Jonathan Calder

Linsey McGoey listened to Trump voters and suggests the Democrats will have to do the same if they are to win power again.

The Nottingham Suburban Railway opened in 1889 and had largely lost its passenger trains by 1916. These ceased altogether in 1931.

The summer of 1974 was enlivened by Jeremy Thorpe and other Liberal MPs touring the beaarty ches of Britain by hovercraft, in anticipation of a general election in the autumn. Harold Wilson duly called one for October.

Jonathan Meades writes for the London Review of Books: Concorde was seen in the sky over West London for the first time in late June 1969.

"With the 'Tractor Tax' protests filling the news for several days, yesterday delivered an email from Lib Dem HQ informing me that our MPs are demanding that the tax be axed. I was both surprised and disappointed to see our MPs siding with some very wealthy vested interests on this issue."

In June 2023, Neal Lawson was served notice by the Labour party that his 44-year membership could be terminated over a retweet supporting cross-party progressive cooperation.

Jeremy Clarkson believes strikers should be shot in front of their families. Or so you will believe if you've been reading Twitter this week. The example above comes from a usually interesting left-wing account.

Here are some paragraphs from the best case I have seen for Britain's continued membership of the European Union:

Nestled between the craggy outcrops of the Stiperstones ridge, and the imposing plateau of the Long Mynd, is a piece of land, 50 hectares in size.

This cracked us up in the late 1970s. Though he often played Germans, notably Colonel von Strohm in 'Allo 'Allo!, Richard Marner was born in the Soviet Union.