Tuesday, April 08, 2014

St Augustine's, Fosse Road North, Leicester

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When I went to Fosse Road North to find The Empire , I was surprised to see a ruined church next door to it. St Augustine's was clo...

"The Global Race": Bad politics, bad economics

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Jeremy Browne, reports Liberal Democrat Voice, has published his book. Race Plan: An authentic liberal plan to get Britain fit for 'Th...

Carnivorous piranhas found blocking sewers in Shropshire

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The Independent walks away with our Headline of the Day Award. Having visited Ditton Priors ("a strange place") myself, I am n...
Monday, April 07, 2014

The Co-operative Society stables, Leicester

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Down a side street just across the road from The Union you will find this terrific ghost sign. A letter to a family genealogy website ...
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The problems with Cinderella's Law

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In recent days I have seen Liberal Democrat MPs tweeting in favour of Cinderella's Law - a proposed new law that would make the 'emo...
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The EU and the UK: Where is the vision?

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Asked, in his second debate with Nigel Farage, what the European Union would look like in 10 years' time, Nick Clegg's instinctive r...
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Sunday, April 06, 2014

The spire of St Mary de Castro, Leicester, has been taken down

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In September 2012 I visited and photographed St Mary de Castro in Leicester. What I didn't know then was that I was taking my life...

How will the Liberal Democrats bridge the health funding gap?

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The King's Fund interim report  A new settlement for health and social care has key findings typical of all those that have looked at t...

David Laws breaks his elbow in a bizarre canvassing accident

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Yesterday Zoe O'Connell tweeted a newspaper cutting about an accident to David Laws. I have now found the story in the Western Gazette ...

Sandy Denny and the Strawbs: Who Knows Where the Time Goes?

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Yesterday morning I gently admonished  Paul Walter  for calling The Strawbs "one hit wonders". It wasn't so much because t...
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Saturday, April 05, 2014

The Empire Hotel and hydropathic institution, Newfoundpool, Leicester

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This is the Empire Hotel on Fosse Road North in Newfoundpool, Leicester. It is currently empty and in its later years seems to have b...
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When the Liberals won Basingstoke

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Though I wouldn't put much money on her remaining in the cabinet for long, I don't suppose Maria Miller will stand down as MP for Ba...
Friday, April 04, 2014

Trains are running along the seawall at Dawlish again

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Passenger workings west of Exeter resumed today. This engineers' train, filmed on 29 March, was one of the first to use the rebuilt li...

Six of the Best 430

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"Clegg was quite right when he said that, as a nation, we are better when we are open-minded and work with other countries and people...
Thursday, April 03, 2014

David Dimbleby’s bladder revisited

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Continuing the trawl through the archives of this blog following its 10th birthday, we come to June 2005 and this assault on David Dimbleby...
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Enjoy Coate Water while you still can

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A depressing story from the Swindon Advertiser : A Roman villa, a landing strip for pre-World War One biplanes, a Bronze Age barrow, ...
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Owen Paterson confirms there will be no extension of the badger cull

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Good news from the Commons today. As the Guardian reports: Plans to roll out the controversial badger cull pilots nationwide across Engla...

That Maria Miller apology in full

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Note: it is safe to hold your breath.
Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Rutland and Stamford by-election, 1933

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This photograph shows Arnold Gray, the Labour candidate in the 1933 Rutland and Stamford by-election, talking to shoppers. The by-electi...
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What's wrong with W1A?

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When I eventually became weary of writing about Westminster for Liberal Democrat News - goodness only knows how my readers felt - I briefly ...