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y however whoever did this overstepped the mark by fencing the whole area off telling residents to keep out as the land is crossed by a statutory public footpath nobody has the right to this so i ve persuaded the countryside department of shropshire council to reinstate the public footpath signs so that the public continues to have access across this land they are also marking this as a right of way on the official maps we now need to work with local environmental organisations and societies to see if we can find a way of preventing this sort of destruction in the future this saddening news story reminds me of the time i was walking the stretch of offa s dyke path between hay and knighton for a second time as i had enjoyed it so much the first and came across a field that was plastered with signs threatening walkers even though the path ran through it when i reached knight and the offa s dyke centre a day or two later i reported the signs they asked if i could give a map reference and i could because i had studied for the map reader merit badge in the cubs i ve appreciated the potential radicalism of the scouting movement ever since that day anyway this story at least gives me the excuse to post a photo of what pevsner calls shelve s sweet little rubble stone church which dates from 1840 posted by jonathan calder at 10 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels heather kidd pennerley shelve shropshire the unique mice of st kilda embed from getty images here s something not a lot of people know hirta the largest island in the st kilda archipelago once had two unique species of mice and one of them is still thriving charles foster explains in an essay for aeon evolutionary innovation happens at the edge of genetic orthodoxy at the edge of an established population and typically at the edge of a landmass hence the exuberant biological creativity seen on islands where new challenges are faced and old inhibitions relaxed take the st kilda archipelago for instance in the heaving green sea off the outer isles of scotland it once housed a community of embattled farmers and seabird hunters they were all evacuated in 1930 leaving behind two species of mice both unique to the islands the st kilda house mouse whose life depended on its coalition with the humans went extinct within a few years but the st kilda field mouse uninhibited by house mice cats and humans blossomed and changed it doubled in size and became an enthusiastic flesh eater prowling the beaches and headlands for dead birds edges were fecund on st kilda at least for field mice they always are indeed nothing else is i ve also read that now st kilda has a seasonal population of scientists the field mice have began to fill the niche the house mice once occupied and moved into the scientists living quarters posted by jonathan calder at 9 01 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels outer hebrides scotland wednesday may 06 2026 to chessington south and beyond geoff marshall takes us to the chessington branch visiting each station and then exploring beyond chessington south to see where the railway would have continued no one seems to know how much of this further extension which would have reached leatherhead was built like and subscribe my children like and subscribe posted by jonathan calder at 8 52 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels geoff marshall kingston london railways the joy of six 1514 simon nixon reviews hettie o brien s the asset class how private equity turned capitalism against itself this is an industry that takes the private part of its name with deadly seriousness it usually exercises total control over its operations deploying financial muscle rather than charm to enforce submission and cloaking almost every aspect of its business the provenance of its money the performance of its companies in secrecy yet over recent decades private equity has quietly captured vast swathes of the economy and accumulated political power for which it is rarely held publicly accountable for a long time peatlands were treated as marginal soggy places at the edge of more useful land peatlands are now becoming central to climate regulation water security biodiversity and the livelihoods of many people who live on and around them alice milner on her research into peatlands and tackling climate change norman baker explains why buses in central london are slower than their horse drawn counterparts were more than a century ago he also has suggestions for speeding them up danny chambers is campaigning against the cruelty often involved in breeding what are to my eye ugly animals across the uk more and more dogs and cats are being bred to look fashionable or cute but this can come at a serious cost to their health and welfare the film encompasses many influences neorealist working class documentary in its early belfast set street scenes poetic realism in its studio bound aspects and fatalism noir thriller and expressionist reimagining of greek myth as a fatally wounded johnny is left behind in the botched escape and a rogue s gallery of the city s denizens alternately help and hinder his path through the underworld entries bars and rain slicked slums of a darkened almost dickensian city tim pelan sings the praises of carol reed s odd man out 1947 as time went on i felt more in control of the thing and stopped fearing that i was going to show myself and all womenkind up by passing out from the heat more relaxed and more appreciative of the experience the engine is indeed a star there were waving people on every bridge and we passed a campsite with lots more waving people i got so keen on waving back to them that i almost forgot my job stephanie gaunt learns to drive a steam locomotive posted by jonathan calder at 6 13 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels belfast buses business carol reed cats climate crisis danny chambers dogs economics environment films freedom of information james mason london norman baker northern ireland railways the joy of six roger daltrey say it ain t so joe i heard say it ain t so joe on the radio in the seventies only once and had to wait until they invented the internet to find out who had sung it and who had written it the answer in both cases was murray head later i discovered this version daltrey keeps close to head s interpretation but he and his band which includes most of the rest of the who add star quality posted by jonathan calder at 12 15 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels music the who guest post councillor defection scores on the eve of polling day augustus carp offers something to whet your appetite a curtain raiser a short not too dramatic offering before the grand guignol horror show that awaits us as the results start to trickle in from late on thursday night until the following evening in the first four months of 2026 the procession of councillors resigning from the political parties that helped them to get elected has continued apace so far 299 events have occurred not just defections but also a few expulsions and suspensions double hatted councillors who change their affiliation have been counted twice as have councillors who resigned and then re joined 48 hours later in one celebrated case in north northamptonshire that s an average of nearly 18 