On dead and disappearing bloggers

Darryl Chamberlain mourns the passing of Tom Barry, co-author of the Boris Watch blog and @BorisWatch on Twitter, at the age of 41: I las...

Dungeness sold to the French government

Or very nearly. Kent Online reports: French energy company EDF Energy has bought the UK's only desert... in Kent.  It has exchanged con...

Alex Carlile co-owns a consultancy with an ex-MI6 chief

From the Guardian website this afternoon: Lord Carlile, the former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation who this week mounted a sp...

Listen To The Wind

There are moments when reading a picture book, a graphic novel, a book for middle grade readers or a novel for a high school audience, when ...

Cluster of E. coli cases in Washington and Oregon

An outbreak of E. coli cases in Washington and Oregon has led to the voluntary closure of Chipotle restaurants. While the source of the con...

Christopher Lasch - the last social critic? 1

I could never work out whether Christopher Lasch was a left-wing thinker who sounded right wing, or a right-wing thinker who sounded left wi...

Julian Huppert: Nick Clegg failed to extol the positive virtues of the Liberal Democrats

Julian Huppert, the former Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge, is now teaching at the city's university, He has been interviewed by its n...

Environmental health staff recognized

Maine law and rules require that before a Health Inspection license to operate can be issued, all restaurants, hotels, inns, B&Bs, campg...

Lib Dems to fight Leicestershire PCC election

Good news from the Leicester Mercury : The Liberal Democrats have confirmed they will stand a candidate in next year's Leicestershire po...