour prime minister since 1945. #Newsnight
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RT @PoliticsShhs: Govt has back tracked on using secondary legislation to ban Palestine Action. There will now be a Commons vote on this.
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RT @LGS_Politics: Y12 - great example for power of backbenchers, party unity, power of PM (or not!).
bbc.co.uk
Cuts to some disability benefits will only hit future claimants, not those already on it.
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Quite the chart. Welfare, Labour policy, UK.
Why does the massive surge in incapacity benefits bear no relation to the surveyed level of actual health issues in the country?
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