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Liberal Democrat Blog of the Year 2014

"Well written, funny and wistful" - Paul Linford; "He is indeed the Lib Dem blogfather" - Stephen Tall
"Jonathan Calder holds his end up well in the competitive world of the blogosphere" - New Statesman
"A prominent Liberal Democrat blogger" - BBC Radio 4 Today; "One of my favourite blogs" - Stumbling
and Mumbling; "Charming and younger than I expected" - Wartime Housewife

Thursday, December 08, 2022

Market Harborough buses under threat from Conservative chaos

Some bus routes serving Market Harborough could be scrapped because of the the budget crisis facing Leicestershire County Council. HFM New s...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: The Marxist Groupuscules XI

And it happened again this week! Don't tell me now that the old boy wasn't on to something. I, for one. shan't feel confidence o...

Jona Lewie: Stop the Cavalry

This, says Jona Lewie, was not written to be a Christmas hit: it's an anti-war protest song. But a mention of the festival and a burst o...

Wednesday, December 07, 2022

The Long Man of Wilmington

The Long Man of Wilmington is a hill figure on Windover Hill near Wilmington in East Sussex. Here Professor Martin Bell, President of the Su...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: "What about the Young People?"

Lord Bonkers' grasp of history may not be exactly secure: I have read that Saxon England was just as dominated by the aristocracy as Nor...

Tenebrae: In the Bleak Midwinter

The words are an 1872 poem by Christina Rossetti, and the setting by Gustav Holst dates from 1906. Together they give you the feeling that t...

Tuesday, December 06, 2022

John Masefield and Traffic at Aston Tirrold

Now we're well into Advent it's high time I posted the opening titles of The Box of Delights. Job done. In order to qualify as a reg...

A brutal casting decision in Innocent Sinners

I looked up Innocent Sinners , my latest childre Dalkieth Advertiser n and bombsites film, in the British Newspaper Archive and came across ...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: “A mulligatawny is pleasantly warming at this time of year”

Freddie and Fiona's metamorphosis into Julian and Sandy continues apace: now I've even given them a weak punchline. And I didn't...

The Ronettes: Sleigh Ride

Phil Spector released his album A Christmas Gift for You in 1963. It contained a collection of secular Christmas standards reworked in his u...

Monday, December 05, 2022

Colin Martin on Britain's centralised approach to devolution

Colin Martin , the Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate for South East Cornwall, has a good article in the Cornish Times. He...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: No camel could have sacrificed his penis in a finer cause

The new Liberator has dropped, as the young people put it, so it's time to spend another week with Rutland's most celebrated fictio...

Mike Oldfield: In Dulci Jubilo

Mike Oldfield reminds us that carols were originally dance tunes. In Dulci Jubilo originated in medieval Germany and became popular in Brita...

Sunday, December 04, 2022

Download the new issue of Liberator now

The new issue of Liberator (issue 415, December 2022) has just been posted on the magazine's website. You can download it from there fr...

Choir of King's College, Cambridge: God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

This is a carol I always enjoyed singing, but we need to get a couple of grammatical points straight. Because look at that comma: there are ...

Saturday, December 03, 2022

The Joy of Six 1094

"Its lasting value is in its revelation that the institutions of the Conservative Party and the British government are so decrepit that...

Dartmoor village could be home to one of 'world's most radioactive toilets'

Thanks to a nomination from a Liberal England reader, the Plymouth Herald wins our Headline of the Day Award. As so often, things become le...

Steve Winwood: Christmas is Now Drawing Near at Hand

In his best John Barleycorn Must Die voice, Steve Winwood casts a bit of a damper on proceedings. Like John Barleycorn, this song can be fou...

Friday, December 02, 2022

GUEST POST The Secret Diary of Charles Dickens aged 13¾

An exclusive extract from The Secret Diary of Charles Dickens aged 13¾ by Lee Jackson . Living in Johnson Street, Camden Town, young Charle...

Stunning victory for Lib Dems in Jeremy Hunt's constituency

Waverley is one of those local authorities whose whereabouts defeats me - I tend to confuse it with Waveney and think it's in East Angli...

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