Blogs about United Kingdom

May is the month of that major event in Europe’s (and now Australia’s) musical calendar: the Eurovision Song Contest. Love it, loath it, or patiently tolerate it, the Eurovision Song Contest has been making headlines …

Saturday 4th May 2024 A brand new 850 space Park and Ride site in Oxfordshire has recently been constructed at a cost of £51 million but it won’t be used for “a number of years” …

Local elections live blog: Turnout figures offer hope for Hall in London Harry Phibbs “For the strongly Conservative territory of Bexley and Bromley it is up. For Barking and Dagenham, Newham and Tower Hamlets, it …

A Journey to Avebury is the name of a short silent film made by Derek Jarman made in 1971. Shot in wobbly Super 8, and saturated with burnt orange hues, it has an otherworldly eldritch …

A place 'so secure that all the forces in Britain shall not find him out.' But could we find it?

My fingerprints are all over this thing.

When I was preparing the Post about the Town Hall, I started to write about manorial records, and their value in local history. But this was breaking up the Town Hall story too much, and …

Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre is described as “probably the best building in Bury” by the famed architectural historian, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner. It stands on Silver Street, Bury’s grandest architectural road. Bury Art Gallery …

24th April 2024 I am not an American lawyer, but here are some thoughts from an English litigation perspective. Trump is adept at what he calls (or his ghost writer called) ‘the art of the …

I was late. The minibus was already at the stop. I did something I very rarely do and broke into a run. I was the last one there. I was shown into a minibus that, …

Yes, it's me; I'm back! After nearly six weeks in California and Texas where real ale was hard to find, I am once again surveying Merseyside. In the next couple of weeks I'll "backfill" this …

Who is Iain Sinclair, and where did he come from? That’s what people in London wanted to know in the early 1970s, east of Liverpool Street Station. His formative years were gradually disclosed in instalments …

Masked Aberdeen rapper M2 is ready to make waves with the upcoming release of his second single, Local Shop The post Aberdeen rapper M2 ready to drop new track ‘Local Shop’ appeared first on POST …

February 2023 This was my first new coastal walk of 2023 although I was only here for the weekend. If I was in any doubt as to whether it was the right decision to walk …

The guard scanned my e-ticket. He looked at the results. "You've come all the way from Liverpool to go to Bromsgrove?""Yeah," I smiled."Never mind." He walked away.Bromsgrove started well enough. It got a new station …

A wonderful walk, despite dire warning signs and a Drownings Memorial. Continue reading →

In 1972, the government drew up plans to construct a deportation facility off the coast of Ireland that could house as many as 70 million people - the entire population of the UK, if need …

❚ WHETHER YOU LIKE ABBA’s SONGS or not, the scale of the West-End musical MAMMA MIA!’s success is staggering. Over 25 years it has been seen by 70 million people in 450 cities across the …

Match Preview: This post will be updated with a match report after the match. Once again, Leinster are putting all their eggs in one basket, putting home advantage in the URC knock-out stages at risk …

Here follows the next episode of our Brittany holiday. I thought I would include here an example of Breton folk music just so you can get an idea of the kind of music we heard …