Thursday, August 18, 2011

Voting in the Total Politics Blog Awards 2011 closes tomorrow

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Was there something you meant to do today? Voting in the Total Politics Blog Awards 2011 closes at midnight tomorrow (Friday). Click on...

Leicester after the riots

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Martin Brookes has taken some photographs of boarded up shops in Leicester following last week's riots. Seeing that a pound shop and s...
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The problem with Centre Forum's "five-a-day" parenting campaign

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A few days ago I was down in London for a social media training day on the Robin Hood Tax, which I have never got around to writing about. ...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

The Bridges, Ratlinghope

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After Stiperstones I got back on the bus to go round to Bridges. The pub here used to be called The Horseshoes and when I first went there...

Tom Brake is wrong about retribution

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According to BBC News : Liberal Democrat MP Tom Brake said sentences "should be about restorative justice", not retribution. I sh...

Headline of the Day

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The winner, yet again, is the Shropshire Star: Reindeer head is stolen from Wem home Later: An honourable mention to the Bradford Teleg...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Rumours of new Half Man Half Biscuit album

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Not only that, but this post on Half Man Half Biscuit Lyrics Project board suggests that one of the tracks will be called "Descent of ...

Stiperstones Primary School

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My first stop on the Shropshire Hills Shuttle was the village of Stiperstones. I wanted to have a coffee at the Stiperstones Inn and to s...

Six of the Best 180

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In a powerful piece for Liberal Democrat Voice , Ewan Hoyle argues that our flawed drug laws were at the heart of the riots: "What if t...

Duncan Hames and Simon Wright become PPSs

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News reaches me from Cowley Street that two Liberal Democrat MPs have been appointed as parliamentry private secretaries. Duncan Hames (Ch...
Sunday, August 14, 2011

Nick Clegg should be grateful that Lord Bonkers is less punitive than he is

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I have been trying to write a post over the weekend arguing against the idea that the families of those convicted (apparently merely charged...
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Dando Shaft: Rain

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Three years ago I wrote about the wonderful Polly Bolton . I was looking for a Dando Shaft track that featured her, but I liked this one b...
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Denis Compton, John Fothergill and Market Harborough

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Today I picked up a copy of An Ambition Realised , a privately published memoir by Tony Hackett, who grew up in Market Harborough during Wor...

Nick Clegg in the Leicester Mercury - or not

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A tweet from the Mercury's political correspondent David MacLean .
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Simon Hoggart and the way we live now

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How quickly we have become accustomed to being treated like cattle. Here is Simon Hoggart writing in the Guardian this morning: Coming h...

The Shropshire Hills Shuttles

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If you are visiting the Shropshire hills I recommend the Shropshire Hills Shuttles : The Shuttles are 16-seater mini-buses which provide e...
Friday, August 12, 2011

Six of the Best 179

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The police behaved brilliantly in the riots and David Cameron was wrong to criticise them, argues Political Parry . "I'm upset fo...

Conservatives lose Eton

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That must really hurt. From BBC News: An Eton College teacher has won a council seat in the Berkshire borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. ...
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Thursday, August 11, 2011

The collapsing churches of Shrewsbury

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They have had mixed luck with their churches in Shrewsbury. One morning in 1788 the parishioners of old St Chad's awoke to find they ha...
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Simon Hughes to sue News International over phone hacking

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The Guardian website is reporting this evening that Simon Hughes is to sue News International over phone hacking. It quotes him as tellin...
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