Friday, August 12, 2022

Liz Truss pledges to beat the Lib Dems in Cheltenham, but doesn't know which county it's in

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Yesterday's Conservative leadership hustings took place in the plum Liberal Democrat target seat of Cheltenham. During it, Liz Truss ple...

The Joy of Six 1068

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"It’s subversive of constitutional democracy. It’s peddled by wealthy and privileged people to discredit reasoned government and distra...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

Can the lawsuits against Alex Jones help turn the tide of disinformation?

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For years Alex Jones spread the lie that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, were a government hoax and the ...
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Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Another glimpse of my own personal Thirties poet W.T. Nettlefold

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A search of the British Newspaper Archive finds W.T. Nettlefold at a meeting the London Branch of the Left Book Club Poetry Group held in Ha...
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Nick Clegg, Roe v. Wade, Facebook, privacy... and Lord Bonkers

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Remember when Nick Clegg told us he would defy the law and refuse to register for an identity card? (It was during a Lib Dem leadership ele...

Former Labour mayor and parliamentary candidate for Shrewsbury joins the Lib Dems

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Jon Tandy, a former Labour mayor of Shrewsbury and Labour parliamentary candidate for Shrewsbury and Atcham, has joined the Liberal Democrat...
Tuesday, August 09, 2022

Camden Road: Camden's other station

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Jago Hazzard chooses Camden Road as his favourite London Overground station. You'll find it on the North London Line and apparently it...

The Joy of Six 1067

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"One of the most startling statistics in the report is that there are now eight million younger workers who have never experienced an e...
Monday, August 08, 2022

Lib Dems get tough with privatised utilities

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There are two news stories about the Liberal Democrats and the privatised utilities today. BBC News reports that we have: called for Octobe...
Sunday, August 07, 2022

Watch Michael Sandel on the tyranny of merit

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From the YouTube blurb: What accounts for our polarized public life, and how can we begin to heal it? Political philosopher Michael Sandel o...

Liz Truss's leadership campaign is being run from a Westminster house owned by a former private secretary to Enoch Powell

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A couple of week's ago the Guardian took us Inside Team Truss . The one interesting thing I learnt from this article - and thanks to the...

The Mark Five: Baby What's Wrong

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The blurb for this on YouTube says: The old Jimmy Reed blues number vamped up by Scotland's Mark Five. At a time when the big London-bas...
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Saturday, August 06, 2022

If you think I'm obsessed with Malcolm Saville...

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I made an extraordinary discovery on YouTube the other evening.  Hinckley's  Red River Theatre Group has posted two plays that each sho...

Backstreet fantasy: The Clare Street Drill Hall, Northampton

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I should have gone to Braunston yesterday, which is a Northamptonshire canal village that, with some justification, calls itself the "H...

Farewell to Judith Durham

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Judith Durham, the lead singer of The Seekers, has died in Melbourne at the age of 79. The Seekers, were an Australian group who played pop ...
Friday, August 05, 2022

Roman Leicester wasn't built in a day 1

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What with one thing and another, it's been two years since I posted something from this series. So let's carry on the with the first...
Thursday, August 04, 2022

Inside the mind of a former conspiracist

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From the blurb for this podcast in the Conspiracy Games & Countergames series: For 15 years Brent Lee not only believed in conspiracy t...
Wednesday, August 03, 2022

The Joy of Six 1066

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"The Conservatives of today are possessed of a small idea: that they should be able to do whatever they want, whenever they want (to wh...
Tuesday, August 02, 2022

Follow the Willow Brook beneath the Midland main line in Leicester

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We left the Willow Brook as it disappeared towards the Midland main line after the Cobden Street bridge. You have to be intrepid and in a g...

The Spectator tries to have fun with Liz Truss's Lib Dem past again, but she made more sense in those days

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Liz Truss once suggested that "the age of criminal responsibility should come to us with the right to vote" in an article titled ...