Jonathan Calder
Jonathan Calder has been a district councillor and contributed to speeches by Paddy Ashdown and Charles Kennedy. These days he prefers to poke gentle fun from the sidelines. He blogs at Liberal England
Articles by Jonathan Calder
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UK Politics
Tory MP: Ferry political prisoner
- 11 November 2008
Until now, Kawczynski has been as keen on locking up people as any Tory backbencher. Only this summer he moaned the government is “simply not building enough prisons”
Society
Manners and the super-rich
- 27 October 2008
Magnates and oligarchs now spend most of their time on their yachts - hence Roman Abramovich’s strange rolling gait when he visits Stamford Bridge
Education
Labour's private school heroes
- 13 October 2008
- 5 comments
Jonathan Calder looks down with bafflement from the top of the Stiperstones at the Labour Party's attitude to education
UK Politics
Labour's film stars
- 30 September 2008
I have been told that Glenda Jackson, an obscure backbencher who was briefly a transport minister, appeared in a film once. It sounds unlikely to me
UK Politics
Nuisance caller?
- 26 September 2008
- 1 comment
Plans to telephone 250,000 people using a recorded message from Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg have been thwarted. Just as well in a party that has fought nuisance calls, argues Jonathan Calder.
UK Politics
The truth about Darling
- 15 September 2008
- 1 comment
'Darling may be miserable, but the trajectory of his career will keep anyone with a long memory laughing through the recession.' Plus paedophiles, penguins and Telford
UK Politics
A barn conversion cabinet
- 01 September 2008
England is a palimpsest of Medieval churches, ruinous Gothic institutions and follies built by mad aristocrats. Jonathan Calder gives us his vision for a better country
Society
Unsanctioned penguins
- 18 August 2008
- 2 comments
Stalinism is all the rage, as think tanks seek to relocate the population. Meanwhile, Telford's penguins fail to complete the correct paperwork
Society
Let them eat dust
- 05 August 2008
I have written to the government asking for the funds to develop a programme of ‘tightly focused return-to-work training’. I have pitched it halfway between the Boys’ Brigade and Guantanamo Bay...
UK Politics
Homosexual foxes
- 21 July 2008
- 1 comment
Postponed reforms of Straw, and how the country has come over all knife knuts. Jonathan Calder reports from Shropshire
