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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

Sunday, May 18, 2025

Layla Moran on Gaza: "Starvation shouldn't be a weapon of war"

The senior Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran has warned that people in Gaza face "unbearably cruel levels of destitution" and called...

Disney child star looks unrecognizable on Cannes red carpet 32 years after hit film’s debut

Embed from Getty Images In making our Headline of the Day Award to the Independent , the judges congratulated the online newspaper's edi...

Spyro Gyra: Morning Dance

In the summer of 1979 this track was everywhere. It made the UK top 20. It was radio friendly, Radio 2 friendly and made for use in televisi...

Saturday, May 17, 2025

The Joy of Six 1360

"If Morgan can beat the BNP in Barking, goes the argument, then surely he can do the same for Reform in Britain too. Yet in all the cov...

St Paul's, Covent Garden: The Actors' Church

"George Smiley! Oh, but you lovely, darling man!" Down in London on Thursday, I came across St Paul's, Covent Garden, which is...

Brian Glanville, greatest of football reporters, has died aged 93

The first things I can remember, as a child, reading with pleasure in an adult newspaper are Brian Glanville's football reports for the ...

Friday, May 16, 2025

London's lost underground lines - with a note on the wine cellar of the National Liberal Club

Jago Hazzard is our guide to a collection of lost lines, repurposed lines and abandoned oddments, some of them 50 miles out of London and de...

That Reform UK programme for Leicestershire: Bus cuts and a consultants' bonanza

Reform UK won 25 of the 55 seats on Leicestershire County Council on 1 May and has now formed a minority administration. What will they do w...

Lord Bonkers 30 years ago: I watched Sir Edward Heath being hunted through the lobbies by a full pack of beagles

Lord Bonkers mentioned the other day that my rent falls due on Lady Day. I took this as a subtle reminder that it's a long time since I ...

Thursday, May 15, 2025

The Joy of Six 1359

"Adults are going hungrier to keep children better fed. The most vulnerable – infants, pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers and others...

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

William Wallace: Reading Biggles in Westminster Abbey

Liberal Democrat Voice has a thoughtful post by William Wallace - Lord Wallace of Saltaire - on the relation between Liberalism and religio...

Reform council leader thinks circumcision causes transgenderism

The new Reform UK leader of Lincolnshire County Council has suggested there's a link between circumcision and transgenderism in children...

Nick Cohen's podcast: Don't back any horses tipped by Nick Tyrone

Embed from Getty Images Nick Cohen's latest podcast dropped two days ago. His guest, billed as an expert on the Conservative Party, was ...

Fleetwood Mac: Dust My Broom

Scintillating slide guitar from Jeremy Spencer.

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Thought for the Day: “We know that at night-time someone goes by amongst the trees, but we never speak of it”

I first came across this saying in Visionary and Dreamer , David Cecil's study of the artists Samuel Palmer and Edward Burne-Jones. If I...

"Come back, Shane!" are not the last words spoken in the film

I've come across another Mandela effect online, this one involving the classic Western, Shane. Some people - and I'm one of them - a...

New Leicestershire Reform councillor was sacked as a police officer last year

BBC News reports, nay reveals , that a newly elected Reform member of Leicestershire County Council was dismissed from Leicestershire Police...

Monday, May 12, 2025

Alistair Carmichael: Labour is falling into the same trap the Tories did on immigration

The senior Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael has given a measured and Liberal response to today's intervention on immigration by K...

Three men held over suitcases stuffed with hermit crabs

Thanks to a nomination from a Liberal England reader, BBC News wins our Headline of the Day Award. The judges were relieved to find that th...

To celebrate St Pancras Day: The Beatles at Old St Pancras and a 1983 Steve Winwood interview

Today is St Pancras Day. To celebrate it, here's another showing for this video recreating the Beatles' visit to Old St Pancras chur...

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