Saturday, February 11, 2023

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Keep the flag of freedom burning

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The new issue of Liberator (no. 416) is out and you can download it free of charge from the magazine's website. Radical Bulletin consi...
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Friday, February 10, 2023

Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)

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These days I well up ridiculously easily, so the thought of a film that might end in a place where "a little boy and his Bear will alwa...
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Two great local by-election gains for the Lib Dems

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As well as the parliamentary by-election in West Lancashire, there were five local contests yesterday. And two of them saw impressive gains ...
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Thursday, February 09, 2023

Lib Dems choose candidate for Charles Kennedy's old seat

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Angus MacDonald has been chosen as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Ross, Skye and Lochaber. This is the seat represented between 1983 and...

More on Southern TV's adaptation of T.H. White's The Master

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Last summer I found some cuttings from TV Times about the dramatisation of T.H. White's children's book The Master that Southern Te...
Wednesday, February 08, 2023

Herne Hill: The Tube station that never was

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Jago Hazzard takes a close look at the extent of the Victoria Line tunnels at Brixton and asks if there were plans to extend the it to Herne...

The Joy of Six 1108

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"In our collective rush to dunk on Greene's idiocy, progressives are failing to notice that she's actually an incredibly effect...
Tuesday, February 07, 2023

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch: "Murder your darlings"

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'Murder your darlings.' It's the writing advice you hear everywhere, but who first said it? The answer is this blog's new he...

Happy birthday Charles Dickens

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The great man was born on 7 February 1812. This clip is from David Lean's 1948 film of Oliver Twist and the boy himself is played by Joh...

Fears for the future of the Bridgnorth Cliff Railway

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A director of Bridgnorth Cliff Railway, reports the Shropshire Star , fears the visitor attraction could go bankrupt if it stays shut for to...
Monday, February 06, 2023

Freda Jackson and Stratford Johns in Serjeant Musgrave's Dance

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When I saw the cast of this 1961 television play included two Liberal England heroes - Freda Jackson and Stratford Johns - I had to have the...

Christian Wolmar - an informed HS2 sceptic

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  A lot of opposition to construction of HS2 has been ill-informed - my favourite example was an article in the Spectator calling for the re...
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Sunday, February 05, 2023

Write a guest post for Liberal England

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I welcome guest posts on Liberal England. Not only that: I'm happy to publish posts on subjects far beyond the Liberal Democrats and Bri...

Lib Dems name candidate for North of England target

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Harrogate and Knaresborough Liberal Democrats have chosen Tom Gordon as their candidate to fight the seat at the next general election. As I...
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Jethro Tull: Thick As a Brick

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Jethro Tull, God bless them, have a new album.  RökFlöte . coming out in April.  To think that I saw them at the NEC in 1986 with some colle...
Saturday, February 04, 2023

The Joy of Six 1107

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"The gap between the UK’s reality as portrayed by the dominant narrative of its economy’s performance and real life as experienced by i...

Bring back Compline and then scrap Thought for the Day

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I once wrote a post suggesting BBC Radio 4 got rid of the Today programme's dire Thought for the Day and devote the time saved to broad...
Friday, February 03, 2023

England beat the All Blacks away from home in 1973

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I'm fond of quoting the Irish hooker Ken Kennedy on English rugby in the amateur era:  "England have the players. What they've ...
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John Rogers walks Lewisham's magic River Quaggy

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From John Rogers's blurb on YouTube: The River Quaggy rises at Locksbottom in the London Borough of Bromley and is known as the Kyd Broo...

The theatres mural in Savoy Street, Leicester

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Savoy Street is a new route opened up to allow buses to leave the centre of Leicester more quickly and to make it easier for pedestrians to ...