Monday, October 30, 2006

Jim Wallace to publish memoirs

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Jim Wallace's call for the Holyrood First Minister and his or her deputy to have a seat in a reformed House of Lords has gained some pub...
Sunday, October 29, 2006

Mystery at Bonkers Hall

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I have remarked before that many literary scholars regard Nevill Holt in Leicestershire as the model for Bonkers Hall, the ancestral home o...
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BelindaOatenWatch

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FreeThink points us towards an article in the Daily Mail .

Henry Porter in the Observer

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Porter now occupies the role that Nick Cohen used to have in the Observer . He is the columnist who makes you cheer by exposing this governm...
Saturday, October 28, 2006

We'll always have Powys

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The Shropshire Star reports : TV weathergirl Sian Lloyd today scoffed newspaper reports that her two-year engagement to Mid Wales MP Lembit...
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Friday, October 27, 2006

House Points: Safeguarding vulnerable groups?

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Today's House Points from Liberal Democrat News. It owes an indecent amount to the Manifesto Club report The Case Against Vetting: How ...
Thursday, October 26, 2006

Little blue men

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In May 1997 a flying saucer was seen over Michael Howard's house in Kent. I think that explains a lot.
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Dave Hill on the BBC

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Quite : The BBC makes heroes out of big babies like Jeremy Clarkson, bigheads like Jonathan Ross and big bullies like Chris Moyles - Grown M...
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Nick Robinson Ate My Hamster

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Lovers of political cartoons may enjoy this blog . Lord Bonkers adds: The owner's portrait of me is regarded by many art historians as...

Irony in Arundel

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The BBC reports : A West Sussex fire station which did not have a fire alarm fitted has been badly damaged in a blaze.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006

I've got a nice cuttlefish for you

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Factchecking Pollyanna - the blog which keeps an eye on Polly Toynbee's Guardian columns - has woken up. Its most recent posting looks...
Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Why aren't you in school, Mr Tompkins?

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Red faces in Colchester last week: A policing crackdown on truants hit a snag yesterday when it emerged many pupils were out of the classr...
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Anna Russell and Don Thompson

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Two great eccentrics had their obituaries in the Guardian today. Anna Russell , who has died at the age of 94, was a musician and satirist, ...
Monday, October 23, 2006

Bridgnorth Cliff Railway

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Talking of Bridgnorth, this is rather wonderful.

Community action in Shropshire

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The Star reports : Residents faced with paying thousands of pounds to repair Bridgnorth council sewage works are considering taking over th...

New blow to Cameron

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David Cameron has received a further setback in his attempt to make the Conservative Party more representative of modern Britain. At the sta...
Sunday, October 22, 2006

Me and Wogan vs Jonathan Ross

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We know what's going on, me and Wogan. Here is Terry quoted in today's Sunday Telegraph : "As for those much-trumpeted seven-f...
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Chocolate money for the Lib Dems

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Good news from ePolitix: The Liberal Democrats are to receive a £2m donation from the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust. The gift will be a majo...
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Saturday, October 21, 2006

John Humphrys remembers Aberfan

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The Aberfan disaster took place 40 years ago today: I have always said and I will always say that nothing - nothing - I will ever see will ...
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From Pansea Bay to Phuket

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Mark and Belinda Oaten have been to Thailand . I hope they had nice weather for it. They have also been on Woman's Hour .