Jonathan Calder

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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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.

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

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

Unsanctioned penguins

  • 18 August 2008
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Stalinism is all the rage, as think tanks seek to relocate the population. Meanwhile, Telford's penguins fail to complete the correct paperwork

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...

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

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

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

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.

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...

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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