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Thursday, December 09, 2010

Winter ravens on the Stiperstones

Photo by Sabine J Hutchinson http://www.virtual-shropshire.co.uk/ My favourite Shropshire hill ranges featured in this week's The ...

Meanwhile at the New Statesman

How has the magazine been getting on since it decided it could manage without my services ? The new Private Eye provides us with a clue: ...

Richard Jefferies and Walt Disney

There was much hilarity this time last year when it was announced that Swindon was to be twinned with Disney World in Florida. But, accord...

Wednesday, December 08, 2010

There is a radical case for higher tuition fees

I have spent the last few days at my mother's house helping her as she has just had knee replacement surgery. The situation, as we agree...

Tame the Vampire Squid: Take Back Our Banks

Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Calder on Air: From Mandy to Miranda

My Calder on Air column from last week's Liberal Democrat News . The real Mandy? Mandelson: The Real PM? (BBC4) promised the viewer...

The shorter Mike Hancock

I see no reason why I should stop digging just because I am in a hole.

An end to pledges

Much of the trouble the Liberal Democrats face over tuition fees comes not because the party is voting against the policies on which it foug...

Wizzard: Ballpark Incident

I am back to blogging, and the first thing to do is post a music video. Market Harborough is full of posters for a Roy Wood concert whi...

Thursday, December 02, 2010

Blogging will be light

I have family commitments for the next few days, so there may not be many posts on Liberal England. While I am away, you can enjoy: Liber...

Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Llandudno Junction: The end of my holiday

What with it being December and there being snow on the ground, it is time I finished my What I Did On My Holidays posts. Conwy station h...

Yes! to Fairer Votes opens 14 regional phonebanks

From the Yes! to Fairer Votes website: We are launching phonebanks in every part of the UK. Below are the first of those locations. This...

Liberal Democrat MPs should not abstain on tuition fees

I find it hard to see why there is so much enthusiasm at Westminster for the idea that all Liberal Democrat MPs should abstain when he vote ...

Lembit Opik to wed?

So say The Sun , the Daily Express and the Daily Mail . Maybe not then.

Plas Mawr, Conwy

This is Plas Mawr in Conwy, whose guidebook tells you it has been described is the finest Elizabethan townhouse in Britain. It has r...

Slightly belated Traditional End of Month Lolcat

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Trivial Fact of the Day ends in a tie

All day the sounds of raised voices, overturning furniture and muffled gunshots have been heard coming from the room where the judges for ou...

More in sorrow than in Ongar

Earlier today a party member happily tweeted a link to an article on the Brentwood and Ongar Liberal Democrats website. Under the headlin...

Monday, November 29, 2010

Six of the Best 111

More good humoured are Laws’s accounts of Paddy Ashdown, who comes through in the book as having played a central role as an advisor to Nick...

Sunday, November 28, 2010

The Herd: I Don't Want Our Loving to Die

This is another of the sixties tracks where I have always known the song but probably could not tell you the name of the band that recorde...

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