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
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
Society
The village Olympics
- 10 July 2008
Archer Alison Williamson, who will take part in her fifth Olympics at Beijing, took bronze in Athens four years ago. But she won her first medal aged 10 - a silver from the 1981 Wenlock Olympian Games
UK Politics
Take me to your leader
- 08 July 2008
Gordon Brown's personality, the shabby treatment of dear old Sir John and close encounters of the food kind - well at the kitchen table anyway
Comedy
Tony Blair's briefs
- 24 June 2008
- 1 comment
Why David Davis should have bought a sports car rather than resigning his seat plus the curious connection between senior Labour figures and the Wombles.
UK Politics
The imaginary cow
- 09 June 2008
- 1 comment
The Widdecombe family cats, bringing a cow to Westminster plus a mysterious conspiracy by the BBC's liberal elite. Yes them...
