Showing posts with label Simon Titley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Simon Titley. Show all posts
Monday, February 16, 2026

The political effect of our "silent epidemic of loneliness"

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The Liberal Democrats have proposed a network of "Hobby Hubs" to combat what they call a "silent epidemic of loneliness"...
Monday, January 26, 2026

"Like trying to do geometry with blancmange": My Liberator article on Blue Labour

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Move over Lord Bonkers: I have an article in the new Liberator (issue 344). You can download the whole issue for free from the magazine...
Friday, July 11, 2025

The belligerent youths are back: The sacking of Christine Jardine

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When Christine Jardine was sacked as the Liberal Democrats' spokesperson Women and Equalities and on Scotland, some bright spark briefed...
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Saturday, June 07, 2025

The meaninglessness of 'progressive' in politics

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The late great Simon Titley once wrote: "Progressive." What does it mean? The only discernible meaning is "not conservative...
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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, March 07, 2024

"Here is the news from Rutland. This is Edith Weston reading it."

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It's all happening in Oakham at the moment. This weekend will see the Queen Edith Festival, marking the approximate 1000th anniversary ...
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Friday, April 28, 2023

Mark Oaten is a council candidate in South Gloucestershire

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Mark Oaten, the former Liberal Democrat MP, is standing for the council in South Gloucestershire next week. He is in one of our two candidat...
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Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Maybe the dead do speak to us, but in their own way

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As Lord Bonkers might put it, the dead are Terribly Dead. I've had no sense of my mother's presence since she died, even though I...
Saturday, September 17, 2022

My Liberator article on the prospects for a Progressive Alliance

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This article on the prospects for a Progressive Alliance of the non-Conservative parties at the next general election appears in the new iss...
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Friday, May 13, 2022

Yesterday's local by-elections and a progressive alliance

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There were two local by-elections yesterday. Both were in Conservative-held seats and the Conservatives lost both of them. The results also ...
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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, April 01, 2020

Liberator celebrates its 50th birthday

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To celebrate Liberator's 50th birthday, the whole of its latest issue - the magazine's 400th - can be downloaded as a pdf for free...
Saturday, October 26, 2019

I am voting for Mark Pack as Lib Dem president

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Liberal Democrat members will have received an email giving them details of how to vote online in the party's internal elections. The...
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Friday, December 07, 2018

Getty Images and anonymous comments: Two bits of Liberal England housekeeping

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Embed from Getty Images As soon as Getty Images allowed private users to embed their images free of charge, I have made free use of th...
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Sunday, September 30, 2018

The 5th Dimension: Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In

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I know what they say, but I remember the 1960s and the picture we have of it now as a musical wonderland is only half the story. Simon T...
Friday, August 17, 2018

It would have been a very poor result if we hadn't gained Knaresborough last night

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There were three local by-elections last night and in one them the Liberal Democrats gained the seat from the Conservatives. So a g...
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Sunday, November 12, 2017

Goodbye to Phil Reilly - and a note on Liberal Democrat history

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Embed from Getty Images Phil Reilly has announced his decision to step down as the Liberal Democrats' director of communications in a...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

A drone flight over Crowland Abbey

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A drone flight over this little-known Lincolnshire parish church and monastic ruin. I visited Crowland Abbey and the town's unique ...
Friday, December 30, 2016

Ralph Bancroft and Simon Titley

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Ever since I bought a scanner I have been searchng the house for old photographs. This one is rather sad. I would guess it was taken a ...
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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Jasper Gerard is the Liberal Democrats' new head of press

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Apologies if I am late to the party, but I have not seen this reported anywhere in the media or the Lib Dem blogosphere. The new Liberat...