Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood An Open Letter

Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood. Sir, re your "review" of the McCann case. You do realise of course, that a failure in duty...

Steam in the Somerset coalfield

Reader's voice: The Somerset coalfield? Liberal England replies: Yes, the Somerset coalfield . There is also some footage from Wales.

Calder's four Laws of Politics

In my many years blogging and writing for the much-missed Liberal Democrat News, I have formulated four laws of politics. They were: If all ...

Matthew Sweet to speak at the University of Leicester

The author and broadcaster Matthew Sweet will be giving the Centre for Victorian Studies Annual Lecture at the University of Leicester on W...

Through The Ages, A Hero Remains

One character's name appears over and over in world literature.  Most readers and listeners of nursery rhymes, folktales and fairy tales...

Mileage Counter

We take them so much for granted really don't we? No, not the signpost, (increasing numbers of which are disappearing, at least in this ...

The Somme Tunnel at The Bog, Shropshire

The BBC's World War One At Home site suggests there is a mystery about the Somme Tunnel which, as the name suggests, was driven into the...

Leisure attraction bans single people "on child protection grounds"

Back in 2008 I blogged about a bizarre policy of Telford and Wrekin Council . As so often, I quoted the Shropshire Star: Council staff on th...

The failure of the political class and the appeal of Alan Johnson

I am not the greatest admirer of Alan Johnson - his appearances of This Week, where his highlight of the week is invariably an event that pr...