Wednesday, October 06, 2021

Bingham Toot Hill School students sanctioned after tampering with dead pigeon

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A pigeon yesterday. Thanks to a nomination from a Liberal England reader, the Newark Advertiser wins our Headline of the Day Award.

We reveal the cause of that Facebook outage

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Tuesday, October 05, 2021

Matthew Hoggard runs a cookery school in Rutland

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Embed from Getty Images An unexpected figure turns up in a Guardian article about Rutland ("England's secret foodie heartland...

Wizz Jones on the problem with being a beatnik in Newquay in 1960

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Choosing Psul Simon and Anji as Sunday's music video, I quoted Wizz Jones. But who, I hear you cry, is Wizz Jones? Wikipedia tells us h...
Monday, October 04, 2021

James Hawes and Nick Hayes visit Newton in the Willows

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The goal of one of my very first outings with a digital camera has cropped up in two books I have just read. It is the village of Newton (Ne...
Sunday, October 03, 2021

Paul Simon: Anji

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Composed and played by Davey Graham, Anji was the track that every acoustic guitarist wanted to master in the Sixties.  Acoustic Guitar exp...
Friday, October 01, 2021

Turkey: 'Missing' man joins search party looking for himself

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BBC News wins our Headline of the Day Award.
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...