Wednesday, December 12, 2012

BBC Inside Out South West on Jersey child abuse

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The Jersey blogger Voice for Children has posted a video of this week's BBC South West documentary about the investigation into child...

West Mercia's police and crime commissioner wants to make his election agent his deputy

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Last week I wrote about the newly elected police and crime commissioner for Northamptonshire and his decision to appoint the Conservatives’...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

The Ripon Hornblower

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This is George Pickles, the Ripon Hornblower , Setting the Watch around the obelisk in the city's market square. It is, says his web...

Is Theresa May a KGB agent?

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When I was an undergraduate the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall were still in existence. And in those days how people responded to repressi...
Monday, December 10, 2012

Headline of the Day

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The Daily Telegraph wins with: Novak Djokovic buys up annual supply of donkey cheese Thanks to Dr Mark Pack .

Citizen's arrest - Market Harborough style

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From the Harborough Mail : Have-a-go heroes wrestled a thief to the ground after a chase that they described as “a Benny Hill moment”.  ...

Write a guest post for Liberal England

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Sometimes it feels like I'm doing all the work on this blog. So here is a reminder that I welcome guest posts on Liberal England. So ...

Julian Huppert calls for an end to the war on drugs

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Julian Huppert , Lib Dem MP for Cambridge, writes for Comment is Free following the publication of the home affairs select committee report ...
Sunday, December 09, 2012

Cyril Davies All Stars and Long John Baldry: See See Rider

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On Monday, when I posted TV appearance by  Rod Stewart and Steve Winwood  from 1965, I said the real star of that show was Long John Baldr...

The politics of The Hobbit

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I once knew a Liberal student politician who was fond of dismissing green and communitarian ideas as "hobbit socialism". (He lat...
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Vince Cable interviewed in the Observer

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The Liberal Democrat Business Secretary shows why he one of the most popular politicians in the country in this interview from today's O...
Saturday, December 08, 2012

The Station, Richmond

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The Station - Richmond's former railway station. once the terminus of a branch line from Darlington - advertises itself as "the...

Ad Lib: From the desk of the Junior Whip

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My copy of the first issue of Ad Lib - the pocket glossy monthly intended to replace the weekly Liberal Democrat News - arrived today. As...
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Six of the Best 303

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Most of us have done our best to forget 'alarm clock Britain', but What You Can Get Away With remembers it  - and also "the ...
Thursday, December 06, 2012

Richmond and Richmond Castle, North Yorkshire

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Richmond ... was like no other town they had ever seen. When they reached the top of the hill they were in one corner of an enormous cobb...

Six of the Best 302

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"The Alliance Party says enough is enough. Over a violent 48 hours it has seen one of its representatives forced from her house, othe...

Northamptonshire PCC, cronyism and the politicisation of the police

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The Northampton Chronicle & Echo reports that Stuart McCartney, the Conservatives’ political assistant at Northamptonshire County Counc...

Isaiah Berlin's pluralism

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Philosophy Bites has a podcast of an interview with Henry Hardy about Isaiah Berlin and his theory of pluralism . Berlin argued that the t...
Wednesday, December 05, 2012

Badgers fight back in High Leicestershire

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From the Leicester Mercury : Badgers have been blamed for forcing the closure of a country lane by tunnelling underneath it, causing it to...

Blog Headline of the Day

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Well done to the estimable Chris Abbot : Redcar's refurbished groynes will be restored to their original height And quite right to...