Sunday, December 04, 2022

Choir of King's College, Cambridge: God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

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This is a carol I always enjoyed singing, but we need to get a couple of grammatical points straight. Because look at that comma: there are ...
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Saturday, December 03, 2022

The Joy of Six 1094

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"Its lasting value is in its revelation that the institutions of the Conservative Party and the British government are so decrepit that...

Dartmoor village could be home to one of 'world's most radioactive toilets'

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Thanks to a nomination from a Liberal England reader, the Plymouth Herald wins our Headline of the Day Award. As so often, things become le...

Steve Winwood: Christmas is Now Drawing Near at Hand

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In his best John Barleycorn Must Die voice, Steve Winwood casts a bit of a damper on proceedings. Like John Barleycorn, this song can be fou...
Friday, December 02, 2022

GUEST POST The Secret Diary of Charles Dickens aged 13¾

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An exclusive extract from The Secret Diary of Charles Dickens aged 13¾ by Lee Jackson .  Living in Johnson Street, Camden Town, young Charle...

Stunning victory for Lib Dems in Jeremy Hunt's constituency

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Waverley is one of those local authorities whose whereabouts defeats me - I tend to confuse it with Waveney and think it's in East Angli...

Angelo Branduardi: Merry We Will Be

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Christmas feasting is meant to begin on Christmas Eve, not 1 December, but I promised you a mix of the sacred and secular. Angelo Branduardi...
Thursday, December 01, 2022

The first newspaper mention of Steve Winwood

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I've searched the British Newspaper Archive and this is the earliest mention I can find of Steve (or Stevie) Winwood. It comes from the ...
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Former Brexit Party Westminster candidate gains Surrey County Council seat for the Lib Dems

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Is it just me or are Wednesday by-elections becoming a little more common? Whatever the truth of that, there was one yesterday in a ward of ...
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Ely Cathedral Choir: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

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So I thought I would make a musical advent calendar here - 24 favourite pieces of Christmas music, both sacred and secular. This hymn of lon...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Munira Wilson scores with Word Cup reference at PMQs

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Lib Dem MP Munira Wilson jokes the govt must have sympathy with the Welsh team as they know "what it's like to have Marcus Rashford...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022

What Popper did and didn't say about the paradox of intolerance

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I’m pleased to see Karl Popper back in fashion. Because he was an important critic of Marxist thought, he has generally lumped in with Conse...
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'There appears to be a dog in court!': Lawyer's barking mad pet crashes Shrewsbury hearing

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As it so often does, the Shropshire Star wins our Headline of the Day Award. And it has given me an excuse for posting another clip from Cr...
Monday, November 28, 2022

A stretch of the Market Harborough to Rugby line was electrified

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The viaduct in this video once carried a loop line built so trains coming off the Market Harborough line into Rugby station did not cross th...
Sunday, November 27, 2022

The Joy of Six 1093

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"The Homes for Ukraine scheme, which has housed more than 100,000 people in Britain since the start of the war, is now at risk of colla...

Lindisfarne: Meet Me on the Corner

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Younger readers will know Lindisfarne, if they know them at all, for making a record with Gazza and for Christmas concerts that have a reput...
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Saturday, November 26, 2022

How No Room at the Inn launched John Osborne's theatre career

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If you thought you'd heard the last of No Room at the Inn, you were mistaken. This was the play by Joan Temple that, like Agatha Christi...

Counsels' opinions on the Lib Dem definition of transphobia

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One of Mark Pack's initiative in his first term as Liberal Democrat president was to ask the party's disciplinary subgroup to produc...
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Newspaper reports tensions between Lib Dem councillors and party executive in Derby

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  An investigation is under way into allegations made by the executive committee of Derby's Liberal Democrats, which has led to the resi...
Thursday, November 24, 2022

The Joy of Six 1092

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"Since February, an isolated former RAF base near the village of Manston, in Kent, has been used by the Home Office to warehouse migran...
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Harborough's Neil O'Brien stars in the Guardian's Commons sketch

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This morning Labour's Angela Rayner asked an urgent question to the minister for the cabinet office on the procurement of personal prote...
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