The gloves are off: Let battle commence There are less than 50 days before the polls open, exactly 5 years since the last election and, as predicted, the proverbial football (the NHS) is being brought onto the pitch. The game is gathering pace with health coming to the fore. T... Pe...
On that 14th of June, Congress made theFlag Resolution of 1777, stating: “The flag of the United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, with a union of thirteen stars of white on a blue field …” Official announcement of the new flag was not made until Sept. 3, ...
In 1874, France was reeling from losing the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune uprising, yet it was the site of two contrasting art exhibits: one which hewed to the old themes of realistic (if heightened) representation of religious, historic, and pastoral scenes (the Paris Salon), ...
sites were generally regarded as serving a useful purpose, as being easy to use and understand, relatively interesting and likely to be visited again, there was very little evidence in this study to indicate that they had any significant impact on voting behaviour during the 2011 Scottish ...
“Long time no see is a very interesting sentence.When I first read this sentence from an American friend’s email.I laughed.I thought it was a perfect example of Chinglish.Obviously.it is a word-by-word literal translation of the Chinese greetings w
Results of the 2015 general election in the UK Fast-forward to June of this year, a month after Ed Miliband had resigned as Labour leader after suffering huge losses to the Scottish National Party (clickhereto read more about the SNP) in the 2015 general election. The opinion polls had gre...
July 13 I last wrote to you. It was the day My Beloved died.Memories – sort of You know – no you don’t unless you have travelled with me and My Beloved- but My Beloved would talk to Silva, our Chrysler 300, circa 2013 and all the others of our previous cars. She might say,...
While Ardern’s star was considered to be waning – domestically, at least – ahead of a general election later this year, Sturgeon’s departure has been seen as problematic for the Scottish National Party: her bickering would-be successors lack her political stature and other parties in ...
By Bill Turianski on the 3rd of August 2020;twitter.com/billsportsmaps. The map shows the Football League in 1920-21, when the first First Division champions were Burnley FC (their first English title), and when the Third Division was introduced. ...
And then, of course, there’s the anxiety and anger that comes from reading the current political news and surviving an election that was something of a nightmare, even by U.S. standards. And books do help us survive, don’t they? Along with the arts in general, combined, perhaps, ...