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Saturday, February 13, 2010

The Digital Camera Diet continues

Back in September I boasted that I had lost a stone since getting my digital camera a few months before. It has been harder going since the...

Night and the City

This was a film I had been wanted to see for a long time because it is always described as an authentic noir shot in London in 1950. And it...

Six of the Best 5

Let's have another go at getting the format for this right. How about numbered bullet points, but with a line space between them? It tak...

Friday, February 12, 2010

Mystery photo

A discovery from the early days of this blog, when it had few readers. Who are these two? Answer here .

House Points: Prime minister's questions

My House Points column from today's Liberal Democrat News. You may recognise it as a distillation of an earlier effort at live blogging ...

Congratulations to Martin Brookes

This blog has occasionally crossed the path of Martin Brookes from Oakham over important matters like the town's station cat . Martin te...

Jenny Tonge "sacked as health spokesperson"

Writing on the Jewish Chronicle website, Martin Bright reports: Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has sacked controversial peer Jenny Tong...

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Six of the Best 4

Let's see how we get on without bullet points this time. *** The People's Republic of Mortimer looks at the real reason for young p...

The London Nobody Knows

This is an extraordinary film from 1967. It is written by Geoffrey Fletcher, who (as Electric Sheep explains) was an illustrator and colu...

Heresy Corner has a dungeon beneath it

One of my favourite blogs is Heresy Corner . I know that because it quotes me as saying so in its testimonials . What I had not realised is ...

The Condover Mammoth

The controversy over who discovered the mammoth skeleton at Condover in 1986 may have been settled, reports the Shropshire Star : Andy Edwar...

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

A memory of the Leicester South by-election

This empty shop in London Road was the headquarters of the successful Liberal Democrat by-election campaign in Leicester South in 2004.

Six of the Best 3

I said this new feature might appear twice a week. So far it is every two days: NW6: the blog interviews Ed Fordham, Lib Dem PPC for Hampst...

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Spring is coming earlier: Should we worry?

There was a piece in the Guardian today on a study suggesting that spring is coming earlier these days: The results showed that more than 8...

The political education of Chris Bryant

The 18 January issue of The House Magazine has an interview with Chris Bryant, the Europe minister. That interview, which does not appear to...

Joanne Cash found alive!

Last night Joanne Cash resigned as Tory PPC for Westminster North resigned. This evening she has tweeted saying: I did resign. Assoc did n...

Monday, February 08, 2010

Tory PPC for Westminster North resigns

Conservative Home reports: Ms [Joanne] Cash resigned at a special meeting of the Association tonight - also attended by Eric Pickles and Lo...

Why don't the Tories come clean on Lord Ashcroft's tax status?

Sir George Young has always seemed one of the more decent Conservatives. I felt sorry for him when Michael Martin was hoisted into the Speak...

Tomorrow at Ten at last

I have seen Tomorrow at Ten , the film at which a kidnapped small boy is locked in a room with an exploding golliwog. It is certainly not a ...

Six of the Best 2

A second outing for this new feature : Harry's Place suggests that we may never hear about another aspect of the MPs' expenses sc...

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