Monday, January 13, 2014

Open access academic articles on Politics and International Relations

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The Taylor & Francis website site has a page of politics and international relations articles that have recently been published on an o...

21-year-old to fight Derbyshire Dales for the Liberal Democrats

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Ben Fearn has been chosen as the Liberal Democrat candidate for the Derbyshire Dales constituency at the next general election. The seat ...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

Sherlock Holmes, Malcolm Saville and Appledore

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When the previous series of Sherlock invented a secret station on Dartmoor, I was struck by the parallel with Malcolm Saville's...

Dave Christie: Penelope Breedlove

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I can discover nothing about the singer of this very 1968 song. Even Marmalade Skies calls him "the mysterious Mr Christie".
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Saturday, January 11, 2014

John Barrett goes his own way on the Liberal Democrats and Scottish independence

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John Barrett, who was Liberal Democrat MP for Edinburgh West between 2001 and 2010, has an article in The Scotsman today. He has some uncom...
Friday, January 10, 2014

The Summit Tunnel fire, 1984

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The fire occurred at 5.50 a.m. on 20 December 1984 when a goods train carrying more than a 1,000,000 litres ... of four-star petrol in thi...
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GUEST POST A new hole in the safety net

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An anonymous reader calls on the Liberal Democrats to save what remains of the Social Fund. Many people haven't heard of the Social ...
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Midsomer Murders skewered

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John Robinson writes in the Guardian: Gentle, long-enduring and filled with familiar faces, Midsomer Murders has become Last Of The Summe...
Thursday, January 09, 2014

London Terminus (1944)

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A vast national railway system radiates from London. The film shows the density of railway traffic at a London terminus. 1,704 trains ente...

Six of the Best 412

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Armour-Plated Liberalism is right to point out that the debate over the origins and morality of the First World War is more nuanced than ...

Rutland County Council are the Legal Bullies of the Year

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It may be a tiny authority, but Rutland has triumphed in Private Eye's Rotten Boroughs Awards 2013. Here is the magazine's citatio...

Moose frozen solid in Norwegian lake

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Our Headline of the Day judges did not award nul points to News in English.no . A bereaved moose writes: What is so funny about this?
Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Leicester West Bridge railway station

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Leicester's first station was West Bridge on the Leicester & Swannington line, which opened in 1832. It closed to passengers in...

The Coalition should withdraw its sinister Annoyance Bill

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Great news from the House of Lords this evening. The government has suffered a massive defeat over its plans to bring in injunctions against...

Potato ambassador finds boob-shaped spud

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Our Headline of the Day Award goes to the Leicester Mercury and, once again, the story below is about Market Harborough. The marvellous F...
Tuesday, January 07, 2014

A forgotten corner of Market Harborough

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Now watch some bastard remember it.

Trivial Fact of the Day with Roy Jenkins

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Owen Hatherley has a good article in today's Guardian laying bare the shrinking size of modern houses and calling for a return to the ...
Monday, January 06, 2014

Nick Clegg attacks Tories' planned welfare cuts

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I am delighted that Nick Clegg has said this.
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Children of activists less likely to share their parents' views as adults

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Liberal Democrats tend not to approve of church schools, arguing that children should be left to form their own religious views later in lif...
Sunday, January 05, 2014

Six of the Best 411

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A Scottish Liberal dissects some myths about bisexuality. "The arrangement by which the debt - now £30bn, soon to be £50bn - was k...