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Sunday, May 04, 2008

The National Association of Head Teachers and bad behaviour

A BBC report on the union's 2007 conference : Parents too often encourage their children to behave badly at school by giving endless exc...

The Fifth Dimension: Wedding Bell Blues

No great sociological significance this week, just a great and forgotten record. Fifth Dimension has the US hit with "Up, Up and Aw...

Saturday, May 03, 2008

Will Tory triumphalism be their undoing?

Martin Bright writes on his New Statesman blog: I was sitting on a panel in the Sky News studios at 2.30am this morning when something hor...

Why are the Lib Dems so bad at PR elections?

For a party that is so keen on proportional representation, the Liberal Democrats do disappointingly badly when the system is actually emplo...

Controversial mayor to leave post

Not London, Ludlow . Photo by Sabine J Hutchinson http://www.virtual-shropshire.co.uk/

Don't forget to nominate something for the BritBlog Roundup

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Friday, May 02, 2008

The 2008 local elections

I had intended to blog the results last night, but did not get any further than off ering an unrivalled service to Derby Arboretum Ward . In...

House Points: A ban on junk food advertising?

My column from today's Liberal Democrat News . Unhealthy food talk On Friday all sensible Conservatives were away working in the local e...

Lib Dems gain seat in Derby

The Arboretum ward, no less. Derby, incidentally, is run by a Lab/Con coalition. And there is more on Derby Arboretum here .

Thursday, May 01, 2008

"For all their faults, Lib Dems are best of a bad bunch"

The Liverpool Daily Post LDP Business site displays great political wisdom, and in passing wins Headline of the Day. Note too its observat...

Three popular Basils of the 1970s

A little fun for polling day. Click the pictures to learn more.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Dirty Dozen 4

The latest of my monthly selections of the worst and best in Labour and Tory blogging has just gone up at Lib Dem Voice .

A great way to promote your blog

The Britblog Roundup - a selection of the best in British blogging from the past week - was founded by Tim Worstall in February 2005 and a...

A referendum on the Lisbon treaty - in Ireland

Don't worry, I am not going to revisit the Liberal Democrats' recent traumas over the subject. But there is going to be referendum o...

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Crewe and Nantwich by-election on 22 May

Or so the BBC says . And Iain Dale is not impressed: It's unprecedented to call a by election before the funeral of the previous MP has...

Headline of the Day

You can rely on the Shropshire Star : Cheesemaking giant dies, aged 88

BritBlog Roundup 167

This week with added Amused Cynicism .

Monday, April 28, 2008

Lembit and Gabriela in Rome

All part of the service .

Search of the Day

Someone at the BBC has just Googled for "brian paddick" round the horne . Sigh. It was Hugh Paddick - though Wikipedia claims ...

The perils of taking your fox up the aisle

My latest New Statesman column is up on the magazine's website.

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