Showing posts with label Oxfordshire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oxfordshire. Show all posts
Thursday, September 24, 2026

Jeremy Clarkson left red-faced over 'stolen' sheep that were never even missing

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Some sheep yesterday. The Mirror wins our Headline of the Day Award. In an outbreak of judicial witticism, the judges suggested that Clarks...
Sunday, September 20, 2026

UK luxury business backed by David Cameron in £500K collapse

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Embed from Getty Images The Oxford Mail wins our Headline of the Day Award.  Far be it from me to criticise the judges, but is this such a ...
Monday, August 31, 2026

Gareth Epps and the quiet lanes of Oxfordshire

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Liberator's Gareth Epps has made the BBC News Oxfordshire pages because the Liberal Democrat run authority is about to approve its firs...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

Great Tew: From dereliction to the Beckhams' illuminations

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A derelict cottage in Great Tew, 1980. Photo by Kim Traynor The Beckhams' plans to light the pond at their Cotswold home have upset thei...
Monday, January 26, 2026

Lib Dems call for a Rail Passengers’ Charter to improve journeys across the UK

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The Liberal Democrats introduce a Rail Passengers’ Charter Bill in Parliament last week to improve customer experience and enshrine value f...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

The Joy of Six 1453

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Martin Barrow reports that, following the intervention of Dame Rachel de Souza, the Children’s Commissioner for England, it is hard to find...
Friday, September 12, 2025

Keir Starmer didn't speak to the junior ministers he sacked

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Embed from Getty Images My impression that Keir Starmer possesses vanishingly few of the qualities required of a good prime minister is rein...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

The Joy of Six 1396

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"Opportunities to object are limited. Roadblocks and checkpoints have been established at either end of the only lane in and out of the...
Sunday, July 27, 2025

Lord Bonkers' Diary: A memo to Oxfordshire Liberal Democrats

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I think Lord B. must have been watching this episode of Time Team. And I certainly remember him observing that we should only worry about P...
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Friday, July 18, 2025

The Joy of Six 1386

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“The government is about to publish a White Paper on Election Regulation, in preparation for the Elections Bill it will bring forward in the...
Friday, December 06, 2024

Lib Dems hold cottage where Traffic got it together in the country

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The Liberal Democrats held the Cholsey ward of South Oxfordshire DC last night, polling 949 votes to the second-placed Conservative's 36...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

It's Freddie van Mierlo vs Russell Brand

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The Guardian reports from Pishill on Oxfordshire It is an idyllic, quintessentially English scene, but rake the surface and the embers of a...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Peter Jay's Guardian obituary is a comic gem

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Embed from Getty Images Peter Jay is one of those people of whom, if I had any younger readers, my younger readers would not have heard. His...
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Thursday, August 22, 2024

Lib Dem MP Calum Miller backs campaign against the reopening of Campsfield House immigration detention centre

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Calum Miller, the Liberal Democrat MP for Bicester and Woodstock, took part in an Oxford demonstration yesterday against the Labour governme...
Monday, July 29, 2024

Lib Dem MP received eviction notice the day after he was elected

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Embed from Getty Images The last Conservative government, as it's increasingly being called, promised to get rid of no-fault evictions o...
Wednesday, July 03, 2024

Ed Davey: Tomorrow's election is a once-in-a-generation chance to put an end to years of Conservative chaos

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Embed from Getty Images In an article posted on the Guardian's website this afternoon, Ed Davey describes tomorrow's election as ...
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Guardian quotes Lib Dem sources: Tory support is "collapsing" in the South

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Embed from Getty Images I don't want to spread false optimism, but a remarkable story went up on the Guardian website this afternoon: Th...
Friday, June 21, 2024

Mr Asquith can sleep soundly in Sutton Courtenay churchyard

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Yesterday the Liberal Democrats held two council seats in Oxfordshire.  Because of ill health, Richard Webber had been forced to resign both...
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