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Friday, February 29, 2008

House Points: Mr Speaker Martin

My House Points column from today's Liberal Democrat News . Mr Speaker Martin It’s true. Much of the whispering campaign against the Spe...

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Earthquakes in Britain

With British earthquakes in the news again, I refer the interested reader to three earlier postings on this blog: Earthquakes in Kent More B...

Paul Holmes praises Castro

Tim Worstall reprints the text of a Commons Early Day Motion in praise of Fidel Castro and the list of its signatories. I had a glance a...

Jersey's democratic deficit

From The Economist : At the root of many of the island's problems is its halting democracy. Though politicians are elected, voters have ...

"It was impossible for Dr Kelly to have died like that"

Hagley Road to Ladywood has an interview with Norman Baker about his book The Strange Death of Dr Kelly : What triggered your interest in t...

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Tim Farron and the badgers

Tim Farron has a press release on the Liberal Democrat site saying that "the culling of badgers in TB hotspots with 'hard' bou...

Winwood, Clapton and North Korea

This week Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton are playing three concerts at Madison Square Gardens, New York. Two of them have now taken place an...

Jersey Quote of the Day

Holy Moly reports a comment from a Jersey resident asked by the BBC for his views on the child abuse scandal: "I'm sure if there h...

Stuart Syvret has a blog

Stuart Syvret , the Jersey senator at the centre of the revelation of the island's child abuse scandal, has his own blog. Thanks to John...

Earthquake latest

An expert calling the BBC from America has just said that our earthquake was 4.7 on the Richter scale and that the epicentre was 30 miles so...

Was that an earthquake?

Well it certainly felt like one here in Market Harborough.

Ed Davey and the Great Lib Dem Walk Out

As I have never been keen on the idea of a referendum on British membership, I find it hard to get too excited by yesterday's events. Pe...

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Former Iraqi employees of the British Government

Dan Hardie has been campaigning for Iraqi ex-employees of the British Government to be given asylum here because they face such dangers at h...

The Dirty Dozen 2

My second Dirty Dozen - a selection of daft and interesting posts made on Labour and Tory blogs in February - can be found at Liberal Democr...

Monday, February 25, 2008

The Jersey child abuse scandal

I still remember an article in the first ever issue of the New Statesman that I ever bought - it must have been in 1977 or even 1976. It wa...

Hitler's ban on home education still stands in Germany

Dare to Know points us to a story from Saturday's Guardian. The newspaper reports that families are fleeing to the UK from Germany to ...

BritBlog Roundup 158

A roundup of all that is best in British blogging from the last week can be found at Redemption Blues .

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Vince Cable: The man they couldn't gag

The Cult of Cable continues to grow. Today's Mail on Sunday reports: Financial Services Authority chairman Sir Callum McCarthy telephon...

The La's: Timeless Melody

Lee Mavers , the lead singer and songwriter with the La's, is one of the lost talents of British pop. With his band, which released it...

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Nick Clegg is dreaming of gardens in the sky

No, it's not a metaphor for his ambitions of doubling the number of Lib Dem MPs. He means it literally. A couple of days ago the Manches...

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