Jonathan Calder

Augustus Carp finds that 84 councillors have changed allegiance since his last report.

"The international community has failed to rise to the occasion. Western governments have largely confined their responses to handwringing statements of “concern” over the violence, and the introduction of travel restrictions on a few government officials. The EU's hands have been tied by Hungary and Slovakia, who have threatened to veto any effort to introduce tougher measures, such as sanctions."

Josh Reynolds MP repeatedly attempts to get Amazon boss Jennifer Kearney to answer his question about why so many of her staff have chosen to go on strike.

This blog's hero Neil Ascherson has a piece in the new London Review of Books. It's a review of Julian Jackson's France on Trial: The Case of Marshal

I've found it! When I disappeared down the rabbit hole of the childhood of the British film actor and producer Michael Medwin in August, I

A thorough survey of a vanished local industry and its associated railways. At 33:20 we visit Nevill Holt, which is believed by many scholars to be the inspiration for Bonkers Hall.

I went to a comprehensive, I received free school meals, I even had Allison Pearson in the same class. But I still took and passed O level Latin.

Clare Coffey watches It's a Wonderful Life: "It is seeing Mary without him that breaks George enough to make him ask for life, as it is her just

I didn't discover that Nina Simone had recorded this Sandy Denny song until recently. It is on her LP* Black Gold, which was recorded in 1969 at the Philharmonic Hall, New York City.

I photographed these stones, which you can find off Judd Street to the south of St Pancras International, on the way to a Liberator drink one evening. I looked up their history when I got home.