Monday, September 17, 2018

Hobhouse puts a bangin' donk on it: The new Liberator Songbook

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Down at the Liberal Democrat Conference in Brighton, the Glee Club is under way. At Lord Bonkers' insistence, I am reproducing his f...
Sunday, September 16, 2018

Remembering Dudley Sutton

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Dudley Sutton should be remembered for so much more than Lovejoy. The British Film Institute - click on the still above to view the vid...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Alfred returns from his Focus round

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I am not sure Alfred, whom we last saw hauling the Flower of Rutland, has quite got with Vince Cable's new plan for the Liberal Democr...

Straightening the railway through Market Harborough

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Time to see how they are getting on with straightening the railway through Market Harborough. The HST in the photograph above is usin...

Insecure Men: I Don't Wanna Dance (With My Baby)

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This is from Insecure Men's first LP. They were formed by Saul Adamczewski from Fat White Family and Ben Romans-Hopcraft from Childhoo...
Saturday, September 15, 2018

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Benjamin Britten’s 'Darren Grimes'

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Lord Bonkers often tells me the story of how he was at an Aldeburgh Festival concert when the hall was inundated by the sea. He snatched u...

Write a guest post for Liberal England

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I welcome guest posts on Liberal England. As you can see from this list of the 10 most recent ones, I am happy to consider a wide range of...

Trent Cottages, Long Eaton, waiting for HS2 and demolition

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Long Eaton is a railway town. It is crossed by a confusion of lines, some used only by goods trains, and level crossings are common. To...
Friday, September 14, 2018

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Orphans on the line

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A happy glimpse of life on the Bonkers Hall Estate (whatever Ofsted says). Friday Like many landowners, I have built a narrow-gauge ra...

Six of the Best 817

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Jane Chelliah fears we are about to see the hollowing out of the Liberal Democrats. "Devolution must be democratic, and all author...
Thursday, September 13, 2018

A plaque for a Grand National winner in Loughborough

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There is one of Leicestershire County Council's green plaques on the wall of a house close to Loughborough railway station. On clos...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Trouble at Belvoir Castle

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From time to time I have suspected Lord Bonkers of being jealous of the Duke of Rutland. How else to explain a diary entry like this? Th...

Call for a proper debate on Vince Cable's reforms

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And no one will be ‘bounced’ into sudden, controversial, decisions; I envisage a consultation at conference and, then, any consequent cha...
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The Liberal Democrats new immigration policy will not appeal to Remain voters

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The Liberal Democrats dream of becoming the party that represents the 48 per cent of the electorate who voted Remain. But what policies...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Aylestone Village and Earl Russell

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Yesterday I defeated the weather and explored Aylestone village. The first time I tried was the day I found C.P. Snow's birthplace ...
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Lord Bonkers' Diary: "For me he’s delivered that too well"

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I'll say this for Lord Bonkers: since I met him I have learnt all sorts of things about the history of the Liberal Party that you won...

The philosopher J.L. Austin and the success of D-Day

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Embed from Getty Images J.L. Austin (1911-60) - John Langshaw Austin - was an academic philosopher. He did not publish much (that would ne...

How some Lib Dems misunderstand the rise of Justin Trudeau

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Embed from Getty Images Ed Davey writes on Liberal Democrat Voice: If you compare our recent slow recovery with Canada’s Liberals’ fast...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Where 'Demand Better' came from

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Some commentators have taken issue with the Liberal Democrats' new slogan 'Demand Bitter, but none has revealed its origins. Unt...

Who will the next Liberal Democrat President be?

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The best source of gossip and inside information on the Liberal Democrats is Radical Bulletin in Liberator. In the new issue you can ...