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"Well written, funny and wistful" - Paul Linford; "He is indeed the Lib Dem blogfather" - Stephen Tall
"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

Monday, March 11, 2013

Angela Lansbury says men's sex obsession can make women gay

Headline of the Day was a walkover for the Daily Mail .

Sunday, March 10, 2013

The ironstone lines of the East Midlands

Almost an hour of footage from these lost industrial railways. Too much of a good thing? Not to me.

Secret courts: Tom McNally in Wonderland

The Liberal Democrat leadership does not seem to have made much of an attempt to defend secret courts. Alex's Archives covers Nick Cleg...

Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen: Midnight in Moscow

Kenny Ball, one of the big names in the trad jazz revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s, died this week. As his Daily Telegraph obit...

Paddy Ashdown to visit Uppingham on Tuesday

Paddy Ashdown will be at Uppingham School Memorial Hall on Tuesday 12 March (7:30 p.m.) to talk about his new book A Brilliant Little ...

Saturday, March 09, 2013

Six of the Best 330

"Whatever we think about Leveson, the libel reform bill has nothing to do with it: it’s a separate argument ... The NUJ and left medi...

Nick Clegg's lack of leadership on secret courts

The Daily Express enjoys being able to report a difficult time for Nick Clegg at the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference this afternoon: T...

Happy birthday William Cobbett

A short video to mark the 250th anniversary of the great man's birth.

Isabel Oakeshott wins Email of the Week

Here is Isabel Oakeshott of the Sunday Times writing to Vicky Pryce on 8 March 2011: In theory, it's likely there is a minor risk of ...

Friday, March 08, 2013

A cat sees the rotating snake illusion

Originally (I think) from Tumbling Banana . More about the rotating snake illusion .

States of Independence, Leicester, 16 March

From the States of Independence website: States of Independence 2013 - our fourth such event - will take place on Saturday 16 March a...

My fourth Whipped column for Ad Lib

Here is my latest column from the new Liberal Democrat magazine Ad Lib. It seems I never got round to posting the third Whipped here, but ...

Thursday, March 07, 2013

What united Hugo Chavez and the Conservative right?

The answer, it seems, is admiration for Belarus. Here is a BBC News report from 2006: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has praised Bela...

Tim Farron: Lib Dems are nutters and cockroaches

Story from Huffington Post . Picture from Fancy Dress Ball .

Headline of the Day comes live from Leicester

Well done to the BBC News Leicester pages: Leicester's Phoenix Square cinema to host dental school Liberal England asks: Is it saf...

Dissident blogger Emin Milli on the hopes for change in Azerbaijan

Emin Milli is a blogger from Azerbaijan who was imprisoned in 2009 for two and a half years for his critical views about the government. He...

Wednesday, March 06, 2013

There Go the Boats (1951)

Rutland aristocrat employs disgraced former Tory MP who caned rent boys

Lord Bonkers writes: That's what comes of employin' chaps without a reference. Which one is it? Calm down Lord B: this isn't a...

Six of the Best 329

John Hemming MP explains why he voted against the government on secret courts (among other things) on Monday. Remember those shameful ...

That secret courts vote - Nick Clegg explains

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