Friday, January 11, 2013

Six of the Best 313

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"The truth is that the Lib Dems badly need a central organising economic idea. They have survived for too long now on a bundle of is...

I quit storms Ripon Hornblower

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A month ago I celebrated George Pickles, the Ripon Hornblower . Now, on the Ripon Gazette site, comes news that he has resigned. Which is...

Rutland County Council explains why it is suing its own members

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Last night, as BBC News explains, Rutland County Council voted to set aside £90,000 to prosecute three of its own members for defamation. ...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

Marsh Brook signal box

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Our halt at Marshbrook has proved a little longer than I expected. After I put that post up Nigel Bishop sent me a link to his own night...

Changing your vocabulary to convert your opponents

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Last week Mark Pack , writing on Liberal Democrat Voice, pointed us to an article on Slate about the way gay rights activists in Maryland an...
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Latest on Rutland County Council's threat to sue its own members

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Last Friday I blogged about Rutland County Council's threat to sue three of its own members for defamation. I had always understood t...

150 years of the London Underground

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Happy birthday to underground railways in London: 150 today. I can recommend the site  150 great things about the Underground and I als...
Wednesday, January 09, 2013

The nonsense of Labour's welfare policy

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I am with the Liberal Democrat MPs who rebelled over the one per cent cap of benefit increases after yesterday's debate. As Caroline L...
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Opening Paragraph of the Day

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Won by the Huffington Post with its: The off-duty Boulder police officer who has been suspended over his role in the killing and disposal...
Tuesday, January 08, 2013

Marshbrook or Onnybrook?

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"Get your things together, twins," Peter said as she opened her bag and stuffed her school hat in it. "We're nearly th...
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Six of the Best 312

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The 'Gotcha' style of questioning favoured by John Humphrys damages democracy, argues Robert Sharp on Liberal Conspiracy . Dr Al...
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Adjudicator appointed for the pub trade

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Good news reaches me from Liberal Dem HQ, in the shape of the announcement by Vince Cable that a new independent pubs adjudicator is to be a...
Monday, January 07, 2013

British Transport Films: Groundwork for Progress (1959)

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I found this on the BritishRailways.tv site, which describes it as: A short film showing changes for British Railways under the Moderni...

Britain's 300th community shop opens

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The Daily Telegraph reports the opening of Britain's 300th community shop: When the last shop in their village closed down, the resid...

Headline of the Day

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Well done to the Daily Mail for: Quack cocaine: Charity warns not to feed bread to ducks and geese as birds are becoming 'hooked...
Sunday, January 06, 2013

St Michael and All Angels, Cwm Head

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Take the lane down the hill from Hamperley Farm and you will come to the little mid-Victorian church of St Michael and All Angels at Cwm...

Security mania makes us feel less secure

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Oliver Burkeman had an article in yesterday's Guardian Review section arguing that the modern obsession with security has had the parad...
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Martin Carthy: New York Mining Disaster 1941

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It is easy to laugh at the Bee Gees for their disco heyday, but as the tribute programmes that have, sadly, been necessary in recent years...
Saturday, January 05, 2013

My music videos for 2012

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I started choosing a Sunday music video when I finally got broadband access in October 2007. You can find the choices for 2007 and 2008 here...

Six of the Best 311

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"Labour’s exploitation of popular fears to rubbish the government’s supposed softness on terrorism is deeply cynical," says Sada...