Thursday, October 03, 2019

Meet the Devon farmer bringing in enormous Nazi-engineered cows to prepare for Brexit

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Devon Live wins our Headline of the Day Award and the judges add that they are "not surprised". But seriously, it's an i...
Tuesday, October 01, 2019

Discussing Antonioni's Blow-Up

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A conversation between David Forgacs (New York University) and Kim Hendrickson (Criterion Collection) to mark Criterion's release of a...

Boris Johnson will destroy the Conservative Party if he doesn't destroy the country first

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Embed from Getty Images I came across two article today which argue that Boris Johnson's adoption of populism may in the long ru...

Sally Symington to fight South West Herts for the Lib Dems

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South West Hertfordshire Liberal Democrats have chosen Sally Symington as their candidate at the next general election. As she told Hem...
Monday, September 30, 2019

Southwell Minster from above in 1950

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Southwell , which dominates its small town, is perhaps England's least known cathedral, but it's certainly one of its most remark...

And So - Victoria and why it was never filmed

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Visiting Vaughan Wilkins' grave in Farnsfield I mentioned that his first historical novel And So - Victoria, a success on both sides ...
Sunday, September 29, 2019

Southwell Methodist Church

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I had been to Southwell several times without discovering its Methodist church. To find it you have to dive down an alley, Prebend Pa...

Lord Bonkers on the brains behind the Great Train Robbery

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The Great Train Robbery is back in the news, reports the Observer : A book published this week, written by a former British Transport po...

Aztec Camera: Somewhere in My Heart

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The BBC's reruns of Top of the Pops continue and have now reached 1988. Maybe it is a sign that I was already getting a bit old for ...
Saturday, September 28, 2019

Harborough Marine and Anglo Welsh Canal Cruisers

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It's high time we returned to my stack of old Inland Waterways Association Bulletins. This advertisement comes from the August 1969 ...

Vaughan Wilkins' grave in Farnsfield churchyard

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There is nothing quite as forgotten as a forgotten writer. Yet as I once blogged : The historical novelist Vaughan Wilkins must have ...
Friday, September 27, 2019

Southwell Minster: Balm for the soul

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My  mother is elderly and frail, which has (though I don't live with her) led me to the catastrophising conclusion that something ter...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

The Essex Way from Epping to Ongar

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Until 1994 you could have caught the Central Line from Epping to Ongar. John Rogers walks it, using the opening stretch of the Essex Way...

No affordable housing for Far Cotton

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I was taken with Far Cotton , a suburb of Northampton built in the 19th century to house railway workers. It had a dominant Victorian c...
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Jeremy Corbyn pays tribute to Steve Hitchins

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Steve Hitchins, who was the Liberal Democrat leader of Islington Borough Council between 1999 and 2006, died suddenly last night. The I...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

78 Derngate, Northampton: The Charles Rennie Mackintosh House

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Today I visited 78 Derngate , Northampton, a narrow, early 19th-century town house that was home to W.J. Bassett-Lowke and his wife Flore...
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Six of the Best 885

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"Brexit is presented as some sort of triumph of popular will. But in actuality it has involved a relentless attempt to massively stre...
Monday, September 23, 2019

St Barnabas: No longer Nottingham's 'Black Cathedral'

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Today I was in Nottingham and visited the city's Roman Catholic cathedral St Barnabas. Its architect and designer was Augustus P...

In defence of Angela Rayner

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I’m going to defend Angela here. So what she struggled at exams. She is smart and well deserves her position. And if you took a minute to ...
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Sunday, September 22, 2019

Thomas Cook's statue outside Leicester station

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Tomorrow's Guardian will report: Thomas Cook was heading into insolvency on Sunday night as the world’s oldest holiday company fac...