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Private Eye reminds us of the genesis of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal: > Conceived in 1996 as one of the first private finance initiative > contracts, between the Post O...

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2024/04/karl-popper-post-office-horizon-it.html

Judy Dyble was the original female singer with Fairport Convention, but was ousted when the band met Sandy Denny. Jackie McAuley was the keyboard player with Them and played on their most famou...

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2024/04/trader-horne-here-comes-rain.html

Bill Browder , in a video interview by Kyiv Post, argues that: "Putin is a little man, who has stolen too much money, who is terrified of losing power. If he loses power he will go to jail, los...

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-joy-of-six-1224.html

Embed from Getty Images The Guardian published a number of letters in response to the prime minster's claim that Britain is suffering from a "sicknote culture". One of them, from the associ...

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2024/04/overmedicalisation-is-problem-but-not.html

This is an interesting little video. Winchelsea Beach, where we had a family caravan holiday when I was seven, is a small resort that has developed on land that was reclaimed as the sea retreated...

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-1931-floods-and-history-of.html

I have learnt from my addiction to the livestream of the proceedings of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry that there is a transatlantic law firm called Womble Bond Dickinson. Indeed, two of i...

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2024/04/remember-calder-womble-remember-calder.html

Imagine a cross between Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and the interview episode of The Apprentice. That's what you get from the hearings of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry. The inquiry's website...

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2024/04/hooked-on-livestream-from-post-office.html

Embed from Getty Images Mark Menzies has resigned from the Conservative Party but is to remain as a member of the House of Commons until the general election. This is what generally happens ...

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2024/04/disgraced-mps-should-resign-from.html

It's a podcast with young men, so there's lots of top bantz, but in between Mason Crane - England, Hampshire, Sussex and now Glamorgan - has some interesting things to say about how we can encour...

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2024/04/mason-crane-englands-forgotten-man-on.html

THE SECRET SUPPORT WORKER discusses what older people in care homes need to thrive - and what they are given. Well, gentle reader, I did it. I walked away from the most amazing and most magica...

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2024/04/guest-post-in-old-age-shared-past-is.html

Congratulations to Chesterfield's Cooper Wallace and also to the Guardian , which wins my Headline of the Day Award. Thanks to both for giving me an excuse to post a photo of one of the large...

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2024/04/boy-9-from-derbyshire-wins-european.html

There's news of a further hold up in the attempt to find a Liberal Democrat candidate for the eminently winnable seat of Sutton and Cheam. Early yesterday Michael Crick tweeted: > 🟠 S...

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2024/04/another-hold-up-to-lib-dem-selection-in.html

I enjoy publishing guest posts on Liberal England. So drop me a line if you've got an idea for something you could write for this blog. As you can see from the list below, I accept posts ...

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Jillian Ambrose  for the Guardian about the plans to close Britain's last coal-fired power station, Ratrcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire: > When Ratcliffe was opened in 1968 by the�...

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-last-days-of-ratcliffe-on-soar.html

Embed from Getty Images You'll love this Trivial Fact of the Day, particularly if you remember county cricket from more than 50 years ago and TV talent shows from the early years of this centu...

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"In their very different ways, these stories centre on the same key ideas: a rejection of any idea of natural places and spaces being off limits, and the joyous democracy of gathering together t...

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-joy-of-six-1223.html

I saw a tweet by Wera Hobhouse , the Liberal Democrat MP for Bath, in support of the End Sexism in Schools campaign. It said that, "shockingly", only two per cent of GCSE students study literatu...

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2024/04/two-per-cent-of-gcse-students-study.html

William Davies reviewed The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet by Brett Christophers in a recent issue of the London Review of Books. The opening of his review is worth re...

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2024/04/capitalism-vs-free-market.html

Maddy Costa wrote about the Raincoats in the Guardian back in 2009: > When Gina Birch and Ana da Silva decided to start a band in the late > 1970s, they were art students ...

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-raincoats-fairytale-in-supermarket.html

"The Gay Dolphin is almost as old as Rye itself. I am not sure how old it is, but there is no doubt that it was much used by smugglers and I am now fairly confident that it contains some secre...

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-malcolm-saville-society-plaque-at.html

New on the Mirror website: > A Tory election candidate branded Volodymyr Zelensky an "enemy of > the people" as he suggested we should stop supporting Ukraine.  >  > I...

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2024/04/tories-refuse-to-drop-council-candidate.html

I came back from Hastings via Ashford and the HS2 line to St Pancras. I noticed Doleham because it was the only station between Hastings and Ashford that we didn't call at, so I decided it was ti...

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2024/04/doleham-least-used-station-in-east.html

Simon McGrath writes on Liberal Democrat Voice: > Following a reference in the Journal of Lib Dem History I recently > came across the most extraordinary labour of love, ...

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2024/04/lionel-kings-biographical-directory-of.html

ANSELM ANON argues that the Liberal Democrats are wrong to treat the tobacco debate as one simply about consumer choice. The Tobacco and Vapes Bill would "make it an offence to sell tobacco...

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2024/04/guest-post-no-smoke-without-political.html

I've just got back from three days in Hastings. While I was there I made the pilgrimage to Winchelsea and Malcolm Saville's house there. I went to look for the blue ceramic plaque that the ...

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