Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Sandra Gidley found alive!

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Good news. Sandra Gidley, the Lib Dem MP for Romsey and one of the pioneers of blogging at Westminster, has revived her blog Romsey Redhead ...

A tribute to John Biffen

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It comes from the Shropshire Star . John Biffen was MP for Oswestry and then Shropshire North from 1961 to 1997.
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Tim Garden

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I was very sorry to hear of the death of Tim Garden. I met him when I was a member of the Lib Dem federal policy committee and found him kin...
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Monday, August 13, 2007

The Whisperers

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A dotty old lady imagines that all sorts of crimes are taking place in her neighbourhood and dutifully reports them at her local police sta...
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Don't build on the flood plain, darling

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At the end of June - a couple of floods ago - I wrote about the Shropshire Wildlife Trusts call for an end to building on flood plains. I ...

Praise for the Lib Dem stance on terrorism

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Rupert George has an article on e gov monitor on the limitations of Gordon Brown's approach to combating terrorism. He writes: The sens...

BritBlog Roundup 130

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Tim Worstall has come off the bench (like a latter-day Ole Gunnar Solskjaer) to ensure that this week's selection of the best in Britis...

Scots politicians lose their accents

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From yesterday's Scotland on Sunday : A study of the speech of major political figures has shown that senior Scots at Westminster have c...
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News Stories of the Day

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Dawn French : I've nothing much to say but it's time I was in the papers. Don Foster : I've nothing much to say but it's tim...
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Jeremy Thorpe and the hovercraft

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Liberal Burblings reminds us of the summer of 1974 and one of the most bizarre pieces of political campaigning you will ever come across. S...
Sunday, August 12, 2007

Balls to the Bilderberg Group

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Leafing through the virtual Sunday Telegraph I discover the following: Cabinet minister Ed Balls spent thousands of pounds of taxpayers...

Guerrilla gardening

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George Orwell once said that some things are true even though they are in the Daily Telegraph . Similarly, some people are in the right even...
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My dog's got two noses

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How does it smell? The BBC report doesn't say.
Saturday, August 11, 2007

Baby Baby Spice

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Congratulations to Emma Bunton on the birth of her baby boy . Of course, she may find that motherhood changes her outlook on life: " ...

Correction of the Day

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From the Guardian : We suggested in a column (Is streaking antisocial or harmless British eccentricity?, page 2, G2, August 9) that a vulgar...

Summer of British Film: Social realism

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Let's keep this brief. Another week in the BBC Festival . Am I the only person to dislike Billy Elliot ? It was one of my 10 most overra...
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Iraqi interpreters update

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Dan Hardie has written another posting. The campaign to have these people given asylum in Britain is making progress, but Dan points out th...
Friday, August 10, 2007

The Leather Boys

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This Summer of British Film is hard work, but I am keeping up so far. I enjoyed The Leather Boys more than I expected. One of the reviews ...
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George Galloway: Poplar not Blackburn

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The BBC reports that George Galloway is to stand against the transport minister Jim Fitzpatrick in Poplar and Limehouse at the next general...

David Shayler: I am the Messiah

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The Register reports: Well-known former MI5 officer and 9/11 conspiracy theorist David Shayler has taken a further step along the path to ...