Sunday, October 14, 2018

Haysi Fantayzee: John Wayne is Big Leggy

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A harmless novelty song about cowboys? It was, after all, played on Saturday morning children's television. Not quite. Wikipedia ...
Friday, October 12, 2018

Steve Benbow and Tommy Eytle

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My programme for Cinderella , the 1966 Christmas Panto at the Palace Theatre, Watford, had advertisements too. Shortly after it arrived ...
Thursday, October 11, 2018

Six of the Best 821

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Anne Applebaum says Viktor Orbán has duped the Brexiteers: "Whatever language about ‘European ideals’ or ‘Christianity’ Orbán’s dis...

Whatever happened to Adur Liberals?

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We often talk about the churn in the Liberal Democrat vote - we may get a similar number of votes at two consecutive elections, but a lot ...
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Independent councillor joins the Lib Dems in Telford

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From the Shropshire Star : Councillor Shana Roberts, who represents the Stirchley ward on Brookside and Stirchley Parish Council, has a...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

The Victoria: A Stamford ghost sign

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This ghost sign is to be found in Stamford near  Greyfriars Gatehouse . What Pub reveals that The Victoria was a one-roomed pub origin...

Our beliefs blind us to the logical validity of political arguments

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There's an interesting post on the British Psychological Society's Research Digest blog  that looks at how good we are at judging...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2018

Diana Rigg on The Avengers

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Five decades since she first appeared as Emma Peel in The Avengers, says the blurb on YouTube, fans of the show still approach Dame Diana ...

East Midlands Liberal Democrats Autumn Conference

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East Midlands Liberal Democrats are holding their autumn regional conference in Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, on Saturday 3 November. ...

The welcome return of utopian economic thinking

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Suddenly people are questioning the idea that the future involves all of working harder for ever and ever. Frances O’Grady , the general...
Monday, October 08, 2018

The Nottingham Canal joins the Trent at Meadow Lane Lock

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You can get on to the towpath by Nottingham Station, and from there it is a mile to where the Nottingham Canal meets the Trent at West Br...

Two barks for the Wooferendum

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Embed from Getty Images In the run up to the day the idea of a 'Woofeendum' sounded rather twee. But it generated some appealing...
Sunday, October 07, 2018

Hallaton Castle: Where J.W. Logan's men tried archaeology

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Embed from Getty Images Hallaton is a picturesque village a few miles north east of Market Harborough that also has its pagan side. I mean...

Harborough's Tory MP says his party could "go out of business"

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When Neil O’Brien was hurriedly chosen as Conservative candidate for Harborough when last year's general election was announced, he w...

Nina Simone: Sinnerman

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What if I know this from television commercials? It is still brilliant . The website dedicated to the career and memory of Nina Simone ...
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Saturday, October 06, 2018

More medieval Stamford: Greyfriars Gatehouse

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St Leonard's Priory wasn't the only relic I found when I went to look for medieval Stamford. Greyfriars was a Franciscan fri...
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Robert Peston's criticism of BBC journalism is well founded

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Embed from Getty Images I am slow to join attacks on the BBC out of a certain conservatism - it is part of the fabric of British life that...

Yorkshire burglar 'on mad one' stole vacuum from dead man’s house then tried posting it through girlfriend’s letterbox

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You'll say it's just another day in Leeds, but it wins the Yorkshire Post our coveted Headline of the Day Award.
Friday, October 05, 2018

Nest boxes on the Long Mynd

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Three John Muir Award participants get involved in a two-year nest box survey at Darnford Brook on the Long Mynd in Shropshire. All...

England's men finish fifth in world chess team championship

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There is life in English chess after all. The Olympiad (the biennial world team competition) finished in Batumi, Georgia, today and the me...