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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"> <channel> <title>LibDemBlogs</title> <link>http://www.libdemblogs.co.uk</link> <description>Aggregated Stories from LibDem Blogs</description> <language>en-gb</language> <copyright>Copyright: (C) www.libdemblogs.co.uk</copyright> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 23:31:11 GMT</lastBuildDate> <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs> <generator>Artesea RSS Creator</generator> <image> <url>http://www.libdemblogs.co.uk/images/blog.png</url> <title>LibDemBlogs</title> <link>http://www.libdemblogs.co.uk</link> </image> <item> <title><![CDATA[Measles was good business for Mr Sowerberry in Oliver Twist]]></title> <link>http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2025/03/measles-was-good-business-for-mr.html</link> <description><![CDATA[Embed from Getty ImagesOur reading today is taken from chapter 6 of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens: The month's trial over, Oliver was formally apprenticed. It was a nice sickly season just at this time. In commercial phrase, coffins were looking up; and, in the course of a few weeks, Oliver acquired a great deal of experience. The success of Mr. Sowerberry's ingenious speculation, exceeded even his most sanguine hopes. The oldest inhabitants recollected no period at which measles had been so prevalent, or so fatal to infant existence; and many were the mournful processions which little Oliver headed, in ...]]></description> <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 19:27:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Market Harborough's friendship park gets ready to open]]></title> <link>http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2025/03/market-harboroughs-friendship-park-gets.html</link> <description><![CDATA[Market Harborough's new mini-park is due to open at the end of the month, and today I noticed that its name sign has gone up. This is the project that so outraged the local Conservatives - it must be that parks are woke, or maybe friendship is? Maybe they both are? For news of plans for a much larger park just outside the town, see my story Harborough District Council buys land for rewilding project.]]></description> <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 18:44:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Mental health crisis, or mental health failure?]]></title> <link>https://www.libdemvoice.org/mental-health-crisis-or-mental-health-failure-77248.html</link> <description><![CDATA[There is much talk about the crisis in mental health. A significant number of young people are not in employment or education, and there is a big rise in autism and ADHD diagnoses. There is an odd dichotomy between the advice you read in newspaper problem pages, like Philippa Perry's in The Guardian, and treatments offered on the NHS. In the former, childhood experiences are considered, with links made to current problems. The unique complexity of each individual and their situation is recognised. As a mental health professional, I found that this approach is the most helpful in bringing about ...]]></description> <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 16:30:55 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Young carers and SEND education]]></title> <link>https://www.libdemvoice.org/young-carers-and-send-education-77247.html</link> <description><![CDATA[I was pleased with the motion at conference on Sunday, where conference overwhelmingly voted to back the SEND education motion. The debate consisted of those who had experienced that system as a child, facing adversity at school, others were parents who had to navigate the system where waits for EHCPs are well over the legal limit, or schools simply do not provide support. In this article, I wish to highlight the issues that a third group face, our young carers. We are the party of carers, and thus I was disappointed not to see any young carers voices emphasised in ...]]></description> <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:07:10 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Rutland County Council to open a new children's home]]></title> <link>http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2025/03/rutland-county-council-to-open-new.html</link> <description><![CDATA[Five years ago, Leicestershire County Council told the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse that it no longer ran any children's homes. And, I blogged at the time, its counsel announced this fact as though it were self-evidently good news. Opinions have changed over those five years. Today, Oakham Hub News is reporting: A council is proposing to open a new children's home in a bid to save costs and keep children taken away from their families closer to home. Currently every child in the care of Rutland's children's services is placed in a children's home outside the county, and ...]]></description> <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 13:56:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Welcome to my day: 24 March 2025 - the Joni Mitchell tribute version...]]