The latest of these recordings deals with the site now occupied by BBC Radio Leicester. Now the radio station's building is a shadow of what it used to be. The cafe and internet cafe (where I sometimes wrote this blog in its early days) are long gone, and now the BBC shop mentioned here has closed too.
Embed from Getty Images Eric Dier, who scored England's opening goal against Russia this evening, is the grandson of Ted Croker, the former secretary of the Football Association.
Work on my Peloponnesian League book is finally starting to happen, so it's time to dust off the blog again. I hope odd little things like today's discovery will go here. At the moment I am working on what might be the trickiest bit: figuring out what may have happened in the sixth and seventh century that made Greek cities start collaborating in the Peloponnese. There is hardly any written evidence, so it's all about piecing things together from whatever is available. This is how I came to spend a few hours today on roof tiles, specifically roof tiles from ...
These strange posters have been appearing across the country. I photographed this one outside Oakham station when I was in the town a couple of weeks ago for the reopening of the castle. Jon Kelly tries to get to the bottom of the mystery on the BBC News site, but reaches no firm conclusion. You will also a thread about it on Above Top Secret. There are lots of people out there with strange views, but not many of them have the money to pay for a national billboard campaign.
Second paragraph of third chapter: 'Class, we are very lucky today,' began Mr Watts. 'Mrs Kabui has agreed to share with us the remarkable life and times of the heart seed.' A short but very powerful book, about the power of literature to transcend the horrors of humanity. Mr Watts brings education to a remote part of Bougainville in the middle of the war there (probably the most horrible conflict in the Pacific since WW2, with 15-20,000 killed of a population of less than a quarter million). Pip from Great Expectations becomes a focal cultural reference point for Matilda and ...
Sat 11th
16:42
Norway vs the UK - Brexit could mean 10 Euros per person (per year) higher net contributions to the ...
Because the UK's realistic alternative to the EU is membership of the EEA it is worth comparing Norway's situation to that of the UK. This is a relevant story about how being in the EEA (not having to follow the CAP or CFP) can mean countries having to follow laws and regulations the setting of which countries have not participated in. However, there is also the question about cash. Full fact
Sat 11th
16:38
Paddy: Pooling sovereignty with our friends does not diminish our sovereignty, it increases it
Yesterday, Paddy Ashdown made a speech about Britain's place in the world. You can watch it here. He tells a story at the very end, that's quite chilling, about the hideously barbaric human rights abuses in the Balkans and his first meeting with war criminal Radovan Karadzic. Here's the text: A senior German Minister said to me the other day "Whenever I sit down in a room to negotiate with my British colleagues in a European meeting, their first question is always the same - which way to the Exit? You Brits spend so much time trying to find the ...
In the EU, we shape the rules. Outside, we might well have to follow them without having any say in what they are. The debate about Britain's membership of the EU is often presented as a choice between democracy and access to the European Single Market. If we leave, the argument goes, we endanger our [...]
So, what was the mysterious parcel that UK Mail decided was so important it had to be delivered in the middle of the night? Ros and I had been out and stopped for a light lunch. Allards, in Stowupland, do a very nice bacon roll, so we ordered one each, plus something to drink. I had a pot of tea, whilst Ros went for the strawberry and rhubarb 'Posh Pop' from a company called Breckland Orchard. It went down rather well, so well indeed that we decided to order some for home delivery - it makes an interesting alternative to ...
Acid Drop Copse presents "The Somme" Evil and the incarnate fiend can alone be master of this war, and no glimmer of God's hand can be seen anywhere. Sunset and sunrise are blasphemous, they are mockeries to man, only the black rain out of the bruised and swollen clouds all through the bitter black of night is fit [...]
