Monday, January 31, 2005

Jo Grimond

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There is a pleasant short tribute on the website of the Orcadian newspaper.

No one's votin' for Oaten

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Peter Black AM has joined the outcry: If any issue required a clear Liberal steer then this is it. This is an opportunity once more for th...
Sunday, January 30, 2005

Simon Titley on Mark Oaten

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Trenchant stuff over on Liberal Dissenter: When a Law Lord and a Labour MP can demonstrate a better grasp of liberalism and express it in ...

Chris Morris

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There is a profile of the great man in today's Observer . Thanks to Nick Barlow for the tip - I didn't buy a Sunday paper.
Saturday, January 29, 2005

I shall write this only once

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A few days ago we reported the sad state of the little Shropshire town on Cleobury Mortimer. It is "strife torn" and has been ...

The Westminster Bookshop...

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...opened at 8 Artillery Row, London SW1, in October last year. It's the same premises that Politicos occupied before it went virtual. ...

Better than any anti-ageing cream?

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Spiked has a pleasing dissection of those annoying Teacher Training Agency advertisements, written by Dolan Cummings: It's bad enough ...
Friday, January 28, 2005

Gambling and 24-hour drinking

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Here is today's House Points column from Liberal Democrat News . Ayes down Casino Royale , the first James Bond book, begins: “Th...
Thursday, January 27, 2005

Patrick Hamilton

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I have posted a new entry to my anthology blog Serendib: the opening lines of the novel The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton. I t...

Julian Le Grand

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There is a feature in today's Guardian about Tony Blair's inner circle. One of the people profiled in depth is Julian Le Grand . ...

Holocaust Memorial Day

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Yesterday Charles Clarke announced plans to introduce house arrest to Britain. What did the Independent put on its front page? Auschwitz. ...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2005

MPs' working hours

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MPs have voted to restore late-night sittings on Tuesdays by a surprisingly large majority of 67. The Commons will now sit from 2.30 to 10....
Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Michael Howard on immigration

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The policies the Tories are putting forward on immigration prove two things. The first is that they do not expect to win the forthcoming gen...
Monday, January 24, 2005

Listen with Gladstone

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As today was meant to be the most depressing day of the year, I took it as holiday and went to London. I renewed my House of Commons Press G...
Saturday, January 22, 2005

Daily Telegraph bemoans the Vicky Pollard generation

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Here is a good harrumphing piece with more than a little truth to it: The "don't-blame-me" mentality personified by Vicky Po...

Cleobury Mortimer: "Strife torn", "Plunged into chaos"

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Forget Beirut or Baghdad. According to the Shropshire Star , it's Cleobury Mortimer we should be worrying about: Two new rows have blo...
Friday, January 21, 2005

Jerry Springer - The Opera

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My House Points column from today's Liberal Democrat News : Banning the Beeb There's nothing like imminent retirement to make...
Thursday, January 20, 2005

More Lib Dem blogs added

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It's a big Liberal England hello to Dominic Tristram and No Geek is an Island , which have both joined the list on the right.

Under Market Harborough

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From the Leicester Mercury : A flood defence network may be delayed by the discovery of a suspected underground river, it was revealed today...

Reclaim the swastika

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Proof that life in a multicultural society is more complicated than the average politician grasps comes in the form of this report from the...