Showing posts with label Brighton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brighton. Show all posts
Thursday, October 15, 2026

Lord Bonkers 30 years ago: David Chidgey in the Bird of Liberty

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It's high time (it says here) we saw again what Lord Bonkers was up to 30 years ago. So here's an extract from the diary he contribu...
Friday, September 25, 2026

Lord Bonkers' foreword to the new Liberator Songbook

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As far as I know, this foreword appeared in the new Liberator Songbook on sale at Brighton. It's not perhaps his lordship's most sem...
Friday, October 25, 2024

"The number 72 was enunciated with something like reverence": An outside view of this year's Lib Dem Conference

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Embed from Getty Images Greg Taylor has written about his impressions of the three main political parties' conferences this autumn on th...
Monday, May 27, 2024

The soft man of Brexit? Steve Baker goes on holiday during the election campaign

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Steve Baker, who had a majority of 4214 over Labour in his Wycombe constituency in 2019, has flown off to Crete for a holiday, despite the g...
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There will be a full Lib Dem Conference in September after all

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Good news for lovers of the Liberal Democrat Conference and for party democracy: there will be a full-length event in Brighton this Septembe...
Friday, February 16, 2024

The strange affair of the Brighton Labour councillors alleged to live in Leicester

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There's an intriguing story in Rotten Boroughs in the current Private Eye about two Labour councillors from Brighton, Bharti Gajjar and ...
Monday, March 13, 2023

Shivering children 'overawed by Mayor' claim

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Embed from Getty Images Looking for something else in the British Newspaper Archive, I came across a story from the Gloucester Citizen (13 ...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

A Richard Jefferies Wildlife Walk to mark his 175th birthday

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From the Richard Jefferies Museum site: This year, to commemorate and celebrate Jefferies' 175th birthday, we are planning a grand walk...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

This month's Liberal Democrat Conference has been cancelled

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The Liberal Democrat Conference, which was to have taken place in Brighton from 17 to 20 September, has been cancelled. Though I believe too...
Wednesday, February 16, 2022

A folk album inspired by Richard Jefferies' After London

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Folk Radio reports a forthcoming album from the Brighton folk group Bird in the Billy: In 1885 the nature writer Richard Jefferies publishe...
Thursday, October 01, 2020

The Victorian Society names its 10 most endangered buildings

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The Victorian Society has published its annual list of the 10 most endangered buildings . It includes the Brighton Hippodrome, which you can...
Saturday, August 01, 2020

Colour film of Brighton in the Blitz

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The blurb for this film on the British Film Institute site runs: This truly amazing colour film features Brighton's Blitz, with domestic...
Friday, April 19, 2019

GUEST POST Why we need a GCSE in Natural History

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Mary Colwell says a GCSE in Natural History could be the first step in a revival of nature in our education system.  Whenever I listen ...
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Sunday, November 19, 2017

Brighton Hippodrome is threatened with redevelopment

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Brighton's daily paper The Argus has revealed that the city's derelict Hippodrome has been bought by a property developer: In ...
Friday, October 20, 2017

Norman Baker's new electric bus - and a Reform Club song

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The former Liberal Democrat MP and transport minister Norman Baker , you may recall, is now the managing director of Brighton's Big Le...
Monday, May 08, 2017

The old Hippodrome in Brighton

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After my flirtation with restoration at Embassy Court, let's return to derelict Brighton. The old Hippodrome is tucked in, rather u...
Sunday, May 07, 2017

The revival of Embassy Court, Brighton

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My photography, as regular readers will know, tends to feature derelict and decrepit buildings. So let's celebrate restoration for on...
Saturday, May 06, 2017

The last days of Brighton's old West Pier

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A sad aspect of visiting Brighton over the years has been the decline of the West Pier. When I first came across it there were serious ...
Sunday, April 23, 2017

Former transport minister Norman Baker has his own bus company

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Many former Liberal Democrat MPs are working hard to win their seats back on 8 June. . But, reports Mark Leftly in the Guardian, Norman...
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Monday, September 19, 2016

Lord Bonkers' foreword to the new Liberator songbook

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With the Glee Club about to get underway at the Liberal Democrat Conference in Brighton, it is time to share this with you... Bonkers Hal...