Saturday, August 15, 2009

Novel trade union recruiting method sighted over Little Bowden

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Lib Dem Voice needs a blogroll

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The other day I posted the tongue-in-cheek suggestion that Liberal Democrat Voice is devouring the rest of the Lib Dem blogosphere . There h...
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Friday, August 14, 2009

Will a call to privatise the NHS be Liberal Vision's Conference stunt?

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In recent years Liberal Democrat annual conferences have been enlivened by Ben Ramm's poetry magazine The Liberal calling for the party...
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A photograph of Gumley Hall

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I have written about the village of Gumley and its cricket ground recently. The Leicestershire County Council site has a picture of the F...
Thursday, August 13, 2009

Good news for St Albans Lib Dems

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Conservative Home reports that Ann Main MP, Tory MP for St Albansm has survived the attempt to deselect her. Which is good news from Sandy...

Noel Symington and his exploding Mosleyite soup

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Each week the Harborough Mail takes a look at stories from the past in a feature called The Vault. One of the stories this week is from 2...
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Top Gear is the new Last of the Summer Wine

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I have been known to complain about the BBC's habit of describing the ageing presenters of Top Gear as "boys". The week after...
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Green Party abandons internal election over dirty tricks

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Yesterday I wrote about the contest to become the Green Party's external communications officer and the increasingly nasty tone it has ...
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Heydon Prowse in The Secret Garden

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Heydon Prowse and his Don't Panic website are in the news because of a secretly filmed interview in which Alan Duncan complained that M...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Greens throw mud in internal party election

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A couple of readers have contacted me today about the Green Party's election for its external communications officer. Rupert Read and Ja...
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Tory polls predict Lib Dems will gain St Albans

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Last week I reported the rows with St Albans Conservatives. Tonight comes news from the St Albans & Harpenden Review that Matt Peck, a ...

Bats may save Bowstring Bridge

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From today's Leicester Mercury : Experts are to study Leicester's Bowstring Bridge before its planned demolition next month to ensur...
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Gumley's cricket field

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At the top of Gumley village the road curves around the mysterious mound and then takes you to one of my favourite cricket grounds. It stan...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

A new discussion group for Lib Dem bloggers

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Ryan Cullen - the man behind the invaluable LibDemBlogs aggregator - has set up an email group for Liberal Democrat bloggers . There was a b...
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Look out for the Perseids tonight

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From the Daily Telegraph : The Perseids happen every year in August when the Earth passes through rock and dust fragments left behind by the...

Is Liberal Democrat Voice eating the Lib Dem blogosphere?

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With the Lib Dem Blog of the Year Awards upon us again, it is time to see how the former winners are getting on. In 2006 the main award was...
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The battle over introducing public healthcare

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President Obama's travails over his attempt to introduce a measure of public healthcare to the United States remind me of a House Points...
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Monday, August 10, 2009

British government spies on half a million citizens

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From Computer Weekly : The government last year gave permission to intercept the phone calls, letters and e-mails of more than 500,000 citiz...

The contradictions of Gumley

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Gumley is a village dominated by Gumley Hall 1764 which was demolished over 50 years ago. So says a document (Word file) from Harborough Dis...
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National Allotment Week and Prince Kropotkin

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Birkdale Focus has a superb post by Iain Brodie Brown that starts by noting that this is National Allotment Week, goes on to quote Peter Kr...
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