Showing posts with label Paddy Ashdown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paddy Ashdown. Show all posts
Friday, September 11, 2026

A website on Alec Guinness's two BBC series as George Smiley

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Here's what we need: a website devoted to the BBC productions of John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People . Gu...
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 ...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

"Fight for the soul of our country": Josh Barbarinde profiled in the New Statesman

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During his successful campaign for the Liberal Democrat presidency, Josh Barbarinde's supporters emphasised his unparalleled ability to ...
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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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...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Ed Davey will publish his book 'Why I Care: And Why Care Matters' in May

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After leading a strikingly successful first general election campaign, the next thing on a Liberal Democrat leader's to do list is the b...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

New Statesman: Lib Dems cheered and baffled by Kemi Badenoch

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Embed from Getty Images The Liberal Democrats have two strategic objectives in this parliament.  One is to be a better opposition than the C...
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Friday, November 08, 2024

Thought for the Day: Lord Macaulay on coalitions

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I've just been sorting out some old papers, including a folder of press cuttings that I obviously thought might come in useful one day f...
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Monday, September 02, 2024

Spying: Another column for the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy

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I've just sent off another column to the JCPCP, so it's time to post another of my earlier ones. The idea that Noel Coward had a rol...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Jane Ashdown: "I can't wipe the grin off my face"

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Jane Ashdown , the widow of the former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown, has been talking to Somerset Live about her delight at the gen...
Friday, July 05, 2024

Bit of a cock-up on the counting front in Dingwall: Lib Dems wait for their 72nd win to be declared

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Embed from Getty Images BREAKING... Drew Hendry has conceded that the Lib Dems will win the seat after the recount, so 72 it is. One general...
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Monday, June 03, 2024

The Joy of Six 1234

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Pragna Patel argues that the establishment of Britain's first Sikh court threatens women's rights: "The use of religious laws ...
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Friday, April 05, 2024

Looking back at Simon Titley's writings for Liberator

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The new issue of Liberator was posted on the magazine website this morning. You can download it free of charge  from there - it's Libera...
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Thursday, February 15, 2024

Lord Bonkers' Diary: They could most fairly be described as "repentant headhunters"

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The Look at Life film really exists and is online - the young Paddy Ashdown appears at about 6.35 and the comment on the Dayaks at 8.20. Ge...
Friday, December 22, 2023

See a young Paddy Ashdown on Talking Pictures TV this evening

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Today is the fifth anniversary of Paddy Ashdown's death. I still mourn him as a man and a leader. By coincidence, at 20.50 this evening ...
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Thursday, December 07, 2023

Paddy Ashdown didn't have a British passport when he died

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Embed from Getty Images "I was a passionate European, I still am and so was Paddy. In fact when he died he didn’t have a British passpo...
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Thursday, August 31, 2023

The Joy of Six 1158

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"Basic Income was proposed by Paddy Ashdown as a fundamental component of his Radical Agenda for the 1990s, a book published in the lat...
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Friday, April 21, 2023

Adam Dance aims to recapture Yeovil for the Lib Dems

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Yeovil Liberal Democrats have chosen their prospective parliamentary candidate for the next general election. It is Adam Dance, who runs his...
Sunday, March 19, 2023

Did Ed Davey take a page from Paddy Ashdown's playbook?

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So let me shout it, yet again: if you want to boost our economy, you have to repair our broken relationship with Europe. Conference, you don...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Lord Bonkers 30 years ago: The rediscovery of Charles James Fox's left kneecap

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It's the question that almost no one is asking, and I've put off answering it as long as I decently can, but it's time to find o...