Showing posts with label Hertfordshire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hertfordshire. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Professor Quatermass in Hemel Hempstead

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Last night I watched Quatermass 2 on Talking Pictures TV – it's currently on the stations catch-up service TPTV Encore . In the clip abo...
Sunday, February 08, 2026

Morgan McSweeney's kitchen cabinet met at Roger Liddle's home

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A ghost from the SDP is haunting the Guardian Politics Live  this evening. The blog quotes Rachael Maskell, the Labour MP for York Central, ...
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Thursday, January 29, 2026

After reading this column you will never think of Barbara Cartland in the same way again

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Embed from Getty Images Another of my columns for the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy .  Barbara Cartland has ...
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Friday, April 25, 2025

Ed Davey, Nick Clegg, Paddy Ashdown... and hedgehogs

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Ed Davey has posted this charming photo of him and Victoria Collins visiting a hedgehog sanctuary in Harpenden. It puts me in mind of a Lib...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

Nowhere to Go: Maggie Smith's first credited film role

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Yesterday we saw the first television appearance by Julie Walters . Tonight it's Maggie Smith's first credited film role, which was ...
Saturday, October 05, 2024

GUEST POST No sign of an end to defections in local government

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Thanks to Augustus Carp for his latest bulletin on local councillors changing parties, though I'll have him know that I lived in Hemel ...
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Thursday, September 26, 2024

Lib Dems lose control of Dacorum after eight female councillors resign from group

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From Hemel Today : Eight female councillors in Dacorum have left the Liberal Democrat group after accusing the council leader of “failing to...
Friday, July 05, 2024

Those Lib Dem targets for the next general election in full

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Embed from Getty Images Michael Mullaney, who was our candidate in Hinckley and Bosworth on Thursday, has tweeted a list of the Liberal Demo...
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Sunday, May 12, 2024

The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists exhibition comes to St Albans

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On Friday the exhibition The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists opened at St Albans Museum and Gallery. It runs until 8 September....
Monday, March 04, 2024

A walk with John Rogers: Roydon in Essex to Ware in Hertfordshire

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The Harcamlow Way is a figure-of-eight path through Cambridgeshire, Essex and Hertfordshire. This John Rogers walk follows it from Roydon s...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

We were Vikings once: British primary schools in the Sixties

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A few years ago it was the French who had the secret of parenting: their children ate up their vegetables and didn't get ADHD. Now it...
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