Monday, October 11, 2010

Hanging Participle of the Day

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The winner is Anna Kessel of the Guardian for this effort in her piece about Ashley Young: After coming on as a half-time substitute in th...
Sunday, October 10, 2010

Great Oxendon railway tunnel

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Under the outskirts of Great Oxendon village runs a tunnel on the former Market Harborough to Northampton railway line - now the Bramp...
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Dr Feelgood: She Does It Right

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There is a happy parallel universe where music moved straight from sixties R&B to punk. In that universe, Dr Feelgood were the leading...
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Saturday, October 09, 2010

St Helen's, Great Oxendon - 17th century graffiti

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Today I went to Great Oxendon, a Northamptonshire village to the south of Market Harborough. While I was away the town had a visit from the ...

Chris Huhne's Telegraph interview: Nothing to see here

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There has been a disproportionate amount of coverage this morning for Chris Huhne's remark, in the course of an interview with the Daily...
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Welland Rivers Trust website is online

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On 5 May 2010 (the eve of the general election) I attended a meeting about the state and future of the River Welland. The Welland Rivers ...
Friday, October 08, 2010

Alan Johnson is neither Ed Balls nor married to him

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It is hard to escape the conclusion that Alan Johnson has been made shadow chancellor because: he is not Ed Balls; he is not married to Ed...
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Shropshire buses in 1967

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Before my New York interlude I was working through my summer holiday for you on this blog. I had got as far as White Grit on the way to ...

Philippa Foot and the purpose of moral philosophy

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The moral philosopher Philippa Foot died earlier this week on her 90th birthday. Her work was at the heart of the recent revival in virtue ...
Thursday, October 07, 2010

Sir Norman Wisdom: A sort of tribute

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Like Backwatersman , I was never a great admirer of Norman Wisdom. In fact, I now live in fear that someone will broadcast a series of his...
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Demolition of Bowstring Bridge and Pump & Tap may have been pointless

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Earlier this week the Leicester Mercury reported that government spending cuts may lead to the cancellation of De Montfort University's...

National Poetry Day: Naming of Parts by Henry Reed

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It is National Poetry Day . Last year's choice was by Edward Thomas . You can find links to earlier choices in that post. Naming of ...
Wednesday, October 06, 2010

NIck Clegg and CND

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For reasons best known to itself, the Guardian now lets Zoe Williams write on politics. In this morning's paper, writing in praise of de...
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Six of the Best 96

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John Hemming watched last night's Panorma on Children in Care: "What this does is demonstrate the perspective of some of the child...
Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Daily Mail columnist looks to Lib Dems to save Britain from Liam Fox and Trident

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Extraordinary stuff from Andrew Alexander : The problem about Fox is that he has no judgment whatever about strategic affairs. He was, of a...
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Ending child benefit for higher rate taxpayers

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As I understand it, the left's alternative to ending child benefit payments to higher rate taxpayers is to continue paying the benefit t...
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A 1959 television interview with T.H. White

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The BBC website has an archive of interviews with British novelists from Virginia Woolf to Zadie Smith. Among them is an interview with m...
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Monday, October 04, 2010

Dispatches: Tabloids, Tories and Telephone Hacking

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Earlier this evening Channel 4 screened an edition of Dispatches looking at allegations that Andy Coulson was aware that News of the World j...
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Chris Huhne: David Miliband lost because he was honest about the scale of the deficit

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Sunday, October 03, 2010

John Martyn: Solid Air

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The posting below was written before I realised I would not be able to embed Martyn's 1987 live performance of this song in Dublin. S...
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