Tuesday, September 15, 2026

GUEST POST Like a challenging computer game? Try the Government Digital Service

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Mark Valentine tried hard to prove his identity, and the Government Digital Service tried hard to prevent him. The other day I had to do bu...
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Monday, September 14, 2026

Mother Damnable and the curse of Camden Town tube station

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Jago Hazzard takes us to Camden Town station and its curse: the most complicated junction on the London Underground. Blame the witch Mother ...

Write a guest post for Liberal England

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I love publishing guest posts here on Liberal England. Have you thought of writing one yourself? It could be on where the Liberal Democrats ...

The Joy of Six 1576

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Anna Sabine , Liberal Democrat MP for Frome and East Somerset, has discovered what happens when a politician loses her voice: "There’s ...
Sunday, September 13, 2026

John Pardoe, Margaret Thatcher and antisemitism in Finchley

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Embed from Getty Images The photograph above is captioned on Getty Images: British Liberal Party politician John Pardoe with his wife Joyce,...

Zoo advertises tickets for 'child predator tour'

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BBC News wins our Headline of the Day Award for this tale from Chester. I am reminded of the glory days of Lord Bonkers' safari park at...

Connie Converse: Roving Woman

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From an article on the BBC website by Thomas Hobbs : Centring on an edgy, city-dwelling female protagonist unapologetically owning her sexua...
Saturday, September 12, 2026

Private school that suddenly closed after 'misconduct' allegations burns down

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The Scotsman wins our Headline of the Day Award, though the judges said that in their day a school would have carried on regardless.

The Grimond Society and economic democracy

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Embed from Getty Images The Grimond Society, a Liberal Democrat group that aims to build support for economic democracy and a more cooperati...
Friday, September 11, 2026

A website on Alec Guinness's two BBC series as George Smiley

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Here's what we need: a website devoted to the BBC productions of John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People . Gu...

The Joy of Six 1575

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Zöe Franklin celebrates the 98th anniversary of the Equal Franchise Act, which gave women equal voting rights with men and calls for furthe...
Thursday, September 10, 2026

Dysfunctional council to be abolished after years of controversy and "all out civil war"

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Our Headline of the Day Award goes to the Leicester Mercury . I know things can get pretty het up on the city council, but the authority in ...

Good news about the Family Farm Tax

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Farmers have been complaining for some time that the price of farmland has lost any connection with the income that be derived from farming ...

David Alton, Andy Burnham and telescopic radicalism

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Embed from Getty Images It struck me that if Mrs. Jellyby had discharged her own natural duties and obligations before she swept the horizon...
Wednesday, September 09, 2026

Pennsylvania's Kids for Cash Scandal shows the danger of the profit motive in the juvenile justice system

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If you want to see the danger of introducing the profit motive into the detention of young offenders, watch this video on Pennsylvania's...

The Joy of Six 1574

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Liz David-Barrett argues that, by making rule-breaking a selling point, Reform UK is signalling it's open for influence trading: "...

Bryan Ferry: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

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Bob Dylan glammed up sounds good. This is on Ferry's 1973 debut album These Foolish Things , and it reached no. 10 in the singles chart ...
Tuesday, September 08, 2026

Geoff Marshall asks: What are Britain's least served stations?

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Geoff Marshall says in his YouTube blurb: So we quite often talk about Least Used Stations ... but what about the Least SERVED - the station...

Kent Police has admitted ignoring intelligence on Dover disruption

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Kent Police has admitted receiving intelligence about a planned disruption in Dover four days before it took place, reports Metro : A woman ...

Traffic Cop Nick Lovatt sacked after committing more than 20 driving offences

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Embed from Getty Images The Derby Telegraph wins our Headline of the Day Award. On one occasion, the fellow officer who stopped him is repo...