Friday, June 11, 2010

David Willetts: Students "a burden on the taxpayer"

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David Willetts has been in the news for saying that cost of students is "a burden on the taxpayer" and that they should consider t...
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House Points: Michael Gove's plans for education

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My House Points column from today's Liberal Democrat News. Instinctively I am rather in favour of Gove's ideas, but it becomes harde...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

Liberal England comes to you live from Shropshire

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I have brought the Dowager Lady Bonkers to Church Stretton for a holiday and this is my view from my bedroom window. The hotel has free Wi-F...
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Steve Winwood interviewed in GQ

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There are a lot of interviews with Winwood around at the moment because of the release of his Revolutions box set. I promise not to link to...
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Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Great Central Railway. Loughborough

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Simon Hughes elected as Lib Dem deputy leader

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Congratulations to Simon Hughes , who was elected as the deputy leader of the party by Liberal Democrat MPs this evening. I cannot find the ...

Liberals and punishment

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Richard Grayson writes on the Guardian website today: Fundamental to the Conservative approach is the view that prison should be primarily ...
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Bob Russell "hauled before an employment tribunal"

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They are going at it hammer and tongs in Bury St Edmunds. From the Chelmsford Weekly News : Colchester MP Bob Russell has been hauled before...
Tuesday, June 08, 2010

The Great Market Harborough Tornado of 2010

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There is also a report in the Harborough Mail .
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Six of the Best 63

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Callooh! Callay! Lynne Featherstone has won the Orange Digital Election Award for "the best use of digital campaigning by a candidate...
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"No Perfect Heroes": Paddy Ashdown to publish a thriller

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In the course of a long and interesting interview with the East Anglian Daily Times , the former Lib Dem leader reveals something new: Paddy...

Steven Finn, Stuart Broad and Tigger

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I posted a little piece of cricketing whimsy on The Corridor last night.
Monday, June 07, 2010

In praise of Springwatch

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Environmental campaigning these days is predicated upon imminent catastrophe to such an extent that it makes the natural world seem a threat...
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People elected as MPs before the 1964 general election who are still alive

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The Snow in the Summer or So-So has the list. It is surprisingly long and contains many people - Robert Carr, Edward Short, Christopher Cha...
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Steve Winwood to join the Royal Family

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About time too, as far as this blog is concerned. Well, not quite, but yesterday's Sunday Telegraph speculated that Winwood's daugh...
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The new Wikio rankings for Lib Dem blogs

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Mark Pack has the new list. There are now 17 Liberal Democrat blogs in the top 100 political blogs in Britain. Well done everybody.
Sunday, June 06, 2010

Danny Alexander: Colonsay to the Treasury

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Danny Alexander's sudden rise means that many among the wider public know little about him. To be honest, many of us in the Liberal Demo...
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Elkie Brooks: Lilac Wine

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Like The Man with the Child in his Eyes by Kate Bush, this is a song that reminds me of my sixth-form Saturday job in a second-hand booksho...
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More on Lib Dem complaints against Phil Woolas

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Last week I wrote about Liberal Democrat attempts to have the election result in Oldham East and Saddleworth overturned. Asif Ansari , in a...
Saturday, June 05, 2010

Sir Berkeley (or Paddy Logan) at Loughborough

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Today I visited the Great Central Railway . What should I see when I came down the stairs at Loughborough Central station but Sir Berkeley ,...