40,000! Thank you! You and I are making all sorts of people sit up and take notice. We are about 40% of the way through the time and 40% of the way to the target of 100,000 signatures. Does that make you feel optimistic or pessimistic about getting to 100,000? Well, as far as I’m…
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Sunday Book review – No Way But Gentlenesse by Richard Hines
You may remember the film Kes (director, Ken Loach) if you are a certain age, and you may well have had to study the book A Kestrel for a Knave at school if you are of another certainly younger age. In either case you will associate the name Barry Hines with that story of a…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Cartoon delayed
Due to circumstances beyond Ralph’s control, and my control, his cartoon will appear later this evening. I was out for most of yesterday afternoon, all evening and into the early hours of today. I was at the Ricoh arena in Coventry at a Bruce Springsteen concert – and very good it was too. I was…
39,000
Yesterday we reached 39,000 signatures – that was quite a slow 1,000 signatures. Although that last 1,000 took 11 days, let’s just remember that last time around there were two periods of a month which only produced 1,000 signatures. We are still whizzing along. And already today we are half way to the next thousand…