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"Jonathan Calder holds his end up well in the competitive world of the blogosphere" - New Statesman
"A prominent Liberal Democrat blogger" - BBC Radio 4 Today; "One of my favourite blogs" - Stumbling
and Mumbling; "Charming and younger than I expected" - Wartime Housewife

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Steve Winwood and Carlos Santana: Why Can't We Live Together

Here is this blog's hero playing with Carlos Santana and his band at the 2004 Montreux Jazz Festival. 'Why Can't We Live Toget...

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Nick Clegg pledges no two-tier system in education

Liberal England comes to you from a hotel bedroom in York with a slightly flaky Internet connection. Before I left home I sent the follo...

Salute: The Movie

At the end of Matt Roebuck's guest post Tommie Smith: The Man Behind the Image I mentioned the film Salute: The Movie. This was mad...

Leicester suffragettes, urban warfare and Bonkers Hall

Time for a final dip into Alice Hawkins and the Suffragette Movement in Edwardian Leicester . We have read about suffragettes in Market Harb...

Friday, July 13, 2012

Government to announce electrification of the Midland Mainline

A report in tomorrow's Guardian says the government is to: embark on the biggest investment in the rail network since the Victoria...

A dig in Leicester to find Richard III?

Last month I wrote about the strong possibility that the bones of Richard III still lie under the streets of Leicester. It seems that so...

Allegations of bullying at Ludlow Town Council

In the early days of this blog the goings on at Ludlow Town Council kept my readers entertained. There was the fight that broke out and the...

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Six of the Best 260

Photo credit: Robert Cutts GamesMonitor , writing before today's news broke, welcomes us to The Security Games: "Since 2010, t...

Lib Dems "abandon" interim peers panel elections

A reader emails to alert me to the fact that Michael Crick has just reported on his blog that "the Lib Dem high command has quietly ...

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Fischer vs Spassky: It was 40 years ago today

Thanks to the invaluable Open Culture for reminding us that the first game of the chess's 'match of the century' was played o...

Isobel Logan resigns from the Women's Liberal Association

Time for another extract from Alice Hawkins and the Suffragette Movement in Edwardian Leicester by Richard Whitmore. The first dealt with t...

GUEST POST Tommie Smith: The man behind the image

This is an extract from The Other Olympics: Playing with Identity by Matt Roebuck . It describes the day he met Tommie Smith, the man at t...

Harry Potter, martial arts and lesbian and gay psychology: A reminder

Dr Martin Milton is giving a free public lecture on the links between courage, creativity and mental well-being in Leicester this Saturday ...

Labour, schools and the Forces

I find myself oddly unconcerned by the call for the armed forces to be more involved in education made by Stephen Twigg and Jim Murphy ...

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

David Cameron is the new John Major

John Major was a decent man who wanted to govern as a one-nation Conservative prime minister, but was not allowed to do so by his ungovern...

Monday, July 09, 2012

The Suffragettes in Market Harborough

On Saturday I bought a copy of Alice Hawkins and the Suffragette Movement in Edwardian Leicester by Richard Whitmore. I was looking for mor...

David Steel goes arse about face on Lords reform

If you judge a man by the company he keeps then David Steel's remaining admirers must be weeping at this paragraph from this morning...

Headline of the Day visits Bromley

From the Evening Standard : Toxic foreign moths infest Bromley

Sunday, July 08, 2012

Paddy Ashdown on Lords reform - and Alex Carlile

The former Lib Dem leader has an article in the Mail on Sunday today defending the Coalition's plans for reform of the House of Lords: ...

Captain Sensible: Wot

By 1982 the guitarist Captain Sensible (real name Raymond Burns) had parted from Rat Scabies (real name Christopher Millar) and the rest o...

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