Friday, April 18, 2025

Chris "Two Wards" Twells surfaces as an Independent in Cornwall

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Remember Chris Twells ? He was the Liberal Democrat who got himself elected to represent wards in Salford and the Cotswolds  at the same tim...

GUEST POST How a local radio station changed my life

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Mark Howson owes a great deal to Harborough FM. When Diane and I moved to Market Harborough in 2008 I had a low opinion of local radio, dis...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Raven (1977) - by the writers of Children of the Stones

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Raven is another of those supernatural children's television series from the Seventies, but not one of the best remembered. I don't ...

The Joy of Six 1348

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"Neither More in Common nor Opinium highlight the fact that Ed Davey tops their net approval ratings. This amnesia spills into other ar...

Maybe the cancellation of Time Team is the event after which everything started going wrong

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Time Team, Channel 4's (ahem) groundbreaking archaeology programme, ran for 20 years from 1994. At its best it was like a nonfiction ver...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Ride a giant swan: Ed Davey visits Cornwall today

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Not one for your usual campaign visit, Mr Davey has become known for taking part in some unusual activities while visiting areas of the coun...

What is it that make some names of places or people funny?

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  "He didn't get those in Berlin" just wouldn't be as funny. Partly it's the extra syllable in Heidelberg and partly i...
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Titanic passengers ate Melton pies as one of their final meals

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Our Headline of the Day Award goes to (who else?) the Melton Times . The judges are anxious to point out that there is no reason to think th...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

The Joy of Six 1347

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Wera Hobhouse demands to know why she was deported from Hong Kong. "As we toured the site - not just the blast furnace but the iron or...

Does A Canterbury Tale end with a glimpse of a better future?

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  It's time to revisit Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's film A Canterbury Tale. Here's Xan Brooks , whose favourite film ...

Sandy Denny: Bushes and Briars

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Recorded for Bob Harris's BBC show in 1972.
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Monday, April 14, 2025

Orthodox monastery for sale in the Stiperstones

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Lower Gittenshay Cottage is billed by estate agents as  a charming detached cottage offering excellent potential, set with outbuildings and...

"Frankly a bit weird": Andrew Griffith and those vegan Lib Dems

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"The Lib Dems are quite extremist, when they get into council they want four day weeks and veganism" Shadow business secretary And...

Write a guest post for Liberal England

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I love publishing guest posts here on Liberal England, whether they're on politics or wider culture. And I'm happy to entertain a wi...
Sunday, April 13, 2025

The Joy of Six 1346

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"The miscarriages of justice are extraordinary. One victim is a gay make-up artist with no apparent gang affiliations, just some tattoo...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: The Penguin Book of Penguins

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Given the current US policy on trade and tariffs, I think it may prove to be fortuitous that I recently added a penguin to the cast of chara...

The James Taylor Quartet and the Rochester Cathedral Choir: The Rochester Mass

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I discovered James Taylor through a Guy Hamper Trio track that he played on, and that led naturally to the James Taylor Quartet. They are w...
Saturday, April 12, 2025

Wera Hobhouse MP refused entry to Hong Kong to visit grandson

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Embed from Getty Images From the Mail : A Liberal Democrat MP has been refused entry to Hong Kong to visit her newborn grandson. Wera Hobhou...
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Lord Bonkers' Diary: The most sensible member of the new Liberal Democrat intake

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How long ago this now seems! I'm not saying that Jennie engineered an international financial crisis to get herself out of the headlines...
Friday, April 11, 2025

Why do so many British supermarkets have clock towers?

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It's down to the problems Asda experienced getting the design approved for its store in the centre of the Essex new town of South Woodha...