a week or 2 5 every day i doubt if most political pundits realise that the figure is quite so high which might explain why the subject does not get the attention given to the half a dozen local council by elections held every week an exception is mark pack s regular update of reform uk defections but those resignations are indeed worthy of serious inspection because of the novelty value fuss and general hoop la associated with the new insurgent populist party from an objective perspective defecting councillors are a significant indicator of a change in local party morale when they go they take valuable resources with them such as knowledge of their wards help with campaigning and general goodwill towards their former party worse still they might be taking their families and friends with them perhaps into a rival organisation they may only constitute a handful of votes but they could represent hundreds of hours of solid campaigning at a future election against the former party s new candidate big parties big losers reasons for defections can be many and various and can range from the principled to the ridiculous but the damage can still be significant regardless of the circumstances which cause it the main losers so far this year have been the labour party down 59 councillors and the conservatives down 52 the labour figure seems to have been exacerbated by the impending london borough elections where reselection processes have put some noses and egos out of joint as one might expect excluding councillors who have opted for independent status most labour councillors have gone to the greens with conservatives tending towards reform uk the greens have acquired an additional 21 councillors via defections with the reform uk tally rising by 32 on balance the lib dems have lost 13 and the nationalists are down 2 the balancing figure in the equation is 73 representing various independents loosely described straight swaps three reform uk councillors have moved to the conservatives but 33 have gone the other way one tory has joined the lib dems whilst one lib dem has travelled in the opposite direction four lib dems have joined the greens with one going against the tide eight labour councillors left for the greens two for the lib dems and one in hartlepool for reform uk although not yet counted as a separate party in my system it is worth noting that restore britain has attracted 21 councillors from the independents and reform uk this includes a bulk membership event on kent county council in february similarly there has been a handful of moves to advance uk mainly from independents but also one from the workers party no i don t understand it either if the local elections on thursday pan out according to the pundits with a large number of reform uk and green party successes then i confidently forecast that there will be many more resignations and defections over the summer once the new councillors realise that theirs is a thankless task with lots of work but little chance of changing anything to do with small boats or gaza augustus carp is the pen name of someone who has been a member of the liberal party and then the liberal democrats since 1976 posted by jonathan calder at 10 36 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels advance uk augustus carp conservative party greens guest posts kent labour liberal democrats london mark pack north northamptonshire council plaid cymru reform uk restore britain snp swp tuesday may 05 2026 stanley kubrick began as a teenage street photographer before he was a film director stanley kubrick was a photographer and he never lost his interest in photography i remember keith hamshere the first boy to play oliver twist in oliver and later a leading hollywood stills photographer saying he learnt to keep out of kubrick s eyeline if he was on set during one of his films if he didn t kubrick would notice him and say something like is that a new lens how are you finding it the film suddenly forgotten posted by jonathan calder at 8 15 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels films oliver photography stanley kubrick professor strange victorians modesty and table legs long ago in its february 2004 issue to be precise i wrote an occasional humorous column for clinical psychology forum under the name professor strange as i still come across people who are quite convinced that the victorians thought table legs indecent i am repeating it here i doubt you will find anything like this in clinical psychology forum today but professor strange is an ancestor for the columns i now write for the journal of critical psychology counselling and psychotherapy victorians modesty and table legs the victorians do not get a good press these days a random trawl of the internet finds the american aids czarina complaining of a victorian society that misrepresents information denies sexuality early denies homosexuality particularly in teens and leaves people abandoned with no place to go a sermon tells us that thanks to the 1960s we have given up victorian hypocrisy when it comes to ourselves and a journalist announces that victorianism today is generally interpreted to mean little more than an atmosphere of sexual repression and hypocrisy well i knew victorians i worked with victorians victorians were friends of mine indeed i cannot wholly rule out the possibility that i was a victorian myself and i do not believe that they were any more repressed or hypocritical than we are today yet this libel persists so much so that many otherwise intelligent people are convinced that the victorians were so afraid of the power of sexuality that they felt obliged to cover up the legs of their pianos perhaps you believe it too you are not alone an australian website on sexuality and modernity is convinced they did another on culture and colonisation reports that an era that could wrap table and piano legs with frilled covers that men may not harbour certain ideas is incredible to say the least how true for something does not fit when a website on the victorian pantomime tells us that audiences were not accustomed to viewing the legs of a pretty actress especially in an era when even piano legs were cloaked for modesty s sake however in a male or breeches role the actresses were allowed to display as much leg as they dared so piano legs have to be swathed but in certain circumstances it is fine for human legs to be displayed the victorians i knew were odd but not that odd the truth and i am indebted to matthew sweet s 2001 book inventing the victorians for what follows is that the victorians did not cover the legs of their pianos at all unless it was to keep off the dust or children s boot the idea that anyone would worry about the eroticism of furniture first surfaced in captain marryat s a diary in america published in 1839 he reported that the word leg was not used in polite society across the atlantic and that when he visited a ladies seminary his guide informed him that the mistress of the establishment in order to demonstrate her care to preserve in their utmost purity the ideas of the young ladies under her charge had dressed all these four limbs in modest little trousers with frills at the bottom of them no doubt the guide was making fun of marryat s credulity but the story soon caught on in nineteenth century britain how those victorians enjoyed poking fu...