></title> <link>https://www.libdemvoice.org/welcome-to-my-day-24-march-2025-the-joni-mitchell-tribute-version-77245.html</link> <description><![CDATA["Stoking the star maker machinery behind the popular song" And so, the massed ranks of the Party hierarchy, featuring an unexpected appearance from the Leader, swept aside virtually all reservations and moved responsibility for Westminster selections from the States to the Federal Party. Given the rumours of widespread opposition, the overwhelming nature of the vote in favour – and if anyone tells you it was close, it really wasn't – gives the new regime some credit in the bank as the transition takes place. I'd already outlined my concerns but, at the end of the day, the focus should be ...]]></description> <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 11:41:01 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Being a gracious Zoom host]]></title> <link>https://simonperks.com/2025/03/24/being-a-gracious-zoom-host/</link> <description><![CDATA[Like most of us, I spend a lot of my time on Zoom and Teams calls. Discussions with clients and their people. Workshops and roundtables. Live-online sessions with course participants. Coaching calls with people like you. Anything from a quick ten-minute catch up to a half-day event with slides and break-out rooms and everything else. Because video calls are so ubiquitous and so simple to set up, though, it's easy to pay less attention to them than we would to their face-to-face equivalent. We should, however, prepare for and manage a Zoom or Teams call with the same care and ...]]></description> <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Weekly Road Report - West End Ward #dundeewestend]]></title> <link>http://www.dundeewestend.com/2025/03/weekly-road-report-west-end-ward_02045614583.html</link> <description><![CDATA[DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR THE WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 24 MARCH 2025 Seafield Road, Dundee - closed from its westmost end (in cul-de-sac) extending for a distance of no more than 20 metres in an easterly direction to facilitate a site access for a new housing development until November 2025. Blinshall Street (Douglas Street to 50 metres south) - closed until August 2025 for construction works. Douglas Street (Blinshall Street to Brown Street) - temporary traffic lights until August 2025 for construction works. Brown Street (south of Douglas Street) - closed until ...]]></description> <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Broken Promises]]></title> <link>http://peterblack.blogspot.com/2025/03/broken-promises.html</link> <description><![CDATA[One of the more eye-catching promises from Labour at the last general election was that familes would be £1,000 better off. However, things have not really gone to plan: energy bills are up by about £280, council tax is soaring, while water bills have risen by £120 a year. To coin a former Labour campaign slogan; 'Things can only get better', or can they. The Guardian reports that living standards for all UK families are set to fall by 2030, with those on the lowest incomes declining twice as fast as middle and high earners, according to data that raises ...]]></description> <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[The Joy of Six 1339]]></title> <link>http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-joy-of-six-1339.html</link> <description><![CDATA[Anthony Painter explains how Britain's weak economy is limiting Labour's room for manoeuvre: "What is the difference between the austerity state and the Brexterity state? There was a way out of the austerity state. And in fact, ahead of the EU referendum, things were starting to recover. They recovered enough to give the Conservative party a majority in the 2015 election. Sometimes you have to think we are cursed. That majority enabled them to follow through on an insane referendum. The rest is, well, not yet history." "Due to the collapse of my country, which surrendered to Russia in full ...]]></description> <pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:50:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Kemi Badenoch vs the Conservative Party: how the polling compares - The Week in Polls]]></title> <link>https://www.markpack.org.uk/169404/the-week-in-polls-mark-pack/</link> <description><![CDATA[The latest edition of my weekly political polling round-up, The Week in Polls, is out. As it says: It is widely accepted that both Kemi Badenoch and the Conservative Party are polling badly at the moment. That is, after all, what the polls widely say. It is also widely assumed in commentary that Badenoch's poor polling is a problem for the Conservative Party. That her poor performance is dragging her party down (with the implication for some that a change of leader is, or may become, the solution). But perhaps it isn't her that is the problem? For there is ...]]></description> <pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:25:52 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Taking on Trump and Farage: Ed Davey conference speech]]></title> <link>https://www.markpack.org.uk/174455/taking-on-trump-and-farage-ed-davey-conference-speech/</link> <description><![CDATA[Ed Davey gave the closing speech at the Spring 2025 Liberal Democrat Federal Conference in Harrogate: We meet at a time of great peril. For our continent, and for our country. Because Donald Trump is not only betraying Ukraine. It's not only their sovereignty he's selling out. It's our security. The security of Europe and the security of our United Kingdom. And that is unforgivable. Putin might be able to fool Donald Trump into thinking that his ambitions do not extend beyond parts of Ukraine, but we know better. Just look at what he's already doing in Georgia, in Moldova, ...]]