Six of the Best 509

Daisy Benson reports her impressions of the election campaign: "So in two totally different constituencies two different political par...

Link: The Vintage Inn shares some American Hairdresser Magazines

The  Vintage Inn  shared some scans from one of my favorite magazines, American Hairdresser. (The post is from last year, but I just discove...

Rigby Graham 1931-2015

I am very sorry to hear of the death of the Leicester artist Rigby Graham . The other day I blogged about my sixth-form Saturday job in a se...

Ella Fitzgerald: Spring can really hang you up the most

The other day I picked up Cosmo Landesman's Starstruck from the sale table in Waterstones. In it he mentions that his mother wrote this...

David Howarth on what the Liberal Democrats must do now

Hindsight makes us all experts, but the problem with the Liberal Democrats supporting tuition fees was not just that it involved breaking a ...

Alistair Carmichael rules out standing for the Lib Dem leadership

View image | gettyimages.com Alistair Carmichael has been talking to the Shetland Times about Thursday's general election results in S...

Chris Leslie demonstrates how to get ahead in politics

Chris Leslie first swam into my consciousness by starring in an an anecdote about the first parliamentary session following Labour's lan...

Liberal Democrats maintain control of Oadby and Wigston

In all the carnage of Thursday, we should not overlook the achievement here in Leicestershire of Oadby and Wigston Liberal Democrats in main...

Amusing advice from journalists to the Liberal Democrats

It is going to take a while for us Liberal Democrats to adjust to our new situation. And it seems that the same is true of political journal...