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Sunseekers were back out again today as the UK enjoyed highs of up to 77F (25C) amid the promise of a good spell of summery weather lasting for at least the next week with dry conditions.
Letters Free speech The Labour Campaign for Free Speech has postponed its next meeting again, from April 24 to May 29, citing “diary clashes” - fair enough, if a little disappointing. Even more disappointing, I thought, was the agenda item (and I can no longer find the agenda on the website) on the discussion over a difference of opinion revealed at the opening conference in February. This was regarding the ‘Charter for Free Speech’, item one. This reads, at the moment, in full: “Without free speech and a free press there can be no democracy “We stand for unrestricted freedom of s...
Letters Online picket Labour Party members have staged an extraordinary online picket of a shadow minister to protest an alleged purge in the party. During an online Labour Party meeting shadow minister Andy McDonald was unexpectedly bombarded with questions about the suspension of hundreds of members since Keir Starmer became leader. McDonald, shadow minister for employment, refused to answer the questions and one questioner, Norman Thomas, was ejected from the meeting, which was about protecting rights at work. “We have been driven to take this action by the outrageous injustices which ar...