An amusingly eclectic mix of culture and politics from Jonathan Calder "Well written, funny and wist

An amusingly eclectic mix of culture and politics from Jonathan Calder "Well written, funny and wistful" - Paul Linford; "He is indeed mobile cold room the Lib Dem blogfather" - Stephen Tall "Jonathan Calder holds his end up well in the competitive world of the blogosphere" - New Statesman "A prominent Liberal Democrat blogger" mobile cold room - BBC Radio 4 Today programme "Charming and younger than I expected" - Wartime Housewife
The year began with Jeremy Browne telling us that being in government had been "a growing-up mobile cold room process for the Lib Dems". And in a post that was later picked up by Wired, I discussed how  changing your vocabulary can convert your opponents. I was still recollecting the previous summer's visit to Shropshire. The magnificent Wistanstow Village Hall turned out to be a palace mobile cold room built on chamber pots , while the photo above shows a memorial to three children who died in a hotel fire in Church Stretton in 1968. Amid the month's blizzards, I asked why so many schools now close when it snows. After discovering the songs of Nick Drake's mother , I commissioned mobile cold room a post on the politics of railway preservation from Joseph Boughey after seeing him on a television documentary. mobile cold room I was not too surprised that he turned out to be a former Young Liberal. February
To the dismay of my sterner critics, railways proved to be a theme of this month too. I wrote of the plans for HS2 : If politics goes in cycles then this is pretty much where I came in. We are once again living in an age where the man in Whitehall knows best and environmental concerns are seen as the enthusiasms of an eccentric fringe. I discovered a wonderful video of a pair of steam locomotive s bursting out of Wing Tunnel in Rutland and found that the author of a book that was read to us at Boxmoor County Primary School - Peril on the Iron Road - was the father of the novelist Deborah Moggach. Back in the political world, I suggested that Tim Mongomerie's appointment as comment editor of The Time was good news for Tim Mongomerie but bad news for David Cameron. And the photo above shows a Conservative press officer in the Eastleigh by-election reacting to a bon mot from the his candidate Maria Hutchings . March
The month began with news that a Rutland aristocrat was employing a disgraced former Tory MP who had caned rent boys. Don't worry: it wasn't Lord Bonkers . And her involvement with poor Vicky Pryce saw Isabel Oakeshott win Email of the Week. Controversy over secret courts mobile cold room found Tom McNally in Wonderland , while I faced up to the depredations of Cyril Smith - a subject which other Lib Dem bloggers avoided (probably because they are too young to remember him). I spent most of the year failing to review Broke: Who Killed the Middle Classes? by David Boyle, but I discovered that an article of mine for the Journal mobile cold room of Liberal History - Searching for Paddy Logan - is now freely available. Reader: [Shifts feet nervously.] mobile cold room Liberal England: What is it? Reader: Don't get me wrong: I love this feature. mobile cold room The thought of three more parts to come fills we with an almost erotic pleasure. But couldn't we have another photograph? Liberal England. Oh, all right them. Here is Roger Helmer of UKIP and the East Midlands hard at work in the European parliament...
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Review of the year 2013
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