^^^this - the company was split - the High Street shops were sold, and rebranded. The bit with the problem is continuing operation focused on rail station and airport locations.

*Men's *Football World Cup, obvs.

I'm a member, although an armchair one. They do do some campaigning work, and have e.g. School Speakers and other opportunities from time to time. Locally, there's an allied association who run events and socials. Ultimately, though, I joined to support their work numerically and financially.

np!

By way of additional credentials - I'm on Plus' list, and I was responsible for this: www.libdemvoice.org/70935-70935....

Eek.

I think they're promising action in around six months time...

*Stefan Quaqarone, surely!

To quote Harry Willcock:

I'm a Liberal and I'm

Against

This

Sort

Of

Thing.

...isn't in power - he has shifted the parameters of the debate through force of personality, a compliant and/or complicit and/or compromised media, and a government unable/unwilling to stand up to him.

To be clear, I would like to see my own party do more to stand up on these fronts too...

It is somewhat clichéd to quote the Martin Niemöller poem - First They Came For... - especially given its immediate context when written, but this is how regressive authoritarian actors work: normalise the demonisation of one group and move on to the next.

It doesn't even matter that Farage...

...aided and abetted by Labour ceding ground on the terms of the debate...

...this should also be a warning to LGB people - we are next in line for those challenging the rights of trans people, along with reproductive rights for cis women, and anyone else with a womb.

They held one of the Durham ones, I think.