The party also won the York and North Yorkshire mayoral race - which covers Rishi Sunak's constituency of Richmond. Conservatives The results overnight showed the Conservatives are "in serious trouble", with what could be "one of the party's worst ever performances", accordi...
As governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913, Wilson broke with party bosses and won the passage of several progressive reforms. His success in New Jersey gave him a national reputation as a progressive reformer, and he won the presidential nomination at the 1912 Democratic National Convention. ...
"The question now, therefore, is whether there is a deal that will take away the tariffs, or whether the US president is prepared to take short-term pain in return for what he sees as the long-term gain of higher domestic output and more domestic jobs as Americans shun more imports that...
As awards season rolls on, theBest Animated Featurerace holds no surprises for toon watchers. Up in the category are Gints Zilbalodis’ Golden Globe winnerFlow, Pixar’s box office record smasherInside Out 2, Oscar winner Adam Elliot’sMemoir of a Snail, Aardman’s charmingWallace & Gromit: ...
Originally to Don Biggar’s order, it’s raced above by Ian Judd at Mount Leura, Camperdown in the mid-1970s. Judd won the Australian Hillclimb Championship with it at Morwell in 1977. See here for a piece I wrote in the current issue of Australian Auto Action about hillclimbing in ...
Who programmed the Smile robots to have murderous faces? And shouldn’t we be concerned that Bristol is now full carnivorous cockroaches from space? Yet those are minor quibbles (and I actually enjoy coming up with the answers myself). Overall, this series has been a beacon of optimism in ...
Scott Parker’s side face Bristol City (A) on Saturday lunch-time, before hosting Coventry City (H). The Robins are winless in their previous three home fixtures, while the manager-less Sky Blues have scored five goals in their previous two away matches, but may struggle wit...
Helene Julie Mayer (20 December 1910 – 10 October 1953) was a German-born fencer who won the gold medal at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, and the silver medal at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. She competed for Nazi Germany in Berlin, despite having been forced to leave Germany in 1935 ...
Cathy (Janet’s middle sister) and her husband have graciously agreed to take in Janet’s parents for this next season of life. We’ve been busy painting and laying flooring in their Bristol VA home, getting a storage unit, and measuring furniture. The move will not be easy for my in-...
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