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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Nick Clegg has given up smoking

Our Liberal Democrat News Story of the Day award goes to the Daily Mail .

Friday, November 11, 2011

Rutland and Corby?

It sounds as though Liberal Democrats in the East Midlands are falling out over boundary changes. Or they are judging by the Rutland Times...

Brian Paddick is feeling bullish

Or so the Fulham & Hammersmith Chronicle says in its interview with the Lib Dem candidate in next year's London Mayoral election: ...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: The Gareth Chilcott Inquiry

Another day with Rutland's most celebrated fictional peer. Wednesday The fashion nowadays seems to be to appoint prop forwards to ...

For Remembrance Day

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Roger Alton makes a fool of himself on national television

No one who saw Roger Alton's attempt to defend the Murdoch empire on Newsnight this evening will forget it. Puce in the face, sweating l...

Loughborough's Carnegie library

Loughborough has an ornate Edwardian public library. It is rather like the one in King's Lynn , though not as fantastical. And, as ...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: A regiment of teachers

A second day on the, er, unique Bonkers Hall Estate. Tuesday I have, ever since serving on the Escape Committee at prep school, taken ...

Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Look at Life: High, Wide and Faster

Another of these short films from the Rank Organisation - or at least the greater part of one. It must date from the mid 1960s, as Abingdon ...

Occupy London discovers some demands - and they are good ones

Today's Guardian carries a report saying that the Occupy London demonstrators have finally come up with some demands - and they are mak...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: The tramps of St James's Park

The new issue of Liberator has arrived in the post, so it is time for Liberal England readers to spend another week with Rutland's mos...

The stars over Exmoor

I was pleased to see a video report on the BBC News website about Exmoor becoming an international dark-sky reserve, even though it appears...

Tuesday, November 08, 2011

From Coronation to satellite television

Looking for the Zeppelin memorial in Loughborough on Saturday I asked a man with a barrel organ and a woman who were selling poppies out...

News of the World surveillance targets: From Ainsley Harriott to Zoe Williams

Michael Crick has the full list of the alleged targets of surveillance by the News of the World. There are 153, but Crick has excluded thos...

Six of the Best 200

On Radio Five this afternoon the solicitor of Milly Dowler’s family, Mark Lewis, accused Rupert Murdoch’s News International of behaving “...

Annette Brooke's bill on compulsory cycle helmets for children blocked

The website bikeradar.com reminds us that the Cycles (Protective Headgear for Children) Bill, put forward by Annette Brooke, Lib Dem MP for...

Monday, November 07, 2011

Look at Life: Market Place - narrated by Sid James

Another of these shorts from the Rank Organisation. This one was made in 1959 and is narrated by Sid James, very much in his Hancock chara...

Sunday, November 06, 2011

Look at Life: In Gear

Another of these Look at Life films from the Rank Organisation, this one looking at Swinging London. The sourness of the commentary is not...

Liz Lynne to stand down as West Midlands MEP

BBC News reports that Liz Lynne told the Lib Dem West Midlands regional conference yesterday that she is to stand down as an MEP: "A...

Morrissey: That's Entertainment

Mozza channels the Modfather. Enjoy.

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