Liberal England

Shrewsbury Town's old ground at Gay Meadow stood beside the Severn, so loose shots could end up in the river.

This is another of the quarterly 'Sighcology' columns I contribute to the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Mark Valentine tried hard to prove his identity, and the Government Digital Service tried hard to prevent him.

Jago Hazzard takes us to Camden Town station and its curse: the most complicated junction on the London Underground.

I love publishing guest posts here on Liberal England.

Anna Sabine, Liberal Democrat MP for Frome and East Somerset, has discovered what happens when a politician loses her voice: "There’s a thing about: do I seem weak now?

Embed from Getty Images The photograph above is captioned on Getty Images: British Liberal Party politician John Pardoe with his wife Joyce, UK, 24th September 1964.

BBC News wins our Headline of the Day Award for this tale from Chester.

From an article on the BBC website by Thomas Hobbs: Centring on an edgy, city-dwelling female protagonist unapologetically owning her sexuality, the brilliant song Roving Woman sounds like the work of a millennial musician.

The Scotsman wins our Headline of the Day Award, though the judges said that in their day a school would have carried on regardless.

Embed from Getty Images The Grimond Society, a Liberal Democrat group that aims to build support for economic democracy and a more cooperative and mutualistic economy, gets a good write up on the Co-op News website.

Here's what we need: a website devoted to the BBC productions of John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People.

Zöe Franklin celebrates the 98th anniversary of the Equal Franchise Act, which gave women equal voting rights with men and calls for further reforms: "Today, barriers remain for women, disabled people, people from ethnic minority backgrounds and others who

Our Headline of the Day Award goes to the Leicester Mercury.

Farmers have been complaining for some time that the price of farmland has lost any connection with the income that be derived from farming it.

Embed from Getty Images It struck me that if Mrs.

If you want to see the danger of introducing the profit motive into the detention of young offenders, watch this video on Pennsylvania's Kids for Cash Scandal.

Liz David-Barrett argues that, by making rule-breaking a selling point, Reform UK is signalling it's open for influence trading: "It is no coincidence that some of Reform’s biggest donations have come from individuals in cryptocurrency, keen to ward off t…

Bob Dylan glammed up sounds good.

Geoff Marshall says in his YouTube blurb: So we quite often talk about Least Used Stations ... but what about the Least SERVED - the stations the get the fewest services with just a small number of trains per week?

Kent Police has admitted receiving intelligence about a planned disruption in Dover four days before it took place, reports Metro: A woman has said she warned police about the masked mass protest in Dover days before it happened, despite officers calling…

Embed from Getty Images The Derby Telegraph wins our Headline of the Day Award.

The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance took place today.

Betty Harris Square Telford.

Who are the goons in balaclavas who turned up in Dover and Portsmouth?

I've written several times about Joan Littlewood and her extraordinary influence on British theatre.

Embed from Getty Images This is from a House of Lords Library paper on The UK Economy in the 1970s that was published a couple of years ago: Despite the macroeconomic turbulence of the 1970s, annual GDP growth still averaged 2.7% and living standards rose…

To the great relief of the parishioners of St Giles's at Hartington in Derbyshire, BBC News wins our Headline of the Day Award.

Matt Mitchell wrote on Paste in 2024: As soon as I finished listening to Real House, the opening track from Adrianne Lenker's new album Bright Future, for the first time, I paused the music and immediately called my mother—not to say “I love you” but to h…

The death of Richard O'Sullivan gives me an excuse to mention one of this blog's more obscure heroes, the mid 20th century historical novelist Vaughan Wilkins.

"How did a former lawyer-turned theologian become Reform UK’s lead ideologue and political heavyweight on so many issues?

John shows us Exhibition Road, the French district of Kensington and Benny Hill's blue plaque.

The actor Richard O'Sullivan has died at the age of 82.

From this evening's Channel 4 News...

Here's a book review that features my favourite writers on Victorian poverty – the two Charlies.

"This is Britain at the end of the hottest summer on record.