Showing posts with label Kent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kent. Show all posts
Monday, November 02, 2026

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 ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Very much against buttocks

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I tried telling the old boy that the Port of Dover has its own police force, whose relations with the Kent force has at times been opaque, b...
Tuesday, September 08, 2026

Kent Police has admitted ignoring intelligence on Dover disruption

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Kent Police has admitted receiving intelligence about a planned disruption in Dover four days before it took place, reports Metro : A woman ...
Monday, September 07, 2026

The Joy of Six 1573

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Who are the goons in balaclavas who turned up in Dover and Portsmouth? Hope Not Hate explains: "In 2016, he [Danny Tommo] pleaded guil...
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Friday, August 07, 2026

The Joy of Six 1558

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"Someone who attended a private school in London or the South East is 24 times more likely to become a permanent secretary than someone...
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Wednesday, August 05, 2026

GUEST POST In praise of outgrounds: How cricket in small towns made a roaring comeback

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The Hundred may be struggling for spectators, but cricket's One-Day Cup is thriving by using grounds that do not usually see professiona...
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Friday, July 03, 2026

The Joy of Six 1542

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"Multiple sources inside the children’s home division said that, as they prepared for sale, they were pressed to rapidly open more home...
Friday, June 26, 2026

How four bison brought new life to ancient woodland in Kent

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Here's a video from Dr Edmund Hale that makes rewilding seem not a flight of fancy but common sense: Bison reintroduction in England beg...
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Sunday, June 21, 2026

The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Fire

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Fire was included on The Jimi Hendrix Experience's 1967 album Are You Experienced. Under the title Let Me Light Your Fire, it was releas...
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Wednesday, May 06, 2026

GUEST POST Councillor defection scores on the eve of polling day

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Augustus Carp offers something to whet your appetite – a curtain-raiser, a short not-too-dramatic offering before the Grand-Guignol horror ...
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Sunday, February 01, 2026

Sir Walter Scott invented "The Wars of the Roses"

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Here's an interesting passage from Chris Given-Wilson in a recent London Review of Books: There are several earlier references, dating ...
Monday, January 12, 2026

Powell and Pressburger's most bizarre moments

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The British Film Institute's blurb on YouTube says: In this video essay director Will Webb highlights scenes from Powell and Pressburger...
Monday, December 29, 2025

GUEST POST Local councillors changing party: Augustus Carp’s review of 2025

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Augustus Carp finds the Conservatives are losing local councillors, but not as fast as Labour are losing them, and Reform UK are gaining. B...
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Saturday, October 11, 2025

Iain Sinclair reviews David Seabrook's All the Devils Are Here

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Backlisted has devoted a second podcast to David Seabrook's book on Kent, All the Devils Are Here . Iain Sinclair wrote about it for th...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

After the rail accident: Godmersham and Crundale Village Hall

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It's almost 10 years since I was given a late-night cup of tea in this imposing village hall. It's Godmersham and Crundale Village H...
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Reform council leader pleads for government to soften new visa regime for care workers - Welcome to the real world

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The Reform UK leader of Kent County Council has written to the home secretary expressing "grave concerns" about government proposa...
Monday, July 07, 2025

John Rogers takes a stunning walk along the White Cliffs of Dover

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John Rogers forsakes psychogeographic London and walks along the white cliffs from Dover to Deal. As his blurb on YouTube says: The glorious...

Is Reform UK relaxing its vetting of election candidates?

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Embed from Getty Images Rejected Reform UK candidates in East Thanet are being encouraged to apply again under what are described as a new s...
Wednesday, June 04, 2025

Listen to Mike Martin on the Strategic Defence Review

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Talk about an eyeopener... Mike Martin, the Liberal Democrat MP for Tunbridge Wells, is Arthur Snell's latest guest on his Behind the Li...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Colpeper does receive a blessing in A Canterbury Tale after all

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I think I've gained a new understanding of my favourite film. Most commentators take their mark from Mr Colpeper's answering to a qu...