Saturday, November 07, 2026

Do we have Elizabeth Anscombe to thank for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?

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When it comes to famous clashes of philosophers, Cambridge has Wittgenstein's poker and Oxford has the night that Elizabeth Anscombe b...

The Joy of Six 1603

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"More than 74,000 people have been killed in Gaza according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, and up to ten thousand are missing u...
Friday, November 06, 2026

A promotional film for Northampton from 1965

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Judging by the electrification work taking place on the West Coast Main Line at Roade, this film dates from 1965 or thereabouts. Northampton...
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GUEST POST Rediscovering "proper Grimond Liberalism"

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Paul Hindley from The Grimond Society on the ideas of the Liberal Party leader Jo Grimond and its ambition to put cooperatives and mutuals ...
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Thursday, November 05, 2026

James Earl Ray fled to London after he shot Martin Luther King

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Sunday Express, 9 June 1968 Somehow I had managed to live until yesterday without learning that James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated Mar...

Sheila Hancock and Stratford Johns in the original London production of Annie

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Here's The Stage reviewing the first London production of the musical Annie in 1978: It says a good deal for the skill of Stratford Jo...
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The Joy of Six 1602

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"His administration has been openly attempting to fund its allies in Europe. According to the Guardian, the State Department has alloca...
Wednesday, November 04, 2026

In which my second crack at a Dickens joke comes on live radio

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Back in the early Nineties, which was the era when I was doing a part-time MA in Victorian Studies at Leicester, I turned up at a pub in the...

Procol Harum: Pandora's Box

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Though it was included on the band's 1975 album Procol's Ninth and released as a single the same year, this song was written by Gary...
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Caroline Voaden on what Shovegate tells us about Nigel Farage

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Writing in the Guardian, Caroline Voaden tells us what really happened in the Commons altercation that Nigel Farage later used as his excus...
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Tuesday, November 03, 2026

The ghosts of Naseby Battlefield

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This is a short video from the Cromwell Museum that catalogues the many places where the ghost of Oliver Cromwell is said to walk. I have s...

The old Pontesbury magistrates court and police house are for sale

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For two days in February 1945 the eyes of the nation were on the little magistrates court at Pontesbury in Shropshire. It was here that the ...

The Joy of Six 1601

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"This low-cost strategy of largely relying on conditionality and sanctions to get unemployed claimants into work has clearly failed, as...
Monday, November 02, 2026

Reform leader of Leicestershire County Council resigns

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Dan Harrison has resigned as leader of Leicestershire County Council's minority Reform UK administration, reports BBC News : It comes af...

John Rogers walks from Herne Bay and Reculver to Margate

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John Rogers writes on YouTube: This picturesque walk takes us across the vanished landscape of the Wantsum Channel which once separated the ...

Fortean Times nods on yoghurt and the Stiperstones

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I went into Leicester today to see Pawel Pawlowski's new film Fatherland and also to buy the new issue of Fortean Times at the T.G. Jone...
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Anna Sabine on losing and partially regaining her voice

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Anna Sabine MP (photo: Frome & East Somerset Lib Dems) Anna Sabine, the Liberal Democrat MP for Frome and East Somerset, has spoken abou...
Sunday, November 01, 2026

From The Mere back to Ellesmere canal basin

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I walked from Ellesmere canal basin to The Mere through the centre of the town, which made them seem further apart than they are. So I too...
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The Joy of Six 1600

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"In a sacred ceremony dating back to time immemorial, a researcher from a poverty charity or housing campaign group raises their mournf...

The Ethiopians: Everything Crash

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A site devoted to the band says: The Ethiopians (originally The Ethiopian Children) were one of Jamaica’s most influential vocal groups dur...
Saturday, October 31, 2026

Bishop's Castle Town Council sees the importance of supporting residents during a food crisis

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Bishop's Castle has always had a strong sense of community. Here's a contemporary account of how it responded to the Civil War: Out...

Assembly Rooms toilet row – Ludlow council "not a bottomless pit"

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Now here's a decision that didn't take the judges long: the Ludlow & Tenbury Wells Advertiser is the clear winner of our Headli...
Friday, October 30, 2026

The Joy of Six 1599

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James Graham reads Roz Savage's pamphlet for Compass, Liberalism Alive: "Whether you are the biggest Ed Davey fan or not, the fact...

Europe’s coffin-makers warn Chinese imports could be death knell for industry

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Embed from Getty Images Thanks to a sharp-eyed Liberal England reader, Politico wins our Headline of the Day Award.

Reform leader of Leicestershire County Council under pressure

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Discontent with the Reform UK leader of Leicestershire County Council, Dan Harrison, is growing within his own party, reports the Harborough...
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Thursday, October 29, 2026

Two early screen appearances by Patrick Stewart (1940-2026)

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The actor Patrick Stewart died yesterday. This story from the Hollywood Reporter concentrates on his appearances in Star Trek and X-Men, wh...
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Caroline Voaden "shocked and bloody angry" at Nigel Farage

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Nigel Farage claimed he didn't show up to the Budget because he's afraid of another altercation with Lib Dem MPs. I was there at ...

Beavers chew down sign warning walkers about beavers in Poland

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Euro Weekly News wins our Headline of the Day Award. A beaver writes exclusively for Liberal England: I says to Reg, I says: "You kno...
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