All people who vote for our laws should all be elected and should be capable of being dismissed by the electorate. Anything else is not democratic.

Clare College bridge in Cambridge. Built in the 17th century, it is the oldest surviving bridge over the Cam in Cambridge. One of the decorative ball finials on the bridge has a segment missing, supposedly to compensate for the failure of the college to pay in full for a wonky bridge.

I deleted my X account today.

Lords

We need to get rid of the cronyism of appointments like this. Once the hereditary Lards are out, we need to find a better method of getting people appointed to the second chamber and, of course, a means of firing them. A fixed term?

There is no hint of the 438 solar panels they put on the roof. Amazing. www.kings.cam.ac.uk/news/2023/ki...

The Green’s policy is to rejoin the EU. The LibDem’s policy is to rejoin the single market as a first step to EU. Labour must reconsider its stance which is inconsistent with the country first statement they keep making.

Keir Starmer is right that his manifesto said that we would not rejoin the EU. Maybe something like the LibDems saying they would could change the position.They won 70+ seats in the last election, they could do even better if the next with that policy. No internal problems in that party either.

Here is the Paris prosecutors press release in French with English below. www.tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr/sites/defaul...