Wednesday, December 11, 2024

At last! Proof that BBC East's Joint Account quiz existed

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In a 2018 post on my three encounters with Glyn Worsnip , I wrote: Move on to the summer of 1978 when I was about to go to university. My mo...

The Joy of Six 1298

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"Starmer was attempting a card trick that mainstream political parties across the West have tried to play in recent years - defeat the ...

Wild boars the size of a ‘small car’ advancing on Scottish city

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The city in question is Inverness and the story has won the Telegraph our Headline of the Day Award. After their meeting, one of the judges...
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Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Rediscovering the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway

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This is a superior video from the Rediscovering Lost Railways YouTube account. It's notable not so much for the relics it finds as for ...

Victorian women in crinolines were the ultimate fashion victims

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Embed from Getty Images Content warning: This is a horrible passage of 19th-century history. A number of factors combined in crinolines to m...

Josh Babarinde makes the case for his Domestic Abuse Bill

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The Liberal Democrat MP for Eastbourne, Josh Babarinde was on Good Morning earlier today to talk about the Domestic Abuse Bill he is looking...
Monday, December 09, 2024

Jago Hazzard rides on London's cable car but no one else does

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There's only one mode of public transport in London that's completely empty during the rush hour. Jago Hazzard has been to ride on i...

Private Eye's Literary Review: "A 17-year-old writing in his public school's magazine 50 years ago"

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As I usually point out before criticising Private Eye, to establish my credentials, I have bought every issue of the magazine since I went t...

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Josh Self says the rise of Reform could consume Kemi Badenoch and then the Conservative Party: "As Conservative Party leader, Kemi Bad...
Sunday, December 08, 2024

Kate Carr: Shy, Typically Alone or in Pairs

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Kate Carr, a London-based sound artist, says her album A Field Guide to Phantasmic Birds includes "all the birds I never recorded, an...
Saturday, December 07, 2024

How Generative AI imagines Freddie and Fiona and the Elves of Rockingham Forest

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I was playing about with the free AI images that Canva offers and came up with these results for Freddie and Fiona and for the Elves of Rock...

Finding our more about Frieda Harris and Aleister Crowley

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"It's time to find out more about Frieda Harris," I wrote the other day of the woman who was the wife of one Liberal MP (Sir ...
Friday, December 06, 2024

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William Wallace opposes the abolition of district councils on the grounds of efficiency and cost-cutting: "But there is a countervaili...
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Lib Dems hold cottage where Traffic got it together in the country

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The Liberal Democrats held the Cholsey ward of South Oxfordshire DC last night, polling 949 votes to the second-placed Conservative's 36...
Thursday, December 05, 2024

John Rogers meets the dinosaurs of Crystal Palace Park

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John Rogers posted this walk at the end of October. His description on YouTube says: A beautiful autumn walk in South London. Walk 3 of the ...

The Box of Delights as a whodunnit and as social history

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John Masefield's The Box of Delights is many things, and one of them is a crime novel. Shedunnit , an excellent podcast on women crime w...
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Santa's Nark: The dark side of the Elf on the Shelf

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It's now a Christmas tradition that I quote from the article Who’s the Boss? "The Elf on the Shelf" and the normalization of s...

Sir Cliff Richard's Christmas gravy recipe branded 'absolutely vile' by celebrity chef

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The Mirror wins our Headline of the Day Award, though the judges did point out that Cliff recorded Move it, which has a claim to be the gre...
Wednesday, December 04, 2024

Call for Southwell's importance to Byron to be recognised

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From BBC News : Geoffrey Bond often imagines Lord Byron "looking down" as he sits in what was once the 19th Century poet's for...

The Lib Dems' briefing on the 'Family Farm Tax'

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The Liberal Democrats have issued a briefing on what we are calling the 'Family Farm Tax'. I had not fully grasped before reading i...
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Tuesday, December 03, 2024

Nick Cook: England's forgotten spinner of the Eighties

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When a young England spinner makes an exceptional start to his career, his feat is compared with past performances. High among them is that ...
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59 Labour MPs support Sarah Olney's electoral reform bill

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Today the Commons voted to give Sarah Olney leave to introduce her 10-minute rule bill to bring in "a system of proportional representa...
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As seen on TV: Charles Dickens's short story The Signal-Man

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After five M.R. James adaptations, in 1976 the BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas turned to Dickens and an unforgettable version of The S...
Monday, December 02, 2024

"Ooh, Your Eminence!": A short review of Conclave (2024)

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If you enjoyed The Death of Stalin or the television adaptation of Tinker Tailor Solder Spy, you will enjoy Conclave - it's another film...

Matthew Taylor's great grandmother funded Aleister Crowley, 'The Wickedest Man in the World'

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Liberal England takes a deep breath: Matthew Taylor - that's Baron Taylor of Goss Moor, who was Liberal and then Liberal Democrat MP fo...
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Lord Bonkers' Diary: Dominic Sandboy’s ‘What My Housemaster Told Me About The Seventies’

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I love happy endings and I expect you do too. No doubt there will be more from Lord Bonkers in the new year. Sunday Over a post-service Amon...