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"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

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

The men in sandals come for Tim Farron

Embed from Getty Images Tim Farron more than doubled the Liberal Democrat membership and presided over an increase in the number o...

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Sir Frank Whittle remembered in Lutterworth

The jet engine was invented by Sir Frank Whittle in the years before the Second World War. Much of the development work took place at t...

Six of the Best 698

British journalism failed in its coverage of the general election, argues Brian Cathcart . John Pugh explains why the Liberal Democrats...

Roger Helmer to quit the European Parliament

Reaction to the news that Roger Helmer is to stand down as one of the East Midlands MEPs is meeting with a mixed reaction across the reg...

Monday, June 12, 2017

The last week of the Woodhead Route

This electrified line from Sheffield to Manchester closed in the summer of 1981. Note that in those days goods trains still had a guard...

Liberal Democrat attitudes to existing grammar schools

Embed from Getty Images The Liberal Democrat manifesto was in no doubt: The Conservatives want to take us back 50 years, to an ...

Confusion over date of Queen's Speech

Michael Gove signed letter promising to maintain all EU payments to farmers

Yesterday Michael Gove returned to the cabinet as environment secretary. Which makes an article on the Why Vote Leave website dated 14...

Sunday, June 11, 2017

Lutterworth's old police station

This is the former Lutterworth police station. According to the Leicester Mercury , before it closed last year it was "England's...

One of the Liberal Democrat MPs who abstained on Article 50 lost his seat on Thursday

I have seen it suggested that the Liberal Democrats' position on Europe was toned down during the general election because some of our...

Six of the Best 697

Fintan O'Toole dissects the fantasy that is Brexit: "Theresa May is a classic phony Brexiter. She didn’t support it in last year...

Jesca Hoop: The Lost Sky

Stephen Thompson introduces this Sunday's artist: Jesca Hoop first attracted national attention in the early '00s, when her unu...

Saturday, June 10, 2017

A bedtime story from Vince Cable

Meet the Conservatives' new friends in the DUP

Here's a new cartoon from @Adamstoon1 for our third edition @EveningStandard - after Saatchis pic.twitter.com/u2VGmfxbIy — George O...

Lauren Laverne talks to the Zombies

Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone were on Lauren Laverne's BBC Radio 6 Music show the other day to talk about the recording of their clas...

Friday, June 09, 2017

The flat railway crossing at Newark

Just past Newark Castle station the line to Lincoln crosses the East Coast main line on the level. It's all controlled by signals, ...

Giles Watling gets to Westminster 53 years after fighting his first election

Last night Giles Watling gained Clacton for the Conservatives - it was the seat that Douglas Carswell won for Ukip at the last election. ...

No one knows anything about politics – here are my 12 hot takes on the general election result

Embed from Getty Images More and more, I feel that William Goldman’s view of the film business "Nobody knows anything. Not ...

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at Theresa May

Thursday, June 08, 2017

Six of the Best 697

Cicero's Songs says "Watching the UK election from afar has been a sad and chastening experience. The fact is that neither the P...

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