Thursday, April 12, 2012

Harborough Conservatives want to keep dogs on the lead

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You know how Conservatives are meant to be against red tape and petty regulations? That doesn't seems to apply here in Harborough. F...
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Six of the Best 241

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The article is behind the paper's paywall, so thanks to Liberal Democrat Voice for giving us a substantial quote from Paddy Ashdown...

Les Dawson and John Cleese

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I remember watching the fourth and final series of Monty Python - the one made without John Cleese - religiously in 1974. Pretty soon to d...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Bewildering First Sentence of the Day

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Won by The Sun for its: Women have been warned to beware of 'fake nudists' after several females were approached by naked men on...

A chance to blog about killing, sport, mental health or learning disablities

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In my day job I work for the British Psychological Society. We have our Annual Conference in London next week and we are inviting bloggers...

How a police state came to Britain

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I am currently reading The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians revelled in death and detection and invented modern crime by Judith Fl...
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Titanic - In Her Own Words

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Being middle class, I sometimes fall asleep with Radio 4 on. In the small hours the same wavelength is  taken over by the BBC World Service ...

Liberal Democrat party election broadcast

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I am nothing if not loyal, so here is the party's broadcast for next month's local elections.

Professor Randolph Barker wins Name of the Day

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Puzzled reader: How can such a prosaic name win this prestigious award? Liberal England replies: Because Professor Barker from Virginia...
Monday, April 09, 2012

Theddingworth village hall

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Theddingworth has a Norman church with significant monuments and a Congregational chapel from the early 19th century. But both were locke...
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Lord Bonkers on the sinking of the Titanic

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Lord Bonkers, who was Liberal MP for Rutland South-West 1906-10, writes exclusively for Liberal England Can it really be 100 years since...

Kenneth Clarke on why politicians must sometimes say no to the security services

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Jerry Hayes writes on Dale & Co. today: I fear that I was over optimistic when I wrote that Nick Clegg had scuppered the sinister un-...

Six of the Best 240

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Liberal Youth has a new policy on internships, reports Callum Morton : "Not only does it call for those on internships or work experi...
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Sunday, April 08, 2012

Sculpture at Foxton locks

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Back in November 2008 I wrote of the old inclined plane at Foxton : Over the years the remains have been cleaned up and interpreted hal...
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Charles Masterman and modern British art

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Tall Tales from the Tree s is written by Colin Salter, who turns out to be a distant relative of this blog's hero Charles Masterman. I...

Aprile Millo: Ineggiamo

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This, a rare and seasonal excursion into the world of opera for my Sunday music video, is the Easter hymn - or "Ineggiamo" - fro...
Saturday, April 07, 2012

Swimming and poverty

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A month ago, six African-American teenagers drowned in a single incident in Louisiana, prompting soul-searching about why so many young bla...
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Lord Bonkers on Trenton Oldfield and the Boat Race protest

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Lord Bonkers writes exclusively for Liberal England: I can remember the year a Soviet submarine disrupted the Boat Race. These Marxist...

A seasonal winner for Headline of the Day

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Well done This is Somerset : Stretch of A39 closed after hand grenade is found during Easter Egg Hunt
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Friday, April 06, 2012

Theddingworth railway station

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If you approached Theddingworth station along the gated road from Laughton and saw the station master's house, signal box and statio...