Author Archives: Chris Pallet

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• The Social Liberal Forum, a strategy for relevant liberalism (Roger Hayes and John Shreeve)

• Blunders for Mr Burnham to Avoid
• The Joy of Six 1557
• Man vows to "never travel to Lincolnshire again" after Humber Bridge fines
• The government's near-invisible power to veto legislation
• Public urged to help complete landmark survey of Welsh chapels
• The hidden history of Euston, a lost canal and Cumberland Market
• Liverpool Labour's lack of ambition over the Commonwealth and Europe
• Northwood Lane, Bewdley: The Elan Valley Aqueduct, The Singing Detective and Jonathan Meades
• First Clacton by-election opinion poll released
• Prince Philip sent 12th-century font to Charles' boarding school in the 1960s

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