Saturday, September 19, 2026

Shock as 16 tonnes of soil mistakenly dropped in Shrewsbury

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The Shropshire Star , and not for the first time, wins our Headline of the Day Award. There's more about the scheme to improve the Abbey...
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Lord Bonkers' Diary: Fifty Shades of Earl Grey

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This should keep the literary types among you happy, though I doubt that Ofsted will be so pleased. Wednesday History is all the rage on the...
Friday, September 18, 2026

The Joy of Six 1578

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"In the days that followed RNLI crew members found pictures of themselves strewn across social media. Online posts described the search...

Why Liberals must take power away from the media billionaires

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In a guest post for Liberal England, Donnachadh McCarthy argues that its time for another Reform Act - one that would remove the power of t...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Meeting Count Binface in Westminster

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I don't know if Nick Clegg does have a Dutch uncle, but there must be every chance. Tuesday Who should I meet in Westminster but Count B...
Thursday, September 17, 2026

Whatever happened to Connie Converse?

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Connie Converse provided my music choice on Sunday. YouTube being YouTube, there are any number of videos about her disappearance in 1974 a...

Council to help people 'correctly identify' potholes

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BBC News wins our Headline of the Day Award for this tale from Yorkshire, where a Sheffield City Council reports claims there is "conf...

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Wah-wah brass and boings on the timpani

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The new issue of Liberator has dropped. Download it free of charge from the magazine's website. And that, whether we like it or not, me...

Elvis Costello: The Other Side of Summer

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Elvis on the beach, and we're not talking Blue Hawaii here.
Wednesday, September 16, 2026

The foxes who visited London Zoo with deadly intent

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Remarkable stuff from Robert Hanks in the London Review of Books  for 21 October 2010: On 18 March last year a fox, or foxes, found their w...
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Coyote vs. Acme: "A warm and witty and weirdly moving film"

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I went into Leicester yesterday to see Coyote vs. Acme – or "Coyote and Acme" as the lawyers are no doubt calling it. As to my ver...

The Joy of Six 1577

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Sam Bright says the government's indecision on how to meet the threat of Nigel Farage has cost us all: "Labour has been dismally s...
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

The man in a coracle who retrieved the ball from the Severn for Shrewsbury Town

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Shrewsbury Town's old ground at Gay Meadow stood beside the Severn, so loose shots could end up in the river. This Nationwide report fro...

Work, play and creativity: Another column for the JCPCP

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This is another of the quarterly 'Sighcology' columns I contribute to the  Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychothe...

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...