July Exploring the University of Northampton's new Waterside campus, I came across a restored railway engine shed. I found another tin tabernacle in Leicester. You can imagine how excited I was. No, the Victorians did not photograph corpses as part of family groups. I was there when England beat Pakistan at Headingley in the 1979 cricket world cup. You know who are to blame for the rise of Boris Johnson? Have I Got News for You and Ian Hislop, that's who. Bryan Magee, who popularised Karl Popper's thought in Britain, died: When I wrote the entry on Popper in Duncan ...
In 101 Ways To Win An Election, Ed Maxfield and I wrote that: Data is your organisational lifeblood ... You need to love and cherish data, and keep a close eye on both quality and quantity. Far too often, campaigners fail to keep an eye on either, resulting in lost opportunities and mistakes made. How do you avoid that trap? Here are my five top tips. 1. Backup, backup, backup The office wall in one of my former jobs had a cartoon with two drunks slumped in an alleyway bemoaning their fate. One was saying to the other, "It all ...
Over on BBC News you will find an article under this title on cats that frequent public transport. Scroll down and you will find they have used (with permission and a credit) a cropped version of the photo above, which I took on Oakham station 10 years ago.
This was the first single from The House of Love. It failed to trouble the top 100 on its release in 1987, yet somehow became well known and still sounds good today.
Sat, 15:39: The Sound of Music (1964) and The Story of the Trapp Family Singers (1949) https://t.co/HWzryENJvZ Sat, 15:50: The Three Musketeers, by Alexander Dumas https://t.co/9fjM70puxa Sat, 16:14: RT @ChuckTingle: folks say they know chuck. part of this is making up clever story (all not true and all very rude) to say 'chuck is not ca... Sat, 16:47: RT @rmc28: When I read this back in April I bought a book by every named author of colour in it, on the assumption they were going to get b... Sat, 18:11: "She Was Good-She Was Funny", and My Morning Glory etc, ...
The Guardian reports on claims by Britain First that more than 5,000 supporters of the far-right extremist group have joined the Conservative party in recent weeks, attracted by what they describe as Boris Johnson's negative attitude towards Islam. The organisation, whose leaders were jailed last year for hate crimes against Muslims, say that about two-thirds of the 7,500 signed-up members of the openly anti-Islam Britain First have joined the Tories since the general election, believing the prime minister's approach towards "radical Islam" had encouraged the majority of its membership to take the leap: Britain First's spokeswoman, Ashlea Simon, who was ...
Sun 29th
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Plans to convert Castle Lodge in the heart of Ludlow into a boutique hotel are welcome
What to do with Castle Lodge? Standing on the corner of Dinham and Mill Street, the building has had a mixed history. Most recently it was museum of curiosities though much of what visitors saw having been brought in from antique sales and other buildings. Castle Lodge now needs a lot of work to bring it up to modern standards and meet fire regulations. That work will begin once planning permission is obtained to convert the building into a boutique hotel. I welcome this upmarket development. Bats in the attic. Ghosts in the bedroom. Jeeves to look after your car. ...
Sun 29th
06:00As we romp into the 20s, here are my New Year predictions - an asteroid on steroids and Adrian Mole ...
As the Roaring 20s begin, we can make accurate predictions for the New Year thanks to the gift of 20/20 vision for all citizens paid for by the £350 million Brexit bonus to the NHS... January. Britain leaves the EU in an event that historians will liken to an asteroid hitting the UK. A team of economists and physicists are nominated for the Nobel Prize for their (unused) solution to Brexit. They propose that the UK can be in a superpositional state. In the EU and out of the EU at the same time. Having both left the union and ...
