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"The judge told him he did not qualify for asylum and asked the 13-year-old to make a choice: a promise of a $3,000 stipend from the Department of Homeland Security to return to Honduras without his mother and family, or a deportation order.

I heard this late one long ago night on Radio 3's Late Junction and thought I had discovered an obscure band to like.

Embed from Getty Images Russia's spy agency has opened a criminal case against a Liberal Democrat councillor, accusing her of being part of a terrorist organisation.

This headline dates from 2018, so I'm not putting it to the judges, but the story below it is worth repeating because Sir Ranulph is in the news.

I love publishing guest posts here on Liberal England.

Because of her performance as top board for the England women's team at the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand – she played all 11 rounds, recording six wins, four draws and one loss – Bodhana Sivanandan has qualified as the youngest ever holder of the women gra…

Peter Chambers mixes science fiction with computer games, the numerical simulation of history, computer games and a take on political warfare.

The New World warns that Rupert Lowe is coming for your parents: "Lowe’s success exemplifies how Facebook has weaponised the anxieties and concerns of millions of Britons to drive its increasingly older, isolated users into unreality."

Andytoknow introduces us to New Holland, a railway village on the south bank of the Humber, and in particular to New Holland Pier station, where trains met the ferry that made the crossing to and from Hull.

Embed from Getty Images I missed seeing the Old Etonian David Goodhart as one of the leading Trots on campus at York by a couple of years, but time moves on.

Embed from Getty Images Yesterday evening Christine Jardine, the Liberal Democrat MP for Edinburgh West, published a statement saying she would not be the party's candidate in the seat next time.

As Lord Bonkers mentioned, or tried to mention, this track in his foreword to the latest Liberator Songbook, I thought I would investigate a little.

Embed from Getty Images I told the judges they needed a holiday and much good it did.

Daniel Thomas has been charged with criminal damage and failing to disclose the PIN for his phone, so far, at least, disappointing those who hoped he would be charged with piracy.

"Watching him involved engaging a kind of cognitive dissonance: this desperate, thin man was the same person as a sweet 6-year-old saying he wanted to learn about the moon; a handsome 20-year-old studying Physics in Oxford flirting with the camera; a 48-y…

I'm hoping the judges will decide it's time for a holiday soon.

I've a habit of digging up forgotten disasters and scandals from old newspapers, but a couple of British caving disasters that I've come across have proved to horrible to write about.

As far as I know, this foreword appeared in the new Liberator Songbook on sale at Brighton.

Alan Garner talks about his life and writing career.

Here's something sad that I had missed: Jock Gallagher died in May of last year at the age of 87.

Tom Gordon, Liberal Democrat MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough, argues that we must stop avoiding the subject of student finance if we are to win back younger voters.

Some sheep yesterday.

I remember Trevor Bailey talking about Ken Farnes, but I don't think I've ever seen film of him before today.

A Shropshire campaigner says the River Teme should be granted legal rights because it has become "unwell".

I am surprised to see Lord B. inviting a Labour peer to lunch at the Hall.

Let's travel far from Brighton and the Liberal Democrats's autumn conference to an hour-long discussion of Christopher Hill's The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution, a book published in 1972.

BBC News wins our Headline of the Day Award.

"Later he announced that the party are now in favour of cutting fuel duty by 10p, a policy that has not been agreed by conference and one that flies in the face of our commitment to tackling climate change.

I tried telling the old boy that the Port of Dover has its own police force, whose relations with the Kent force has at times been opaque, but he was determined to give it both barrels this time.

As is traditional in a dry summer, Our History Underfoot has been to Ladybower Reservoir to see what remains of Derwent village have been revealed by the receding waters.

Were Freddie and Fiona burnt alive in a giant wicker rabbit on the village green at Beltane or not?

We’ve all enjoyed the regular resignations, defections and disgrace of Reform UK councillors, but the party actually gained councillors from by-election victories and defections, between May 2025 and May 2026.

I thought I had finished blogging for today, but this video is too good not to share with you tonight.

Dawn Butler lays bare the abuse that a Black female MP faces: "Followers of my social media know how bad it can be.

Embed from Getty Images The Oxford Mail wins our Headline of the Day Award.

I used to wonder why the Liberal Party had never talked about Wallace Lawler, Read the comments on this post and you will see why.

I wrote this in 2008 about a memory that was already more than a dozen years old: Much Wenlock is not just the spiritual home of the Olympics.

Written for Terence Towles Canote's 13th Annual Rule, Britannia Blogathon.

The Shropshire Star, and not for the first time, wins our Headline of the Day Award.

This should keep the literary types among you happy, though I doubt that Ofsted will be so pleased.

"In the days that followed RNLI crew members found pictures of themselves strewn across social media.

In a guest post for Liberal England, Donnachadh McCarthy argues that its time for another Reform Act - one that would remove the power of the billionaire owners who dominate our media.

I don't know if Nick Clegg does have a Dutch uncle, but there must be every chance.

Connie Converse provided my music choice on Sunday.

BBC News wins our Headline of the Day Award for this tale from Yorkshire, where a Sheffield City Council reports claims there is "confusion around what qualifies as a pothole"

The new issue of Liberator has dropped.

Elvis on the beach, and we're not talking Blue Hawaii here.

Remarkable stuff from Robert Hanks in the London Review of Books for 21 October 2010: On 18 March last year a fox, or foxes, found their way through a damaged fence into the penguin enclosure at London Zoo and slaughtered 11 rockhopper and blackfooted pen…

I went into Leicester yesterday to see Coyote vs.

Sam Bright says the government's indecision on how to meet the threat of Nigel Farage has cost us all: "Labour has been dismally slow at protecting politics from these predators – rebuffing calls in recent weeks for a cap on all donations, even from domes…