></description> <pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2025 16:22:27 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA["We have to speak the language of strength": Daisy Cooper on Donald Trump]]></title> <link>https://www.markpack.org.uk/174452/we-have-to-speak-the-language-of-strength-daisy-cooper-on-donald-trump/</link> <description><![CDATA[Speaking on the BBC, Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper says that Donald Trump is an "unreliable and unpredictable partner" to the UK: Sign up to get the latest news and analysis "*" indicates required fields Email* Enter Email Confirm Email Name* First Last What would you like to receive?* Liberal Democrat Newswire: monthly newsletter The Week in Polls (once a week political polling round-up) Mark Pack blog posts and council by-election results (max 1 email/day) Lib Dem news from party website, media and Twitter (max 1 email/day) Official Lib Dem news from Scotland (max 1 email/day) Official Lib Dem ...]]></description> <pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2025 11:46:28 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time]]></title> <link>http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2025/03/paul-simon-born-at-right-time.html</link> <description><![CDATA[Paul Simon issued his album The Rhythm of the Saints in 1990, four years after Graceland. It uses Latin American and South American music as its basis, just as Graceland had used South African. Here the North American voice is not the introspective Simon, but a brash persona. And the song, for me, is about hope and redemption coming from the poor. Now listen to the Brazilian drummers on The Obvious Child from the same album.]]></description> <pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2025 11:11:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Tom Arms' World Review]]></title> <link>https://www.libdemvoice.org/tom-arms-world-review-117-77239.html</link> <description><![CDATA[Turkey Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is on a high. His Syrian proxy is in power in Damascus. The Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan has called on his followers to lay down their arms and disband. Kurdish fighters in Syria are doing that and amalgamating their forces with those of the new Erdogan-backed government. It is the perfect time for the Turkish president to go after his domestic opposition. And that is exactly what he has done. This week he arrested his chief political opponent—Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu– on charges of corruption and aiding and abetting terrorists. Funnily enough, the arrest ...]]></description> <pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2025 09:18:45 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[F10 is passed overwhelmingly. Now the work begins...]]></title> <link>http://liberalbureaucracy.blogspot.com/2025/03/f10-is-passed-overwhelmingly-now-work.html</link> <description><![CDATA[I have made my position clear on the proposal to change who manages the candidate pipeline. And, whilst the speeches in favour were impassioned, and the problems outlined all too genuine, I remain unconvinced that "moving the deckchairs" actually does anything to address the complex issues that make approving and selecting candidates so challenging. I did, and still do, support the espoused goals of the movers. All of the issues they raised in terms of diversity, democracy and career development are entirely valid and should be the focus of all of us involved in the "candidate pipeline". But the status ...]]></description> <pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2025 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Blackness Road - 1967 #dundeewestend]]></title> <link>http://www.dundeewestend.com/2025/03/blackness-road-1967-dundeewestend.html</link> <description><![CDATA[Blackness Road in 1967, photographed by Hugh Pincott :]]></description> <pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Torchwood is now a Cardiff Bay institution]]></title> <link>http://peterblack.blogspot.com/2025/03/torchwood-is-now-cardiff-bay-institution.html</link> <description><![CDATA[For those who do not remember, Torchwood was a Dr Who spin off, created by Russell T, Davies which aired from 2006 to 2011. IMDB records that the members of the Torchwood Institute, a secret organization founded by the British Crown, fought to protect the Earth from extraterrestrial and supernatural threats. The name is an anagram of Doctor Who. The series was set in Cardiff, and the team was led by Captain Jack Harkness, played by John Barrowman. Its most controversial episode involved killing off Ianto Jones, played by Gareth David-Lloyd, at the end of the second series in the ...]]></description> <pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2025 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> </channel></rss>If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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