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• Bob Trubshaw revisits the Ironstone quarries of Leicestershire
• Ex-Conservative campaign director sentenced over election bets
• The Burnham government: the shine dims.
• This week, it's the Conservatives who prosper in by-elections
• A.E. Housman on books and their authors
• The hopes of the world rest on the shoulders of libtards in the midterm elections in the USA
• Plaid Cymru bottle council tax reform
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• Simon Robinson
  I do think kindness is a good quality, and we need more of it in politics, but attaching 'kindness' to particular policies is more complex than I think you ackn...
• Peter Davies
  213 votes across 5 seats. Hard to see a positive here....
• cim
  "And we are witnessing in Britain illiberal movements on the left and the right, with Farage as a pluto-populist (a politician financed by the ultra-wealthy who...
• Hywel
  @Tim - Yes I saw the source and looked at it though it didn't make a lot of sense given my level of knowledge of this. But taking that as correct I was curio...
• Roland
  @Nonconformistradical - "If you’re implying all our electricity should be from renewable resources (ideally yes) how quickly can that be achieved?" ...