Saturday, June 16, 2018

Six of the Best 798

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"Few watching this week’s pitiful events will have thought that Westminster any longer has much claim to be called the Mother of Parl...
Friday, June 15, 2018

Jonathan Meades at Sutton Bridge

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Jonathan Meades is one of this blog's heroes. And I have often mentioned the day in 2009 when England regained the Ashes because ...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Freddie, Fiona and "Gammon!"

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The duo who contributed so much to the Liberal Democrats' 2015 general election campaign are back together. How can Brexit possibly re...

The wooden knights of Northampton Castle

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The ruins of Northampton Castle were cleared in the 19th century to make room for Northampton Castle railway station, which is still ope...
Thursday, June 14, 2018

Paddington to Reading in 1960

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In my experience Royal Oak was the best place for trainspotting at Paddington. I posted the companion video  St Pancras to Luton in 1960...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: He later entered the Foreign Office

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I never fail to be impressed by the way Lord Bonkers keeps up with the latest news - and the latest ways of making money. Thursday Did...

Lembit Opik and Parmjit Singh Gill in space

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A press release reaches us: Former Liberal Democrat MPs Lembit Öpik and Parmjit Singh Gill join Conservative MP Nigel Evans as newly el...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Protesting against "Protest Trump"

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The old boy obviously feels strongly about this. Wednesday A message arrives from Jo ‘Gloria’ Swinson via the electric Twitter urging ...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Mr Gladstone found alive!

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As a #historyteacher I find this (re)animation of Gladstone hypnotic and creepy in equal measure! pic.twitter.com/VphRZRQbJM — Russel Ta...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Behind the falafels

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How, I hear you ask, have Freddie and Fiona been getting on? Lord Bonkers has the answer. Tuesday Wandering the well-kempt streets of ...

Lord Adonis to debate Brexit in Kettering

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Lord Adonis is to take part in a debate on whether there should be a referendum on the final Brexit deal. The debate will take place at...
Monday, June 11, 2018

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Gossip in the Bonkers’ Arms

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We join Lord Bonkers for another week at the Hall to find him, though as ready with an apposite quotation as ever, uncharacteristically ne...
Sunday, June 10, 2018

Liberator on the Lib Dem performance in London

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The new Liberator has arrived. Tomorrow, you lucky people, I shall start posting Lord Bonkers' latest diaries, but for tonight here is...
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Six of the Best 797

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David Steel still believes the allegations made against Cyril Smith are "scurrilous hearsay". Ruth Bright says he is wrong. She...

John Bodkin Adams and Countryfile

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Embed from Getty Images This blog has dwelt before on the case of the Eastbourne doctor John Bodkin Adams, who appears to have been the Ha...
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The Zombies: Imagine the Swan

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Time of the Season was a sleeper hit in the States. So much so, that by the time it reached no. 3 there The Zombies had split up and their...
Saturday, June 09, 2018

Edward Bawden exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery

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From the Dulwich Picture Gallery site: Edward Bawden (1903-89) was a master printmaker, illustrator, watercolourist and designer and is...

58 bus from Market Harborough to Lutterworth scrapped

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In town this morning I came across a notice announcing that the 58 bus from Market Harborough to Lutterworth will be withdrawn next month...
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The earliest surviving Nonconformist chapel in Northampton

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Today I have been followed by carnivals. Not even the prospect of meeting Timmy Mallet could persuade me to spend the whole day at Mark...
Friday, June 08, 2018

Marc Riley gives me another excuse to post Paper Sun

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Earlier this week Marc Riley and Rob Hughes reached T in their A-Z of Psychedelia. As they have good taste, one of the Ts was Traffic. Y...