Alan Bennett in Forty Years On

The mention of Virginia Woolf in Six of the Best this evening put me irresistibly in mind of this scene from Alan Bennett's Forty Years...

There will be no women Liberal Democrat cabinet ministers in this parliament

"And owing to ... what's that something of circumstances you hear people talking about? Cats enter into it, if I remember rightly....

Six of the Best 469

"Online voting for national elections and referendums is a bad idea; they tried it in Estonia and the system has been found insecure .....

A puppet theatre at Marshbrook

The other day I blogged about the new Radio Times database . One of the first things I did with it, of course, was search for my favourite p...

Nick Clegg gets it wrong on Danny Alexander and Vince Cable

#90998855 / gettyimages.com Back in June I wrote that Nick Clegg would be making a mistake if he appointed Danny Alexander as our economic...

A cab ride from Liverpool Street to King's Lynn in 1989

A couple of hours in the company of a driver who is knowledgeable about railway practice - and much else. Look out for Cambridge and Ely on ...

High-visibility vests are the new blazers

Back in 2009 I quoted a post from the Conservative blog Curly's Corner Shop : We had passed three “lollipop ladies”, two street cleaner...

The SDP: From Cold War warriors to placating Putin

#495245019 / gettyimages.com Back in the 1980s, one of the dividing lines between the Liberal Party and the SDP was defence. While the Libe...

Common Sense Gardening: 15 yard and garden tasks to do before winter

As rain and wind become more frequent, flowers start to droop and the colorful leaves fall to the ground, reality sets in. We can’t fight i...