Thursday, November 12, 2020

Shropshire Party PPC joins the Lib Dems

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News of an unusual political defection today: Robert Jones, who fought North Shropshire constituency for the Shropshire Party at the last ge...
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Man charged in Russian sausage tycoon sauna crossbow killing

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Last week the killing of the Russian sausage tycoon Vladimir Marugov dominated this blog.  At least, headline about it won our award on cons...

Claudia Webbe faces March trial on harassment charge

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Claudia Webbe, the Labour MP for Leicester East, pleaded not guilty to one charge of harassment.at Westminster magistrates court yesterday. ...

Exploring Royal Deeside in 1959

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This is a nice find. In a film made in 1959 for the Scottish Educational Film Association, two children follow the River Dee upstream from A...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Malcolm Turnbull skewers climate change scepticism

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Great stuff from the former Australian prime minister as he takes on The Australian’s editor-at-large, Paul Kelly. The Australian is a newsp...

Kamala Harris in action

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I came across this video of the new US Vice President Kamala Harris in action on Twitter last night. She is mightily impressive. There is a ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

A short video about Mary Wollstonecraft

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Mary Wollstonecraft is in the news today because of Maggi Hambling's new memorial to her, which it is fair to say has received a mixed r...

Six of the Best 974

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"The Government has no interest in the well-being of students. Throughout this crisis they've just treated us as the personal piggy...

These three-legged Armadillo robots are shouting at people in Leicester's Aylestone Meadows

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The Leicester Mercury wins our Headline of the Day Award. The judges also liked the opening sentence of the report below: They have three l...
Monday, November 09, 2020

A walk along the railway from Farnsfield to Southwell

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This is a well-made video of a walk along the abandoned railway between Farnsfield and Southwell in Nottinghamshire. I once visited Farnsfie...

Warning of Christmas Stilton shortage

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Embed from Getty Images Neal's Yard Dairy has written about the problems that 2020 has caused the makers of blue cheeses -  Joe Schneid...

Campaigners concerned at plans for Leicestershire's hospitals

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A campaign group -  Save Our NHS Leicestershire - has been formed by people concerned at new plans for the county's hospitals. After ta...
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Sunday, November 08, 2020

Listen to the podcast Nick Clegg recorded with Joe Biden in 2018

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Before he went to work for Facebook, Nick Clegg had a go at being a media personality. One effort in this direction was his podcast Anger Ma...

But westward, look, the land is bright

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Joe Biden's victory in the American Presidential election feels like the first bit of good  news in a long while. For the present, at le...

Fraud at the Polls: Citizen Kane foretold the fall of Donald Trump

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More than one person tweeted this clip yesterday, but I thought I would immortalise it here. This 'social media' is all very well, b...

Simon and Garfunkel: America

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I've long been a little ashamed that the first album I bought with my own money was Band on the Run by Wings. But I have no such feeling...
Saturday, November 07, 2020

John Betjeman visits St Mary the Virgin, Wellingborough

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St Mary the Virgin, a 20th-century church near Wellingborough railway station, is famous for the interior by its architect Sir Ninian Comper...

Six of the Best 973

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Peter Geoghegan looks at how a cartel of MPs associated with the European Research Group took over the Conservative Party and broke British...
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West Clare hotelier loses out in US Presidential election

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Our Headline of the Day proves that there is always a local angle. Congratulations to The Clare Echo and thanks to the reader who nominated...

The return of the Belper Moo

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The other day I blogged about one Derbyshire town's way of coping with the stresses of the first Covid lockdown: the Belper Moo . Now lo...