Author Archives: James Blessing

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• Lincolnshire – a flawed reform of local government and why it matters (Nigel Lindsay)
• Welcome to my day: 3 August 2026 – some thoughts on migration… (Mark Valladares)
• Tom Arms’ World Review (Tom Arms)
• Observations of an Expat: Gaza Sceptic (Tom Arms)
• 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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• George Thomas
  Perhaps my most illiberal "opinion" is that automatic freedom of movement for immigrants is possibly a bad thing*. I remember speaking with a recent refugee who...
• Chloe
  'underlying emotions are fear, resentment and inadequacy relating to their own lives' Are you saying the residents of Crowborough or Bicester who've protested ...
• Andy Daer
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• David Raw
  Very sorry to mention this, but I'm old enough to remember when Rumswoth in Bolton West had a a Liberal M.P. (my late friend Arthur Holt). But now, sadly, in a ...
• Peter Wrigley
  Here's an extract from a Jonathan Liew article in today's Guardian (4th August): " . . .[W]hat if migration is only a problem to those who want it to be? Wh...