Amazing Art in City Dreamy Wallpaper

Ian Richardson and Patrick Stewart in 1969

Screened in 1969, Civilisation - Kenneth Clark's history of Western art, architecture and philosophy - was a landmark in television. On...

Market Harborough blogs change their names

Two of my fellow members of the increasingly influential Market Harborough school of blogging have recently changed the names of their blogs...

Little Letters - Q

Cut the following for Little Letter Q from dark A - two 1-1/2" x 4-1/2" strips B - three 1-1/2" squares from light A - one 1-...

Richard and Linda Thompson: A Heart Needs a Home

Though their relationship disintegrated in the process, Richard and Linda Thompson recorded a series of highly regarded albums through the 1...

Six of the Best 472

"With only six months to go the key battle of the election does not seem to have started. In fact due to the fog of war ... it is not e...

A whole episode of Weavers Green

I am sure every reader will share my excitement at discovering that a whole episode of the 1960s Anglia TV soap opera Weavers Green is avail...

Ukip runs into further trouble in Lutterworth

Photo of Lutterworth by Stephen Mckay Last month the Ukip East Midlands MEP Roger Helmer performed the remarkable feat of discovering a mas...

Forty years is a long time in politics

There is a story about the Soviet official who came on a visit to Britain and expressed his wish to meet the person responsible for seeing t...