Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Getting the bubbles into a Wispa

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For once some news from the Welsh Liberal Democrats that doesn't involve Lembit Opik. Writes David Cornock on the BBC website: The ...
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A slow news day in Shropshire?

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From the Shropshire Star : Former Spice Girl Mel B today denied she was planning to leave her Beverley Hills retreat for a new home in Shrop...
Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Denial is just a river in Egypt

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Frank Furedi has a new essay on the Spiked website. Billed as the first in a series on "Really Bad Ideas", it looks at the curren...
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Discovering Malcolm Saville

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At last, I am not the only blogger interested in this children's author , best described as "a thinking child's Enid Blyton...
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Good news from North Wiltshire

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Good news for the Liberal Democrats, at any rate. James Gray MP has been reselected to fight North Wiltshire for the Conservatives after a ...
Monday, January 29, 2007

Lembit: Latest love shock

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Thanks to the Guardian .
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Paul Channon and The Winslow Boy

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Iain Dale reports that the former Conservative cabinet minister Paul Channon has died. Time, I think, to uncork one of my favourite trivial...

North Wiltshire Tory selection latest

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The row over James Gray's attempt to keep his Commons seat is becoming almost unbearably sordid. The Daily Telegraph reports : The wif...
Sunday, January 28, 2007

How Chris Huhne won the leadership election

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Last year's Lib Dem leadership election was noticeably light on policy discussion, but two issues did achieve some prominence. On each o...
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Saturday, January 27, 2007

Leave Them Kids Alone

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A site campaigning against the fingerprinting of children at school.

Dial M For Merthyr

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More Welsh film titles than you can shake a stick at.
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Did illegal eavesdropping change the course of the Lib Dem leadership election?

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No. But politicalbetting.com thinks it is worth asking the question .

No. 10's secret e-mail system

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Guido Fawkes and BlairWatch have the details. I don't know how shocked we should be, but it all helps to add to the sense of crisis en...
Friday, January 26, 2007

Snailbeach District Railway

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A group has been set up to restore this narrow gauge railway in the wilds of Shropshire. It has, of course, its own blog . The line never ca...
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No New Trident

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The Lib Dem Peace and Security Group has set up a site to boost its campaign to commit the party to opposing a replacement for Trident. The...

John Prescott and Sir Anthony Eden

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I have referred a couple of times to the story that, when Eden took a cruise after his resignation over Suez, his cabin steward was a youn...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Eaten by Missionaries

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Iain Sharpe tells me that his blog has woken up. It is well worth a visit. He writes : it’s harder to start blogging again once you have st...
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Working my way back to you

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Blogging remains light - and is likely to do so for a while - because of continued family problems. The same is true for my other writing ef...
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Saturday, January 20, 2007

Correction of the Week

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This effort from Monday's Guardian deserves to be remembered: A rigid application of the Guardian style guide caused us to say of Carl...

That was the week that was

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Apologies for the lack of updates since Monday. I did warn you. Here are some meaty stories that came up during my absence from the blogosp...