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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

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Sir Geoffrey Boycott wins Tweet of the Day

It's top tweeting is that .

Bill Esterson spells out Labour's position on Brexit

. @EmmaBarnett asks Shadow International Trade Minister @Bill_Esterson five times if Labour would leave the customs union #5liveDaily p...

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Playing for a draw: The Oval test of 1975

If you wonder why the pundits grumble about modern batsman not being able to play for a draw, consider the Oval test match of 1975. It w...

Nick Clegg to reveal how to stop Brexit

Embed from Getty Images He will do it in a book to be published by Bodley Head on 5 October, reports the Guardian : How to Stop Brexit (...

Six of the Best 717

Jonathan Fryer calls for a patriotic front against Brexit. "A heavily bureaucratic process known as a carnet was required. This me...

Monday, August 14, 2017

"What the's bleeding time?" Farewell to Richard Gordon

I am always pleased when I find out that someone I had assumed was dead is still alive. The only trouble is that they tend to die soon a...

Left and right unite to shift the blame from American Nazis

So what are the hot takes on events in Charlottesville? Brendan O'Neill is in no doubt about who is to blame. The events in Char...

Sunday, August 13, 2017

A day on the Great Central at Loughborough

Class 37 diesels already seemed ugly and old-fashioned by the 1970s, yet they have outlasted pretty much every other class of locomotive ...

Elvis Costello and The Attractions: All This Useless Beauty

There has been a meme going around Twitter inviting people to confess their unpopular opinions. I was going to tweet that I regard the B...

Saturday, August 12, 2017

The life and career of Neil Postman

I once wrote that I could "never work out whether Christopher Lasch was a left-wing thinker who sounded right wing, or a right-wing t...

The 1983 general election campaign in Bolsover

The Labour candidate was, of course, Dennis Skinner and Stuart Reddish stood for the SDP Alliance. Reddish received 16.8 per cent of th...

Friday, August 11, 2017

The remains of Irthlingborough station

In Irthlingborough we have seen the church tower that may also have been an inland lighthouse , the sparse remains of the Nene Park stadi...

Tim Gordon resigns as Liberal Democrat chief executive

Liberal Democrat Voice reported the news on Wednesday, quoting Tim Gordon's statement: It has been an honour to work for the Party...

Six of the Best 716

"There is no doubt in my mind that Brexit will leave the country poorer, and sadder, and it will hurt the vulnerable among us the mos...

Wednesday, August 09, 2017

"Wicked practise & sorcerye": The Witches of Belvoir

Before I went off to Shropshire for a week - hence my break from blogging - we visited the tombs of the Earls and Dukes of Rutland in Bot...

Expensive new trains on the Midland main line will be slower than the current diesels

You may recall that it was announced last month that plans to electrify the line from St Pancras to Sheffield have been scrapped. The ...

Liberal staffer Barrie Macmillan resigns over lobster with alleged mobster

Our Headline of the Day Award goes to the Australian newspaper The Age .

Tuesday, August 08, 2017

A 1986 documentary on T. Dan Smith - "Mr Newcastle"

John Grindord blogs about this film, which has just turned up on Youtube: On the 27th March 1986 BBC2 broadcast a documentary called T....

Six of the Best 715

"In 2197 when the aliens invade but allow humanity to have an election on whether they should be enslaved or not. The Lib Dem leader ...

Monday, August 07, 2017

Liberal Democrats to demonstrate against Brexit at Tory conference

Richard Vaughan reports on iNews today: The Liberal Democrats will abandon political party protocol by joining pro-EU campaigners to p...

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