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Liberal Democrat Blog of the Year 2014

"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

Friday, March 07, 2014

Ramsbottom is more important than Elvis

Labour's press team has been having fun with the result of yesterday's local by-election in Nottingham, where the Liberal Democrats ...

Thursday, March 06, 2014

Holy Trinity, Hope, Shropshire

This little 19th-century church is still in use. With its churchyard, it occupies a wooded valley beside and below the A488, which make...

Sharon Bowles interviewed by the Guardian on bankers' bonuses

The Liberal Democrat MEP Sharon Bowles , ranked by a 2012 survey as the most influential Briton in EU policymaking, is interviewed by Jennif...

Marion Thorpe has died

Marion Thorpe, the second wife of the former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe, died earlier today at the age of 87, reports Norman Lebrecht . ...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Counting the teaspoons

Tuesday From time to time I am asked by the leaders of our party to entertain a fellow at the Hall. “Give him the best of everything,” t...

Scottish Football - Celtic star charged with assaulting Elvis impersonator

Our Headline of the Day Award goes to BT Yahoo! Sport .

Wednesday, March 05, 2014

The Clegg family pyramid in Ukraine

This photo has appeared on this blog before - where you will find further details of its history - but this seems an appropriate time to...

£1m for historic buildings around Richard III's grave

From today's Leicester Mercury : More than £1 million is to be spent polishing up Leicester's hidden architectural gems. Sco...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: In the shadow of Pendle Hill

The new issue of Liberator was waiting for me when I got home from work. So it is time to spend another week in the company of Rutland...

Tuesday, March 04, 2014

Malcolm Saville and the pubs of Leintwardine

The Secret of the Gorge, published in 1958, is the 11th of Malcolm Saville's Lone Pine series. It is a topical book, in that it inv...

Ipswich: The tree that looks like Postman Pat

Thanks to a reader for nominating the Ipswich Star for our Headline of the Day Award. And, yes, the Star does have a photograph.

Six of the Best 425

Adam Taylor on Business Insider explains why Ukraine isn't 'The Ukraine' - and why it matters. Charles West has a set of p...

Monday, March 03, 2014

When Patrick Rock lost to Mike Hancock

From the Daily Mail website this evening: One of David Cameron's closest aides has resigned after being arrested on child pornogra...

Cromford Pond, Derbyshire

Taken last summer. Cromford Pond was constructed by Richard Arkwright in 1785 to provide power to his mill complex . Across the water y...

Lib Dems choose negotiating team for aftermath of next election

From tomorrow's Guardian : Danny Alexander, the Treasury chief secretary, is to lead a Liberal Democrat team preparing for possible ne...

Tristram Hunt in the Cambridge Footlights

Yesterday I suggested that Tristram Hunt "does not resemble a potential senior government minister so much as someone playing a govern...

Sunday, March 02, 2014

Six of the Best 424

Lynne Featherstone writes in praise of civil servants - and on how to be a minister. The historical background to the current crisis in...

Donovan: Donna Donna

This is Donovan in the days when he was a teenager and seen as Britain's answer to Bob Dylan. Donna Donna appeared on his first LP, W...

The problem with Tristram Hunt

Watching Sunday Politics I think I have put my finger on what worries me about Tristram Hunt. He does not resemble a potential senior gove...

Saturday, March 01, 2014

Zuffar Haq chosen as Lib Dem PPC for Harborough again

Good news. Zuffar Haq, who fought Harborough at the last general election, has been chosen to fight the seat again in 2015. Zuffar a...

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