As well as my brilliant casework team getting to grips with the practical solutions needed to fix sewerage problems at Torkington Park, I spoke in Parliament this week to try and get time to address the wider issue – tackling the Environment Agency, water companies and housing companies.
Would love to see similar analysis of UK developments.
RAF Akrotiri is a sovereign British Overseas Territory therefore a NATO territory. As for that matter is NSA Bharain which was also once part of a British territory but given to USA.
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Suburban Sprawl may seem cheap, but even the costs we CAN count are far too high, and we ALL pay them.
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I meant the author.
Because of course it was lib dem.
Streetview image of Central Avenue Levenshulme
Streetview image of Grange Avenue, Levenshulme
There are fairly large parts of G&D that are in no way "left behind"
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Before and after transformation of a greened Barcelona superblock intersection.
I’ve shared some of the remarkable intersection transformations in Barcelona’s “superblock” program many times before, usually as an example of taming cars in cities, and place-making. But as @thetransitguy.com’s before-and-after illustrates, they’re also about greening, cooling & cleaning the city.
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We will find a brighter day
Wasn't the 40% threshold initially reduced so that people in the 40% bracket saw no immediate benefit of the personal allowance increasing? Surely that made it a bit progressive.
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My point here is they all perform relatively worse on the crime dimension than other IMD dimensions. But the issue of cash and power is paramount.
I'm not sure he's achieved nearly anything else from his manifestos, so much as he's talked a good game.
Also GMP is still a mess. In the 2025 IMD, 5 of the top 10 most deprived local authorities for the crime dimension are in GM.
As in understand it, being a PCC rather than mayor is the disqualifying role for being a member of the house of commons.
He has to stand down to stand not just if elected, I think. So he's gone either way. Though I suppose if he left it late he could restand in the by-election. www.electoralcommission.org.uk/guidance-can...
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The wording is "at the time of your nomination and on polling day" Which is a bit ambiguous because it implies both rather than either. So zI question if he could just step down the day before polling day.
Seems to be some assumption among journos that Burnham would be better than Starmer, I guess it wouldn't be hard, but I'd like to see an actual analysis of Burnham's delivery as mayor. Pretty disappointing IMV, and without much effective scrutiny.
Actually the full population weighted breakdown of 18-65 year olds from the YouGov data is as follows:
Green 20.4%
Lab 20.3%
Ref 20.2%
Lib Dem 15.6%
Con 15.5%
SNP 3.3%
Plaid 1.3%
Other 3.4%
Who could possibly have predicted that making university funding dependent on student satisfaction would lead to grade inflation...
Great news! Tour de France Femme Grand Depart will visit Stockport at the end of July 2027 on the Manchester to Sheffield leg.
I'm not clear what is really being proposed. Seems not a single high speed line but a few upgrades to central stations and track. Some rebadging of electrification as NPR again. Really delivering the benefits needs more than that.
In the same way that the EU could be threatened strategically by USA & China combined, so could the USA of China by a combination of the EU and other power. So play Trump at his own game.
Perhaps you're right and the EU will need to integrate further to be seen as the economic & military power that it already is. Removing the threat of Russia from EU borders frees up a lot of scope for a broader & more robust defense posture.
Russia has a GDP and population both less than 1/3 of EU27. We don't talk about being carved up by Brazil or Indonesia. We only talk about Russia in these terms because of their aggression (& proximity).
EU could already I think wield overwhelming power if it chose to.
They may have excluded Greater Manchester because the police there have a system which just loses the crimes.
www.manchesterworld.uk/news/greater...
