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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, December 14, 2025

Lib Dems get five new peers and drop opposition to government bill

Photo by Martina Jorden on Unsplash I can't see behind its paywall, but the Telegraph is convinced that the Liberal Democrats dropped ...

Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore: Tragic Magic

This is a track from Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore's new album Tragic Magic. An advertisement on Lattimore's Bandcamp page say...

Saturday, December 13, 2025

Richard Dimbleby, David Dimbleby, Henry Dimbleby and the hereditary principle

David Dimbleby's current television series is questioning Britain's hereditary monarchy. So it's time for a thumping ad hominem...

The Joy of Six 1448

David Howarth says Liberal Democrats should attack Brexit, not just "the Tories' botched Brexit deal". "Many have had to...

Friday, December 12, 2025

Hunting ley lines in Shropshire: The view from Stapeley Hill

It turns out I've posted the second ( Caus Castle ) and third ( Worthen ) videos in this series, but not the first. So here it is. My se...

John Carey and The Intellectuals and the Masses

The death of John Carey, the critic and former Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford, has been reported today. I discovered him t...

Stuffed Victorian dog returns to train station home

The judges didn't like "train station" but were won over by the second mention in the story below: "the beloved Victorian...

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Just try cancelling your Your Party membership

Embed from Getty Images An anonymous letter to the Guardian's Consumer champions : I subscribed to Your Party at its shambolic start and...

The Joy of Six 1447

Keir Starmer's digital ID project is a techno-authoritarian’s wet dream, argues Carole Cadwalladr : "This is a policy that wasn’t i...

Argent: Hold Your Head Up

I loved this when it came out as a single in 1972. Almost 40 years later, I saw The Zombies play Market Harborough and Rod Argent shaking ha...

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Taliban warn Afghans who wore 'un-Islamic' Peaky Blinders outfits

Embed from Getty Images Once again, BBC News wins our Headline of the Day Award.

Those Labour MPs who voted for (and against) the Lib Dem customs union bill in full

Embed from Getty Images Labour List has helpfully printed the names of the 13 Labour MPs who voted for the Liberal Democrat customs union b...

Tuesday, December 09, 2025

Michael Slater reveals the origins of A Christmas Carol

The great Dickens scholar Michael Slater, who died last month, explains the background to A Christmas Carol, reveals Dickens' reasons fo...

Peter Kellner: The pro-Brexit majority of 2016 has literally died out

Huffington Post had gone behind the New World (formerly New European) paywall and emerged with a story about the level of public support fo...

Matthew Green to fight South Shropshire again

At the last election Matthew Green and his team in South Shropshire achieved a remarkable 23 per cent swing from the Conservatives, finishin...

Councillor quits Reform for second time in 2 weeks

BBC News wins our Headline of the Day Award. The judges wonder how our regular guest blogger Augustus Carp will cope with this when he pos...

Monday, December 08, 2025

Rutland mosaic depicts lost Aeschylus narrative of the Trojan War

The Roman mosaic discovered at Ketton in Rutland five years ago is even more remarkable than first thought. A story on the University of Lei...

The Joy of Six 1446

Cicero's Songs , making a welcome return, has naught for your comfort: "The decadence of the American Empire is upon us, and the co...

Sunday, December 07, 2025

Tories and Reform have big falling out in Leicestershire over alleged threats of violence

Embed from Getty Images Leicestershire’s Reform UK and Conservative parties have entered into a public spat over alleged threats of violence...

Giant purple dinosaurs, giant chickens and CCTV

Unusually, the contest for our Headline of the Day Award has ended in a tie, as the judges found themselves unable split two entries that sh...

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