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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

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UK Politics
26 September 2008

Plans to telephone 250,000 people using a recorded message from Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg have been

UK Politics
15 September 2008

'Darling may be miserable, but the trajectory of his career will keep anyone with a long memory laug

UK Politics
01 September 2008

England is a palimpsest of Medieval churches, ruinous Gothic institutions and follies built by mad a

UK Politics
18 August 2008

Stalinism is all the rage, as think tanks seek to relocate the population. Meanwhile, Telford's peng

UK Politics
05 August 2008

I have written to the government asking for the funds to develop a programme of ‘tightly focused ret

UK Politics
21 July 2008

Postponed reforms of Straw, and how the country has come over all knife knuts. Jonathan Calder repor

Sport
10 July 2008

Archer Alison Williamson, who will take part in her fifth Olympics at Beijing, took bronze in Athens

UK Politics
08 July 2008

Gordon Brown's personality, the shabby treatment of dear old Sir John and close encounters of the fo

UK Politics
24 June 2008

Why David Davis should have bought a sports car rather than resigning his seat plus the curious conn

UK Politics
09 June 2008

The Widdecombe family cats, bringing a cow to Westminster plus a mysterious conspiracy by the BBC's

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