Thursday, September 30, 2021

Repairing the Pinnacles of St Mary the Virgin, Shrewsbury

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Historic England's blurb on YouTube says: Completed in 1220, St Mary the Virgin’s Church is a grand Norman build that sits at the heart ...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

The Joy of Six 1027

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"History must have been in the mood to make things pretty obvious for once, since it has given us the most perfect mathematical example...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Write a guest post for Liberal England

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I welcome guest posts on Liberal England and am happy to publish ones on subjects far beyond the Liberal Democrats and British politics. In ...
Sunday, September 26, 2021

Four Tops: It's the Same Old Song

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I wasn't sure which song to choose for today's music video, but when I walked home past the Conservative Club last night I heard som...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Those nuns were the authors of their own misfortune

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It seems that my expression of hope that Lord Bonkers is about to return to the political was miscalculated.  I grant that he is no longer w...
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Saturday, September 25, 2021

Lord Bonkers' Diary: The noted East End gangster and philanthropist

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When I came across this entry in the old boy's diary, with its characteristic interest in Evan Harris's long-running feud with the l...
Friday, September 24, 2021

The ghost train of West London

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Many years ago, wandering the streets of West Kensington, I came across what had clearly been an important public building. The next time I ...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: "You should have stood down in more seats"

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The sooner we get Lord Bonkers back into action the better, if you ask me. And when I read this entry I was hopeful of doing so. "You s...
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Independent panel says Keith Vaz should be ashamed of his behaviour towards Commons clerk

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Embed from Getty Images Because of the background of his victim, the Belfast Telegraph has the fullest report of today's findings again...
Thursday, September 23, 2021

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Mounted elves and vegans

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This is more like it! The old boy has clearly stumbled upon the Chesham and Amersham by-election and staged a decisive intervention. It'...
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Jenny Agutter interviewed in 1981

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Over here to promote An American Werewolf in London in London, says the blurb on YouTuhe, Jenny Agutter spoke to David Childs about her film...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Lord Bonkers' Diary: The beechwoods of the Chilterns

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I wouldn't say Lord Bonkers was away with the fairies this summer, but he was certainly away with the elves. The beechwoods of the Chilt...
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Walking the Hackney Brook with John Rogers

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The YouTube blurb for this video says: This lost river walk along the Hackney Brook is guided by Tom Bolton's book London's Lost Riv...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: "We shall travel by the old roads"

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Yes, the sly old fox had us all fooled. I hope Nanny, who spent weeks knitting him a fisherman's jersey, will not cut up rough. "We...
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Monday, September 20, 2021

GUEST POST Saving Church Langton's open space from the Diocese of Leicester

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Anthony Lawton on a Leicestershire village's campaign to defend its only open space. I know far too little about my mother who, a singl...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Meadowcroft was heard to blow his nose loudly

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The last time I spoke to Lord Bonkers he was full of his plans to travel round Britain . Since then I 've received only the odd postcard...
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Climax Blues Band: Couldn't Get It Right

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The Climax Chicago Blues Band was formed in Stafford in 1967 to play blues standards. In time, it shortened its name and broadened its reper...
Saturday, September 18, 2021

Llandudno goat selfie warning from coastguard

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A goat yesterday. BBC News should thank a Liberal England reader for nominating them for our coveted Headline of the Day Award.
Thursday, September 16, 2021

Blogging may be light...

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I'm having problems with my internet connection at home. This is no bad thing, in that it encourages me to go to bed when I get back fro...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

North Yorkshire Police phone lines deluged with ‘people complaining about each other’

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Embed from Getty Images Our Headline of the Day Award goes to the website YorkMix .