Nicholas Willmott, bookseller, Cardiff.
Particularly a specialist in Penguin series. This secondhand bookdealer has many rooms full of Penguin paperback series particularly before and after World War 2 so worth contacting to ask about Penguin books. Also many biographies, books on the theatre, music (classical and popular), film, military history, politics, travel, cookery, local history for Cardiff and Wales, county guides, architecture, fashion, English and popular culture. Both hardback and paperback series. Often worth asking in case Nicholas Willmott has or spots the book you are looking for. In Cardiff, South Wales but deals by post. Secondhand books, antiquarian books, rare, historical and recent stock.
Iraq death toll - BBC
The BBC is doing a public service showing the British soldiers killed because of Blair and Bush and Brown getting us in to a war supported by the Tories without planning or listening to the warnings. Also at reminding us all of soldiers killed trying to bring peace and tolerance to Afghanistan.
Liberator magazine
Independent Liberal political magazine that serves as a forum of debate for radical liberals in all parties and none. Founded in 1970, Kiron Reid has been a member of the voluntary editorial collective of Liberator magazine since about 1995.
s.o.p.h.i.e
stamp out prejudice hatred & intolerance everywhere I'm impressed by the Sophie Lancaster campaign by her Mum, Sylvie, and friends. Like the stand by Jimmy Mizen's family, Doreen Lawrence about her son, Stephen, Anthony Walker's family, these people take a stand for tolerance and respect and try to improve society despite personal tragedy. It's worth remembering that so many people do. Like the Peace Centre in Warrington established to commemorate Tim Parry and Jonathan Ball and to help bring peace out of that tragedy.
Working as a UK election monitor
I often get asked about how to be an election monitor. That's even though I've only been on three missions myself so far (Albania, Macedonia and Moldova, each with SOLACE Enterprises for the OSCE / Foreign Office). I asked a lot myself and it took me several years of trying & advice from friends to get picked for my first election observation mission abroad. This summary from the UK in Austria is the best place to start finding out that I have seen on the web. The ERIS site gives details on EU requirements. The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe link gives details for their Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR); with more details under the elections section. I hope this helps other people trying to find out more. You should try and get UK or foreign election related experience first and a couple of organisations provide training courses that you can go on that may help you get picked in the future. No guarantees though.
Liberty - Liberty campaigns to protect basic rights and freedoms
The civil rights group Liberty is the most important campaigning organisation working on civil liberties in the UK. Worth a visit is: Charge or Release, the campaign against detention by the State for 42 days without charge. http://liberty-human-rights.org.uk/42writers/
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
Mark Thomas - comedian and campaigner.
I don't agree with a lot of Mark Thomas' politics but he is good at comedy and one of the best pro-civil liberties campaigners in the UK.
Liberal Democrat History Group
Publish the Journal of Liberal History & promote research & debate.
Liberal Democrat Voice
Lib Dem Voice is the main debate and discussion website for Liberal Democrat activists and others to discuss policy and campaigning issues relevant to British politics.
General Election 2010 links - vote for these people
- Colin Eldridge for Liverpool Wavertree - help Colin win & stick up 4 Liverpool
- Richard Clein for Sefton Central - a local campaigner with a national reputation who will put 'Sefton Central' on the map
- Lembit Öpik - a national star in mid-Wales, keep him speaking out in Parliament
- Jo Crotty for Warrington South
- John Leech MP, Working Hard for South Manchester, Manchester Withington
- Gareth Epps for Reading East. A principled local campaigner.
- John Bercow MP for Buckingham - I respect John Stephens who is also standing but despite fair complaint over his expenses moderate Bercow is far more in tune with modern Britain than the extreme right wing UKIP nutter who represents the old intolerant ignorant extremist views that Bercow did in his past. Buckingham deserves better than that!
- John Pugh for Southport
Weather Underground.
Some friend's blogs and sites (more to be added).
- Jonathan Calder - Lord Bonkers' Diary
- Jonathan Calder - Liberal England blog.
- David Boyle - author & policy maker.
- Alex Wilcock - Love and Liberty blog
- Alex Wilcock - one of his Doctor Who reviews (scroll down), well worth reading
- Simon Titley - Radio Lincolnshire's guide in Brussels. Liberal Democrat Voice columns here
- Simon Titley - previous blogs here.
- Bernard Salmon - our friend in the North
- Donnachadh McCarthy - environmental campaigner & eco-auditor.
- Jonathan Fryer - a great MEP candidate for London
- Michael Meadowcroft - Liberal thinker & writer.
- Mark Pack - an intelligent writer on (Liberal) history & politics.
International links.
- Liberal International - the umbrella group for Liberal & progressive parties worldwide
- D66 - a great Dutch radical Liberal party
- International Federation of Liberal Youth (IFLRY)
- Democratic Alliance of South Africa
- Friedrich Naumann Foundation - an excellent German campaigning think tank
- The Liberal Party of Canada - similar to the British Liberal Democrats
- Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- Venstre (Norway)
- ALDE -the group in the European Parliament that includes the Liberal Democrats
- Chris Davies - MEP for the NW of England
- Liberal Party of Gibraltar
- Yabloko (Russia, in Russian)
- The Haiti Support Group - solidarity with the Haitian people since 1992.
- Romeo Dallaire -worth trying to learn. Also see CBC Archives & Amnesty Now magazine
Tips for musicians. Entirely unrelated but as I do have brothers in the music scene.
- These tips & suggestions from Tom Robinson are extremely helpful
- Top Ten Myspace Tips for Musicians by Pat Reid, Bristol, UK
- Top Ten Myspace Tips - as a document. Original version in case you can't access link to MySpace page.
Official website, film maker Martin Pickles. I particularly recommend 'Fall Apart'; 'Fisted' (the Hunt for Richard Herring) & 'the Commuter' in Early Films (the latter reproduced as 'the Shaver') & 'the Time Travellers of 1908'.
Consumer issues - personal perspectives.
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