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Friday, July 21, 2017

Why Liberal Democrat members should subscribe to Liberator

I have already posted Lord Bonkers' Diary from the current issue of Liberator and given you a taste of the party gossip to be found...

Six of the Best 710

"Within secure children’s homes, regulations limit the use of restraint to prevent injury, serious property damage and to stop a chil...

Thursday, July 20, 2017

Travelling for a Living - a 1966 documentary on the Watersons

Here is an unexpected pleasure. The whole of this documentary about the important folk group is available to view for free on the British...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: The Democratic Unionist Party meets the Rutland Water Monster

And so another week with Lord Bonkers draws to a close. His diaries appear in each issue of Liberator magazine as well as on this blog. ...

Government announces that the Midland main line will not be electrified north of Kettering

We will see more disappointing news like this around the country as HS2 eats up all the funding for rail investment. That's what ...

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

The remains of the Hanbury mausoleum at Church Langton

So I went to Church Langton churchyard to pay my respects to J.W. Logan. I was sorry to see that one of the other Logan family monument...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: A glimpse of Theresa May's girlhood

Lord Bonkers tells me he no longer shows Belted George Galloways - "Not a reliable breed." Saturday Years ago I spoke with a...

Six of the Best 709

"The Chagos Islands, a beautiful archipelago of seven atolls in the Indian Ocean, comprise of more than 60 individual tropical island...

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

To Market Harborough and the Beerhouse by canal

An amiable travel video that appeared on YouTube today. The 1985 Liberal Party Assembly was organised from two semi-converted narrow boa...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: How to keep Vince Cable lithe and limber

The old boy goes on about that cordial so much that, despite his complaints at its cost, I would not be surprised if he were on a percenta...

Hamidullah Qadri: the future of English spin?

Embed from Getty Images This blog takes an interest in the emergence of young English spin bowlers. Both Adil Rashid and Mason Cr...

Philip Hollobone meets the Kettering branch of Ukip

Embed from Getty Images Philip Hollobone, the Conservative MP for Kettering, has met the local Ukip branch, reports the Northampto...

Monday, July 17, 2017

The Old Manor House, Kibworth Beauchamp

After watching the cricket at East Langton on Saturday I ended up in Kibworth. The bookshop was closed, but I found that the Old Manor...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Meadowcroft and the magic money tree

Today the spotlight is turned on a stalwart member of staff at the Hall. We may not have heard the last of this. Thursday I complain a...

Nick Clegg: My nieces and nephews voted for Corbyn

Embed from Getty Images This story went up on the Sun website earlier this week: Mr Clegg, who was leader of the Liberal Democr...

Liberator on the fall of Tim Farron - and other party gossip

Lord Bonkers thinks it was a posse of peers that did for Tim Farron. Radical Bulletin in the new Liberator comes to a different conclusio...

Sunday, July 16, 2017

Jonathan Meades visits Marsh Court

This is obviously an early Meades film and one that was thought lost or at least hard to find. It was turned up on an old VHS tape and put...

Six of the Best 708

"The most prominent Brexit cheerleaders, none of them lacking in ambition and all of them now installed in the Cabinet, appear to hav...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: “Why can’t we have a woman as leader?"

When I read this I am reminded that Lord Bonkers was a great supporter of women's suffrage. (But then the first Lady Bonkers would hav...

Be Bop Deluxe: Ships In The Night

I heard this on the radio the other day and it sounded good. Don't let the dry ice in this video put you off. It was a minor hit...

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