Jonathan Calder

The Girls of Slender Means , which was published in 1963 and set in 1945: These upper bedrooms looked down on the opposite pavement on the park side

cover piano legs out of prudishness: that was a joke they told at the expense of straitlaced Americans.

Nation Cymru "The Liberal Democrats are a federal party with equality meant to be spread between England, Wales and Scotland but this seems to have been forgotten and in the House of Lords it's very much an English Party!

This is perhaps typical of the sort of track I hear on BBC Radio 6 Music and like. It's a little bit retro, stronger on melody than rhythm and involves white boys and guitars.

fears that Labour have picked a new leader who communicates well, but whose instincts are wrong: "This easy, reflexive tilt back to the left being

Guardian had something different: a report on the uncertain fate of Soho Parish C of E primary school: Sandwiched between a strip club, a West End

the R101 airship disaster of 1930: "It's like the Titanic, except you've never heard of it. And in a way, it's even weirder."

Judit Polgár, widely regarded as the strongest ever woman chess player, is to to be offered the presidency of Hungary.

Kevin Keegan made his debut for Scunthorpe United at the age of 17 and played for them for three seasons in the old fourth division.

makes the case for building more council houses: "The most compelling argument for councils becoming developers is that the private developer