Possibily - it will also could create a Balkanisation of political parties and putting together coalitions will inevitably mean minor parties asserting themselves beyond their political gravity. Although I support PR I don't think in it a panacea for the UK's political challenges.
I am pro PR - have been for decades - but I am also not blind to the challenges it can throw up. Look at France in recent years where an intransigent Mélenchon refuses to compromise and where 5 Green Parties vie with each other.
Who will show some compassion for these rich folk? Even there luxury properties are falling in value
www.luxurypricedrops.com
Grace Dent has a good insight into this place
www.theguardian.com/food/2026/fe...
Interesting but I'd call this declining rather than collapsing. However give it a few more weeks & who knows.
I'd like to agree with you but I suspect that doctrinaire posturing might undermine the necessity to compromise to enable goverance post PR. I am not sure the UK has a mature enough polity.
Do you think that if this trend was cemented with the intro of PR that UK politics would have the maturity to stitch together the coalitions of compromise that would enable government or would it, as you seem to suggest, simply be political & governmental chaos drive by doctrinaire posturing?
Today, in a busy week for the World of Music blog, Carl Lee takes us to the Tremé district of New Orleans worldlymusic.blogspot.com/2026/03/mar-...
Thank you for posting up this absolutely junk piece of journalism.
Just finishing off something about the Arabic House Music been listening to a lot of stuff like this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=epni...
Recently read this excellent family history meets pyschogeographical flaneuring of a book from Sheffield's own Nick Smillie. Worth hunting down. m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71a...
Sheffield stone masons Steve Roche and Lily Marsh based in John Street's Stag Works win at the Woirld Snow Sculpting competition in Switzerland
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Great result for Greens. Of course if the Greens want to move on from being a party of protest to a party of government they'll need to set out a governing fiscal architecture & have the spot-light shone on it (Reform also). journalists have ignored this to date. May be challenging for them.
And ironcally you wouldn't get a great deal of political distance between Carney & Starmer. Both vaguely left centrists. Carney is clearly a better communicator.
Not really. The last Parliament saw multiple changes of PM and that did the Conservatives no good at all. In theory he has 3 more years but I do doubt he'll go for a second term. If he had any sense he'd introduce PR for the next GE.
Intergenerational geographic proximity is an interesting subject & one that I write about in my latest book in respect to local identities, however not in respect to 'effects' on family members. Overall a dynamic that has diminished in the UK in recent decades especially for the middle classes.
Just got an e-mail from about The Leadmill relocation crowd funder. Given it is possible to see on Companies House how much money Phil Mills made over the years from the Leadmill the idea that he is now grifting cash for a relaunch(somewhere, sometime - unstated) sticks in my craw.
There you go - I think you have confirmed one of my issues. Intolerance.
The membership of the Green Party is I am certain like all political parties varied. My evaluation is based upon the local councillors (especially in planning) and the expulsion of 15 women - including the Parliamentary candidate - because they held a certain feminist perspective. .
In terms of values & priorities I'm probably a 'natural' Green voter but I've seen them close up in local government in Sheffield and am struck by their intolerance, grand-standing and lack of strategic nouse. Not sure they are 'populist' or indeed that they are particularly 'left'.
The best of central Sheffield's residential developments under construction might be Sky House on Copper Street.14 2 to 3 bed homes built with a nod to the areas 'back-back heritage'
sky-house.co
On Nursery Street the 268 apartment (1, 2 & 3 bedroomed) residential development 'One Riverside' now under construction. 12 floor height. Developer is Brickland. It is a build to rent developer and now probably looking for a finnacial owner such as an insurance or pension company.
Code's reapplication for their 27 floor residential block on Wellington street was refused by SCC planning who described it as "1,100 sub-standard studio apartments". Code are now threatening to pull out of the development leaving it unfinished. Will go to appeal but blackmail doesn't seem to harsh
Sometimes HE Geography can be its own worst enemy by being just too broad. My youngest did a 'generic' geography degree at a 'good uni'. Some of it was great - some was stretching the def of geography (stand up cultural geography) but she did learn a lot of good labour market skills.
Also on the blog check out the Noise from Iceland project and Bandcamp page worldlymusic.blogspot.com/2026/02/feb-...
Always surprised me that more British & European bands didn't play in China - I know Sheffield's 'Sixty Days of Static' have on 3 occasions. Huge market and a real interest in all sorts of music from jazz to grime. This article sets out the possibilities.
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
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True. But a multi-party system hasn't found its feet because PR politics requires both a much higher degree of compromise and a greater political grouping having to take responsibility. Have we not had adverserial hot wired into us - the HoC theatre doesn't help.
Spanish is having a momento what with Bad Bunny getting up Donald's nariz. So this wonderful performance of La Perla by Rosalía at her recent Barcelona concert in support of Palestianian medical charities is an absolute treat.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovMv...
