Hemel Hempstead Lib Dems

Chiltern Welsh Group Celebrates St David's Day.

Clwb Cymraeg Ardal Chiltern is a self-organised Welsh language reading and conversational class that has been meeting in Leighton Buzzard on term-time Tuesday evenings for 30 years - first at the Riverside Centre and lately in the Leighton Buzzard Theatre and Library Building. The group is a mix of Welsh-speaking English members and first language Welsh speakers. The meetings are a mix of conversation, grammar and discussions about Welsh media articles, both printed and radio. The group also reads modern Welsh literature and is currently reading "Y Bwythyn" by Caryl Lewis. If you are reasonably proficient in Welsh conversation you would be welcome to join us. You could contact Nick Hollinghurst on nickholl1945@btinternet.com For details of the book that was metioned visit the publisher's website www.ylolfa.com The picture shows the club's St David's Day Dinner on March 6th at Tilsworth Golf Club near Dunstable.

Climate Emergency - Green Budget Voted Out

Tory Cllrs vote down LibDem's Green Budget amendments

Battery Power is being used More and More in Vehicles of all Sorts - It's Definitely Here to Stay!

Despite the scaremongering and misunderstanding that's around, the situation is clear. Vehicles of all sorts will be powered less and less by the internal combustion engine as time goes on. Diesel engines will probably remain the power source of choice for the larger lorries, but any smaller vehicle could use electric power from batteries - and anything larger with more space to spread the weight, such as a train or a boat, could do the same thing using cheaper and simpler batteries.

Dacorum Liberal Democrat Councillors Proposed to Amend the Borough's Budget to Strengthen Its Climate Change Measures

In a motion to Dacorum Borough Council at its Budget setting meeting on 25th February, 2020, the Liberal Democrat Borough Councillors, without opposing any of the Conservative proposals, sought to amend the budget for the coming financial year by the addition of 10 items, mainly aimed at strengthening existing measures to mitigate Climate Change.

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The Law of Jante is alive and well and finds no shortage of victims in England.

Alas, the Law of Jante is applied not only in Scandinavia. Its baneful influence is strong in England - diminishing, and destroying when it can, those who excel, are popular (even people we are happy to be entertained by), are prominent in some way or who are experts (remember them?). It is launched against those who try too hard, are "too clever by half" or "should know better" or "no better than s/he ought to be" or are "swots" (especially "girly" ones!) and against those who are lucky enough to have some special skill or talent. You know, people who "don't know their place". It sets out to punish achievement, to undermine any pretence of moral authority and any attempt to suggest improvement or (especially) that we should act differently. Think about Greta Thunberg. It is always trying to catch people out, to try to find a flaw, an inconsistency, a "hypocrisy". It is good to test those in the public eye, but not unfairly and not to destruction. Its assiduous, ruthless and implacable application is however

Britain must lead on defence and aid

The UK needs to strengthen both our Armed Forces and our soft power.

Ed Davey marks Holocaust Memorial Day 2025

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day.