Wednesday, June 30, 2021

London's Lost Railways: Tooting, Merton and Wimbledon

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Geoff Marshall follows the path of the abandoned line from Merton Park to Tooting through Merton Abbey station, which was originally known a...
Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Cyril Smith vs rock and roll

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Embed from Getty Images Britain was a little wary of rock ‘n’ roll in January 1957. The previous autumn had seen the film Rock Around the Cl...
Monday, June 28, 2021

GUEST POST Why the Progressive Alliance is irrelevant in Batley and Spen

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Matthew Pennell says those arguing for a Progressive Alliance in the Batley and Spen by-election don't understand the seat. I’m a massi...
Sunday, June 27, 2021

Adam Faith: I Survived

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No, it's not a great record, but it's an interesting one. In 1974 I was all over Radio One, Radio Luxembourg and the charts, which m...
Friday, June 25, 2021

The Joy of Six 1014

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"Thatcher ... would often pepper her speeches with talk of Hayek, Popper or Friedman. And that wasn’t mere showboating: such men formed...

Police called after woman rants at Euro 2020 beer tent she wrongly thought was covid testing site

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Our congratulations go to the Liverpool Echo .
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Secret Islington walking tour: Canonbury

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John Rogers takes us on another London walk, This one takes into a magical realm just off the hustle and bustle of Upper Street Islington as...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021

The Joy of Six 1013

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Adrian Sanders offers some wise words of caution on a 'progressive alliance': "The problem with pre-election pacts, rather tha...
Sunday, June 20, 2021

Corby woman steals cactus before attacking man with it in town centre

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For this vignette of life in the county, the Northamptonshire Telegraph wins our Headline of the Day Award. Talk of cacti reminds me of Lor...

Prelude: After the Gold Rush

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Prelude were a folk group, formed in Gateshead in 1970 and active until recently. This 1974 a capella version of a Neil Young song was their...

Ed Davey's blue wall was couriered from Grantham

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Embed from Getty Images I like this detail at the end of an interesting Guardian article on the likely impact of the Liberal Democrat trium...
Saturday, June 19, 2021

Building Coventry Cathedral

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Historic England introduces this video on YouTube: Using photographs from Historic England’s Archive, KS2 students learnt more about their l...
Friday, June 18, 2021

Lib Dems storm to victory in Chesham and Amersham

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Embed from Getty Images It wasn't even close! Congratulations to Sarah Green on a stunning victory: (Chesham & Amersham) result: LDE...
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Georgie Fame reminisces about his Flamingo Club days

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Choosing Yeh Yeh as Sunday's music video, I came across this discussion between Georgie Fame and Jamie Cullen. Fame tells how he escape...
Thursday, June 17, 2021

The Joy of Six 1012

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"Lib Dems in cities (and remember, a lot of politically active centre-left folk live in cities) see municipal Labour as unimaginative, ...
Monday, June 14, 2021

MP bullied Commons staff because he is very tall

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Daniel Kawczynski, the Conservative MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham, today made an apology on the floor of the Commons for bullying parliamenta...
Sunday, June 13, 2021

Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames: Yeh Yeh

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I can remember being aware of Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames as a small boy in the 1960s - I think there was something about the fame/flam...
Saturday, June 12, 2021

Craft gin is illegal

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Writing about food and politics in Britain, Pen Vogler : The governments of the day experimented vainly with taxation, until alighting on le...

Lib Dems would gain five seats with new constituency boundaries

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A rare piece of good news for the Liberal Democrats is to be found in a New Statesman article by Ben Walker. He says that we are set to gai...
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Friday, June 11, 2021

The loneliness of Roding Valley

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Jago Hazzard explains why the Central Line's Roding Valley is the quietest station on the London Underground. You can support his videos...