Embed from Getty Images Major Denis Healey and Captain Roy Jenkins photographed on the seafront with fellow delegates during the Labour Party conference in Blackpool, May 1945. This photo was ...
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Embed from Getty Images One of the key legal figures in the later years of the Post Office scandal is refusing to appear at the public inquiry into it, reports Law Gazette . Jane MacLeod, wh...
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Embed from Getty Images Well now. BBC Countryfile reports: > An undisclosed Cumbrian hill farm is the location for the first ever > positive identification of big cat DN...
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Atmospheric photographs and atmospheric music. The blurb on YouTube explains what we are looking at: > Although the trackbed from Romney Junction towards New Romney is > easily trac...
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Listeners to the latest Private Eye podcast risk coming away from it believing it's possible to stop new houses being built on a local open space simply by getting up a petition. I suppose i...
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"Over the past decade the Conservative Party has taken millions of pounds from individuals and businesses with ties to Russia. Just this week it was revealed that JCB, which is owned by a major ...
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Who's been England's greatest allrounder in the years I have been following test cricket? They say a true allrounder has a batting average higher than his bowling average. So here are the four ...
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It would mean a lot to the Liberal Democrats to be the third party in the Commons. again. Our leader would get two questions at every PMQs: our spokespeople would get called more and earlier in d...
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Conservatives who want to see fewer foreign students won't be put off by telling them this could put some universities out of business, because they want to see fewer British students too. Robe...
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Embed from Getty Images A new report from the Beyond Pills All-Party Parliamentary Group says: > We have reached a crisis point in the nation’s mental health. > Nearly a quar...
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Politicians can be divided between those suited to good times and those suited to hard times, or so I suggested in a post I wrote here back in 2008. Looking at some leading politicians of the ...
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"AI skeptics - who are legion, and not necessarily part of the fringe tin foil hat crowd - are begging Silicon Valley to take a beat before unleashing AI to the world. But tech companies, faced ...
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Embed from Getty Images In his speech today, Rishi Sunak said the next five years will be some of the most difficult and dangerous in the UK's history. If Sergeant Wilson were here to advis...
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It was predictable - indeed, I remember retweeting someone who predicted it - that the Mail's pursuit of Angela Rayner over her supposed failure to pay capital gains tax would rebound on the C...
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Martin Scorcese's tribute to the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Made in England, received its premiere in London yesterday and is now being shown at the British Film Institute a...
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On Friday the exhibition The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists opened at St Albans Museum and Gallery. It runs until 8 September. The venue's billing says: > Uncover the story...
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Embed from Getty Images When Natalie Elphicke crossed the floor last week, there were plenty of us who had doubts about Keir Starmer's wisdom in allowing her to take the Labour whip. But the...
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Time to circle uneasily around the Beatles again, as I heard this in a coffee shop the other day. Paul McCartney wrote I'll Follow the Sun when he was 16. I can't decide whether the mismatch b...
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The Fallen Idol was the film Carol Reed made before The Third Man and it's nearly as good. If you've not seen it, there's a good introduction in this interview with Richard Ayoade . It wa...
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Embed from Getty Images Alexis Jay, chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, has said she is deeply disappointed by the weakness of the government's proposed law making it a...
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Embed from Getty Images The past week has reminded us of the friendly relations between Putin's Russia and some prominent supporters to Brexit. The i held an interview with Dominic Cummings...
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On the day of the London Marathon, we walk with John Rogers along the entire length of the Regent's Canal from Limehouse Basin in East London to Paddington Basin in the west. We pass through...
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Snibston Colliery was developed by George Stephenson and opened in 1832. Coal from it reached the outside world via his Leicester and Swannington Railway, one of the first of the steam age. ...
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The local elections have gone and the general election is not yet upon us. So this could be a good time to write a guest post for Liberal England. Please drop me a line if you've got idea...
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We should all be more like Jason Beer KC, the lead counsel to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry. Because you don't hear politicians accused of lying any more. Instead, they're accused of gasli...
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