Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Somehow this disqualifyingly moronic assumption did not deter Russell Brand's political acolytes

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Embed from Getty Images Twitter yesterday was full of people arguing that, because Russell Brand - who denies all the allegations made again...
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Rory Stewart and Le Cercle

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Here's an interesting clip from Ash Sarkar's interview with Rory Stewart for Novara Media. Stewart's membership of this shadowy ...
Monday, September 18, 2023

Write a guest post for Liberal England

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The new political season is here, so if there's something you want to say, remember that I enjoy publishing guest posts on Liberal Engla...

The Joy of Six 1163

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"Liz Truss almost wrecked the British economy in her 49 days as prime minister, and is now working on a book, Ten Years to Save the Wes...
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Sunday, September 17, 2023

Russell Brand was a creation of television and the tabloids, not the comedy circuit

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Until last night's Dispatches, I had never seen Russell Brand's comedy act. I now look back on those days with affection.  But that ...

Calexico: Black Heart

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Calexico are a band from Tucson, Arizona, whose music is infused with the desert and the Mexican border. And Black Heart is a track from the...
Saturday, September 16, 2023

GUEST POST: 61 councillors have changed their allegiance since May's local elections

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Augustus Carp look at the latest figures on councillors who change their political allegiance. It’s been just over four months since the la...
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The Tories will finish third in the Mid Bedfordshire by-election

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I wrote this about Mid Bedfordshire back in July: Labour has won vanishingly few seats like this one in recent decades, and Lib Dems will g...
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Friday, September 15, 2023

Terence O'Neill (1934-2023), Agatha Christie and The Mousetrap

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Today is the anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth on 15 September 1890. That has made me think about her play The Mousetrap and its ro...

If we really are seeing a Lib Dem revival, what would a good general election result look like?

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Embed from Getty Images Writing for The House , Sean Kemp gives an amusing account of recent Liberal Democrat history: At one point as a par...
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Thursday, September 14, 2023

Tibshelf Sidings: Remains of a railway yard hidden in the woods

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Tibshelf Sidings was once a busy spot on the railway and part of Britain's coal distribution network. Numerous sidings and a junction we...
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Work begins in Kibworth to stabilise mud wall

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This just in from Kibworth Beauchamp Parish Council : An emergency footway closure and prohibition of waiting and loading is required on Hig...
Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Goodbye to Wilko - a company founded in Leicester

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This is the Wilko branch in Market Harborough, which will close on Sunday. I feel sorry for the people here and around the country who are l...

Elizabeth II and the design of her stamps

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In his Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises , A.N. Wilson remembers a conversation with the Queen Mother: Katherine and I had just been to...
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Electoral Commission: Hundreds of thousands face exclusion over voter ID laws

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It may have lost our data , but the Electoral Commission has found some balls. Here's the Guardian on the commission's new Report o...
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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Children's literature: Holiday adventure stories vs school stories

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The latest The Rest is History podcast deals with the school story. I could have done with a little less about the presenters' own priv...
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The Joy of Six 1162

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Floella Benjamin asks why young people are hung out to dry after they leave the care system: "Increasing the number of care leavers in...

The Mid Bedfordshire by-election of 1960

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Embed from Getty Images Thanks to a reader for pointing out that the current Mid Bedfordshire by-election is not the first in the constituen...
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Monday, September 11, 2023

Photo-identity for voters, racism and the Electoral Commission

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Forcing people to show photographic identity before they could vote in May's local elections led to racial and disability discrimination...
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John Stevenson, Coronation Street and Brass

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The television scriptwriter John Stevenson died last week. He was the leading scriptwriter for Coronation Street in the days when, because i...