Showing posts with label Richmond upon Thames. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richmond upon Thames. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 11, 2026

The Joy of Six 1560

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"Every week I read of people seeking planning permission for children’s homes whose backgrounds are in real estate, building, motor dea...
Sunday, June 07, 2026

The Joy of Six 1529

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Chris Dillow on Labour's mistaken strategy: "All good businesspeople know that it’s easier to keep a customer than to win a new on...
Thursday, May 21, 2026

What do we Lib Dems offer the voters Zack Polanski has won over?

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Embed from Getty Images It's easy for a Liberal Democrat with a good memory to find Zack Polanski irritating. His story that he stood fo...
Monday, May 11, 2026

Frank reaction today to the Lib Dem election performance

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"Am I alone in thinking our response to the local election results is a little too self-congratulatory?" asked David Vigar on Lib...
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Sunday, March 29, 2026

From our Trivia Desk: Aleister Crowley, Harold Davidson and chess

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Our Trivial Facts of the Day both come from a post by Richard James , who was my captain when I played chess for Richmond & Twickenham l...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

GUEST POST Understanding the views and worries of the City of Oxford Lib Dem

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William Lane has discovered a new political category: the Oxford Liberal Democrat. Who is she and what does she want from us? It was with g...
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Friday, October 31, 2025

Labour councillor defects to Tories after seeking to fight particular seat for Lib Dems, but there's something more interesting here

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There's a story on MyLondon about a deselected Labour councillor in Brent who has joined the Tories after first demanding to be allowed...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Inside the secret world of Eel Pie Island

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An entertaining video on the long and bohemian history of Eel Pie Island, which is to be found in the Thames between Twickenham and Ham. Hen...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Jago Hazzard goes in search of the oldest bridge in London

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London Bridge was first bridge over the Thames in London, but it's been rebuilt several times. The oldest surviving bridge on the Thames...
Monday, May 19, 2025

Zack Polanski and Alistair Darling: Two soft rides from the Guardian

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I'm late to the party on last week's Guardian interview with Zach Polanski , but I've still decided to come. Reading it today, I...
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Sunday, February 23, 2025

Ruth Shaw (1937-2024): Doyenne of Liberalism in Sutton

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Mourning the death of Adrian Slade the other day, I initially wrote that he was the Liberal Party's first councillor on the Greater Lon...
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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Saturday, February 15, 2025

Remembering Adrian Slade (1936-2025)

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I knew that Adrian Slade had died because I saw we were discussing commissioning an obituary of him for the next Liberator. But I had not fo...
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Monday, February 10, 2025

The surprisingly complicated history of Highbury and Islington

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Jago Hazzard gives a thorough and entertaining history of this long-neglected, but now thriving, London station. I too have stood beside the...
Monday, January 06, 2025

Central Line to Richmond, Bakerloo Line to Ealing

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  Jago Hazzard on two schemes proposed in a 1989 report but never built. One would really have put Turnham Green on the map. You can suppor...
Wednesday, May 08, 2024

The Joy of Six 1227

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Jan Dehn outlines the many questions being considered by the government inquiry into what happened on Alderney under Nazi occupation: ...
Friday, January 12, 2024

Zac Goldsmith gets a ban after speeding four times, but at least he keeps his trousers

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  LBC reports : Former environment minister Zac Goldsmith has been banned from driving after being caught speeding four times in London in l...
Thursday, September 07, 2023

Thames Water and the Liberal history of the Ham Lands

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Over to the Save Ham Lands and River  site: Thames Water has outlined a scheme that would involve digging a tunnel to convey treated sewage ...
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Friday, August 04, 2023

How the Lib Dems' South West London heartland once changed the face of British music

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Embed from Getty Images Richmond, Twickenham and Kingston aren't just a cradle of Liberal Democrat ambitions.They also played an importa...
Thursday, March 09, 2023

Boy who appeared in radio dramatisation of a Malcolm Saville story was later tried for murder at the Old Bailey

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This is not what you expect to find when you do a little gentle research into the BBC Children’s Hour dramatisations of Malcolm Saville’s ea...