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Liberal Democrat Blog of the Year 2014

"Well written, funny and wistful" - Paul Linford; "He is indeed the Lib Dem blogfather" - Stephen Tall
"Jonathan Calder holds his end up well in the competitive world of the blogosphere" - New Statesman
"A prominent Liberal Democrat blogger" - BBC Radio 4 Today; "One of my favourite blogs" - Stumbling
and Mumbling; "Charming and younger than I expected" - Wartime Housewife

Sunday, June 21, 2026

Why Kenneth Williams wanted to be serviced by Terence Rattigan

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Having recently post a video of Fergus McClelland with Leo McKern in Brecht's Gallileo, yesterday I had a look in the British Newspaper...

The Joy of Six 1536

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"Wes Streeting was always meant to be their Labour prime minister. The plan, hatched by a tiny clique of right-wing faction fighters, w...
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Fire

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Fire was included on The Jimi Hendrix Experience's 1967 album Are You Experienced. Under the title Let Me Light Your Fire, it was releas...
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Saturday, June 20, 2026

GUEST POST Why have the Lib Dems given up fighting most parliamentary by-elections?

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Lib Dem HQ has decided to stop making an effort in unpromising Westminster by-elections. Regular guest poster Augustus Carp argues that the...
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Petula Clark remembers making Trouble at Townsend

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One of Petula Clark's early films in her child star days was Trouble at Townsend , which was based on a short story by this blog's h...
Friday, June 19, 2026

More missing scientists: The GEC-Marconi deaths of the Eighties

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The " disappearing scientists " panic sweeping the US has led to a rediscovery of a spoof television programme along similar line...
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Cameron Thomas was arrested on suspicion of controlling and coercive behaviour and assault

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Further information about the arrest of the Liberal Democrat MP Cameron Thomas have emerged today. BBC News quotes a statement from Glouces...

The Joy of Six 1535

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"When news of the arrests of the three Ukrainians broke, a rumour soon began to spread online that the alleged perpetrators were, in fa...

Oakham Town Council has "lost control of everything" according to "worst ever" report

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Oakham Nub News wins our Headline of the Day Award for a worrying story from Rutland. Ever fair-minded, the judges point out that though th...
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Thursday, June 18, 2026

In which my great great grandmother's brother stuffs a ptarmigan

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I've written before about my great great grandmother's brother Sandy Campbell - about how his dog Sir William Wallace and how the l...
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Liberal Democrat MP suspended from party after arrest

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From the Guardian website this evening: A Liberal Democrat MP has had the whip suspended pending the outcome of a police investigation, a p...

Joseph Wright of Derby: From the Shadows exhibition comes home

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After six months at the National Gallery in London, the art exhibition  Wright of Derby: From the Shadows has come home.  It's now bein...

The Major Oak is dead and Phil Harding has discovered another ancient site near Stonehenge

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Forget Sycamore Gap: this is real tragedy. The Major Oak in Sherwood Forest is dead. The Guardian reports: The Major oak, one of Europe’s o...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Following the course of the River Leen through Nottingham

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Our History Underfoot – like and subscribe , my children, like and subscribe – follows the course of the River Leen through Nottingham. Just...

Joe Jackson: It's Different for Girls

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Recorded live in 1979 for BBC2's Rock Goes to College.

The Joy of Six 1534

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Keir Starmer should set a timetable for his departure from Number 10 and give his successor the opportunity to prepare for becoming prime mi...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

No Carry Ons: Kenneth Williams's other films

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This is fun. A compilation of 11 short clips of Kenneth Williams in films that aren't Carry Ons. Williams, as he frequently pointed out ...

Three Lions but no St George's flags

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I went for a walk across the town after lunch today and saw this Three Lions flag. What I didn't see was any St George's flags. Twen...

Al Carns portrays Labour politics as a form of ancestor worship

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Embed from Getty Images Writing about Blue Labour in Liberator at the start of year, I suggested that: Maurice Glasman’s target voter is a ...
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Monday, June 15, 2026

1963: London's summer of the Hoverbus

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Jago Hazzard looks back to a short-lived transport experiment that took place in London in the summer of 1963. From 1 July to 31 October, a ...
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Violent Bonham Carter features on Fake or Fortune?

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The notorious gender-fluid London gang boss of the Sixties gets a mention in a post from last year on the Herstmonceux Castle website. BBC’...
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The Joy of Six 1533

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James Ball argues that Labour's social media ban for teenagers is an admission of total and utter failure to govern online spaces: ...
Sunday, June 14, 2026

No, Leave didn't win the Brexit referendum because of Northern working class voters

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There are so many myths, and so much snobbery, surrounding the result of the 2016 referendum that I've a good mind to post this every we...

Lord Bonkers: "Something less terrible than the truth"

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G.K. Chesterton was a brilliant literary critic and there's an observation of his on Dickens that I've quoted more than once in prin...
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Aidan O'Rourke: Mangersta Beach

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I loved the Outer Hebrides and this music – Mangersta Beach is on the west coast of Lewis – captures the feel of a landscape that somehow fe...
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Saturday, June 13, 2026

The Joy of Six 1532

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About 1 million 16- to 24-year-olds are not in employment, education or training – and the obstacles they face are bigger than ever. Sammy G...

Sighcology: The Snake Pit, Out of True and Nellie Bly

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It's time to post another of the Sighcology columns I write for the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy. It us...
Friday, June 12, 2026

District council backs a parish council for Market Harborough

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An extraordinary meeting of Harborough District Council has voted unanimously in favour of a parish council for Market Harborough, reports B...
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Bobby Charlton and Arnie Sidebottom at Stamford Bridge

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Embed from Getty Images Bobby Charlton played his last game for Manchester United at Stamford Bridge on 2 April 1973. Thanks to a rather flu...
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