Showing posts with label Lincoln. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lincoln. Show all posts
Friday, July 17, 2026

East Midlands Railway cancels 20 fast services a day because of problems with its new trains

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East Midlands Railways has admitted that its problems with its new trains have not all been caused by the recent hot weather. BBC News repo...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

The Joy of Six 1497

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"A child who grew up in the United Kingdom, attended British schools, made British friends, and considers this country their home will ...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

The Joy of Six 1437

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Sienna Rodgers takes us inside the power struggle at the top of Your Party: "There is talk that the leadership race could feature at l...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Poundland sold for less than £1

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In what I think is a Liberal England first, the Financial Times wins our Headline of the Day Award. The photograph shows a branch of the ch...
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Monday, May 19, 2025

GUEST POST The state of our canals - and canalside pubs - today

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Fresh from a canal holiday made difficult by unannounced closures, Peter Chambers looks at the many challenges facing the Canal & River...
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Friday, July 19, 2024

It's time we had a talk about the birds and the bees

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I saw a butterfly this morning. It was only a cabbage white but, as it's the first I've seen this year, still worthy of celebration....
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Football Club Name of the Day: Southwell City FC

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Bob Hardy, the late Bishop of Lincoln , once described his diocese as "two thousand square miles of bugger all". But it used to be...
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Sunday, September 24, 2023

Sighcology: Davids Garnett, Lloyd George, Lawrence, Copperfield, Rook and Bronstein

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Here's my column ('Sighcology') from the Summer issue of the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy . The...
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

A book on medieval history used in schools until the 1980s treated the blood libel as fact

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Here's something I wish I had discovered before I wrote my book chapter on Oliver Twist and anti-Semitism, with its discussion of the s...
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Lincoln man 'forced to take action' after overgrown bushes obstruct washing line

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LincolnshireLive wins our coveted Headline of the Day Award.
Friday, April 23, 2021

Pay £96 to read my thoughts on Dickens and anti-Semitism

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That's the hardback price. The paperback and Kindle editons are much cheaper. I have written a chapter of Racism in Psychology: Challeng...
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Monday, September 07, 2020

"Far from politicians not listening, they have never listened more"

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Embed from Getty Images Fifty years ago, the Labour MP for my home town of Lincoln was Geoffrey de Freitas. In those days, Lincoln was a ver...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Ross Pepper to fight Louth and Horncastle for the Lib Dems

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Ross Pepper has been chosen by Louth and Horncastle Liberal Democrats as their candidate at the next general election, reports Horncastle...
Saturday, November 03, 2018

A.G. Macdonell was twice Liberal candidate for Lincoln

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High Bridge and the Glory Hole, Lincoln A.G. Macdonell is remembered today, it at all, for his book England Their England and its descr...
Saturday, October 27, 2018

Six of the Best 826

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"Justice requires civility as well as rectitude. The bombastic and the wrong can be stopped, as Joe McCarthy was stopped." Cicer...
Friday, February 02, 2018

St Pancras to New Holland Pier in 1976

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Footage from a rail tour in August 1976. On the way up we catches glimpses of Leicester station and a long-vanished signal box and of clas...
Monday, November 13, 2017

The ghost trains from Sheffield to Cleethorpes

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The Brigg Line Group , its website says, exists to promote services on the Sheffield - Worksop - Retford - Gainsborough - Lincoln line an...
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Sunday, June 18, 2017

Six of the Best 699

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"Grenfell Tower should mark a point of no return. No return to the frenzied deregulation, cost-cutting and rampant inequality of the ...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Six of the Best 692

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Nick Barlow says those hoping for a British Macron have failed to grasp the fundamental differences between French and British politics. ...
Monday, May 08, 2017

Nottingham to Lincoln by water

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The British Waterways hotel boat Water Wanderer makes its way from Nottingham to Lincoln via the River Trent and the Roman canal the Fossd...