Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Encouraging news on encouraging chess in schools

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In February I had an article on Comment is Free looking at the works of the charity  Chess in Schools and Communities to restore the gam...

Just Cyril being Cyril?

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I first heard of the allegations against Cyril Smith when I read them in Private Eye in 1979. The Eye had picked them up from the Rochdale A...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

I'm a civilised person get me out of here

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While I have been out this evening I gather that the Conservative member for Mid Bedfordshire has been eating ostrich anus on national telev...
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Monday, November 12, 2012

The Ripon Canal meets the River Ure

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The Ripon Canal runs for a little over two miles from its basin near the centre of the city, past the racecourse to the River Ure. ...

Jersey child abuse: new readers start here

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When the Haute de la Garenne children's home failed to yield up any bodies, the newspapers lost interest. Even though, as Nick Davies h...
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Welcome to Liberator's blog

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Many readers of this blog will be familiar with Liberator , the magazine where Lord Bonkers' Diary appears. Now the magazine has its o...
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Leicester Labour helps Robert Wann avoid disqualification

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On Friday I reported that Robert Wann , the former Lord Mayor of Leicester, faced disqualification from the city council for not attending a...

Six of the Best 294

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"Fortunately the Scottish Lib Dems have done their homework and produced an admirable document spelling out how it would work, includ...
Sunday, November 11, 2012

Sam Carter: Jack Hall

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A week ago I turned on Jools Holland's Later to hear a song about a highwayman being hanged. That's real folk music. And this per...
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For Remembrance Sunday

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Saturday, November 10, 2012

Ripon canal basin

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For many years Ripon was the most northerly point on Britain's inland waterway system. The Ripon Canal takes you to the River Ure, an...
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Danny Alexander launches Ginger Rodent beer

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From BBC News : Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has helped to launch a new beer called Ginger Rodent, a nickname he was gi...
Friday, November 09, 2012

Paper Sun by Traffic - a mystery solved

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Paper Sun by Traffic is one of the great psychedelic hits of the 1960s. But where was its distinctive video (as we would call it now) filmed...
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Six of the Best 293

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Writing in the Guardian , Clare Allan draws an important moral from the Savile affair: "The various inquiries into how he was able to...

Former Leicester Lord Mayor faces disqualification

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From the Leicester Mercury : Former Lord Mayor of Leicester Robert Wann faces being kicked off the city council for not attending a meetin...
Thursday, November 08, 2012

Hawksmoor's obelisk in Ripon and the South Sea Bubble

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The bus for Ripon leaves from opposite York railway station, takes you through Little Ouseburn and Boroughbridge and makes a stylish en...

Sexual abuse in children's homes is not a new discovery

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Channel 4 News this evening was a curious mix. It reported that: From the initial investigation into north Wales child abuse in 1991 to t...

Headline of the Day involves Nottingham ferret

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A win this time for This is Nottingham (aka the Nottingham Evening Post): Disabled granny attacked by ferret as she rode mobility scooter...
Wednesday, November 07, 2012

The early days of The Spencer Davis Group and The Move

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Untold Stories is a documentary produced by Birmingham Music Heritage  that deals with the city and popular music since the 1960s. This is...

Headline of the Day features the BBC and alien life

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A win for the Daily Telegraph with: Brian Cox: BBC bosses feared alien discovery could breach editorial guidelines