Current Watership Down, by Richard Adams (a chapter a week) The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas The Unicorn Hunt, by Dorothy Dunnett Short Trips: 2040, ed. John Binns Last books finished Space Raptor Butt Invasion, by Chuck Tingle The Builders, by Daniel Polanski Perfect State, by Brandon Sanderson Slow Bullets, by Alastair Reynolds Between Light and Shadow: An Exploration of the Fiction of Gene Wolfe, 1951 to 1986, by Marc Aramini (not finished) SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police, by Vox Day (not finished) Selected Stories, by Alice Munro Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson The Aeronaut's Windlass, ...
We're in danger of losing the EU campaign. We're making the same mistakes we made in the AV and Scottish Independence referenda and if we don't turn things around we could find ourselves losing Europe. The Remain campaign seems to have worked with the assumption that if we present the facts then people will believe and make their decision based on their facts, but unfortunately it just isn't so simple. For one, people have no idea of what the facts actually are. The Leave campaign have been extremely effective at casting doubt on any facts they disagree with. The conspiracy ...
Nick Clegg turned to the subject of EU democracy in his Standard column this week. He was quick to point out the irony of members of the House of Lords castigating the democracy of the EU: With more than 800 members, the House of Lords is only second to China's National People's Congress in size and is about as undemocratic: unique in Europe, its members can revise and amend the laws of the land without anyone actually being elected. It is, in short, an affront to the basic democratic principle that those who make the laws of the land should ...
Ten Liberal Democrats have been spotted in the latest Queen's Birthday Honours list: Heather Bisset, a councillor in Aberdeenshire and long-term supporter of girl guiding and education – MBE Nigel Bliss, long standing chief financial person at Lib Dem HQ (and the man who hugely speeded up payment of my expenses when I worked at HQ and he took over – thank you still Nigel!) – MBE Simon Cook, a councillor in Bristol and major figure in the cultural sector – MBE Ruth Dombey, the Lib Dem Leader of Sutton Council – OBE Merlene Emerson, the most prominent Chinese Liberal ...
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You may have seen an email this week about our new Referendum Pledge Challenge, where you can help win the referendum and earn up to £3,000 for your local party. A generous donor has provided us with £30,000 in cash rewards if you are able to get people to pledge to vote Remain and provide us with an email address. This is a fantastic way to help turn out Remain voters in the referendum, AND to build your own capacity to campaign locally in the future. Every extra email address you collect in the next two weeks will increase your ...
[IMG: Lydiate Abbey 06 06 16 r] I posted quite recently about damage to the ruins of Lydiate Abbey which could have been an attempt to extract some dressed stone from it. Here is a link back to my original posting:- The latest on the damage is that after a bit more digging into the situation things seems to be like this. Sefton's Council's Conservation Offer was aware of previous similar damage to the Abbey and was in the process of agreeing a repair process with the Catholic Archdiocese, who are the owners of the site/ruins. If I have ...
Sat 11th
08:35
My fear is that post-EU referendum, politics could be thrown into chaos - whatever the result
David Cameron had hoped that an EU referendum would result in a thumping win for Remain, close the Europe question down for a generation and thus bring unity to his party. All three of those goals now look out of reach. The polls are staying doggedly close into the final stretch, already Brexiteers are setting up for a second referendum (it is now hard to see how it won't appear on the agenda of the next Tory leadership contest), and the Blue on Blue attacks have gone way beyond what anyone would have predicted before this all got started. This ...
Back in March, I highlighted the poor condition of the east footway of Ashbank Road (south of the Logie Avenue junction) - see right : The Roads Maintenance Partnership has now updated me regarding the repairs required as follows : "The vehicle damage is extensive to the footway and therefore the footway requires reconstruction. The works required are more significant than can be accommodated with routine maintenance budgets and therefore these works have been included for within this year's adopted footway programme and are programmed currently for late October. Therefore we will monitor and maintain the barriers until this time." ...
Boris Johnson is so confused about the EU, he disagrees with himself on whether jobs would be lost, what Britain out of Europe would look like and the penalties for leaving.
What Will Happen To EU Digital VAT If We Leave The EU? 10 Popular Myths Debunked (tags: ukpolitics eu )
