Monday, December 11, 2023

Nick Clegg announced the Stonehenge tunnel in 2014, but the local Lib Dems weren't keen

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Here's a cutting from the Salisbury Journal nine years ago: The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg was at Stonehenge this morning to anno...
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There should be a blue plaque: Jim Dale's birthplace in Rothwell

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He is remembered in Britain as the star of 11 Carry On films and, if you really know your stuff, as a pop star of the 1950s who was recorded...
Sunday, December 10, 2023

Protect your children from the National Elf Service

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I have long suspected I shall live to see the fall of Western civilisation - possibly by next Thursday. Two Christmases ago, Liberal England...

Be Bop Deluxe: Ships in the Night

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Be Bop Deluxe were formed in 1972 by Bill Nelson from Wakefield. Discogs says of them: Musically restless Be Bop Deluxe never actually play...
Saturday, December 09, 2023

Searching for PC Bodger

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Back in the Fifties, before I was born, my mother worked as a secretary for the police in Somerset. Many of her stories of those days involv...

The Joy of Six 1185

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Nick Harvey and Paul Tyler talk to Arthur Snell about their book Can Parliament Take Back Control? He says they have "produced a short...
Friday, December 08, 2023

The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb

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The Night of the Hunter, Charles's Laughton's only film as a director, is a masterpiece. But it's wonderful Southern Gothic atmo...

Nottingham Symphony: The city in 1971

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I went to Nottingham yesterday - you'll be amazed what I get up to these days - and was reminded of this film. So I'm sharing it wit...
Thursday, December 07, 2023

Paddy Ashdown didn't have a British passport when he died

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Embed from Getty Images "I was a passionate European, I still am and so was Paddy. In fact when he died he didn’t have a British passpo...
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Lord Bonkers' Diary: Whoever wrote that never employed Meadowcroft

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Where else to end out latest week at Bonkers Hall but beneath the slender spire of St Asquith's? There was time for a stiffener at the B...
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Keir Starmer was right: How Margaret Thatcher bankrolled a generation of left-wing entrepreneurs and artists

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I don't subscribe to the Telegraph, so I may not have read everything Keir Starmer had to say about Margaret Thatcher earlier this week....
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Wednesday, December 06, 2023

Shane Warne watches a 13-year-old Rehan Ahmed bowl

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Leicestershire's Rehan Ahmed was England's most economical bowler in today's 50-over international against the West Indies, with...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: A foul-smelling bird of uncertain temper

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Lord Bonkers loses no opportunity within the party's inner counsels to oppose any move for us to have a new logo. The reason, I now real...
Tuesday, December 05, 2023

The Joy of Six 1184

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Armenia is facing its most precarious moment in three decades. The loss of Karabakh, a region with a centuries-old history of Armenian habit...

Garry Kasparov visits Bobby Fischer's grave

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Bobby Fischer's victory over Boris Spassky in their 1972 match in Reykjavik put chess on the front pages of the world's newspapers. ...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: All over the herbal tea market like a boss

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One day we may discover what befell those nuns to cause the sudden closure of the Bonkers Hall Safari Park. I have, incidentally, never been...

Santa facing eviction amid planning row with local council

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Embed from Getty Images Our coveted Headline of the Day Award goes to the Bristol Post  for this seasonal story from Frome. Ho ho ho!
Monday, December 04, 2023

The part-abandoned Tooting, Merton & Wimbledon Railway

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Jago Hazzard is our guide to this South London line. Parts of it are still in use, and more remains of the abandoned stretches than you may ...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: A feathered headdress on state occasions

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Lily Gladstone is related to William Ewart Gladstone on her mother's side, while on her father's side she is descended from Red Cro...

Euro 2024 draw: Uefa investigates after sex noises disrupt broadcast

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Embed from Getty Images BBC Sport wins our Headline of the Day Award and the judges suggest your read the story below: Uefa says it is inve...