Saturday, February 11, 2017

Matthew Engel foresees the strange death of Labour England

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Embed from Getty Images Labour is in many ways clueless, disunited and perhaps in terminal decline. Whatever happens in the by-elec...
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Friday, February 10, 2017

Corwen to Rhyl: The Vale of Clwyd Railway

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This North Wales line opened in 1858. It was closed to passengers in 1955 and to freight in 1962. You can read its history on the Rhyl H...

Conservative councillor in "Donald Trump-style rant" says "I'm not giving my pay rise back"

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Note to local councillors: do not get on the wrong side of the local paper. Here is the Surrey Comet : Councillor David Barnard, who r...
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Thursday, February 09, 2017

Welcome to Northamptonshire and the 1980s

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I took this photograph in the early 1980s, but the county sign makes it look as though it could have come from a Shell guide of the 1950s...

The social and religious background to John Smyth

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Embed from Getty Images Cathy Newman and Channel 4 News have been offering some good reporting in recent days, investigating the c...
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Six of the Best 665

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"While a number of British think tanks are open about who funds them ... some of the most influential think tanks which impact on cur...
Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Doleham: The least used station in East Sussex

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We had a caravan holiday at Winchelsea Beach in 1967 (the Summer of Love) when I was seven. I remember the train from Ashford to Rye and...
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Hamster fed LSD-spiked Tizer and cannabis in Heysham

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BBC News wins our Headline of the Day Award, but please don't try this at home kids.
Tuesday, February 07, 2017

The importance of the archaeology and standing buildings of Leicester

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Matthew Morris, one of the leaders of the dig that found Richard III, gave this talk last November to a conference on 'Planning Leices...

Lib Dem candidate is the favourite in West of England mayoral race

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Embed from Getty Images The Bristol Post has promising news: Former Bristol West MP Stephen Williams has been chosen as the Lib...

Angela Rayner thinks the Tories are "selling off" the green belt

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The gov't should not be selling off our green belt to private developers;we need low cost housing built with the right public infrastr...
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Monday, February 06, 2017

Bentlawnt and the Hope Valley, Shropshire

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This is deep Shropshire, west of the Stiperstones and hard against the Welsh border. The video blends stunning drone shots from today wi...

Stewart Lee joins the Liberal Democrats

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He probably looked fat and depressed when he did it, and he is certainly operating two levels of irony beyond the appreciation of his kee...

Tim Farron backs John Bercow over Donald Trump

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The leader of the Liberal Democrats was interviewed on BBC1's News at Six this evening. He was right to support John Bercow.
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Sunday, February 05, 2017

Market Harborough canal basin before redevelopment

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The warehouse in a pleasingly derelict state has now been restored and is The Waterfront - restaurant and home of Market Harborough'...
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Embraced by the woolly duffle-coat of Britishness

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The Sunday Times reports: Muslim pupils outnumber Christian children in more than 30 church schools, including one Church of England pr...
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Kevin Ayers: Oh! Wot a Dream

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Last week's magpie went down well, so here is another bird. Oh! Wot a Dream is about Kevin Ayers' friend Syd Barrett,the founde...
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Saturday, February 04, 2017

Six of the Best 664

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"The Liberal Democrats led a battle in the Lords to get the Government to change the law to pardon all those gay men convicted under ...

Row over fantabulosa servicette at Cambridge theological college

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The news today is that Westcott House in Cambridge, a leading Church of England theological college, has apologised for its students atte...
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Friday, February 03, 2017

Richmond station departure board, 1983

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Note that in 1983 North London Line trains still terminated at Broad Street . I photographed that long lost terminus too and will share...