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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

Sunday, December 07, 2014

The Grand Union Canal in the 1930s

No sound, but some great shots of canalside industry. The pub seen right after the 'Hemel Hempstead' slide at 11:20 is the Three...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Saturn? Terribly Far

Monday (cont.) But why, I hear you ask, am I visiting them this Monday morning? The answer is all to do with the European Union. It ...

St Vincent: Prince Johnny

St Vincent is the name under which the American singer-songwriter Annie Clarke records and performs. It is also the name of her fourth alb...

Saturday, December 06, 2014

Anne Scott-James wears the trousers

#2659822 / gettyimages.com Anne Scott-James was a pioneering woman journalist and appeared as a panelist on the Radio 4 quiz My ...

Six of the Best 477

"Citizen’s Income (also known as Basic Income and many other names) was Liberal Democrat policy for a while, until it got dropped in ...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Confessions of a Knocker Up

The new issue of Liberator has arrived, so it is high time we spent a few days with Rutland's most popular fictional peer. Monday ...

Friday, December 05, 2014

Stockport in 1966

Some shots of the town, including the general election campaign.

The Box of Delights: It was all a dream

The BBC adaptation of John Masefield's The Box of Delights was broadcast weekly in the run up to Christmas 1984. I was too old for suc...

The wisdom of Jeremy Thorpe

#3137092 / gettyimages.com I suspect we shall here a lot of fresh scandal about Jeremy Thorpe and the Liberal Party over the next...

Thursday, December 04, 2014

John Noakes before Blue Peter

#3291537 / gettyimages.com Here he is (third from the left) in Arnold Wesker's Chips With Everything at the Royal Court Theat...

Now David Parsons turns up in South Holland and The Deepings

From the Leicester Mercury : Former Leicestershire County Council leader David Parsons has been selected to fight a south Lincolnshire p...

Ukip members have no sense of humour

Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grudzinski .. wait!, what!??? #ukip pic.twitter.com/yNSq2cndeP — UKIP Trumpton (@Trumpton_UK...

Jeremy Thorpe remembered

#79658659 / gettyimages.com The fall of Jeremy Thorpe had already taken place by the time I joined the Liberal Party, but he was ...

Wednesday, December 03, 2014

The Belvoir Castle Tramway

#90747674 / gettyimages.com The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum site explains: In 1815 the Duke of Rutland built the Belvoir Castl...

Nick Clegg in Penzance

© Philip Halling Andy McSmith's Diary in the Independent is always worth a read. In his latest column he notes Nick Clegg's abs...

Former Harborough councillor becomes shadow attorney general

The resignation of Emily Thornberry meant that Labour needed a new shadow attorney general. And the choice has fallen upon Lord Bach who, ...

Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Durham in 1960

This film about new developments in traffic control has some lovely shots of the city in the year I was born.

Why did Lib Dem MPs back Chris Grayling on judicial review?

Ian Dunt writes about last night's Commons vote on judicial review: Judicial review sounds boring but it is one of the most democra...

Ed Reynolds to fight Rutland and Melton for the Liberal Democrats

Martin Brookes has the story: Edward is truly a local candidate. His family were tenant farmers in Cold Overton for 60 years. In fact bot...

Monday, December 01, 2014

Behind The Scenes: Television Centre (1971)

"The producer here is John Howard Davies, and he is holding a planning meeting for an episode of 'All Gas and Gaiters'."

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