FPT: I think this "usual Tory recovery" is politically problematic. Up until last Thursday the Cons controlled essentially all the Shire Councils, as well as the national Government, and th… (View Post)

"Lived experience" is an important phrase. It is intended to prevent ignorant people using their own opinions to belittle the experience of others. For example men lecturing women about dan… (View Post)

There's scope for them to do things in the current reorganisations of local govt around regional devolution and Mayors. It is all a little complex whilst in transition. I was trying to get an id… (View Post)

For the UK this is perhaps more relevant. Dispatches last autumn. https://www.channel4.com/programmes/undercover-exposing-the-far-right Or this from 2022. Again, Dispatches. This includes interviews … (View Post)

The longest conclave on record took nearly three years. The election of a successor to Pope Clement IV in 1268 dragged on for so long — about 1,000 days — that locals in the town of Viterbo, where it… (View Post)