Showing posts with label Jo Grimond. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jo Grimond. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Martin Wainwright's Guardian obituary of Michael Meadowcroft

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Embed from Getty Images Michael Meadowcroft, who wrote so many obituaries himself, is remembered in the Guardian by Martin Wainwright, the ...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Magnus Grimond remembers his father's Orkney elections

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Here's a video of the Liberal leader Jo Grimond voting in the 1964 general election. It's unused footage shot by British Pathé, so t...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2026

"My name's Cole-Hamilton. Alex Cole-Hamilton"

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It's not just Ed Davey who was approached by MI6. Alex Cole-Hamilton reveals in a notably friendly interview in the Scottish Sun that ...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

BOOK REVIEW Liberalism by Jonathan Parry

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This review appears in the latest Liberator (issue 431), which can be downloaded free of charge  from the magazine's website. Liberalism...
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Sunday, April 06, 2025

BOOK REVIEW When We Speak of Freedom: Radical Liberalism in an Age of Crisis

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This review appears in the new issue of Liberator . When We Speak of Freedom: Radical Liberalism in an Age of Crisis Paperback edited by Pau...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

The Joy of Six 1335

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"We may think that the dangers we face today are unprecedented (and in some ways perhaps they are) but history has a way of circling ba...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Alistair Carmichael marks 75th anniversary of Jo Grimond’s election

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Alistair Carmichael is the latest guest on Iain Dale's All Talk podcast, talking about his own career and about the former Liberal Part...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Are there Liberal thinkers for good times and Liberal thinkers for hard times?

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Politicians can be divided between those suited to good times and those suited to hard times, or so I suggested in a post I wrote here back...
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Monday, September 25, 2023

Lord Bonkers' Diary: "Call them Orkney and Shetland"

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When I tweeted a picture of a couple of my Liberal Party membership cards from the 1980s, something about the map on them attracted the atte...
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

GUEST POST A lifetime among the Liberals

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Paddy Briggs looks back over a lifetime's political involvement and forwards to the next election. I was 13 and for the first time I st...
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Sunday, December 15, 2019

Rediscovering the Liberalism of the left-behind

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Embed from Getty Images Populism, all right-thinking people agree, is a Bad Thing. Yet in the far-off days when I was a Liberal activist a...
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Thursday, February 21, 2019

Five thoughts on The Independent Group and the Lib Dems

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One Something had to happen and I am glad that it did. The two main parties have both been captured by groups of extremists that have mor...
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Sunday, November 18, 2018

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Keep the box around Shetland

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Today the old boy gives us an interesting piece of Scottish Liberal history that has hitherto escaped publication. Tuesday A recent is...
Friday, January 01, 2016

Liberal Democrats will compromise and do want national power

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Embed from Getty Images Miranda Green  has an article in the Guardian looking at the prospects for Labour and the Liberal Democrat...
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Saturday, December 13, 2014

Say it ain't so, Jo

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Tom Mangold writes about his attempts to investigate Jeremy Thorpe for the BBC: I had been on the story for less than two weeks when I go...
Thursday, December 04, 2014

Jeremy Thorpe remembered

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#79658659 / gettyimages.com The fall of Jeremy Thorpe had already taken place by the time I joined the Liberal Party, but he was ...
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Thursday, November 13, 2014

George Grimes Watson 1927-2013

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[ Later . More on George Watson here .] I learn from Mark Pack that the Liberal Party thinker George Watson died last year. I am sorry ...
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Monday, February 17, 2014

Karl Popper on human knowledge

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I heard Karl Popper give a lecture at York while I was an undergraduate there. I think it was the inaugural lecture of a series sponsored ...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Why Nick Clegg is like the Duke of Wellington

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Could the political climate be changing? Because we are starting to see opinion pieces praising the Liberal Democrats in the newspapers aga...
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Monday, May 13, 2013

Jo Grimond and the Soviet invasion of Shetland

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Chris Glew on Estonian World tells the story of Erich Teayn, a crewman on a Soviet factory ship who, on the night of 25 June 1958, commande...