http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/aug/29/lucy-mangan-this-week
11 years ago
Sunday, 30 August 2009
Ted Kennedy by Lucy Mangan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/aug/29/lucy-mangan-this-week
Saturday, 29 August 2009
Another football related post
Sorry for the lack of posting today- nothing to report except this man is still a legend. My team Spurs have won every game under Harry Redknapp (below) as manager this season. The sequence up to now has been 2-1, 5-1, 2-1, 5-1, 2-1. This suggests Spurs will win 5-1 at Manchester United next Saturday!
Friday, 28 August 2009
West Yorkshire Young Labour
West Yorkshire Young Labour (WYYL) Treasurer and Publicity officer Alex Ross has created four different posters which can be printed out for campaigning purposes and also be used for blog/website/Facebook thumbprints etc, highlighting the real concerns of Cameron's happy shiny new Tories. The latest one refers to Cameron's education policies. Another three were all options as posters for use on our WYYL website at http://www.westyorkshireyounglabour.co.uk/
Enjoy pursuing those and for the record, ‘nice guy, shame about his party’ was the favourite poster. Please contact us with any ideas and/or queries. Alex can also be found at http://alexross.wordpress.com/
WYYL are also at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=59035038279&ref=ts Not to be confused with West Yorkshire Young Labour Club also on Facebook. This was an earlier, discontinued page!
The intention of the group is to meet up for a drink, a meal or occasionally even at party events and allow younger party members to engage with and debate political issues. There may be the odd bit of canvassing on an add hoc basis as well, but this isn't compulsary.
I blame Thatcher
Those of you familiar with my earlier work that is my Facebook status update will know I don't like Margaret Thatcher and blame her for many things in life. Rain. Uncovered bus stops. Standing in the rain at an uncovered bus stop. Standing in the rain at an uncovered bus stop because I live in a part of Leeds where the ideally placed local train station 500 yards away was shut many years before (Kirkstall, yes it's on the map). That last one has nothing to do with her, but it's still her fault.
I was reminded of everything being her fault when the marvellous Gavin Hayes popped up on my Facebook feed saying his local pool is shutting and everyone should stop following Barnet council's lead in "no frills" services. Lord Northern of this parish has the same Guardian link.
I grew up in Finchley under Thatcher as both the PM and my MP. I've recently returned to Leeds after 6 months living in Finchley again under said Barnet borough council. Finchley used to have a nice Lido, built in 1932 when Finchley was itself a borough council and no-one knew Thatcher would be their MP for 33 years. That's it above.
The Lido was closed in 1992 and demolished, later re-opening as a leisure centre still using the Finchley Lido name but with no Lido. I should say that this had nothing to do with Thatcher, but who cares, it's still her fault!
I was reminded of everything being her fault when the marvellous Gavin Hayes popped up on my Facebook feed saying his local pool is shutting and everyone should stop following Barnet council's lead in "no frills" services. Lord Northern of this parish has the same Guardian link.I grew up in Finchley under Thatcher as both the PM and my MP. I've recently returned to Leeds after 6 months living in Finchley again under said Barnet borough council. Finchley used to have a nice Lido, built in 1932 when Finchley was itself a borough council and no-one knew Thatcher would be their MP for 33 years. That's it above.
The Lido was closed in 1992 and demolished, later re-opening as a leisure centre still using the Finchley Lido name but with no Lido. I should say that this had nothing to do with Thatcher, but who cares, it's still her fault!
Just to prove my point
Zoom in to see what remains of the Leeds local railway network. As I understand it, Leeds is the largest city in Europe without a tram or underground network. As this map illustrates, we barely have a local railway network either.
A new high speed rail link for Leeds!
Reports of the latest rail link to slash journey times between London and (insert random group of northern cities here) inevitably doesn't include the UK's 4th largest city. No, not Sheffield, Leeds.
Today's Independent says that the link would create £31.4bn worth of benefits to the economy nationally over a period of 60 years. I have no idea where these benefits arise exactly or why the plan includes a stop at Preston, the last before the line diverges to terminuses in Edinburgh and Glasgow much further north.
Warrington, a few miles south of Preston, will also benefit where the line would stop there at that well known metropolis and also diverge, to Liverpool and Manchester respectively. This rather leaves Preston redundant, but not as redundant as the chances of a fast train to Leeds from London or indeed anywhere else any time soon.
Today's Independent says that the link would create £31.4bn worth of benefits to the economy nationally over a period of 60 years. I have no idea where these benefits arise exactly or why the plan includes a stop at Preston, the last before the line diverges to terminuses in Edinburgh and Glasgow much further north.
Warrington, a few miles south of Preston, will also benefit where the line would stop there at that well known metropolis and also diverge, to Liverpool and Manchester respectively. This rather leaves Preston redundant, but not as redundant as the chances of a fast train to Leeds from London or indeed anywhere else any time soon.
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