Sunday, October 31, 2021

Santana: She's Not There

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After seeing the modern incarnation of the Zombies play Market Harborough 10 years ago I wrote: We discover popular music backwards as well...
Saturday, October 30, 2021

The Joy of Six 1031

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"We need to find a way that we can return responsibility to local people and get all the sectors on board – to show how to build an eco...
Thursday, October 28, 2021

Labour's 2019 candidate for Harborough suspended after allegations she planned to join the Tories

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Labour's 2015 general election candidate for Harborough later  joined the Conservative Party . Could its 2019 candidate be about to go t...
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

New Lib Dem disciplinary code "viewed as a way to settle personal scores"

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Embed from Getty Images I didn't get time to plug the latest Liberator when it was posted, but you can download it free from the magazi...
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Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ are people too, US court rules

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A hippo yesterday The Guardian wins our Headline of the Day Award.

The lost world of Middlesex: A walk along the River Pinn

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Another walk in the company of the amiable John Rogers. He describes it thus on YouTube: The River Pinn rises on Harrow Weald Common and flo...
Saturday, October 23, 2021

The Joy of Six 1030

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"What happened on that Friday and in the days after, when police rounded up even more kids, would expose an ugly and unsettling culture...
Friday, October 22, 2021

Cambridge Hall, Kilburn: A cathedral among tin tabernacles

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From the London Historic Buildings Trust website: The Tin Tabernacle (Cambridge Hall) is a Grade II listed building within the South Kilbur...
Thursday, October 21, 2021

Vanessa Redgrave remembers Blow-Up

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  You feel that if you watch Blow-Up just one more time then its mysteries will be laid open to you, but they never are. Here's Vanessa ...
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

It became green everywhere in the first spring, after London ended, so that all the country looked alike

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The opening chapter of After London is among the best things Richard Jefferies ever wrote. And as this video from South Downs Generations s...
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Tuesday, October 19, 2021

The Tories took back control of a blue wall council on Thursday and no one will admit it

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On Thursday we failed to hold a Liberal Democrat seat in Surrey Heath with the result that the Conservatives won overall control of the coun...
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Sunday, October 17, 2021

Family: The Weaver's Answer

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Family, pace Showaddywaddy and Kasabian, were the coolest band ever to come out of Leicester. And here they are performing on the German TV ...

Dormice favoured by Italian mafia seized in drugs raid

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BBC News wins our Headline of the Day Award.
Friday, October 15, 2021

New Zealand council ends contract with wizard after two decades of service

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Thanks to Christchurch city council, the Guardian wins Headline of the Day and puts me in mind of the Monty Python sketch about about the p...

Give My Regards to Broad Street Station

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A brief sketch of the rise and fall of London's lost railway terminus. I have some photos of Broad Street which I took on a sunny Saturd...
Thursday, October 14, 2021

The Joy of Six 1029

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"Nearly three in four children’s homes and two in five fostering households are now provided by independent organisations, from both th...
Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Rebecca West on public schools and good manners

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Embed from Getty Images Reading  An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines I came across a p...

Paul Jones and Spencer Davis interviewed in 1966

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"Tonight in Line Up, Spencer Davis, an arts graduate and leader of a pop group topping the charts this week, Paul Jones, singer from th...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Julie Christie, the Lamb and Flag, and being rude about elves

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Good news from Oxford where my favourite pub in the city, the Lamb and Flag, is to come back to life.  It was closed at the end of January b...
Friday, October 08, 2021

The Joy of Six 1028

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Akiko Hart  explains why the National Survivor User Network plays no part in World Mental Health Day. "The era of Mid-Century Britain i...